COMMONWEALTH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 100, 1 September 1913, Page 8

COMMONWEALTH POLITICS.

I TH B PRKAI i Kll I.Vi'EltA I KWH I). j ; !1y EIECTKIC TlCf/EGKAl’H—COi’VUinm ; I t'NiTKD Press Association.! j J t Sydney, September i, I Mr Cook, .in aii intcnicnv, said: •”\Ve fdiaJi go to the country when we are ready, and not a moment before, i should like, if possible,, to make some <• langes in tiie Electoral law, and shall g;vc Mr. Fi.sher an opportunity of turning down those proposals or passing them as ho, chooses.” Dealing with other matters, Mr Cook i .ok Kuo ease of one, Chinn, who was employed as an engineer on the Trans- | Continental railway, and who had boon j discharged. His friends in the Senate, said the Premier, rushed to the j i sene, and sot the,,business of the e nmrry aside wbilo they appointed a. p irtisaa epupuitteo of enquiry, of r nom the Chairman prejudiced the e iso by declaring before the enquiry i was open that no more scandalous , niece of persecution bad ever taken place. Mr Cook added: “The position canrot in the very nature of things be a lasting one.” \