A RECORD SESSION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14012, 17 September 1909, Page 2

A RECORD SESSION.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 16. Writing to a correspondent, Mr. J. E. Sunderland, Liberal member for Elgin Burghs, states he regrets the surprise expressed in trade unionist and labour circles in the North of England at the decisions of Mr. T. Bart and Mr C. Fenwick not to take the fcational Labour Party's pledge aa £ quested by the Miners' AaSriationT borne of the leading Labour men declare there is room for a Labour Party for thoae more sympathetic to liberalism than Labour. By exceeding 648 divisions the Commons made a record vote for a ainizle session.

The nhole of the death duties clauses were pawed after fourteen hours' Bit-

The limes, commenting on the posdbihty of a dissolution of the Übertl League, states that some members are openly opposed to the laud clauww These hope the Lords will elumnatethe clauses, considering the reasons in favour of this outweigh the constitutional aspect of the matter. A "cave" of Liberals has consequently advanced to the °P. ln «"i held by Conservatives in July! while the Conservatives are generally ?° w JP favour of the rejection of the bill pure and simple. The Daily Telegraph states that a Cabinet Minister yesterday expi«wed his personal opinion that there would be a general ejection in January, even if tho Lords passed the Finance BOL