Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-28
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w M Dickinson. N. Pr suggested
to tie commons that it was absurd to
give young children the expectation
that eventually they would come into
great sums of money without even
/ their father having a say So IN the
matter. Chancellor Lloyd George, re-
plying to Dickinson, said he agreed
with the demands of the government,
adding that the money for the minor
children of the royal families would
be paid over to their trustees.
Keir Hardie, the Laborite, moved
an amendment to omit from the ciyflS
hist a provision for the kings chill
ldren and the queen in the event of
the kings death. In advocating the
amendment, Hardie said that the ma
| ton was paying the members of the
royal family to lives of luxury, ease
and idleness. At this there were loud
cries of Withdraw
/ Hardie, continuing after the inter
ruption, said the members of the royal
family had not rendered any services
to the state for the sums which the
committee had voted to them. labor
cheers and opposition cries Of
"Order!.>
| Lloyd George repudiated the charge.
His statement was greeted with
cheers.
Hardi's amendment was defeated.
f-ayes, 20: noes, 2O7.
/ Balfour added that unless England
was able to support a monarchy prop
erly, it would be far better for the
kingdom to alter the system Of gov
erning now in vogue and find another
which would have the single merit OF
cheapness. But, he added, it would
be impossible to conduct England as
an empire as cheaply as America is
conducted under a President. and be-
sides he did not think an English
presidency would be much cheaper
than the present kingdom.
| Sir Charles Dixie, president of the
royal commission for housing the
working classes, supported the attl-
| tude of the Laborites to the extent
| that the crown lands in Cornwall and
Lancaster needed the most rigid man
aeament, under the supervision OF
government authorities.
KING SHOULD BE TAXED.
Gibson Bowles, the military writer
and authority, grew even more Social
| istic, ayerring that the crown lands
in Lancaster and Cornwall never be-
longed to the members of the royal
| family in their private capacity and
consequently ought to be surrendered
to the kingdom, that the revenue might
60 into the state treasury instead OF
/ into the privy purse of the king and
4 the Prince of Wales. If, however, 1t
| was decided to allow the king and his
i son to retain these rich crown lands
| and their income, Bowles declared It
was manifestly improper to allow the
ruler to escape the provisions OF the
income tax, unler which every other
| Englishman has to pay his share TO-
| ward at the expenses of state.
/ George Barnes, Labor member, de-
clared he would oppose to the end the
granting of the increased civil list I'M
Hess the king and his young SON, the
Prince of Wales, would agree to sur
render in to the public treasury the
revenues now received by them from
the duchies of Lancaster and Corn
| wall. where they own immense landed
propertiesS which bring in large reve-
nues.
1.-THE royal income is excessive and
the expenses of the royal household
are honey-combed with abuses" he
said. sinasmuch as it conceals a nest
\ of parasites who are fattening upon
the nation under the shadow Of the
throne.'s'
ROYALTY "oYER-IMMORAL."
! Ex-Premier A. ]. Balfour, leader of
the Conservatives, replying said that
the root of Barnes COLLECTIONS seemed
to be that the royal family was over
expensive for the nation.
! An unidentified Laborite, without
rising from his chair, cried out;
mot over-expensive; overimmorals'
The audacity of the remark seemed
to daze Balfour for an instant and he
could only reply that he did not know
that the Laborites deemed royalty to
| be immoral.
Laborite Jowett explained that the
speakers must have meant that the ex-
penses of the royal family were i'm
moral; not the members of the kings
family themselves.
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