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Feud. Yachtsman Walter Marks is a Member of Parliament of the Prime Minister's own party (Nationalist). Since the elections of last year the Government has had only the barest majority. Every vote has been vital. As a matter of course Nationalist Yachtsman Marks has voted with his party leader, Nationalist Bruce. But recently there have been ominous rumors that he had entered into a secret understanding with the Prime Minister's bitterest personal enemy, a third Nationalist, onetime (1915-23) Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
...been relentless. Last week Statesman Hughes had his revenge for what happened in 1923. By persuading Yachtsman Marks to vote unexpectedly against a vital labor measure sponsored by Mr. Bruce, he caused the defeat of the Government. The Prime Minister was obliged to ask dissolution of the Dominion Parliament, thus necessitating a general election. Swan Song. Flushed and angry was the mien of Prime Minister Bruce as he stood up before Parliament in the new Australian Capital of Canberra to announce that the election will be held Oct. 12. He had been in power for six years. Now from...
...declared that since the Dominion Government could not get effective power by Constitutional amendment it must largely withdraw from attempting to arbitrate labor disputes and leave that duty to the states. A measure called the Commonwealth Arbitration Abolition Bill was drafted. That was the bill under consideration by Parliament when the crisis came last week...
Muddle & Stalemate. Though superficially plausible the Hughes stand won over no Nationalist M. P. except Yachtsman Marks. Only the fact that the Government was balanced on a single vote made possible a debacle which throws before Australian voters an issue mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The one clean-cut way out would be a sweeping victory for the chief Opposition party (Labor), but few observers believed that possible, last week, because recent state elections have heavily favored the Nationalists. Gloomily, Australians faced the post-election prospect of another Nationalist Government stalemated by the feud between Hughes...
...hundred years ago in England, Roman Catholics could not be seated in Parliament without taking oaths that meant the renunciation of their faith. Then Irish Catholics of County Clare elected Daniel O'Connell to Parliament, threatened to elect him repeatedly until seated. Fearing civil war an unwilling Parliament and unwilling King George IV passed the Emancipation Bill, giving Catholics equal political rights with Protestants...