PROTECTION

Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 January 1932, Page 5

PROTECTION

TARIFF POLICY ASSURED MAJORITY. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Friday. The obvious deduction is that the Cabinet Committee’s report on the tariff will shortly be introduced and the dissenting Ministers and supporters will be free to speak in the House. It is a foregone conclusion that the tariff will pass by a large majority, bcca.ues it is virtually a free vote. The communique did not reveal tho dissentients, but most guess that they were Lord Snowden and Sir Donald Mac Lean, and perhaps Sir Herbert Samuel. The whole twenty Ministers l were present at the discussions.

MINISTERS’ RESPONSIBILITY.

SIR HERBERT SAMUEL EXPLAINS.

(Received Monday, 5.35 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday,

Sir Herbert Samuel, explaining why he, Lord Snowden, Sir Donald Mac Lean and Sir Archibald Sinclair arc retaining office, says: “It was necessary to temporarily suspend the rule of Ministers collective responsibility. Many persons might think this would not work but Cabinet’s duty was to try and make it work. The plan was admittedly unprecedented, anomalous and illogical, but these considerations did not perturb. This Government is not founded on the principle of collective responsibility on all subjects nor would withdrawal from the Government prevent the passage measures to which Free Traders objected.”