IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 50, 4 July 1913, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

CORRUPT' PRACTICES

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

London, July 3

In view of the recent manifesto incident at Leicester, Mr Wolmer will introduce a Bill to amend the Corrupt Practice Act, with the object of punishing misstatements intended to affect the result, of an election.

AX ALL-NIGHT SITTING

(Received 8.45-. a.m.) London, July 3

The Houso of" Commons had an all-' night sitting over the. Plural Voting Bill. The Radicals hotly opposed the ameiKlnientSj./ivhich were', s'wopt-aside by means of the closure, amid loud opposition cries df '''Shame J Monstrous!" as progress was reported. THE MARCONI BUSINESS. Mr Asquitb, in reply to a question as to whether the Government woidd re-open negotiations with the Marconi Company while Ministers and members of the Liberal Party held American Marconi shares, stated that Mr Samuel would shortly mako a statement in regard to the wireless stations. Ho understood that all the persons referred to had divested themselves of their shares in the American Company.