The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1886. THE LOAN BILL IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1886. THE LOAN BILL IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Tub Loan Bill in at last m.eeting with a little hontist oriticism iu the Legislative (Jouncil, \A. majority pf that, .body has referred it to a select committee in opposition to the. Government,-who were extremely anxious to liurry it through allita stages, Unfortunately we cannot depend upon the Legislative Council holding out against theyHouso of Representatives on. any important question. It avoids, naturally, a collision with the elective branch of the Legislature, and at the tail end of the session M.L.C.'s are probably as anxious.as M.H.R.'s to pocket their salaries, and go home. There is no doubt that the Lean Bill sifting; The reproductive items .in .its schedule require to be sorted from the unproductive ones. The report of the select committee will very likely divide the' sheop from the' goats,' qui it will not; probably,' have': the effect. of purging- the schedule of the latter. "It;, is; gratifvjrig ; tq see that Sir F. W-hilftic'er -Jis insisting upon the Legislative .Coiiuctil.- making some sort of e stand on this' measure', ■because if hi* action has no ;ither result, it will 'sjjfti the ftyesof'thfliColony io.tKe fact that *ven st this ejeyentb h6%:wo'en ,jhe. : cttdit of U'%)6hjU:Mh

Stl*iJasin*the .>vfcaJtT ;|j^^.forto which for man? ywW'jtimii eannoV be. expected to .pftjr; wort lag expenses. It .it a pity, ■tiafc'•. kniifiie'r- ek'namiw, Mf"Water« -bdnte, the'::p««nt time taking part iqthe vorY of ttie Legislative XJoundU: 'A: : few ELGVlikfr-'Mr-•Wßterh'oUteaßd Sir Frederick Whitaker .would do much to stem the tide of extravagance"and conniption which sullies the'fair fame of New Zealand, and retards it? |irogress, The tone of the Legislative- Council has been lowered by inferior, men, who have been pitch-forked iijttf it, and it is 100 much to expect that the small handful of really first-olaus men who are left in it will be able to mfjkp any real stand against the impure;political current that is sweeping all before it,