PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 August 1890, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

SHORTENING OF THE SESSION. THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION. Messrs B illance and Bryce have | come to terras, which have bee'» approved of by the Opposition and Ministry, for bringing the session to an e<u >! y close- In the first p a*e it is agreed tint the Labour Bil s shall be proceeded with, and, if possible, parsed : — Iso others which hav<' beftn ngreed upon. Other measures of an urgent and technical character not likoly to excito objection may also be pro ceeded with, biit the remainder of the Government Bills on the Orde ' Paper a c to be dropped. A new Bill to facilitate the formation of thr ! new electoral roll*, so as to hasten the c ections, is also to he introduced and pS-ed, and theFedenl resolutions are to b° disi'is^ed. The Appropriation B 11 is to be passed for the lull financ al year, but it is to contain a clause su-pendimr the op ration of that portion of the Public Revenues Act which enables expenditure to be continued for a further three m nths without Parliamentary authority. Ministers undertake 'hat the new Pail amen t shall be cal cd together on the 9th of April, and they undertake to observe the usual Constitutional practice of resigning at once, without waiting for Parliament to mpot, if ths result of the General ' lection is decidedly against them. The agreement ig not to intorfero with the right of members in Supply to move reductions in the items of the Esti mites, but it is stipulated that the discussions shall be brief, and not unnecessarily prolonged. Aa the supreme Coutt Bil is amongst tlms to be abandoned, the question of Mr Jub ice Ed-yards' ap ointmsnt wi' not be raised this s s-uon, and his salary dnring the recess wi 1 h ive to be provided out of unauthorised expenditure.