FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 510, 5 September 1902, Page 3

FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

MR PEAKIN’S GREAT SPEECH By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, Sopt. 4. Mr Doakin, supporting his resolution, said “ Wo havo docided to cut roads for ourselvos through untravellod country. Wo have mado our own precedents, and will dovolop our own principles. Having accepted tho Fedoral Government, it is not for us to ondeavor, without mandato from tho electors, to secure unification by negotiations between tho two Chambers. If it is over sought to reduce tho Sonato to tho position occupied by the Stato Upper Houses it will bo necessary for the peoplo to signify their desire for such a chango.” Mr McMillan thought the Government had taken tho proper course, but advised tho House to exhaust every reasonable moans of compromise. Mr Isaacs opposed the motion, and said the Senate’s message was an absolute challenge to tho House. To pass tho resolution was to renounce by tho House all right and privilege conferred by tho nation. Mr Watson, loader of tho Labor Party, ■declared that ho would concodo no rights in regard to taxation to a House which did not represent tho pooplo in equal proportion. After further discussion Mr Doakin’s motion was adopted by 36 to 9. The Senato passed a vote of £5500 for tho next Govornor-General’s expenditure in Government Houses at Melbourne and Bydnoy. Sir T. Kingston announced that the Government intend to make certain concessions to the Senato in regard to machinery, hosiery, and solar residual oil.