AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13637, 16 April 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

THE FEDERAL CRISIS. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. * j (Received April 16, 10.55 a.m.) | MELBOURNE, April 16. '; The Federal Premier, Mr A. DeakiA, in the course of a statement to >the" House of Representatives, asked that other business should stand aside to make way for the tariff. He thought, ( the first task incumbent on the House ■ was to deal with the tariff. The Go- '. vernment could not subordinate thia question at present to any other, how- ( ever important it might be. _ He pro- "' posed to proceed with the tariff debate next Wednesday. He moved that other questions on the business paper, including Mr Webster's no-conncfence x motion and the Capital Sites Bill should be postponed till the tariff ) should have oecome law. . • . « A warm debate followed, during which Mr G. Reid and Mr Joseph Cooki (Oppositionists) attacked Mr Deakin - for nis action ' in respect to Mr Web-i * ster's motion. s .< Mr Deakin replied that he was will-) ing to accept a challenge from the Opposition at any time. I The motion to place the tariff at thfr 'head of the business paper was carried. ! The House then adjourned till Wedinesday. *. i__i__ *" v>