BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12922, 29 July 1905, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE FISCAL ISSUE. United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright . London, July 28. lv the House of Lords 'the Duke oi Devonshire moved a resolution disapproving of any proposal to establish •_t general or penal tariff and any system of colonial preference based on the taxation, of focyd,' whereupon the previous question was, then carried by 121 to ,57. , The Duke of Devonshire remarked that the resolutions did not controvert the Government policy, as defined by themselves, but condemned tho policy of the Tariff Refoi*m League.. ; Viscount Goschen said Mr Balfmir, ought to declare whether or not lusi policy fundamentally differed from thatof Mv Chamberlain. ; Lord Lansdowne (Secretary for For- 1 cign Affairs), speaking to the Dukej of Devonshire's resolution, said thoj Government were bound by Mr Bal-3 four's- declarations alone. lie twvfctctT 4 the Duke of Devonshire with approv^. ing of the last two Colonial Confer { ences, which dealt with the veryjques] tions he now objected to. His reso J ! l ut ions tended to bind the Confer encq before il was Ivcld, and' was also ob^ jeetioaiable because it asked thoj House to pass judgment on a matter} not yet before Parliament. I