Lord Lansdowne Addressed A Large Unionist Meeting At...
last Saturday evening. He said that all the Budget proposals had a common feature—a violent hostility to capital—and drew a valuable distinction between the taxation of wealth......
A Terrible Motor Accident Took Place On Salisbury Plain At
half-past one on Thursday morning. A battery of London Territorial Artillery (about a hundred men) arrived at Amesbury Station and proceeded to march to Fargo Camp vid......
Mr. Beck, The Liberal Member For Wisbech, In A Short
but courageous speech declared his strenuous opposition to the principle and incidence of this tax :— " The small section of the Ministerial side who were opposing the......
Discussion Of The Finance Bill Was Resumed In Committee At
Clause X. on Monday, and carried on continuously for fifteen hours in a debate which revealed the kaleidoscopic nature of the Government policy. On Tuesday the debate was on the......
Mr. Asquith In His Reply Justified The Special Treatment Of
a special class of owners on the ground that they had hitherto enjoyed exceptional advantages. The difficulties of valuation were largely figments of Parliamentary imagination,......
On Thursday Week In The House Of Commons The Master
of Elibank made a long statement on the Indian Budget. In 1908-9 India was still affected by scarcity and depression, and the year closed with a deficit of 23,750,000, but a......
' We Have Dealt At Lengths In Another Column With
the new valuation policy announced by Mr. Asquith on Wednesday. On Thursday Sir Robert Perks, speaking on the Government piovision that the annual tax on undeveloped land shall......
Bank Rate, 21- Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.
April let. Cowls, (21) were on Friday 84—Friday week 84.......
Turning To The Question Of Sedition And Violence In India,
the Master of Elibank declared that it was not true that the Government had vacillated between concession and coercion. There would be no sort of supineness in dealing with......
On Monday The Royal Commission On The Nature Of Whisky
published its Report after sitting for eighteen months. The Report is very good reading, as might be expected of such a fruitful conundrum as : What is whisky The purists con-......
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