FEDERAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8130, 9 June 1906, Page 3

FEDERAL POLITICS.

A. VIGOROUS DEBATE. Received 9, 12.10 p.m. Meluodbnb, June 8. Ia tile House Mr Hughes gave noiioe, that as the introducing of microbes by Dr. Danysz may prove inimical to liuma i or other animal life, they should not permit it except for laboratory purposes. Sir W. Lyne said the opportunity would be given members to discuss the matter before experiments were made outside the laboratory.

Mr G. H. Reid resumed the debate on the Address. He urged the necessity for fiscal peace and denounced the Government alliance with the Labor party. He insisted that the burning question was Socialism versin antiSjcialism. Dcakin's cry " Australia for Australians" was an unpatriotic and pernicious cry, even being carried to the defence system, ft was treason to reserve the best milil i/y posi'ions for Australians. Tho livoa of tho people depended on the cllicicncy of tlie military, and the commanders ought to be tho best available, no matter where they came from, He considered a Progressive Land tax a matter for the States, not for the Commonwealth. He condemned the Home Rule resolutions recently adopted by Parliament. He attached tho Government for shirking the pressing question of the repatriation of Kanakas.

The speech drew from Sir John Forrest the statement that his support of the Progressive Land Tax was with a yiew to the bursting up of big estates. Mr Deakin, m a lengthy reply, lefended the Home Rule resolutions, and his support of the Natal Government in the recent crisis. A definite immigration policy would be initiated when replies had been received from the States regarding land available. Arrangements were progressing for the deportation of Kanakas to be carried out in the most humane way possible. The attempt to draw lnm on the Land Tax failed. He declared he would not make any premature declaration. The subject which he claimed to be the vital question of the session was the redistribution of scats. The debate was adjourned.