PARLIAMENT

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 November 1913, Page 2

PARLIAMENT

Till': SECOND BALLOT W.KPEAL KILL. [I'KK I'UKSS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, 'This Day. After the Telegraph. Oflice closed at 2 o'clock this morning, the Hon. Mv Fisher, in his reply on the third reading of the Second Ballot Bepeal Bill, declared that the obstruction had taken place on. the, Bill because it was likely to destroy the unholy alliance which had existed between two minorities in the politics of the country. Sir Joseph Ward denied that there was an alliance between him and anv other party in the country. Continuing, Mr Fisher said thv Opposition had endeavoured -to embarrass the Government inside the House, while they were face to face with a great industrial struggle outside of it. It was about time.the leader of the Opposition declared which side he was on, whether he was on the side of law and order or on the side of anarchy. At the conclusion of the Minister's speech, Sir Joseph Ward again emphatically denied that there was any compact between the Liberals and the Labour Party The statement was a most unfair one. He also stated that tire Opposition had purposely refrained from referring to the strike in the House, but he would take an early opportunity of doing so in a constitutional way. The division was then taken on the third reading of the Bill, when it was carried by -\o votes to 19. The House rose at -'kHO a.m.