EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
TEE EXEMPTION.CLAUSES
-. The Legislative Council met at 2.80 J>.tn, on Saturday,. EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. THE EXEMPTION CLAUSES. The consideration of the Hkpeditionsry Forces Bill In Committee was completed. Progress had been reiported at the previous sitting after th| deletion of the clause providing exemption for .clergymen and- teachers-' ■ ' SIR FRANCIS. BELL moved the third . reading of the Bill in its amended form. He said he wished to send the measure to the House of .Representatives as, quiokly as possible. The Hon. J. T.PAUL protested against the .proposal to deprive military of£en r ders of civil rights. The deletion of the exemption clause by the Council had created a serious position, possibly a political crisis. The action .of tho -Council in'over-riding the decision of the people's representatives in the House seemed to nim most. anomalous. The question had been thoroughly debated in the House, but the Council had made it a. party question. Every Counoillor who nad voted on. the clause had been an appointee of the Reform Government. ,
The Hon. W. Earnshaw: Did yon not •' rote? , n ■'•'.„' , . Mr. Paul: 1 said- every Councillor. I voted, but the difference is that I do 'not attempt to hide my party proclivities. ■ I do not believe in ipolite notion. .Mr. Paul said that there had been a party division on the question of exemption in the House, but neither party could be blamed more than the "other party for that faot He proceeded to .argue in favour-of the exemption >■ <it ,teaob.ers.' The education of the ohild- .' ren oould not wait. The beat interests of the country would be served in any case by the exemption of..the Manst Brothers.- These .men formed' a class apart.- ' They were under vows of celibacy, chastity, and poverty.;: They lived under conditions distinct irom the life of the ordinary people, and their servioes were regarded as essential in a religious sense by a. -very large body of people. He hoped / means would be found to adjust the matter 'fairly, and avert what might.- develop into a teenous poUtical crisis. ' . . The Bill was passed as amended. .
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 29, 29 October 1917, Page 7
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348EXPEDITIONARY FORCES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 29, 29 October 1917, Page 7
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