THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 10 February 1905, Page 5

THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.

■EHE PIKAHCIAI. AGREEMEHT. BITTES ATTACK BY KB CASSLUTSEBS. HOBART, February 9. The State Premiers have drafted reasons for declining to accept the Federal I Treasurer's scheme for Federalism- the State defata. The main argument is that ' the time is not opportune for Lransferrincr control. When the reasons were su£ mitted to the joint conference Mr. Reid pleaded that they should not separate witnout coming to an agreement on the ■ question. " i t,Received IQ.I aJa .j HOBART, this day. j The State Premiers nave not agreed as to the term for which the Braddon sec-' tion should be extended. Some want it I : to be permanent, while others are for a limited period. Mr. Carruthers ( N.S.W.) . who opposed in the convention the whole financial scheme of the constitution, expressed ! the view at the conference that the Fede- ; ration would never work while the scheme remained, and that if it eon- '■ tinued Australia would have to face either a reversion to the old system of government or an. ejrten&ioja to the system of unification, ffls spee/cn is described by his colleagues as singularly able and intensely bitter.