Imperial Politics.
THE NAVY. DISCUSSION ON THE FISCAL QUESTION. London, Mareb as. Iq the House of Lords, Lord Selborne, replying to Earl Spencer's Inquiries concerning the navy estiBates, said that Britain noticed what ether nations were doing and never forced the pace. It was her duty to protect every portion of tho Empire (tom invasion. The navy stood befteecn the country and conscription. Without the navy the present fiscal system was impossible. The navy’s functions enabled bread to be brought to the worker and raw material to the loom and the forge, and the question sould not be solved by the mere balancing of forces here and forces there. Notwithstanding the immense responsibility cast on the service, how. ever, he never advocated a three-power etandard; he did not think the country’s finances could stand it, and the financial security was equal important as the naval. Mr J. S. Ainsworth, member for Asfyleihire, is moving In the House of Commons to-night a resolution condemning any general duty on foreign toanufadurts. The Government has decided that as its attitude has already been clearly defined all private members' motions raising the fiscal question In any form on private member's evening will be left to the free and unfettered discretion of the House. A meeting of fiscal reformers decided not te mrttclpate in the debate or division. in the House of Commons, Mr Arnold-Forster, in reply to Mr Woodbeuse, said the War Office did not pay an Agent-General, or anybody, commission or remuneration of any sort with respect to orders placed in the oplonUt lor supplies in South Africa. London, March 23.
Tbs motion moved by Mr J. S. Alns* worth was adopted by the House of Commons by 254 votes to z. The Opposition was in full strength. A number of free*food Unionists voted with the Liberals. Mr Balfour, in explaining the action of the Government party in not voting on the motion, said they were tired of lending importance to the Opposition’s academic discussions. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the Budget Speech would probably be dittvared on April 10th,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3501, 25 March 1905, Page 3
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