London, Nov. 27.
In the House of Commons to-d moving a vote of censure of the Government for "its failure to form= late any effective proposals for the extension of Empire trade and for its refusal to consider the offers made.by the British Dominions," the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, accused the' Government of lack of vision and courage and of failing to seize the oportonity for Imperial economic unity.
Mr: Baldwin said he believed that if steps were not taken to get a sense of economic unity inside the Empire the danger to that unity 5 great. He added that if Britain id mot make arrangements with the Dominions the latter would ake arrangements with each other without considering the Mother Country.
The Secretary for the Dominions, Ar. J. H. Thomas, replying, declared that the principal demand of the Dominions was that Britain should agree to a tax on foodstuffs while they moglified the existing arrangements. They wanted Britain to [change ber principles while they only changed certain details-Ar. Thomas informed the House that the Imperial Conference had consolidated the present Imperial constitutional position and opened the way to the consideration of economic problems. He refused to subscribe to the view that only. materialist considerations could bind the Empire together.
The Secretary for the Dominions, added that they had not excluded any path which would tend towards the happiness and comfort of the British people, and the strengthening of those ties of kinship and friendship was the greatest and most lasting of all:
Lt.-Col. L. Amery. (Conservative) complained that there had not been adequate discussion of Mr. Bernett's proposal and the Government had failed to use its opportunity.
Mx, Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, winding vp the debate, said the "opportunity" missed was the opportunity of taxing the people's food and adding to Britain's economic burden and juring a large part of Efitain's foreign trade.
The House, by 299 votes to 284, issbected the vote of ceneuré—Reuter, to the possibility of some action me" tended to relieve grievance arising from the terms of the 1924. ime! migration law. 'During the last ces sion of Congress, Mr. Albert. John son, chairman of the House im'
ration committee, announced intention to take some step in: this' direction, Just how his porpotes fill be effected is mot yet made" fear, dat the purpose will be to relieve Japan's feeling that the present Jaw is discriminatory.
The Philippine Islands will wa tell Congressional developments with special interest in the fate of the Hawes-Cutting progressive auter nomy till, now on. the Senatd calendar, It would permit an inde pendent plebiscite five years after The Senate will have to attend td confirmation of & new vice-governor for the Philippines. Insular interest ju the House concentrates. on the naming of a new chairman of thd important insular affairs committee. Representative Carroll Beedy, publican, Maine, has been forecast as the probable,
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