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The Dominion. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914. A GREAT CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE

"One of tho gttafet EWsfcHiitiongr struggle's in .tjie Ms'tavy of .Aitstfa:lia is'now.-in; progress." This statement, ffifeie'fi v,W mink h$ t'l« Federal Prin« Kinikfejr (Me. Cff&ii), docs not in any wfty the gravity of the cpifiiing FWctal elections. The ciiwpftiga is. being fcmgist with the greatest vigour,. .ati<l. tte contest is siti'c So tic' isfi extemd}: bitter one. Ever sliwff Mr, €«t>K axti his colleagues , tpdils wMre a violent strife of tongiioS h.3s ten. goiag oflj and owing tb t-he ita;n'tfwae;ffi o.s thiV Hjajcirifcy in the Hope of Representatives jfe wiis .alrtwst U> possible to pj'oee!M| with ths fettsitiOKSof the country; SpWjifte laliioig office, Mr. Cosk. fsjtHgMtsod.Aafc feßp position was aft intolerable ohc.-. mpl tJiafc the only tofie ol relief,., lay in another appeal te the :)Wopte.' Bis had nothing to g&ra by'ft clisswfttt.ien of the House-''of /JfejiJrescHtttivcs only, as even if lik liarty againproved i.it Use 1361i-s tto domination of tihs SeSfflte by ili-e Labour Oppositfcii woiikj i-cmaiu. He, therefore, set to weirlj. tv> tn'ing atj&iit a situation which wHVtd place- feiw in P; position' to issk tie CkiVß-BNOTj-General for a tloi-ible. tfeeintaGp in accordance, wifcli the }«Wis«>ns of tire Constitution,. ..awd ft'Jisn 4he Senate had twice rejected the Pi'efcreneo Abolition Bitf α-fter it tactjieon t-wlec passed by the -House of iw-iJWse-Bta-tives that sifea'tiftn was dsfebllslied. Acting on tlio advice of his Ministers the GovfijiSiiß'G.BjJEitA-L that the best Way of otitfing the deadlock was to sciiel hath HonsrS to tbc electors,. and. to tho oketots they have now gone. The latest cnbic@rn.ins si : i«v thftfc the session las -some to an fiijd, and that the election. CftiftiMiipij is in full swing. .Some of tha Labour politicians have. lieiui a-ccnsiiig th« Gov-■EnNon-GESEiiAfc of &artis?anahip, and contend that o-iilj? t!» H'tniSc* of Keprcscntatives shoittd i-uiv-c been dissolved. It baa even been said that the Constitution fens hf-01 "bn£cherecl," but everv faiv-uiiiu-lcd mira or woman nitirt ndinit thnt the Oav-kusou-Generai/h iipf.ii-m was in every wfly constitutiuilal, riu-:.t oiit-ifcj.v in accordance with ewtnnion senw?, thougli it is only natufal that {-he Opposition should feel a tittle s'nfc at the thougllt of their nvonvhe-Im-ing majority hi the Senate fciust ulaced in uecit, Howevov, the faci

■ wmaifis that tke people of Australia are to liave an opjSbrtiinlty ol.passing ju-dgmcnt on the weinibets of both Houses-, and on the policies of die two pnrties. Mil, Cook declares that tins effort of the Liberals will he "to restore a free .Parliament to a free people for the wise purpose of a free democracy.." As regiinlsJ ( tftc demand for prrferenre- to unionists, lie said that "Liberals could )»'tti no traffics with anything that mwiflt . paforferetice, privilege, ami prerogative." This is hot much more than a rather vfigiiG statement of political geiiei'alisies, but Mn. CoOK fea-d not at that stage made his .policy s.pe-iyell, 'thffttgji hij had ihdicatetl thai Hs policy will deal with the develojjniDnt of tfec CQiiMh'y, fcliß increase of 'tli@ jirothicc of tte_ s&ll and better Kteail.s of distj'ibutioß. Neithci , side hes, so 'far, judging by tho infcraiution. at pre-se-iit •■vvailable, liiado ft definite cteeliiratiori- as » tfe deteils of the programmes they inieiil to pSa.ec before the eicctfirs; bdt fcfee earnpaign wtU probably fesolve ite&l ifito ]"a bai;tl : e bctvteen the goneral pi' iim pries o| Aiitti-ijlian liitjeralisijtiind the Lα-!»r-S(>ria!isi ifkhh 61 the party M by jilß. JtSHJUB. fhe .only, way oi reiMbving' fliß deadlock, ...fi'ifh all its iflatmsaienco aiact i|s ti'.isiflbat-aon el ■tlte legidaiivo m'.ae|i-mory, for tho ■eledtots to give a' cfeai- Vorftiftg fflajorifcy .to eric of the par'ticS', tooth iii tibe fiowse a-h(l tiro.. Senate.

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2192, 3 July 1914, Page 6

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The Dominion. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914. A GREAT CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2192, 3 July 1914, Page 6

The Dominion. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914. A GREAT CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2192, 3 July 1914, Page 6

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