BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1050, 13 February 1911, Page 5

BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

WOMAN'S FRANCHISE BILL. ': HOUSEHOLDER QUALIFICATION. ' (Rec. February 12, 5.5 p.m.) ■,-,• ',: ■• . London, February 11.'; Sir G. Kemp (Liberal) has secured first place among private Bills.for one conferring tho franchise on women, exclusively on the lines of the householder qualification; '■ -■; ■■~.; ■.;,'■ ; ; "THE RIGHT TO WORK. REJECTED. ; . ..'. London, February'lo. In the House of Commons, a- right-to-work amendment to the Addross-in-Reply was rejected, by.225 votes t0',69. '. -,' John Burns, President of the Local Government, Board, said-> the Government couia not accept the Right-tp-Work Bill, becauso it assumed that unemployment was a.simplo single issue that could be met .by a single principle. ..The Government) Jio added, ■ believed: that the 'measure would be inapplicable to tho complex existing evils, and 'would do tho unemployed more harm .than good. i',-: .THE.FISCAL AMENDMENT. ~' NATiONALIST AND LABOIJR VOTES. r"■":'] ' '.''■. ;'.'■ Lbndbny February 10. ' ' Tho O'Brieiiitcs (Independent; Nationalists) abstained from voting on the fiscil amendment, and, the Labourites and Nαtlonallste" voted with the .Government. Hitherto the .latter, had' abstained from ■toting on,fiscal questions. ■•