PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 7

PARLIAMENT.

-4 • A DAILY SUMMARY, w llsefurivork is at an end in th< ; rtouso of Beprosentativos for the tinu being, the Opposition having sett ] e( &r*? °f bStl ' UCi thß G°vernment> K oal . «fo™ P/oposnls by holding ui tho Legislature .Amendment Bill. M rlv „?t n " Semßnt , wa3 Peeked in the early afternoon when Mr. J. p a y IH Rave notice to move a motion of want ?n,r? n r denc V u , «>o-Government, as an ■ , ndlc ?tiOii of his dissatisfaction with its attitude towards the present industrial crisis. ' ■ ' . ■ Almost as soon as the House met. tho . opposition ■• members- commenced to throw obstacles in the way of the .Legislature Amendment Bill by giving notice or dozens of amendments and new clauses to be moved when the Bill was in Committee. Some Oppositionists read-lengthy "amendments," consisting of extracts from Bills which have been repected in past years. These tac- . tics wcro dropped for the time being flnen tho Speaker entered a dignified protest, but Sir J. Ward took up tho running by moving the adjournment of the House.- The right of a privito member to do this was challenged by the Prune Minister, and, after hearing ' lengthy argument and mauy appeals to the Standing Ordors, the Speaker reserved his decision on the point. Preliminary sparring came to an end ' n 4,1 °. P- m -< wuen ' the House went into Committcp on tho Legislature Amendment Bill, and the obstruction debate was resumed. . The subsequent pro,ceeduigs wore one long dull'drift of trivial talk Purely theoretical amendments'.' alternated with raoreport progress. At midnight the House had- passed only two words, m tho short title 6f tho Bill, and one or tneso had'been passed at tho previous sitting: ' " - •. ■ No further progress had been made when we went to press, and the Oppositionists were then' "discussing" an . amendment to postpone tho coming into operation of the Bill'until April 1..1915 In Legislative Council the Bank of New Zealand Bill was read a second time. Hio Minister in charge of the Bill contented himself in moving tho second reading, with a very clear but brief explanation of tho' Bill, > without putting forward argument as to wnether it ought to bo passed or not. Tho Hon. J. Rigg spo if 0 >i n advocacy of a ( Matei bank, and the, Hon. J.' Anstey \ urged that there ought to be some provision in-the Bill to-protect customers ot the bank from ; excessive charges. J.nc Hon., J. Duthie argued very stronrf- , It against the State retaining any share in the control of the bank, pointing out .that the State management of the institution had been by no means ' food it would bo better for the bank, and, better credit of the ..country, if the State'were wholly dissociated: from the bank. Two • minor- Bihs were put through the final stages..; . ... .......