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PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS.

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A GOVERNMENT INQUIRY.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated. in the House at Commons on February suth, that the Government had institutest an inquiry into the question of the pro- vision of pensions for mothers. hoped that as a result the Government would be able in due time, and with 'no winecessary ur lue lay, to have be fore.

them the details of praction scheme. Mr. Snowden declared that he would T

much disappointed if they were not able to add to the record of their achieve. ments a messure which would do justico to these deserving people whose claims ought

have been long ago recognized, "Tha

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the Laboan was raised by Mr. Duke,

member for Warrington, who

called attention to the question of mothers pension moved that, in the opinion

and

of the House, pensions adequate for the proper upbringing and maintenance of children should be paid to all wins with children or mothers whose, breadwinners had com incapacitated. such as to be provided by the State and admini tortz he

a commitee of the municipal or county council wholly unconnected with the Poor Law.

The motion was seconded by Mr, W. J. who said the reform was Felt

Baker, the Labour Par advocated

it was an essential measure for the well-be ing of the propie

The Chancellor of the Exchequer

showed

at the outset that he was sympathetically incliowd towards the proposal. Whatever might be the length of the indictment of broken pledge, he said, it would not be posible to include this among the brakes pledges of the Labour Covernment. Ther supported the proposal in Opposition and they supported

If the rat were carried to a a division, which he could hard. ly believe the Government would go into th Lobby in support of it.

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Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Snowden had to pay

regard to the fluan. cial asper of the preposition. He pointed out that they were not dealing with a concrete proposal embodied in a Parlin. Bill, but with a resolution that - principle and expressed a With that the Government werÚ in eatin agreement. He dwelt on the difendes of the position he occupied as Chancellor the Exchequer.

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was t comparative trivial thing compared with what be was expected to accomplish. He drew at tention to the expenditure to which the

verament were committed by the in creased outlay in connection with certain schemes of social reform and amelioration. They were going to amend the Old Age Pension Act. That would take a consider able sum of money. The Ministry of Labour was quite certain that the Chah- cellor of the Exchequer would lend a sym- pathetic car to all their not quite moderato demands. The same thing applied to the Ministry of Health. He was quite ready te du all he could to find financial "pro- vision for these schemes. If he had the money nothing would give him greater pleasure than to be able to nielude in the financial provision of next rear the consid. erable sum which had been mentioned in regard to the proposal now made in regard to pensions. Mr. Snowden showed a Ir- Key of optimism as to his capacity to overcome many of the financial difficulties. but he requested

Give us

us time." he plended. to overbank the national fin- ances and put them into a sound condition, and then this will be one of the first mesure to which I shall apply the reser vr which "thon will come available. The Government acepted the principle. and baying done that there was upon them- the obligation to translate that principlo into a practical legislative measure.

Mr. Edward Wood took the vive of the Chateador regarding the financial aspect of the proposal, “but”, he" -tated that ho approved of the principle underlying the resolution.

The motion was carried unanimously...

LOVE AND . ŁAW.

1.

Love and law have, always been apt to quarrel. It is not surprising that a law su new, so subtle, so mathematical as that which the United States bus devised for the restriction of immigration should offend the old, simple, and very human emotion of love. The ancient ballad which assares us of love's power to ** find- out a way" in spite of all the forces of Nature, can hardly give confidence of its victory in a battle against the unnatural. inexorable cohorts of Ellis Island. But. there was a lover in America who de- clined to despair. He came from Portu- gal and before he left the Lusitanian shore he had plighted his.. troth to a damsel of his own race. In the United! States he throve, and was able to sunke. a home for his bridle. But the hamizra- tion law intervened. All the Portuguese whom the immutable rule of the quota allowed had already beón admitted to the land of the free. The door would not open for one muiden more, not thoigh she was fair is Helen or tre as Thisbe, I. ioclegi, she had been any relation bar swain, his sister or his cousin or his aunts then, under the proviso that allows a man to inport his dependent kinsfolk. he could have brought her in." But betrothed is a ereature unknown to the, law of immigration. If the lady had been his wife, she would have been de-. livered to him without import duty. But bis wife she could not be until he had married her. Love laughs at the lock- smiths. of the law. Our Portuguese swain married by proxy, like the potentates of the past. Marringe by proxy, we hasten to add, lest vain hopes he raised, is not legal in England. But it is in the more genial clime of Portugal, and, what is more fo the purpose, it is going to be in the United States. The heartless men who conttal immigration did not think so. They stopped the bride on the coast, and kept her in durance like a thousand-and- one distressed heroines of romance. The knight errant "who delivered her was a Boston judge. Marriage by proxy, said be, is just na legal as any other sort of marriage. Under the Star Spangled Ban ner any damsel married by proxy is a man's wife until by some other process ho gets rid of her. Thus are the immigra tion laws brought to nought, and love triumphs, even if by proxy. We hope and believe that the Lusitanian household will always cherish the memory of the nominal bridegroom-Daily Telegraph,

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