Parliamentary Debates Legislative Council And House Of Representatives PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...of the day the arbiter as to who was to come into the colony, because under the original Bill the Premier, by Order in Council, was enabled, if he chose, to exempt anybody from its provisions; and as the member for Wellington says, the Premier would give them a permit, and I suppose it would be given in the same careless way as the permit which is so historical in this colony at the present time. Still, it is satisfactory to find that some members of the House, at any rate, are giving a good deal of consideration to the revision of measures brought down by the Government as they ass in another place, and although a great eal has been said, both inside the House and outside it, as to the delay and obstruction--it is actually called 0bstruction---ofiered to measures introduced by the Government, it has been proved in this case, and in the case of almost every measure passed this session, that very important amendments afiecting the vital principle of almost every Bill have been embodied in these measures as they passed through this House by those members of the House who are opposed to the Government. Mr. HUGG (Masterton).--Sir, I think the House, the Parliament, and the country may be fairly congratulated on the position in which we find this Bill at last. There was a general apprehension, I think, as regards members on this side of the House, when the Bill was introduced that it would never emerge from Committee; and, notwithstanding what has been said by the honourable member for Palmerston, the fact stands undeniable, and the divisions in Committee will show it: that no Bill that has been introduced during the present session has had such a rough passage through Committee. The efiorts of the Opposif.ion--I do not wish in any way to...