LIQUOR IN IRELAND.
BILL TO PROHIBIT SUNDAY
TRADE.
By telegraph, Press Ass'n, Conyrigh
Reoeived 10 24 a.m., May 27. London, May 26.
Mr Sloan’s Bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in Ireland on Stmday was read a second time by 244 to 50, and referred to the Standing Committee Sn" Trade.
The new British House of Commons has a quite new temper on the lioeneiDg question. In the last House there were ; no fewer than 129 members directly interested in the liquor trade, and 75 of tbe'e were rejeoted. The last House oounted only 88 total abstainers; the new House has 176, or double the number. One of 72 Boots members no fewer than 61 a e pledged in favor of looal veto; and Scotland, it must be remembered, is the land of whisky. At the Labor Representation Committee conference it was dec ded by 666,000 voteß to 103,000, or by a vote of more than six to one, that “ the inhabitants of every locality should have the right to exercise the veto in regard fo licenses.” The Chancellor'of theExobequer already proposes to extract £3.000,000 of additional taxes from the liqnor trade, moro than doubling the burden that trade already carrier.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1759, 28 May 1906, Page 2
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