THE VETO BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 331, 5 March 1910, Page 5

THE VETO BILL.

THE ARMY ESTIMATES. INCREASE OF £325,000. MR. HALDAXE'S EXPLANATION. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received March 4. 9.55 p.m. London, March 4. The Army Estimates total £27,700,000. Mr. Haldane explains that the increase of £325,00u is due to the striking success of the County Associations'' efforts to fill the ranks of the Territorial •units. The total regular establishment shows an increase of a thousand men, and recruits offering exceed the number for whom provision was made. Two large dirigibles' will shortly be available. ANNOUNCEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH. "NO MORE PLOUGHING" OF THE SANDS." EARLY DISSOLUTION GENERALLY EXPECTED. Received 5. 12.5 a.m. London, March 4. Mr. Asquith, replying to numerous questions, said there was to be no more ploughing of the sands. The Government would not continue office unless able to ensure the Veto Bill becoming law. He announced that subject to unforeseen contingencies, The House of Commons world be asked, after its adoption of the veto resolutions, to assent to the Liitiget before the spring recess, but he decked to state whether a dual Bude't was intended. The Daily News saysfif there is to be a Veto Bill it is impossible for there to be no Budget. The Telegraph sa;s it is understood that the "contingencies" referred to Mr. Redmond's determination not to allow the Budget to pass unless the Veto Bill becomes law. The Parliamentary golf tournament ihas been arranged to occupy one day, instead of six weeks, owing to the general expectation of an. early dissolution. RAISING SALARIES. » THE INCOME TAX RESOLUTION. ANGRY CRITICISM. GOVERNMENT'S DISORDERED FINANCE. London. March 3. Mr. Asquith proposes to raise the salary of Mr. John Burns. President of the Local Government Board, from £2OOO to £SOOO per annum. In the House of Commons, during an angry criticism of the Government for borrowing, Mr. Finlay, a Unionist member, accused Ministers of wanton perversity, and declared that only the Government's allies would oppose the income tax resolution. Mr. Bottomley said borrowing from debtors' is the apotheosis of business ineptitude. Mr. McKenna: We are not going to adopt__the course mapped out by the House of Lords. Lord Hugh Cecil: Th- Government .ought not to refuse a resolution i'or col3ection of income tax out of pique and •temper because the new House is against the Government on the Budget. Sir W. S. Robson denied that the resolution would compel people to pay income tax before the Budget was passed. Mr. Lloyd-George considers that the House of Commons will disapprove of taking the income tax apart from other measures of the Budget. Unionist newspapers protest against .this view, and urge the Government to straighten out its disordered finance.