HOUSE OF LORDS INSISTS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1930, Page 7

HOUSE OF LORDS INSISTS

DYESTUFFS AMENDMENT ACCEPTANCE BY COMMONS "7- * * ' ♦ "NO OTHER COURSE OPEN’' ? * '■ - OTHER BILLS ENDANGERED ?' ‘ JBy Telegraph—Press Assn.-rCopyrtUhL; - Rec. 8.30 -p.mZ ' ‘" -London,, Dec. The House of Lords insisted on Its amendment to the Dyestuffs Act, which had the effect of continuing protection of the British industry for another year. The measure was remitted to the House of Commons. \ ,

Mr. W. Graham, in the House of Coin-' mons, announced that the Government had no other course but to accept the . decision of the;House of Lords regarding , the Dyestuffs- Act; otherwise the Rent v Restrictions Acts, legislation affecting miners’ wages'.and other Acts of Parlia-■ ) ment would bei lost. Moreover, the Government’s majority in the House of Commens yesterday was narrow. “There was : a temptation ’to enter upon a discussion regarding the relations of the two Houses, but we ourselves and the electorate outside will form our own judgments,” added Mr. Graham. (Loud Ministerial cheers.)- < Sir. Philip Cunliffe-Lister, replying, said the Opposition was only to anxious to test the feeling of the electorate on the matter, but he understood, that a general election in the near future had been described elsewhere as political suicide from the standpoint of the Labour Party. (Opposition cheers.) A desultory discussion regarding the powers of the House of Lords followed, wherein, some Labour members accus- , ed Imperial Chemical Industries aud kindred' firms of corrupting political life. Conservatives hotly denied the' insinuation. *

• The House of Lords amendment was agreed to without a division.