IMPERIAL POLITICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13908, 20 May 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

INCOME. TAX ABATEMENTS. Press Association -Bv Telegraph-Copyright LONDON. May IS. hi the House of Commons, dining the income tax debate, Mr Austen Chamberlain, Mr Bonar Law. and Mr Prettyman. in the interests, especially of younger men going to the colonies, vainly opposed the resolution withdrawing abatements to those not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.

Mr Lloyd George replied that ..those serving the Crown abroad were entitled to abatements. These wore allowed to residents of Britain,, because the latter contribute by indirect taxation.

PERM ISS lON REE USED.

Received 9.20 p.m., May 19t.1i

LONDON, Mav 19

The House of Commons, by ] 7o votes to 00 votes . refused Mr H. -Craig (Labour, Tynemouth) permission to introduce a Bill providing for the adequate inspection of. monastic and conventual institutions iii the United Kingdom. Mr T. P. O'Connor (Nationalist) strenuously opposed the motion. (

The Speaker refused to allow Mr Hardie (Labour) to move the adjournment of the House to consider the question of deportation of Indians, Mr Asquitlr (Prime Minister)' emphasising the fact that the subject had been fully disousspd in the debate on the Address in- Reply.-

STAMP DUTIES CARRIED

Received 11.."55 p.m., May 19th

LONDON, Mayj'lO. The stamp duties resolutions ;| were carried. .'•--• . u I

Mr Lloyd George' (the Chancellor) hoped that it would be possible to make concessions in .regard to the incrme tax and license duties before the Budget proposals were ultimately decided on. ',' ' ' A White Paper which has hern published shows that Mr George estimates the new imposts to yield over £14,100,000 in 1909; £17.000,000 in 1910, and £18,500,000 in 19] U

STATE OF THE ARMY

LONDON, M.-o- 19

The House of Lords,- ,des2>ito the Government representatives' strenuous opposition on the ground that an inouiry was premature, and in Lord Lucas' words—'' if the Commission sat it would demand the heads of the late Government for neglect rather than censure the Ministry, who' are making a promising attempt to save the situation " —carried Lord Bedford's motion in favour of an enquiry into the condition of .the special reserve, which was merely a paper substitute for the late militia, by 73 votes to 22 votes. Lord Roberts, in a striking speech, warned the Government and the country of the danger that, was coming nearer every day. Great "numbers of men alone, if untrained, would be a weakness. It would \ trouble the " wolf " but little how many sheep there were. ' War would not be a sham, hut Britain's army was a sham. There was only one remedy—the Government' should take the people of the country into their confidence, and rouse them to the reality-of. their danger.