COMMONS SITS 20 HOURS
Finance Bill Debate NO CONCESSIONS BY MINISTER (N Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 25. _ A tired House of Commons rose at mrnm™' .?, £te , r Slttin « 20 hours 28 the lotl B e st sitting since 1939 Members argued all night, but vainly to persuade the -Chancellor al the Exchequer (Dr. Hugh Dalton) to make
concessions in his Finance Bill ranging from relief on death duties for large estates to taxation exemptions for underpaid clergymen. Dr. Dalton met persuasive pleading, or angry demands with gentle but firm refusals. Twice he sternly insisted that the House carry on when tired members put a motion for the closure, Dawn brought retribution to those members \yho had slipped past the Whips and gone home late last night, believing the House would soon rise. The Whips rounded them up by telephone, and called them from their beds to the House to relieve the faith-fl]lxtol-o^vers wbo bad bome the brunt of the night’s wrangling.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 7
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