AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14700, 3 September 1915, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Press Association. —Telegraph—-Copyright. ■. MELBOURNE, September 2. After discussion of the' income tax, .an amendment way carried limiting the. increase, to one .year,-.' SCENE IN WESTRALIAN ASSEMBLY A JOURNA LIST' EXCLU DElj; ■:•■ PERTH, September,2,. A scene occurred in the Assembly. Mr, Johnson, Minister of Lands, when justifying tlife Goverument’s action; in .connection' witlr the -freezing' works contract, attacked the newspaper - West Australian for its criticism, referring to the leader writer as a “journalist bloodhound.” At- a.later .stage tlie Premier drew attention to a note seilt- from the Press gallery To, ;Mr,' Johnson by the West Australian’s leader writer, reading: “W. D. Johnson, —Y r ou are a doubly miserably .cur and liaif.— Signed, .INC. Morrison.’ ’ On the motion of the Premier, seconded by the ■ Leader of the Opposition, tho House resolved that Morrison was guilty Of contempt, and must be excluded Irom the gallery until he withdraws and,apologises'. ' ,