PRIME MINISTER JUBILANT.
(Received May.29th, 8.20 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 29
Mr Cook is jubilant at the Senate's rejection of the No Preference to Unionists Bill, which places him in a position to ask for a double dissolution, but ho intends to give, the Opposition a chance to reject the* Postal Voting Bill, tho Government's other test measure.
Under the Constitution a double dissolution—that is, of both House of Representatives and Senate'—may take place oniv under the following circumstances: —When the House has twice pa-sed a proposed law, with an interval of three months between, and the Senate has twice rejected it or passed it with amendments unacceptable to the Jtilouse. The Liberals are dependent for their majority in tho House on the casting vote of the Speaker, whilo the Labour Party has a largo majority in the Senate. It has been the object of the Liberals to manoeuvre for a double dissolution, and that of the Labour Party to prevont them obtaining one. for if the Houso alone were dissolved, Labour, if it were defeated, would still be ablo to kill or cripple Liberal proposals ia tho Senate.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 149814, 30 May 1914, Page 11
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188PRIME MINISTER JUBILANT. Press, Volume L, Issue 149814, 30 May 1914, Page 11
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