Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-09
House Speeds Economy Bill
Which Would Block 0ppo-
Sition in Parliament.
LABOR ATTACK ON PLAN
SEEN IN DEBATE FRIDAY
Baldwin Proposes Resolution to
Enable Government to
Monopolize Session.

LONDON, september 9.-Prlme Min
lister Ramsay Macdonald, getting down
TO the business of forcing his economy
program through Parliament, today pre-
Sented to the House of Commons a ma
tional economy bill" which would en-
power the cabinet to govern by orders
in council issued by the King without
the sanction OF Parliament
He explained none OF its provisions.
and the House passed it on the formal
first reading. On Friday it will reach
the debate stage and the Labor party
Will marshal its strongest opposition.
Stanley Baldwin as leader of the
government in the House and the prime
minister's right-hand man, then pro-
posed resolutions which would give the
government additional emergency pow
ers. enabling 1t to monopolize all the
rest OF the session to the exclusion of
private members bills under the So
called l0-minute debate rule.
His resolutions also would provide
for disposal of the necessary budget
discussion by midnight tomorrow in
the Committee of Ways and Means.
. Gains Second Victory.
The House gave the government a
ma jority of 81 this afternoon on a
closure motion. The vote was 800 TO
2l2
1t was the second parliamentary vic
tory since the special session began yes
terday. Last night vote OF confidence
went to the government by 800 to $50,
the Labor party voting almost Solidly in
opposition.
Todays vote was on a motion to end
doh 70 IN pall ,t.iVN eal
that the government be permitted to
monopolize the time of this session for
its emergency economy program.
The Labor members protested loudly
when the vote was called, but 1t passed
and debate was closed
In citing a precedent for the gov
eminent taking all the time of the
session for its bills, Mr.. Baldwin said
that the last time Commons met for
a specific purpose il was to deal with
the Irish crisis in 1922. The present
government, he said, intended to follow
the example of the 1922 administration
in getting through its business with the
utmost dispatch.
Unemployed Dispersed.
A crowd of unemployed was dis
persed by police today in front of the
Bow Street Police Court. where charges
were being heard against IT persons
arrested as result of a demonStra-
ton outside the doors of Parliament
last night.
Sixteen men and one woman were
charged with assault and disorderly
conduct. Fines for obStructing police
were imposed in some cases. Other
prisoners were sentenced to a month at
hard labor. The woman. Muriel Guest,
was bound over for II months.
Prime Minister MacDonald's ministry
called for and received from the House
If Commons last night favorable vote
on a motion to resolve the House into
committee of ways and means to con-
slider speedy enactment Of its proposals
Labor Forms Opposition.
The government found its support in the
complete roster of the Conservative and
Liberal members, supplemented by II
labor delegates and three Independents
The great bulk of the labor membership
formed the opposition together with the
four members of the Moseley party and
three Independents, including Oliver
Baldwin, son Of the Conservative leader
Coming after an eight-hour debate,
led by the prime minister and former
Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson.
the result was heard with few cheers
from ministerialist benches. but mostly
with silence in the rank and file of the
House.
In the later stages OF the debate
Mr.. Macdonald told his hearers OF the
utmost necessity Of stemming the
financial typhoOn." Il appeal to all
classes and conditions" he said. to
accompany the government on the hard
and broken road along which our Sc
curity and honor and well-being have
to be found
Mr.. Henderson threw down the
gauntlet to his former chief by say
inc that the crisis was not as serious
as the nation had been led to believe.
and that. in any event. the great bank
ing powers would not have permitted
the pound sterling to fall.
"Jn their own interests those elelpents
would never have dared to let British
credit fail" he said
PAPERS Support Macdonald.
London and provincial newspapers.
with one exception, supported the prime
ministers views on the situation. stress
ing his point that while the formation
of the national government mas gained
o breathii1g space for the nation the
emergency will continue until program
is put into effect.
But the Daily Herald. Labors mouth
niece, said Mr.. Macdonald had COM
mitted himself and was trying to COM
NIT The country to a bankers policy
which is rot only one of class injustice,
hut of ma ional disaster. He failed to
show that capitulation to the demand OF
british and foreign bankers was the only
possible enc rgency measure"
CONFIDENCE REVIVED.