HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 9

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

(Tvtssdax, NorEMßsit 25.) evening srrnKG. LEGISLATURE AMENDMENT BU.L. ' After the Telegraph Office closed at 2 o'clock this morning, Tho Hon. F- M. J*. FISHER, in hi*' reply, declared that obstruction hud - taken place on the Bill becaoso it was hkcly to destroy an unholy alliances between tflro minorities in politics in the country. ' - Sir JOSEPH WARD (tenied that - there was any alliance between his and- , any. other party in tho 'country. "- Continuing, slr FIKHEB eaid tho Opposition had endeavoured to embarrass ' - tho Government inside tho House, while / - they were face to,face with a' great " industrial struggle outeido. It |W».s > about time tho Leader cf tho 9ppoei- " ■ - tion declared which side he was on. whether, ho was on, tho side of lair anil order or on the eide of anarchy, -At the conclusion of the Minister , * - ' speech, Sir Josepli Ward again* empha- ' * ticallv denied that there was any compact between the Liberals aml-iiie Labour Party. Tho statement was a most unfair one. He also stated that tho Opposition had purposely refrained ' from referring to the irtrike in tho , House, but ho would take an early opportunity of doing so in a constitutional way. Tho division was then taken on the third reading, when the Bill was cari ried by 33 votes to 19. Tho Houso rose at 3.30 a.m.

Wednesday, Novbmbib 26. "*