Conservative Lack House of Enthusinsm in the Commons Frox Ovn Onx London, Dec. 12.
The "counting out" of the House Jon-Sir John Davidson's motion, the Jday before yesterday, calling for a reduction of public expenditure and lessening of the burden of direc taxation, has created a very bad impression. Half way through the debate, a Labour member denianded count, when, after some delay, the requisite 40 were scratched up. But at 8 o'clock on another demand '8 quorum could not be obtained, 'The: Conservative Whips are not to lame and' the excuse is. offered hat fe Was "private members" day. when members are prone to attend Social affairs.
Emphasizing, that! no Government in recent years is guiltless of Times" says:
Their duties will be wide and their powere great, Cesides issuing] licences, they have to. provide "ni Voficient' ce-ordinated service _of public vehicles, exact proper sche-jules of time-tables from charabanc companies, fit road service to rail service so as to create a first-class network of transport all over the country, and keep an eye on the 1,000 uniformed motor-cyclists who will huge down the read-hogs The new Act is the first serious attempt to cope with the erarmous growth of motoring trafic in the past 20 years, It will of course reveal defects in workily. Thus the employers generally of the distribut~ ing trade—furniture removers, fond purveyors and so forth—which Jemployt 500,000 men are appealing to the Minister of Trarsport on the section which forbids continuous lcmployment for more them 63 hrs, or 11 hrs in any 24. The employers Ihave a suggestion which, they say, ould attain the desired result of "The real' cure what" elsewhere. And where else can it be found except inthe ft Commons.
'The explanation of the Conservatives' apathy is probably a_fecting that nothing will come of these Jdebates. I mict a member yesterday who said that the Government were expected to last for another year at east, The Liberals are not satisfied with' what they hear of the draft lecheme of electoral reform, but Mz. Lloyd George announced a week og that he might have to accent what) the could get now and wait for} something more later. What th: country whs to get apparently leseaped him.
Mr. Snowden has given another] id next year. jas he has agreed to new expenditure! this year of 45,000,000, as. thes have been $12,000,000 surplementay estimates since October as revenue has fallen seriously, how can. he keep his word?
'A White Paper issued yesterday gives a grand total for the civil staffs in Government Departments, fon October 1 last, of 313,729, of whom 78,545 were women, in all an jineroace during 12 months of 9,038.
Names of 11 of the 12 Traffic Commissioners tobe appointed under the now Traffic Act. which is coming into force piece by piece, have been' announced. -They. inclu fan extrem conductor, a Major General, tio chief coxstatles and two K.C's, not keeping drivers too long continuously at the wheel. without injuring their organization, as they contend rigid application ut the [Act would do.
But in the main the Act is wel-
Jconed. The old speed Ienit is gone, Uviving dangerously is now the crime. "One way" traffic is to be tried in certain roads (at the Commissioners' will) und others may be barred to the heavy saloon cars, which cut up the roads badly.
Ca-ordination of public services, to, should keep down overlapping and congestion. Best of all, there are on the issue icenees—only this wee!. an epitentic jat Manchester has had his cancelled, The three-wheeled "mechanical horse," with which the LAMLS. Ri have been experimenting, jukely to prove illegal under the'
Tis wheels are tow small, The Mosley Manifesto Sir Oswald Mosley's manifesto, Jcalling for an emergency Cabinet! of five and other measures, has been deceribed asa damp squib falling fon wet grou..J. Nobody has turned hair. Speaking at Manchester, Sir Oswald said he was much pleased by the letters he had received. Men of experience, ho said, Jdeclared that in England it was} impossible to get things done. His answer was "Then Enslend is done. Tt was too Into now zor muddling through, Mr. Snowden, when questioned as to whether the government would THE PURITAN SABBATH, Manifesto on Sunday Entertainments
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