LIQUOR IN BELAMY'S

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 2

LIQUOR IN BELAMY'S

; MAJORITY FOB RETENTION. The, result of the poll of members of both Houses of Parliament, taken under Section 270 of tlie Legislature Act, ou the question of whether liquor shall be sold within the precincts of Parliament Buildings during the sessions of the present Parliament was announced in the House yesterday.

Tho result was as follows:— Legislative Council.—Ayes, 19; Noes, 13.

House of Representatives.—Ayes, 41; Noes, 31.

Totals. —Ayes, 60; Noes, 44. Majority in favour of the' sale of liquor, 16.

When the result was announced in tho legislative Council the Hon. G. Carson ask.ed whether the names of the voters, and the way they voted, would be announced, and recorded in the journals of the s Council. He stated that on looking up the statutes he foiuid that while the procedure was left open to the Clerk of the Council and the House, the statute was perfectly clear that the voting should be open.

The Speaker said that it had not been tho practice to announce tho names in cither branch of the Legislature.

The Hon. G. Carson said that law of Parliament had decided that the voting should be open.

The Hon. R. Moore Tose to a point of order, and objected to any discussion on the matter without notice.

The Hon. Sir Francis Bell said that he took it that tho Speaker's decision as to the practice governed the procedure. The method of taking the vote was certainly open, because the hon. members had to sign their names to the paper. Whether .they' should announce the names was a matter for the Speaker. They had his decision, and he thought that should decide the matter. The discussion then dropped.