HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2835, 13 September 1890, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

(BY TELECiRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION). FRIDAY. The Tlouae met at 11 a.m. The Nitive Land Liws Amendment bill was further cnnsidered in orinitnittfie and nissed with snme additional clauses. P '6n the motion for the third reading -bn Onrce Grey said he considered it Ins duty tnoppose at every stage, so monstrous a hill, which tor years to come would raise tl e prospects of every labourer in the c h.ny. He moved as an amendment 'That c mil be heard at the. bar of the H.,u-c t t\ris%™, he thr^ ,,,^ Federation resolutions and moved .ui amend. ™fas against thnt moved by Mrhc* McKenzin on a previous day t hatw members from the House and one fioin tin Le S lative Council be. appointed to at enr tl,e conventinn, it tempt understood that ',1, delates are not authored to bine this colony to come under any federal con ttutionwhich may be adopted by th, convention. The debate was interrupted bj the one o'clock adjournment. Ie House resumed at. '2..W p.m. When the debate on the Vedprit,.,,,i res,, lntinn was continued a larero numoei o amendments to Mr ScnMe Mcken/.ie s anr Mr Perceval's resolutions were put anr n Kntived, and ultimately Mr lerceva : notion for the appointment of two dele BBtPS from the House and one from th< n 7rfA b l , ve,ln, inmß nd,, l ent tha r , t . in ' Unwell and Sir George Wre; 1 T.r Hip colony at tl.e conference, "o™ 1 Ru<se» said he had cnnsnlte. Sir( Puree JJrevmtw.. or three occas.on. and be bad distinctly refused to act as ; d t'ClytnMrHsWMrl? ; ,nnncns,i ; thit riwiiic to tlio decided views !ib hell Federation, he should decline to ac formed him he was willmsr to represent tin colony at the convention if he were ap to 2S and eventually Mr Keddon's amend ni»nt w:is carried bv 3'2 to 2.1. The House rose at ii.3o i>.m. The House resumed at 7 30 p.m. Mr Hooves asked the actirnr 1 roniie. whether he would keep the promise he had Riilwav Commissioners with respect to tin di rSi^s:n f de ired to interfere with the 1 < « bate durine the earlier part of the day b he now wished to say that the (rovern ment had carefully , ™% t cussion « tl,e y action of the Commissioners. M Veves then moved the adjourning of the debate to refer to this mat tern, conduct of the CJovernment, he ail, m en deavoH in- to stifle the debate on this qun= tion was not at all creditable to them was r great mistake to attempt t. ™ people who wished to act in : ami yarded manner, and ,t wa surely not ri K ht to prevent d^» did the untnrhmnte diKf!rPnce= l.hat 1,.t,;,™ th« O—W« •»• l . h " r '»"! mnndon the men that they could not po> Kihlv comply with it. [\n hj.n. inoinher "Why say MaxwellH Alax well rules the olber two Commissioners Tf the Railway Uninnirt' l""^' sneh thoii"hts us to have it. out witli .M.i.x well so.no dav, it would be li inn-t "II fortunate thinir for the enl.niv. 1J" ™ way servants who had ben.i dismiss. <i liai ,1.,, ie wlrit they had from f-oliniis of loyalt, to their ITnion, and thwp. wns. n.-. occasini for the harshness used towards then, by th also r l«mn«J tl. 5 ,.if1i,, 2 0f t1,., -lobate on tl. O s.,b).;o,an; l,r, P (,d thnt ill the pre.se.ut. case the kailjv.i(J.'mmissioners would do their ntmnrt nttich their servants to them, and still de.i St v with them in what they had don, "lottopnunotoa Instiiiß rebuke to tha great ortraiiisation. B Mr Fisher said it was well-known tl;:, the Commissioners were fter.,,,"*. '»'" ~nlvi. the riien in ii cenenil strike, it it wei * • lossblo o do so, and to that end tlie; had goaded then, ami them ~ every way. After referring to the lailu.i. dispute that at present existed, he went o, to say that to pun.sh these four men fo acting in obedience to their V™":™*™. of the greatest acts ~f terrorism that conic be perpetrated, and the Commoners ~ Tskinsr them to surrender as . dnmh do K , were cnUinc nn thorn to B ,vo u, of the Commissioners in the. recent disput and s'id it. resolved itself into isnch a coi, hict of authority .hat the me,, were re nuired either to leave their 1 nirnis or tn ?ervicp The Union Steamship Cumpan; and tlie Railway Commissioners were, n his opinion, entitled to the thanks of ever citizen of the colony for their efforts to sav the country frnn, the crreat c.nmercia paralysis that threatene.il it. PMi Rallancosud there was no doub tha rhe railwav men were convinced thnt th Uailway CV.mmissioners were tryii, K t crush the Unions and lh?t was what wa underlying the whole thu.K. or thn me dismissed at Christcl.nrch had been deal with in a most arbitrary manner and the; would find no analofty for theway they ha. been treated. There should, in his o.m.ion be some tribunal for these n.en to appeal V in the present case as althouph they to convince every member ot tin. nous there was no remedy and no redress. 11, ,e,t way ..[ entthw the, d.Bicnlty in hi opinion wis by arbitration, winch lie be beved the men were perfectly willing to ac opt, an.l he hoped next session the firs Act to be passed should be one to establisl boards of conciliation for settlmc rlitter ences between employers and ninpl..ved Sir .1 Hall contended that members of tl, House were not justified in alle K ini that the Railway Commissioner wanted to precipitate a strike am whnn Mr Uallanco as.-erl,fid that h< had' authority for the stulunient tha the, Commisiiioners to involve the ran in -i strike he should in all justice havi Civ'finhis authority for such a serinus charge andiutlie absence of such anthnrity th. House was justified in not believniK th. state.oent. As to tlie dispute itself, tin first duty of the men was to their en, flnyers and where their allegiance to then Union'-.' conflicted with that due to tin Commissioners they should rather leav, their Unions, or see that son,.-alteration: were made in their rule". Ho admittei that the milway men were the best me., n any of the services, but they must recotf nisi! that they were working for the conn try as ;i whole, and anv attempt to weakei the, authority of the Commissioners wonlr bo put down by the country Mr Fish sincerely trusted that even now a railway strike, would not occur, but hi feared it was inevitable. Mr Melveiizie (Waihomo) ventured f< assert that a fatal mistake had been niaili by the railway servants, in forming them selves into unions, and the best thiiit' tliM could do now was to leave their Union ;.a they could not; serve both the < lommissm iu'l'm and the I'nions. (LcftSirtiiiß.)