IMPERIAL POLITICS.
THE BUDGET AND THE LORDS. WINSTON CHURCHILL’S REPLY ' TO LORD iLANDSOWNE. United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, July 18. With the view of reducing the friction with the House of Lords and Lord Lansdowne’s minimum, the “Westminster Gazette” urges the Government to drop the Dickinson amendment, inasmuch as the valuation of agricultural land might give opponents a handle to allege that the constitution was being strained. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at Edinburgh, in reply to Lord Lansdowne, said: “We want the Budget fairly and fully discussed and deliberately shaped in the House of Commons. When tlic Finance Bill leaves the House of Commons, it ought to leave the Com-,, mons in its final form. No amendment or excision modifying or mutilating it will he agreed to by us. We will stand no mincing, unless Lord Lansdo,wno’s landlordly friends eat up some of their own mince.” TRADE BOARDS BILL. UNIONIST AMENDMENT NEGATIVED. "LONDON, July 18. Unionist amendments to the Trade Boards Bill were negatived on the ground of introducing a fiscal question.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 5
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172IMPERIAL POLITICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 5
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