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ABOVE THE SPEAKER.

, By ARIEL.

"I «ill do my sprltlng gently.'

Befóle this reiches \ou the 1 «Merni lar

hnmcnt will linio adjourned for sty. months The spiing vi iii como und go summer will buist upon flic lind but there will ho silence in lint "lent building m llouike street, valued nt £800 000 and yielding evciv year n nanni that money cannot nicnsme nltlion^li it does its best \ io louas lionoiiry tenant ia nbotit to dcpuit He inny louis in dm mp; rebruñí) to collect his belongil!..<; nnd impose» n Un or two but foi till ]u ictit ii [nu newtx he ii gone In the Itn-t tiny s ni his tenine) ho mud« his piesence felt On 1 lim »iii j -in \ppiopna tiou Hill for £7 000000 vins passed bufore the soup bec une cull ind the fig end of the evcuing wns devoted to a eotton bounty of i.000 000 One must be cnipful of his noughts his cios=es will look after themselves Do jon lcmombor the fui,s Hint tin« made two weeks ngo because cot ttt|,es bud been eicettd in Cunbcrtn before the Public Woika Committee bud lepoited on them' The cottages nie still standing but in the meantime the Public Wo'ks Committee snt upon them lortifiod with n ftvotirnblc icpoit Mr Marr moved thnt

'it i" o.pedient to oiect these cottages' Vins' the ginmtunr of those Parin menin)nins i> sometimes fink) Whit Mr Jlnir nbvioiu-lv tnonnt wns Ihut retiospeetiAolv the erection of the eollngCB vins oNpeditious One ein nnlv tiemble nt the thought if the toinmittec lind reported thnt the lottnge« having been elected ti til pctiol tins lind been molo espeditions (linn

exnodient

TIip now Pin lianiPiit building lim* icon elected nuil the coHikoh nie ins mt ni,, the leluctnnl soivitors and retimers All iliat lb ho« wanting is the Ko} ii I descent upon the -cene the turning ni the fiist wheel mid off the lcgishtnc machine mil ro with »Inn nnd whistle I luv mi's that in this fnvouicd lund outside debts cannot be foi

lectcil so Hint iinjthine which memboiB owe to their constituent!- will lime to be wiped ofî ns n bnd debt What a splendid tlujift it would be if the immunit*, wore rociptocnl' Think of Hint £75 000 000 (sit noughts) und reflect upon what spion did defaulting debtnis thf liiNpmcis «odd miiKo J he magnificence of the evi sion almost stuns us, but there is no use dwell

ins on »hat lina bien missed owing to the onesided nature of the law«.

The last hollis of the djint, session vue cheered bj n Mv story bill Hie press could not cet iven a clue Lil e the game of hide und seek tin watchels in the lobb} became 'hot early in the senich but they could not solve the Misten Thev knew that it was n tiNntion bill but it wa», pathetic to see those vetciane in science of elucidation wandering lound with ejes on the faded eu pet« of the old building and hands to wtinkled foiohoad*», nsl Ing themselves What is it that they ba\o not }et trved > ' Thev begun at ' alts and stouts " and ended with zitheib NI T 1 they w undo ed over "lind " and through in comes paid a last sad tubuto to tho estates of deceased persons but found nothing that the tuNgatheier had missed The siircbors looked evcrywhui but on a high shelf Mr Platten ilibclosed the new tax on top of auother tnN However, do not be alarmed ihe vvicled Gelniuns luve lo pi\ it Mr

Pratten stud so

^\hilo the Gonniius aro ..minting under tho 'good haul knocl ' let us turn to the Sonnte whore tin» wicked oil impôt tors a o made to unnrt under a new duty of two pence a gallon on petrol Wo know they ne Bmaiting because Senator Pence who knows smaitniss when he sees it said so That twopence lins been put on to mike tho new roads that >ou in Vletona m New South Wales, and m South Austnlin will not have Ae >ou bump nlon¿ the unmade road it will *idd to the jo} of yom oscil lotions that tho companies aro icallj pay ing the new duties linne wcie some hurd thills in the Smite who would not believe that tho companies will pa} lhesc niibelicvus with ont exception carne flinn lillee States mentioned above Others, doubtle-"- thought as tiley voted that who ever paid then Stales would reiche 0them again like Senator McLnchlan and Senator Chapman hin mg ' burnt their bridges" deuded that the} did not want

the loadk

How tenerous the touil little foioiguei is to Austialm In uddition to the amounts which the Germans ore paying for the pi ia ilege of selling iron and steel goods and over and nboiu what the oil companies aro letting us hine there is a little amount of -CIO 000 000 which people ovciseus (n c l ) are conti lim tine, all tor the bene fit of Australia Uley may got it back fiom us us we cannot all live in Canberra but in the innin you can take it from Mr Platten and Scnitor Pernee thnt the im porter will poy

The bonus on cotton provoked keen rivilry between the Codhns and the Shorts of Queensland The enthusiasm of these membeis would have been equal

in the same duection lind it not been that a buedit idea occuired to Air Toido that 2d a pound was better linn Ud Two pence moieover ib ii lound figure. and vvithj 2d a pound £000 000 (i louuder iifciuc still) would bo bpent moro ripullj than tilth lid With Hitit spult of com pioimso which ii the soul of politics Mr J 11 nicis suggested tint the 2d might be pnid for the fust tinco veirs nnd tho I'd for the last thiee )cars By that means the £000 000 would bo cut out nicclj having regard to the fnct that the faster the acreage uicrcised tho more rap

11) the £000 000 would disapponr Theie was plensint, unnuunity among the Queens laud members that lins was ti treat na lionnl industiy ' uoilh far more thim tho £000 000 (or the £2/10/ nu ncic) Hint thu puisimoiiioiis foreigner it us pnjing for it Despite Ihe mild dilfeicnccs of opinion the fite oi the bill wns never m doubt At one stige the Ministerial Whip dnshed out of the Clumber ind letiirncd with the news puvntely but widely euculnted that supper lui 1 been oidcicd foi au all night sitting No jaded liol se ever made a bet- ter lei-poiiso to tho whip Svuan mothers weie punted baby bonnies m two min tites anti the ol 1 income tax I tites viere im I osed in two minutes ird a lutlf Hie un foi túnate dcliv of half n minute ocouircd through Mi Kodgcis asking if the per enpita payments itere to bo paid to the btitcs m the meantime That point hav

iiife been settled you will I now now where youl tax is to e,o and ns you 1 new all ulong whcio it was to come from you are nu aie il ei ei y thing thnt it is t,ood you

lould bo told Hie foi clouer will not pay

that tit\

I nenie, ovti tu the bonito wo were be-iten on the post by the £75 000 000 Ap pupnition Bill but were foitunntcly m time to lum tint the attendants at Pat

li iinent House were msufheicully paid The plight of these companions in misfoiluue von our svmpithv hut ne lind no vote in 1 li id to 1 e einteilt with the promise cf e )hh lertitii n that the Mimstci give With its fin uieiil shoit dihtinee t>pcct toles pio pel ly a Ijimted the bonito bet itself to bud out if theil, ins nmone else m need of mole tendy mono \\ hen doubts were githciing whether the Appiopnation Bill .ould be pissed m lune nevis was received Hint eveiy thing wns being ptepared for the gleit Hegira of intcistate membeis on lrulav alternoon Then we took a risk

n 1 good bv u to the less fortunato an 1 muleiiiiuil ittondnnts and went home with out uniting foi the suprer that had bceti liepnod loi its loi the io«t see toe ullin inges that tlo not go lo bed so cn h

AiiNictv huí been occasioned by the en tilt» ubstnee of neus lot otu n yeal trim Colonel 1 li 1 iiicctt 1) S O n tintín ,. iihliid lliitish cNtloicr who m Tannin of hist jen n tleil fiom. Neu Yoi I tor 1 io di innen o to ti ia el thtongli li 09 units tf su imp )iin"lo and dcseit to ii hidden uti in tim hint cf Bri?il which he believes will "ive jirool that South Ameiitn und not tho vnlley of Hit lu nluntes is the eindlo of civilisation When lust henrd ot the expedition was on the I link ot the Bri/ilinn forests Avhich ore inhabited b) cniimbaut of tho lowest l)po

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