FEDERAL POLITICS.
PRESENT SITUATIONfiCANNOT LAST.
MR. COOK INTERVIEWED, By Tekffraph—Press AGrcociation—Oopyrislit Melbourne, September 1. Mr. Josopli Cook, the Federal Prime Minister, in an interview, .said: "We shall go to the country when ye are ready, not a mefment before. I should: like, if possible., to make soroo changes in tlic electoral -la.lv, and shall give Mr. Fisher (Leader of tho Opposition) an opportunity of "turning down t'lieso proposals or passing them as ho chooses. "Mr. Ghiim, who was employed as engineer on tho trans-Continental railway. has 1)02.11 discharged:, and his friends in the SeJiato liavo rushed to his resoive, and, sot tho business of tho country aside, whilo t.hoy have appointed a partisan conimitteo of inquiry. The chairman has prejudiced' tho caso by declaring before the inquiry opens that 110 more scandalous pieco of persecution has ever takeai place." Mr. Cook added: "Tho present position cannot, in the very nature of things, bo a lasting one." I THE SIGNED ARTICLE LAW. Sydney, September 1. The proprietor of a publication issued at Manly, the seaside resort, was fined £2, with' £2 Bs. costs, for permitting an unsigned political article to ajpp«ir at Federal election timo.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1844, 2 September 1913, Page 7
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194FEDERAL POLITICS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1844, 2 September 1913, Page 7
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