BUDGET AND LIQUOR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 507, 14 May 1909, Page 5

BUDGET AND LIQUOR.

CLUB SALES.

THE NEW TAXATION PROPOSALS. _. CHANCELLOR INDEFINITE. ' (H7 TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOOiiTIC.N— COFVIUQUT.) London, May 12. The House of Commons is becoming increasingly angry : over tho' tentative and in-I definite proposals o'f< the Chancellor of tho Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd-George), and the plea that tho resolution niust bo passed before the Houso is informed what the Finance Bill contains. , ■ Mr. Lloyd-George admitted that a tax of threepence in i the pound upon sales at clubs could be easily evaded by increasing members' subscriptions. -;It was-explained that anjmpost.of sixpence in. the pound on the purchase of'liquor' would, obviatet the need of employing a clerk to register sales. The, Chancellor -promised ?to consider' Mr,; J Austen; Chamberlain's' suggestion, of a slid-., ing, scale. ;, -.' -, • , "TRADE'S" POSITION FROM LIBERAL STANDPOINT. I PAYS FOUR MILLIONS AND CHARGES I TWENTY. . . (Rec. May 13, 10.30 p.m.) I London, May 13. i ■ Mr. Herbert Samuel, Under-Secretary, to the Home Office,' estimates that as 'a result of.:the new, taxation on liquor, the- "trade" j MS fastening on the public increased prices; | amounting -in . the-aggregate to twenty , millions annually, although- tho new. taxatioh only imposes on the "trade" an annual burden; of "four, millions. OTHER OPPONENTS. THE CHURCH AND THE IRISH.' ' ■ (Rec. May 14, 0.50 a.m.) London, May 18. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury,' speaking' ;at the; festival ,of tho Sons of tho Clergy, stated :that;.-if the. ..Budget became law £50,000 annually would bo lost to the Ecclesiastical Commissioner's funds: for' the .benefit.of the poorer clergy. : , The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided over a meeting of various public in. Ireland,' at which .-resolutions were carried protesting' Budget, and appealing' to tho 'All ■Ireland Committee, to combat, the, proposed taxation. • '