MERCHANDISE MARKS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 9

MERCHANDISE MARKS

BILL IN HOUSE OF LORDS MEASURE DENOUNCED BY LORD INCHCAPE London, December 2. In the House ol Lords, the Merchandise Marks Bill was read a second time by uO votes to 26, after Lord Inchcape, who recently joined the Conservative though still a Freetrader, made a vigorous denunciation of the Bill. He said that it was preposterous, and would involve an increase in the number of functionaries who batten on the people. He was convinced that if the Government interfered with the free interchange of commodities, Great Britain would become a mere cypher. Taxation would wipe out the country’s wealth. The proposals only sounded right to those who knew little of business. Lord Beauchamp congratulated Lord Inchcape on his speech, and asked if he. was going to vote against the Bill. lyord Inchcape replied that he was not going to support the Bill, but he was not going to vote against it.

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