FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 169, 21 July 1904, Page 2

FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

rurr. THE SHIPPING CLAUSES DBOjk " PED. ' - < MELBOURNE, July 30. In the House, Mr q, h. BaU'a amendment to omit the abipuiac • clauses from tile Arbitration JWfl , 5 was carried, by 27 to 22. ** Mr Watßon, Premier, said that T* view of this decision he would drco '"i [altogether all tho new shipping "hit- ™ v ses prepared by tho GovemmeotT^ Consideration of tho bill j n roitteo was completed and the Mil ported. Tho report will be made an aM* of the day for Tuesday. j.

RELIEVING INDUSTRBAL DIB- f THESB. • ' ■ MELBOURNE, July 90. '' Thoro was a. long debate on ' jfe Monger's motion colling atUtaUah tit"' distress, and asking the Goroirmefit to take stops to alleviate it by pro* viding public works Me suggMtafe'C. tho re-opening of the tariff queotiott i, with the view of fostering iadt&r' '' .tries. v t . Mr Watson ahnutted there tw * jarge amount oI distress, -tout tb»V' i tariff could not toe re*opensd 1 Jut' now. There was insufficient evidence to show tho dlreotion in which revision would take place. He pM. posed to deal with the public WOdci proposals directly after the deIIVMX of the Budget. , > CAPITAL SITES BILL. ■ (Received July 21, 1.1 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July JO. In tho House Mr Batchelor (Minlf. ' ter for Home Affairs) moved the ,-wcond reading of the Cartel SitSTBill. Ho urged various reasons for fc> » voiding further delay In tfrq choice of a site, and defendedthe 000 square mile area. He would, be no i.,s party to erecting extravagant MM- 1 ; 1 ings, and proposed to keep w«U #itt»in Sir Edmund Barton's estimate 0 ( naif a million. Mr Batehtfor suagested that tho site *be chesso tut ( open and exhaustive ballot. , Mr Wilson (Victoria) with View of ■' securing greater freedom and maM* Sydney available for choice, moved JL an amendment in favour of striking 's* out the provision that the site w • J notfc«, than o.«e hundred mile, from, «JI