BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9641, 5 November 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE FINANCE BILL. MR CHAMBERLAIN'S MOTION. VEWS OF LIBERAL MEMBERS. Received November 4, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, November 3. In the debate on Mr' Chamberlain's motion to reject the Finance Bill, Mr H. Cox, Liberal member for Preston, who in previous debates had strongly opposed the Government propusals, intimated that, much as he disliked the land taxes, he intended to vote for the Budget. Mr P. Snowden, Labour member for Blackburn, vigorously supported the Budget, because he said it began to apply in a small way the principles held by Socialists. He urged the Opposition not to talk nonsense about tariff reform to* the working class, whose intelligence theyjinderrated.

Mr C. Hobhouse, Secretary of the Treasury, defending the Bill, declared that while the total amount of capital sent abroad was greater than any previous period, the percentage did not exceed that of twenty years ago.

Mr H. Belloe (Liberal, South Salford) supported the Budget on Freetrade grounds. He was convinced that the country would be unable to stand the complete topsy-turvey-dom that would follow the imposition of a duty on foreign manufactures. He would prefer that the country should undertake a dangerous war with a great rival rather than venture on such an experiment. LORDS IN WAITING. TO GIVE THE BUDGET ITS QUIETUS. Received November 4, 8.20 a.m. • LONDON, November 3. The "Daily News" reports that three hundred Peers have told the Marquis of Lansdowne, Opposition Leader in the Upper House, tnat they will vote aganst the Budget.