FEDERAL BUDGET
COUNTRY PARTY’S AMENDMENT DEFEATED ' " ALLEGED FAKING TO SHOW A SURPLUS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, October 20. In the House of Representatives Mr. Charlton (Labour) claimed, as Leader of the official Opposition, the right te move an amendment to the Budget. He was forestalled by J)r. Earle Page, leader of the Country .Party, who moved the reduction by 41 of the Defence Estimates. Tho amendment was defeated by 39 votes to 19, the Nationalists\ and Country Party voting together. Dr. Page then moved a reduction of 10s. When speaking to the original amendment, Dr. Page suggested that the Budget had been faked to show «i surplus. <?ir Joseph Cook (Treasurer), in replying, said that during his thirty years’ Parliamentary experience he had never heard a more bitterly partisan or insulting speech than that by the Country Party’s leader. The House adjourned. —Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 23, 21 October 1921, Page 5
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144FEDERAL BUDGET Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 23, 21 October 1921, Page 5
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