"THE REAL LEADER."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 1 October 1909, Page 7

"THE REAL LEADER."

, CHAMBERLAIN, SIR JOHN GORST ON NOMINAL CHIEFS. HE DEFENDS THE BUDGET. , (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. September 30, 11 p.m.)' London, September 30. Sir John Gorst (formerly a Conservative organiser and M.P., and vice-president of the Committee of the Council of Education), speaking at Corsharo, Wiltshire, defended the Budget. He added: ;. "The word has gone forth from the. real leader of the Tory party .to the Lords to reject the'; Budget." The party's nominal leaders were unable to> restrain that movement. . [At Mr. Balfour's meeting at Bingley Hall, Birmingham, Mr. Austen Chamberlain read a message from his father in which occurred the following sentence: "I hope that the House of Lords will see ■ their way to force a general election, and I don't doubt what tho answer of the country will be." Mr. Balfour was silent, and his silence has been construed in some quarters as consent. Sir John Gorst, he .who paved, the way for Disraeli's great- victory, by reorganising the; then scattered Conservative party, now arises in his vonorable age to bewail tho fact - that the party's nominal leaders must bow to the Voice of Birmingham.] FIXING MINING ROYALTIES AND RENTS ;, ' PLEAS FOR .EXEMPTION. ' London, September 29. In the. House of Commons, in accordance with the Government's decision- to drop, the tax on, lingotten minerals and to substitute for it a 5 per cent, tax on mineral rents and royalties,- the .Chancellor of .the Exchequer (Mr. , Lloyd-George) moved a new clause ,in tho Finance Bill imposing a duty of a shilling in the on , the rental value of all rights to work minerals, and of all mineral waylcaves. ■ Tho Opposition emphasised the fact that minerals were -frequently worked- by owners who, under the Bill, would pay tax on what they would have been'receiving as. royalty ,in case' someone else had been getting, the minerals.- .Such men would bo at a disadvantage, as compared with rivals who leased: minerals. ~ln response to appeals on behalf of, the build : ing trade, Mr. Lloyd-George undertook to "ex-empt-common clay, gravel, chalk, and sand from the operation of the clause. ■ Mr. Boiiar Law, Unionist member for Dulwich, contended that the. claim on behalf of coal and other raw material was equally just and nrgent. 1 . ;, ''- ;. . The House adopted' the new clause.