FEDERAL DISSOLUTION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 677, 13 June 1914, Page 7

FEDERAL DISSOLUTION.

AN EXCITED DEBATE. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S REASONS. LABOUR PARTY'S DEMANDS. By Telegraph..—Press Association.—Copyrigttt Sydney, Thursday. \ The Federal House of Representatives and the galleries were ciowded when the Treasurer moved the resolutions asking for three months' supply to carry over the election. The Opposition immediately demanded that Mr Cook should inform the House the reasons he had given Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson for a dissolution. In a wrangling and excited debatja Mr Cook promised to make a statement when Supply was granted, and also announced that the election would be held on September Bth, contingent upon the quick passage of Supply. The Opposition was not satisfied, and eventually Mr Cook, at the request of Mr Fisher, made a statement to the effect that he had advised the Governor-General to grant a double dissolution, assuring him that the raquirements of the Constitution had been complied with, and that the present state of parties made Parliament unworkable. Sir Ronald Ferguson agreed to a dissolution provided the necessary Supply was obtained. Mr W. M. Hugheß. ex-Attorney-. General, resumed the debate, demanding that Mr Copk place the actual memorandum given to the Governor-General before the House. It was most important that they should have the actual facts to see that the Governor-General was pro perly adviied. A MOTION OF CENSURE. ' PASSED BY SENATE. Melbourne, Thursday. The Labour majority in the Senate added<an amendment to the Address-in-Reply amounting to a censure of the Ministry in connection with certain railway contracts. Consequently the Government representatives declined to participate the presentation of the address to Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, who, in accepting it from the PresdientJ omitted the usual thanks for the address.; The ceremony waß thus unique/