THE INSURANCE BILL.
c • LORDS AND REVISION. By TelecT»ph-Prem Aesoeiation-CopyHirtal London, December 12. In tho course of t.he debate on tlio National Insurance Bill in tho House oi Lords, Lord Haldane, Secretary of Stale for War, regretted that the measure had como to tho Lords so late in the session. The alternative was "to postpone the ineasuro for a long period. Lord Lansdowno, Leader of tho Opposition, declared that it would be futile to amend tho Bill unless the House of Commons abjured its privileges. Though it was not a money Bill, it spelt mono,? in every clause. Any attempt to revise it would lead to barren, ineffectual wrangling, and would saddle tho House of Lords with a sharo of responsibility for the Bill. A referendum was not desirable. Tho machinery for such did. not exist, and it would force the electors to chooso tho Government Bill or none. Tho Bill was read a eccond time without a division.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1311, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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159THE INSURANCE BILL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1311, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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