NATIONAL PURSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1920, Page 5

NATIONAL PURSE.

itMrrrNG expenditure. JtOtlOK BfiTOBE HOUSE OP 0034M0NS. 9l T«l»p«ph.—?r«u Ha-Copyright. Beceived Bee. 9, 7.40 p.m. London, Dec. 8. fl» Rt, Hon. Qeorge Lambert tabled • mstiofi in the House of Commons rationing the national purse to 80S millions dqring 1981-22. The mbtion will be deb«ted to-morrow. M& Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, end Mr. Chamberlain are expected to make .important announcements. Mr. MMHtttwe should be limited to 990 tiUutatg, thnaforoing the Government to (at down guperfluous Ministries, untiitHmtv official*, and wild schemes inWlving hery colt STROSG PRESS CAMPAIGN. •WASIE" SCHEMES ATTACKED. Beceived Dec. 9, 7.40 pan. London, Dee. 8. The Daily and Daily Mirror have been conducting a campaign against Qpvernikent expenditure. This has now taken the form of publishing lists of aB members ol the House of Common* gift supported such estimates as the . lOntstry of Munitions and Ministry of Shifiping, describing them as "wasters rsls," and suggesting to their MMtitnenfei ihatthey shonld keep op •y*«poßthem. The Daily Mirror is publishing a special "squandermania" number, with a portrait gallery of Ministers and members concerned, together with an article by Lord Rothermere on the Gov•Waaears so-<*lled grandiose waste REPLY TO CRITICISM, AN APOEOGY LOOKED FOB. - Received Dec. 9, 7.40 pan. London, Dee. 8. r-i&Oa|(M} Archer Slice, in the House of > ;GIHWiHPf) obtained leave to move ijki to-day to discuss the -wtwafattf nature of toe articles in the Daily Mail relating to members of the Houge of Commons. Captain Ormsby* Gore nggttted that Lord Northcliffe and toti Sothennere jhould be sum•Wdto the bar of thfHowe and made to apolojiae. Beceived Dec, 9, 8.10 pjn. London, Dec. 8. In the House of.Conunona the Speaker j cwp» to the eonclnsicin, after reflection, Uytt he had erred ia Colonel Araut&hee's Motion for an aHjournflVßt, as it did Hot Relate to the condart. of the Government. Be suggested would be ill-advised to prociwi iurther in the matter, and Colonel Awser-Bhe« consented to withdraw the iPWHtfU.