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Imperial Parliament: The Budget Bill Debate—Monday’s Sitting — The Birth of a Son to the Duke of York—The Colliery Disaster in 'Wales—'The Assassination of President Carnot— Biography of the late President— The Measures he Supported—The New President— Japan and Korea—Mr. John Morley on the House of Lords—The “ Cat ” for Crimes of yiolence— The Freeland Expedition— The 'G e rm an E m p e r o r a t Kiel — England Condoles with France 997 The New Encyclical . . . . 1 0 0 1 L eaders:
The Pope on the Unity of Chris
tendom . . . . .. ..10 04 Lord Bute and Disestablishment 1005 Bottled E d u c a t i o n .......................... 1005
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Dr. M&ieval’s Napoleon .. ..10 08 The Claims of Christianity . .10 0 9 Bibliographica The White Virgin . . . . 1 0 1 1 Books of the Week . . 1 0 1 1 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ..................................... 10 13 News from Ire lan d .........................1 0 15 Letters to the E ditor :
Anglicans and the Greek Church 1016 *• Decathedralization ” . . . . 1016 Catholics and the London School
Board Elections . . . . . . 1017 Thomist and Scotist . . . . 1017 The Inverted Image on the Retina 1017 A Colliery Mission in Danger . . 1 0 1 7 Oscotian Dinner.. . . . . 1 0 1 8 An Appeal . . . . . . . . 1 0 1 8
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L etters to the E ditor (Con
Page tinued) : A Danger in Disguise . . . . 1 0 1 8 A Counterblast to Catholic Truth 1018 Catholic Young Men’s Society of
Great Britain . . . . . . 10 18 The Abbé Legrand, Curé of St.
German L ’Auxerrois . . . . 1019 Hymn to St. John the Baptist . . 1 0 1 9 Downside Dinner . . . . . . 1 0 1 9 The Stamp Collector, and the Use of Old Postage Stamps . . . . 10 2 0 The Scott Collection at Abbotsford 1020 Lord Rosebery on Racing . . . . 1020 News from the Dioceses: Westminster . . . . ».1021
Clifton . . . . . . . . 1 0 2 1 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 1 0 2 1 Newport and Menevia . . . . 1 0 2 2 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 1022 Portsm outh..................................... 1022 Galloway . . . . . . . . 1023
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SUPPLEMENT. N EWS FROM THE SCHOOLS :
The School Crisis at Barnstaple.. 1029 Barnstaple School Board The Prince of Wales and Board
School Children The London School Board The Hierarchy of Canada and
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Education The Gresham Scheme The English Church Union and
Religious Teaching Priest and Schoolmaster .. Buckfast School Contest A New History of English Litera
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ture Mgr. Satolli on Church and State .. 1034
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.— THE BUDGET BILL
DEBATE.
THE House went again into Com
mittee on the Budget Bill on Fiiday, and resumed the consideration of the Fourteenth Clause, which set out a graduated scale of the
Estate Duty, rising by degrees from J ~ i percent, where the principal value of the estate exceeds ¿ £ 1 0 0 and does not exceed ^ 5 0 0 , to ^ 8 per cent, where the principal value exceeds one million. On estates between ^ 5 0 0 and
,000, the scale provided a duty of £ 2 per cent. Mr. Bartley moved the reduction of the duty from ¿ 2 to
1 1 os. per cent. The Chancellor said he had already made considerable concessions in the case of the smaller estates, and he could not go any further in the way of reduction. Mr. Hanbury reminded the Chancellor of the Exchequer that small holders of realty, who would have escaped altogether under probate, would have to pay under the new Duty. The amendment was rejected by 16 9 to 104. Mr. Heywood Johnstone moved a proviso that, where a second Estate Duty became due within four years in consequence o f another death, it shall be levied at one-half of the rate. The Chancellor admitted the hardships that might arise in •certain cases, but he thought that justice was ultimately •done, and he could not accept the amendment. Numerous •cases of possible hardship, arising from successive deaths in ■ a family, were cited by Mr. Chaplin, Lord Cranborne, and •other Opposition speakers. Sir John Lubbock dwelt on the loss which the community would suffer if owners of •estates were crippled in their means of giving employment ;and contributing to public objects which had come to be fixed charges on their estates. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied that the proposition that a particular class •of the community should be exempt from taxation, in order that they might be munificent and generous, was a proposition to which he never would assent. He was willing that people should be munificent and keep great houses, and ■ open them to their neighbours; but he was not willing that that munificence should be founded upon the fact that the means by which this was done was exemption from the taxation to which other people were liable. This speech produced great enthusiasm on the Ministerial benches. Sir H.
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James contended that this was a total misrepresentation of the argument, and the Chancellor would have to show how the community would be benefitted by the discontinuance of the charges on churches and schools and of the maintenance of the employment of persons which had now become fixed charges on many estates. The Chancellor replied that the same argument might be used for the relief of all classes of property whatever. Sir H. James insisted that this was an evasion of the point, which was how the community would be benefited by the discontinuance of expenditure directed to the maintenance of the fabric of churches and schools and the employment of labour. The Chancellor retorted that he would not consent to the injustice of relieving a class of the community from taxation which the general community had to pay, however much it might be beneficial to the community for that class to maintain great houses, employ labour, and keep horses. The discussion continued for some time, and the amendment was finally rejected by 19 9 to 160. The Fourteenth Clause was then added to the Bill by 1 9 2 to 14 5 . On the Fifteenth Clause, which provided that the Succession Duty on real property, where the successor is competent to dispose of the property, shall be charged on the principal value of the property, the Solicitor-General accepted an amendment by Mr. Brodrick, allowing the Estate Duty on the property to be deducted from the principal value. A long discussion arose on the question that the Clause as amended be added to the Bill, and after a division the Clause was agreed to by 1 2 9 to 94. The Sixteenth Clause granted one and a-half per cent, on the net value of a certain amount of the property chargeable with Estate Duty in substitution for the grant out of the Probate Duty made under the Acts of 1888 and 1889. The Clause was still under discussion when progress was reported.
The House resumed the Committee stage
— Monday’s of the Budget Bill, and completed, after a short s it t in g . discussion, the consideration of the Sixteenth
Clause, which substituted for the probate duty grant a sum from the proceeds of the estate duty equal to one and a half per cent, on the net value of certain portions of the property chargeable with ¡estate duty. The Seventeenth Clause specified the cases in which estate duty shall not be payable on the death of a deceased person. An amendment by Sir S. Montagu, that property bequeathed as a free gift to the nation should be exempted from duty, was accepted in principle by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Chamberlain said that bequests to Munici-
