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PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15TH, 1920.

DEVOLUTION FOR GREAT,

BRITAIN.

SUBORDINATE LEGISLATURES The Parliamentary correspondent of the Daily Telegraph wrius:--

MUNICIPAL 7. Locs GovKINMENT ~ AND USDREAMING.-Coung racil and muni- cipal hills, corrupt practices, Bre brigade, harbours (expt naval harbours), guard- lans, local legislation (private bills, gas, water, and electricity undertakings), muni- pal government (including local franchise), and roadly and highways,

The Speakers Conference on Devolution

8. PUBLIC HET.-Public health mat concluded its labours yesterday (Aprile: (a) Preventive measures and (b) sch), when the members met to consider. I contagious diseases bospitals, housing,

National Health; lasurance, and lunaey.. drafts of the documents which are to be submitted to the Government.

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„AROVISION, OF, ZAJEDWARDS. ·· The spera conumplates that the powers SUBSTANTIAL ADHESMENT BEACHKO.

graned to at Grand Councils shall be In a letter to the Prime Minister the uentical, and taut fisrtier powers may bo rariament. Sato shotted by Act o

Grand Speaker presents a report of the pro-

guards are "inserted against seedings of the Conference, which was Council dealing with matters not within appointed in October of last year, and its competence, waue it is also proposed United Kingdom Partament has therefore been engaged upon its task the

would not be debarren from legislating for over six month. The terms of referon devolved subjects, and may pass an ence were as follows:-

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Ael overriding a Graad Council Act. Th To consider and report upon a scheme Home Secretary is to watch bills of a of legislative and, administrative devolution and Councy and satisfy himself whe Thor dey are ultra vires.lt. is not within the United Kingdom having regardnated, he may refer a bill at any stuga or an Act of the Council to the Judicial 1. The need of reserving to the Imperial Committee of the Privy Council, who shall, Parliament. the exclusiva consideration of decide on its validity or otherwise. Pend- (a) foreign and Imperial affairs, and (b)ing such inquiry, the Crown, on the ad- subjects affecting the United Kingdom a vice of the imperial Cabinet, may with hold its assent to Grand Council legis- a whole.

.1. The allocation of financia), powers as lation. The Royal Assent may, on the between the Imperial Parliament and the advice of the United Kingdom Cabinet, ba subordinate legislatures, special considera-withheld from a Grand Louncil Act on the tion being given to the need of providing ground not only, of. invalidity, but also}}] for the effective administration of the of policy. allocated power.

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3. The special needs, and characteristics procedure exe of the component portions of the United made wit Kingdom in which subordinate legislatores private cul igorasión. „The Coupe of ja are set up.

the Commons is 10 retakan, within its sphere It will be recalled that the resolution the privileges in respect of bnance pos- passed by the House of Commons in Jane,wed by the mouse or Lonimous. Dagre~! 1910, which led to the setting up of the ment between the two. Chambers win be Conference, specially provided that the referred to a free conterence between the investigation of the problems should be two house. It agreement is not remenei without prejudice to any proposals the it is to be musled by a Grand Counci Government might have to make with reconsisting of the bouncil of Commons and gard to Ireland. The subsequent intro the Council of Peers.

duosion of the Home Rule Bill narrowed There will be an Executive Committee the area of the discussions, and it in stated for each tiraud Council, responsible, to that the two schemes which are to

seated to the Government relata e pre the Council, and consisting of the chair-

ly to Great Britain. A large measure of common agreement is understood to have been reached amongst the members of the Conference, but there appears to have been a difference of opinion concerning the actual constitution of the local legislaturen However, it speaks well for the desire of the members to produce a workable plan that they have succeeded, with this excep tion, in agreeing upon almost every point they were called upon to consider...

THE SPEAKER'S SCHEME

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man and heads or departments, and the Home Secretary will be the channel of communication between the Executive and the Imperial Government,

be_transitional period will consist of three yeats, and a further.period of two Fears will be allowed during which each Council must unsider its future con- strution, and a hinar period of one year during whico cbones devised by the Council must be submitted to Parliament. Eich Connell may propose

To substitute for itself a separately. elected gininture of ane or two chur

To continue as at the time constitut

Two schemes are to be laid before the bes Government-one proposed by the Speaker and the other by Mr. Murray Macdonald. ed. The Speaker's scheme is described as of as. To revert to the status quo ante, transitional character, and is devised at 4. To continue as at the time constituted giza a practical trial or the working, of for further limited period, 1.volution by responsible persons with 5. to make any other proposalu - dealing political experience.. It proposes the with the organisation of a body, or bodies. creation of burdinte legislative bodi hich it proposes to entrust its func for England, Scotland, and Wales (inions.

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cinding Monmouthshire) to which specio meet the expenditure on the trans fied powers would by delegated. Those ferred services the scheme proposes to handl bodies would be constituted of members of lover annually for a period of five years Parliament for each of the three area to the Grand Councils, with power to vary After a limited period of trial each of those particular duties, the following these bodies would decide, as the resultours of revenus:-

of the practical experience gained, the (a) Liquor licences (dealers and retail. permanent constitution of the legislaiveers, but not producers). bodies for their respective arena. The (p) Bablishment licences. schemes confera on these legislatures the(c) Traders licences. naine of Grand Councils, and each is to pose two chambers,

areas.

(a) Entertainments duty.

(e) Inhabited house daty. (1) Land values duties.

MB "MACDONALD'S SCHEMA.

The arst chamber would be called "The Council of Commons," and would consist.

In addition there would be granted the for each of the three areas of all the equivalent of the net yield of so mang members returned to the House of Compence in the pound of the annual income mons to sit for constituencies in that tax, excluding super-tax, as would at the The second chamber would be outset balance the account The taxes called The Council of Peers." It is imposed by the councils are, under the collected proposed that is should conlist for each area of a number of members of the Hofs to be sued and

Frough the existing United Kingdom of Lords equal to half the number of machinery. members of the lower chamber, and chosen ior the duration of cách Parliament by the Committee of Selection of the House

In his scheme Mr. Murray Macdonald of Lords. The duty of fixing the date of proposes that legislatures subordinate to, the commencement and the termination of but separate from, the Parliament of the the session of each Grand Council is placed United Kingdom, shall be established for upon the Home Secretary. It is suggest England, Scotland, and Wales, each with ed that the spring and summer months a directly-elected Chamber, consisting of abould be reserved for the ordinary saion the same number of members as now air for of Parliament, and the autumn for the each country in the Imperial Parliament, ordinary sowions of the Grand Council. chosen by the same elector for the same As regards the place of meeting, each constituencies. As the conference had no Grand Council is to be "Trey to decide information regarding opinion in the whether it will sit in London or elsewhere. several countries in respect of whether the It is suggested that, when Parliament in subordinate legislature should have one not sitting, the Painen of Westminster and or two Chambers, the hon. member ang- the staff employed there shall (so far as posted that the question should be left to La convenions to Parliament) be at the the Government to determine. If the disposal of the Grand Councils for the decision be in favour of a bi-cameral purpose of holding their sessions.

system the basis suggested in the scheme At i provided in the scheme that the of Lord Bryce's Conference on the Reforin two chambers shall elect at their first meet of the House of Lords. In any case, peers ing a president, and, if desired, a vice would be qualified for election to the president, to preside over their delibera popularly-elected Chambers, Mr. Mac. tions during the duration of the Parlia-donald proposes that the subordinate

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LEGISLATIVE POWERS.

The powers proposed to be delegated to the Grand Councils are as follows

1: REGELATION OF CoxECIAL UNDER- TAKINGS PHOTERSIONS, AND SOCLETI -- Prertisements, amusement places and theatres,

auctioneers, building, sieties und societies, licensing, and markets and fairs:de 2. ORDER AND GOOD GOVT.--Cruelty to animals, belting and gaming, charities and Charitable Trust Acts, explosives, ine briston police poor lar and") prisons, and reformatories.

3. ECCLESIASTICAL MATTERS.-Burial

legislatures alwuld have a maximum term of five years.

It is understood that there is a winall majority of members of the Conference in favour of the Speaker's scheme.

BOCIAL CLUB FOR COOLIES.

A social dub for coolies and laboureri has been opened in Madras. The iden underlying the institution is to have a pisec which would serve as a counter-at- tration to the tordy and liquor shops and thus lead the labouring population in Madras to cultivata sober habite, Admis enclosures game laws, and land:ion to tho, chub” is open to all workmen Drainage, (b) improvements, fo) Belled and women, and it will be run by the Land Act (d) distress and Luce, and YMCA on temperance lines.

It was the Hon. Mr. Todhunter, when magnivitión: for public purposes.

and general soclesiastical matter

4. AGRICULTURE AND LAND-Commons

. JUDICIARY AND MIKOR LEGAL MATTERE, he was Abkarig Commissioner, who Srst Corners, county courts, criminal law conceived the ides of a club-of. this kind (procedure and definition; punishment of in Madras, His proposals, met with on minor offences), law of inheritancouragement from Government, who gave intestat estates and conveyancing and a grant of R-14,000, also an extensive registration; minor. torts, and trustysite gear Elephant Gate, where already 6. EDUCATION-Education, primary, see two termanent structures have been erect ondary, and naiversity (except Oxford, Camed, in addition to a number of temporary

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