UNIFICATION MOTION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1334, 11 January 1912, Page 5

UNIFICATION MOTION.

DEFEATED BY 19 TO 6.

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Hobart, Jannary 10. During the unification debate Air. Andrew Fisher declared that tho Commonwealth had been hampered 'htioyery turn in reference to questions of health, shipping, and railways. The powers asked for at- tho last Referendum were tho minimum'needodfor the National 'Parliament to protect tho interests of the whole people. .Even with them it would bl difficult to effectively deal with monopolies. • Mr. M'Gowen, Premier of New South Wales, made a strenuous defence of State righte. . He said i| would be dangerons to give tho Commonwealth a power that would enable supreme authority to be exercised. After a long discussion with closed doors, the conference officially announced that the unification motion had been defeated by 19 to 6. ' A motion that the Federal Government should own and control, the failways was defeated by 17 to 3. The conference entered upon'a debate on land taxation. Several delegates confended that the exemption (,£5000) was too high. The debate has not concluded. A NEW REFERENDA.' (Rec. January 10, 9.5 p.m.) Hobart, January 10. The Labour Conference decided to support tho taking of a new referenda in connection with the proposed constitutional alterations. It reaffirmed the desirability of abolishing State Upper Houses. It negatived tho Tasmanian proposal for a Federal tax on unearned incomes, with exemptions up to XIOOO.