THE TRANSPORT BILL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16504, 4 August 1919, Page 4

THE TRANSPORT BILL.

OBSTRUCTED IN THE LORDS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, July 30.. There was considerable interest in the debate in the House of Lords on the committee'stage -of the Transport Bill,, when notice was given of a long series of amendments confining the scope of the Bill to railways and inland waterways. Lord Salisbury led the opposition _ to the measure, and moved a wrecking motion empowering tho House to divide the Bill into two parts, the first dealing with railways, and the second dealing with tramways, roads, bridges, vehicles, traffic thereon, harbours, docks and piers, the House to report on each Bill separately. He said that Sir Eric Geddcs’s administration of the system of transport in connection with the communications to France, however justifiable in war time, would: ruin the country if followed in peace time. Lord Lytton, in replying, said that Lord Salisbury’s motion was without precedent. The Government in no circumstances would accept responsibility for carrying into law a part instead of the whole Bill. Tho motion, if insisted upon, might precipitate a constitutional crisis of the first magnitude. Lord Salisbury’s motion was rejected by 110 votes to 59. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.