IMPERIAL POLITICS.
« OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL. > PASSED BY THE HOUSE OF LORDS. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, August 1. In the House of Commons, after the I Speaker had admitted that it was a - breach of privilege of the House, the amendment moved in tho House of Lords by Lord Crooner, limiting tho , duration of old age pensions to six 1 years, was deleted. Lord Killinan's , amendment to the Irish Universities Bill was also deleted. Tho House of • Lords acquiesced in the amendments of J tho, House of Commons and passed both [ Bills, but in the case of tho Old Age . Pensions Bill, by 37 to 23, adopted tho [ Marquis of Lansdowuo : s resolution de- , daring that, while not insisting on 1 the amendments, tho House of LoTds ; did not accept the reasons offered by the House of Commons, nor consented i to their being hereafter drawn into precedent. The Bill, it was contended, was not one granting aids or supplies, I and involved a question of policy affecting the treatment of necessitous persons wherein both Houses wero concerned.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9304, 3 August 1908, Page 1
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