IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8056, 26 February 1906, Page 2

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

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AUDI!ESS-IK-11EPLY DEBATE. CIIINUSK LABOII, INTf RESTING PASSAGES. "■ LABOR PARTY'S ST AM). ItccL'ivetl '.'s, 1.27 p.m. London, February 21. the Commons, Sir Jf. Campbell. Bannerman, replying to Eurl l'oroy suid ■ ''' I only said Clti ut'se 1 nbor was tainted with slavery mitl lias many of the characteristics of slavery.' That I repeat." Duriug the debute ou Ariiold-Fos. ters amendment the Hon. Asquith said i " Tlio Government intond to eliminate the system, but are unable forthwith to sponge out everything. Ho never said Chinese must be deported wholo. sale. It was intended to warn the Transvaal that any legislation correa. ponding to the existing ordinanee and inconsistent with the best British tradi. tions would bo vetoed. Mr Chamblerlain declared the Government would allow alleged slavery to "peter out," giving freedom to an in. stalment system. He said he had been informed that the Government liad consulted the lnining-.magnate's plans before thoy wero submitted to Parlialiament, Campbell Banncrman denied this, but Mr Chamberlain reiterated the statement, adding that nvymatcs wero contented with the Ho concluded by demandi uff a judicial inquiry into the system. The "Daily Mail "states that tlxo Laborites refused to vote with tho Government until promised there should be no rc-indoutures of Chinese. The Laborites declare thousands o£ British workmen are available as miners for the Hand at £1 a cay, THE DEBATE IN THE LORDS.

Received 25, 4.-15 p.m. London, February 21. In the course of the fiscal debate iu tlie House of Lords, the Duke of Devonshire did not quit the qualifications .set forth in Mr Bolfour's letter to Mr Chamberlain on the 14th. ihe Marquis of Lausdowne resented Devonshire's unfairness. liMli UALFOl'lf'jj CAMPAIGN, ] Received 25, J.JS p.m. Luxdox, February 21, Mr Balfour i u his canvass of tlio City electorate complained of theDuko t»f Devonshire s versi-in of the letter, and declared that it was neither eominonseuse, lotjic; or grammar, audit bad most unjustly eliminated all "it's." The Government bud climbed down on the Chinese and now declared in Winston Churchill's Nouls that to describe it as slavery, was terminological hi inexactitude. Mr Ball'our added that it could better be expressed in a of three letters, TRADES l>l.Sl'ri'i:,S BILL, JtI'ITUJIBD J'AItTV R HLATIONS. licceived 25, 1.52 p.m. Luxuua', February 21. Jhe Government is at variance with. Hie Labourites over the most vital pond iu the Trades Disputes Bill, namely, trades summons responsibility* Keir-I lardie declares he will not accept a compromise