IMPERIAL POLITICS.
CABLE NEWS.
LAND VALUES’ DUTIES.
MR BALFOUR AND MR CHAMBERLAINS’ PROTESTS.
United Press Association— Copyright
LONDON, May 13
The land values’ duties were carried by 330 votes to 120. Mr Harold Cox, Liberal member for Preston, said there was no legitimate difference between the income derived from land and income derived from other sources. He asked why mortgages on land were not treated like the land itself was. A mortgage was regarded as enterprise, but the owning of a freehold was considered as a crime. He derided the taxing of ungotten minerals, as being like tho taxing of a bachelor for the potential value of ungotten offspring. Mr Lyttelton showed the immense cost of the valuations. Tho money sweated off the owners, he said, would not go to the Exchequer, but to lawyers and surveyors. Mr Chamberlain and Mr Balfour hotly protested against “the haste of the Government in forcing the proposals througli the House of Commons.
PAYMENT OF MEMBERS
CARRIED BY LARGE MAJORITY.
In the House of Commons, Mr Higham’s motion in favor of the payment of members was carried by 242 votes to 92.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2502, 15 May 1909, Page 5
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188IMPERIAL POLITICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2502, 15 May 1909, Page 5
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