LANGUAGE UNFIT FOR A POT-HOUSE.
FEDERAL PREMIER'S COMMENT - 'ON SENATI- SPEECHES. LABOUR SENATE PASSES CENSURE. By^Tciesrapli—Press AssoriaUon^OovyrleW: McUjcurns, Drmtilioi 1J M'Doiignllj.in. tho Fcd.eriii. Sciiatr-, drew nLtoiitloii- to a news■paper report- of a .speeeii by tlio -.Fcd.cral'l'rcniicr. (Mr. Cook), at Paramatta, ■ in which ho said tlmt ]the language that, had ■omajiatofl from tin": Senato; would' .not Ijo hoard in a pothmiso. ■■■"■ .-■ilMi'. Milieu (Minister of Defence) said hn had written to Mr. Cook, who' had 'replied, quoting a largo miniber '■ of samples of InnjUinge used hy Senators, statiisg that jus' comment 1 hereon wait that it would not be tolerated in a potllOIIM.« *' ' Tho Senate, by 25 rotes to 4,-passed a- resolution tiiat Mr. Cook had been guilty 'of offensive language. . CHEAP TELEGRAMS. PROPOSAL ADOPTED BY FEDERAL HOUSE. Melbourne, DeceinEer 12. .'Tho Federal House has passed a proposal to allow messages of forty words for'ono shilling to bo telegrapficd t after fi o'clocl: in tho evening, to bo deliveredby.post next morning. ... Tho Senate, by 25 votes t0.4, rojected tho second reading of the Government, Preferenco Prohibition Bill.
VICTORIAN POLITICAL' CRISIS. ' THE NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION. , . Molbourna, December 12. Mr. Watt's no-confidence motion was debated and adjourned till Tuesday,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 5
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195LANGUAGE UNFIT FOR A POT-HOUSE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 5
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