IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 289, 1 May 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

GENERAL ADULT SUFFRAGE. A BILL INTRODUCED. By cable. —Press Association.—Copyright London, April 28. In the House of Commons, Mr. Craw-shay-Williams introduced the Adult Male and Female Franctiise Bill.

A LESSON IN MANNERS. SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY REBUKED. London, April 28. Questioned regarding the appointment of Sir E. J. Soares to an office in the Treasury, Mr. Hobhouse, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, suggested that Mr. Norman Craig, who asked the question, possibly despised education. He added that Sir E.. J. Soares was a firstclass prizeman oi his college. Perhaps Mr. Craig despised that also. The Speaker, interposing, deprecated offensive allusions, and censured Mr. Hobhouse for going out of his way to suggest that Mr. Craig' did not appreciate intellect or knowledge. Mr. Hobhouse: I only judged by his demeanor.

The Speaker retorted severely that this was again an unnecessarily offensive expression. THE McCANN CASE. London, April 28. In the House of Commons, Mr. Birrell said that the police believed the McCann children were with their father in the United States. This was in reply to a question asked on February 8, regarding mixed marriages in Ireland. [lt was alleged that McCann refused to continue to live with his wife owing to the Papal decree with regard to mixed marriage, such marriages not being recognised by the Roman Catholic Church, though they are perfectly legal.] ,

THE ALIENS BILL. London, April 28. Mr. Goulding's Alien Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald said the idea of registration was absolutely alien to his iconceptions of British liberty, and that the Labor Party did not agree with a single point in the "Bill. Mr. Churchill said the registration proposals were impracticable. The Bill was sent to the Grand Committee. QUALIFIED SUPPORT OF MR. CHURCHILL. Received 30, 5.5 p.m. London, April 29. In the House of Commons, <Mr. Churchill, speaking of Mr. Goulding's Aliens Bill, declared that the proposals for registration were impracticable, in asmuch as a criminal by taking a first-class ticket would be able to escape any inconvenience, but the registration of resident aliens at naval ports and military harbors would be useful. He also supported the provision to prevent the importation of strike-breakers. He hoped that Mr. Goulding's and the Government's Bills would be favorably considered by the Grand Committee.

CHELTENHAM BY-ELECTION. London, April 28. J. T. Agg-Gardner, Unionist (4043) defeated Major Mathias, brother of the unseated member (4039), in the bve-elec-tion for Cheltenham seat, the previous election having been declared void.