IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 968, 14 August 1903, Page 4

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

IRISH LAND BILL READ A third TIME. SPEAKER REFUSES DISCUSSION ON FISCAL ENQUIRY.. I By, Telegraph—Press Association—i Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 12. The House of Lords read the Irish Land Bill a third time. In the House of Commons, the Speaker would not permit a discussion on the fiscal enquiry proposal, but on the second reading debate on the Appropriation Bill Sir Charles Dilke said the Government, by; the manner in which the fiscal matter lvas been brought forward, j had disturbed the trade of the country. . Lord Hugh Cecil protested against Mr Chamibiprlain’s combining the I prestige of a Minister of the Crown With the utmost liberty of an ordinary politician. It was a constitutional scandal scarcely less than Mr Balfour’s opposition to discussion on the subject.

Mr Balfour, replying to Mr Lloyd

George; promised within a month that an instalment of the Board of Trade figures connected with the fiscal question would he presented. He deprecated the importation of theories into Board of Trade statistics. He would not ask the permanent officials to embark in polemics. He never discussed the mat-

ter of policy with them, and had not the smallest idea of their opinions on the fiscal problem. The Motor Bill was read a third time.

The report of the Alien Immigration Commission recommends the regulation of the entrance of undesirables to Great Britain, the placing of their places of residence under control, and their repatriation? in certain cases^