IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 359, 9 April 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

"AN AIMLESS DISSOLUTION."

ByCabie. —.aasuuuuiuu. —lupyrigtu j London, April 7. J Tlie .Morning Lcauci, iciwiuiig to the iul/uj I'un.ui' lliiAl tile uovLinmenG <ioes nu„ .iiimi. -o a between Cilc LV. U 'M i-lil to the iiiiuuv;, = u.a,=> i-n.u it would be better ior uie to uvtali up anil ue lc-ioimcu uiuii ior uie country to be driven 11110 aiiouier aimless dissolution. THE VETO RESOLUTIONS. MR. CAVE is AMENDMENT. NEW ZEALAND QUOTED. Received April 8, 10 p.m. London, April 8. There was an excited uproar in tke House of Commons when tlie lirst veto resolution was put and carried by bay votes to 237Mr. G. Ck-e, M.P. for Surrey (Kingston Division), moved an amendment in favor of a joint session in the event of differences between the two Houses j relating to money Bills. The Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George declared it.was impossible with the present disparity of parties in the Lords. It was true that the Australian Houses sat together in the event ot differences arising over financial matters, hut they were elected by the same constituents. It was unfair to say that his halfpenny ,land tax was confiscatory. A similar 'tax in New Zealand and New South Wales had the effect of taxing the land out of existence not because it transferred the land bodily to the State, but because it was no longer worth the owners' while to hold land except for purpose of using it. LOSS OF £20,000,000. Received April 8, 11.30 p.m. London, AprH 8. In the House of Lords, Lord Avebury declared the action of the Government in not passing the resolution authorising the income tax had resulted in a loss of £20,000,000, whereon the interest was £BOO,OOO. An alarming fall in national securities was the consequence. . Lord Crewe replied that the Government was responsible for the management of the taxpayers' money and also guardians of the constitution.