IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14151, 10 March 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

TEMPORARY BORROWING BILL. Aasocdation-By Aasocdation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, March 8. la the Hcmse of Lards during the debate on tlie Temporary Borrowing Bill, Viscount St. Aldwyn, declared that he did not desire the Government to introduce a Bill in both Houses, but it should introduce a resolution in the House of Commons authorising the collocfcion of taxes. Lord Loreburn, Lord High Chancellor, said the Government did not agree with the proposal to split tlie Budget. Mr Gladstone settled that question years ago. The financial embroglio was solely due to the Lords' action. The Bill was read a second and third time and passed. FREETRADE IN DANGER. INCOME TAX IRREGULARITIES. Mr Alfred Mond, a member of the House of Commons, and Treasurer of the Free Trade Union, in an interview discussed the recent tariff divisions in the House of Commons. He declared that the position of freetrade, as Britain's fiscal policy, could no longer be regarded as secure. If Freetraders had wisdom and courage they would put freetrade first and then freetrade would be absolutely safe. The "Daily Mail" says that owing to the increasing protests ivith reference to the Government's not fulfilling the intention to regularise the collection of the income tax, the Commissioners of Taxes in the City, who collect one fifth of the Kingdom's revenue, are considering the advisability of suspending the collections, and suggests that the first reading of the Budgot, or a resolution, would ease the tension.