LICENSING REFORM.
GREAT OPPOSITION. DIFFERENT TREATMENT FOR IRELAND A POLITICAL BARGAIN SUGGESTED.
(Uj TclcErauli;—i'resa AsßoclaUon.-CoDjriKlit.l (Rec. September-2, 10.43 p.ni.) ' "-/... London, 'September 2. ...• Mr. Lloyd-George's proposed restrictions in> connection with tho grocers' licenses in Scotland arid Ireland cabled yesterday are; exciting- great opposition. Many communications aro reaching private members. . . On;the ■'Committee-':stage of the Budget, Mr. Redmond moved to exclude: Ireland from the operation of the new licenses.. ; ./ Mr. Asquith, in a conciliatory reply, said while the; accoptaucc of: such ' a '...sweeping' amendment was out of the question, ho.was: prepared.to go;somo way towards meeting ;Mr. Redmond's views. The: Government would reduce the minimum amount of license duty payable in. respect of ; public-houses in, areas 'with- a given' population in Ireland as compared with public-houses in areas of tho samo population in England or Scotland. He would further propose that jtliq.system.of; .valuatipn in Ireland .'be not disturbed. Ho promised to consider some concession to small brewers. ■' .V : ';'-.," : - '.'•': ■■''• • . Mr! Clancy' thanked- Mr. Asquith,' but "in-] . ■timated that the ;Nationalists would "feservo' ■judgmont. until the' concessions' took tho .'form of amendments. ' :.-"'■;■':' '.'■■. ' '. .:,, Mr.; Balfour, /in. a' spirited criticism,; said •He 'was unable to understand .why .the "small publican; and brewer in Ireland'should bo ; treated : differently from their ■'brethren-".'in' /England -arid: Scotland. Be'-suggested,'.amid Unionist cheers, that there had been a poli- '. ticai bargain.... He added: "After all, v y'on - 'may.'carry;these bargains too far, and may | sacrifice too much," •■,.Ho"•supposed ,that this ■ -wasah. old. bargain,, but: it .was scandalous '. /that -the Government -should have kept it.'' ! Ho. contended' that the 'Committee had been :• monstrously:used. \ ./; . :.',' '■.'. ■■>;;/; :•■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 603, 3 September 1909, Page 5
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256LICENSING REFORM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 603, 3 September 1909, Page 5
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