AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.
CENSURE MOTION AMENDED. Sydney, November 2d. Tn the Assembly the Speaker, in reply to Mr. Woods’s request for an explanation, said that the motion was out down because the first part, was irrelevant to the issue, and the Bouse agreed to take the motion as amended by the Speaker, making it a simple censure of the Speaker. THE MOTION DEFEATED. Mr. "Wood, in a two hours’ speech, attacked the Government for failing tn take a logical course to clear up the matter of the Speaker’s power. He claimed that the House should have the initiation and control of its own business. The Premier, in reply, defended Mr. AVillis, and declared that he had no intention of taking the business of the House out of the hands of the Government. Mr. Holman moved the closure. Mr. Wood’s motion was negatived by 34 votes to 32. It was purely a party vote.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 79, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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152AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 79, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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