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FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.
[BY ÏBLBOHAl'Il.]
MELBOURNE, Friday,
Both Houses of tho Federal Pari lu
mont-mot yesterday evening.
THE SÜNAT13.
In tho Senate,
A motion affirming tho.propriety nf
making a survoy of tho Trniiscontinuntnl
lino of railway was mored. Tho debate
was adjourned.
Sonntor Higgs (Queensland) gitvo no
tico of In's intention to movu tlint tho
High Com ni issi on or for tho Common-
wealth in London' be seleetod by nu ex-
haustive ballot of both House's of tho
Parliament.
Senator Keating (Government Honro
sontatlvo) introduced n bill -providing
Dint tho Australian rights in wireless
telegraphy ho nurchascd mid madn a
national monopoly,.
Senator Sir Josiah Symon (S.A.),
.londor of tho Opposition, spoke strongly
in criticism of tho Government policy,
as it lind hoon outlined hy tho Primo
Ministor. Tho Oovbrnmont Itcdistribu
tion of Seats Bill would, ho said, take
away something provided for in tho Con-
stitution mid substitute for it, by bill, a
system subject to periodical nltorntion.
Tho debato was adjourned.
THE KEPBKSKNTATIVKS.
In tho House of Representatives, .
Tho Trades Marks Bill was rointro
ducod.
Tho leader of tho Opposition. Mr,
10; H. R-didj severely crltioiscd the
Liliornl-Labor alliance, in v"irtuo of
which tho Deakin Govornmont, ho
said, hold office. He t|iiotod from
Rpeoohos mndo' nt various timos by
Mr Deakin, in which tba prosent
Primo Minister declared that tho infill*
enco of tho Lahor, pnrty. was' fatal to any
Oovornmont. / Mr, Held hotly denounced
what lio termed the treachery of( Mr.
Donkin, who ho' alleged " had violated
the fiscal truce. ? . : . ' I
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