IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 74, 31 March 1904, Page 2

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

A.IUOUKNMKNT. (Received March :m, I !)..'!(> p.m.) LONi>()\, Mar«h .SU. In thw House in" Commons. ou u motion to adjourn till April I'JtLi, j Sir Henry Canipbell-ihitmerman attacked tlie («o vera men I for the | meagre results of Uu- nrM portion of | the session. JJo declared that Lord Miiner's speech condemning public i opinion in liritiiiji was the rankest sedition. Sir J fern y asked why it was constitutional for Mr J4uli'our to retain power in view oi' the results of the bye-elections, «nd added that, the (lovernment did net? j possess the sanetion of (he people after the war and its sel l lement. Air llalfonr denied that members of thy (iovm'iinienl were hangers-on and incapable of doing the work the country had I'ntrnsti'd to them. Tiie delay in legislation was attributable to the Opposition. "Neither the Government nor Mr Chamberlain, while lie was in tho Ministry, had declared tluit the lisail controversy alforded any grounds for shortening the duration of Parliament. Lord iio.'iebery's ftppeal to the Government not tp to rushed was justilied. Moreover, a hye-election was no indication of a country's feeling as a whole, and any such doctrine was an constitutional in theory and unworkable in practice, "i would be the last lo broach Lord Milner," said the Prime Minister, " ami it' his speech implied a certain amount of benevolent conleuipt-a certain amount of it was on a subject nearly connected with the prosperity of xhe country."

The motion for adjournment was agreed to, alter Sir .John Ciorst protesting againsl Mr Uah'our and several Ministerialists walking out at lhe outset of Lord Hugh Cecil's speech. AUKS IMMIGRATION TO ENGLAND. . (Received March 31, O.'A a.m.) LONDON, March SO. In the House of Commons a hill introduced by the Hon. Akcrs TJcu- : glas, dealing with the immigration of aliens, and based on the lioyal Commission's recommendations vans read a first time. Sir Charles Dilke saUl ho feared the hill struck at many hopeless victims of political mid religious persecution. Sir Michael llickw-Beach has Informed his constituents that l.e intended retiring at the e»d of the present- Parliament.