AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8004, 15 December 1905, Page 2

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TltK ANTI-TIiCKT JJltiJj. ileceived 11, 11.21) p.m. M.kmiocrse, December 11. Tlw lfou.se of KepreseiUalive.s-passed the Sugar Bounty Bill. Mr C.mke resumed the deb tie on the. Anti-Trust Bill. He urged tliat it should In l loft til] next si's..ion, as it affected the whole trade «f Australia, lie objected to the provision that the operations of a Trust should lt» deemed unfair until proved otherwise. The Harvester Trust Companies should hare 'lie right to appear before the Tariff Commissioner before anything w..s done. It was essentially an Anli-Trade Bill, aiul ill seeking to put down Trusts a huge Gorcrument Trust was set up that rras more tyrannous than any private Trust. The Bill was intended to face up prices, and it would enable the whole business of the country to be run on Socialistic lines without the Government taking any socialistic responsibility. The Government was trying to sneak in the prohibition imports, not by honest straight-out protection, but in a dishonest way. Its provisions would prove most in']ui»tturial, aud the Minister should not have power to appoint a Board of Inquiry, ile advocated-the. appointment of a JLigh Court .Judge. The Bill was far too drastic. After a lengthy deb.ite the Bill was read a second time on the voices. Big lights are expected in Committee,