IMPERIAL POLITICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13904, 15 May 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

THE TAXATION PROPOSALS

PAYMENT OF MEMBERS

Press Associatlon-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, May 13. The land values duties were carried bv 330 votes to 1.20 votes.

Mr Harold Cox, member- for Preston, said there was no legitimate difference between income derived from land and income from other sources. He asked why mortgages on land were not treated like land itself. He derided the taxing'of ungotten Tumorals, and said it was like taxing bachelors for the potential value of ungotten offspring. Mr Lyttelton showed the immense cost of the valuations, and said that money sweated off owners would not go into the Exchequer, but to lawyers and surveyors.

Mr Chamberlain and < i.'r Balfour hotly protested against the haste of the Government in forcing their proposals through the House of Commons.

Mr Higham's motion in favour of the navmerit of members, was carried by '242 votps to 92 votes. The Nationalist. Party refused to enrol Mr Maurice Healy who was recently elected member for Cork. A MEAT BILL. Received 11.4.') p.m., May 14th. LONDON, May 14. Mi- Hunt's* Foreign and Colonial Meat Bill was read a first time. It provides that all persons selling foreign or colonial meat shall affix a notice to that effect, plainly, in shops and vehicles used to supply goods. PENSIONS ENQUIRY.

ATTACK BY NATIONALISTS

Received 12.3 a.m

May lotii

LONDON, May 11

Mr Hobhonso stated that since January 1300 pensions had been withdrawn in' Britain, and 1200 in Ireland. The enquiry, was unfinished, but so far as any suggestion of fraud on the part Or' the people, of Ireland was concorned, it was without foundation.

Mr Birrcll stated that out of 12.77G appeal, 10-,SOI were rejected and 1885 pensions granted. Tho Nationalists hotly attacked the Government for ordering an investigation.