HOUSE OF BEPBESENTATIVES.

Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1894, Page 2

HOUSE OF BEPBESENTATIVES.

Wednesday, August \. The Speaker took the ohair at 3.80 p.m. The following Bill 3 were read a first time : — Shipping, Seamen, and Marine Engineers Bill ; a Bill to alter the boundaries of the Waimea and Inangahua Counties. In the evening the Financial Debate was resumed. The Colonial Treasurer took the opportunity of replying to various criticisms that had appeared outside the House. Mr Mitchelson followed with a strong protest against tho Budget— 11 the most extraordinary ever produced." Mr Tanner thought it contained a bold and comprehensive policy. sSir Robert Stout declared that without borrowing the year would have been ended with a deficit. The policy of the Budget meant nothing but borrowing. In no Parliament in the world had the Liberal members been treated as they had been this year. 1 h°y were not allowed to have souls of their own ; every Bill . was forced down their throats at the point of the bayonet, and they -were driven like dumb dog 3 into the lobby. They we^e afraid ; they were terror • ised. He hoped the House would reject the Budget proposals. The Premier asserted that the Budget was continuation of the policy carried on by the present Government since 1891. Mr E. M. Smith moved the adjournment of the debate. -^ The House adjourned at 12.20 a, in.