BRITISH POLITICS

West Coast Times, 20 April 1911, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS

VETO BILL DEBATE. QUESTION OF PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. |to AwiocMTiwt. —corraicnr.. LONDON, April 19. Lord Hugh Cecil, in the Honse of Commons, moved an amendment to the Veto Bill to the effect thar any measure for the payment of members should not be regarded as a money Bill. This was rejected by 186 to 128.

MINISTERIAL REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. LONDON, April, 19. _ .In the House of Commons at last sitting Ministers replied to a number of gueations of importance. _ The Prime Imisier, Mr. Asquith said that he hoped that Sir, Lloyd-Georgo's Invaliduy Insurance Measure and a Bill amending the law as to the employment .pf trade union funds would be introf •' duced before Whitsuntide. ....'Mr. Hohhouse admitted that the sinking funds had not received £680,OOOwmch might have gone' to them .otherwise through the Treasury not hav ing collected te income tax until after . ' the close of last financial year. Df. McNamara (Parliamentary Secretary to .the Admiralty) stated that ‘ : - the warship Shearwater had landed men at San 'Quentin in Mexico on April loth at the request of British and American subjects, to protect theta lives and pro- •, petty m t heabsencc of Mexican offi- ' cxals. .Thev had re-emba ekrnidlnraa cuds. They had re-embarked in 24 hours

ALIENS IN BRITAIN. LONDON, April 18.— Mr Churchill in introducing the Aliens Bill in the House of Commons, said that the Bill requires in certain specified cases two sureties for good behaviour for five years. Those already resident for five years would he exempted from this danse . The penalty for returning after expulsion would be -twelve month's imprisonment for the first time and two> years for the second. Mr Churchill added that the Government were introducing a Pistol Bill in the House of Lords. (Laughter). It wnold require aliens to obtain a permit to keep pistols and would also enabale their premises to he searched.