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<date>1919-07-02</date>
<parliament.no>7</parliament.no>
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<chamber>SENATE</chamber>
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<para class="block">Senate. </para>
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<day.start>1919-07-02</day.start>
<para>The <inline font-weight="bold">President (Senator the Hon. T. Givens)</inline> took the chair at 3 p.m., and read - prayers. </para>
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<title>BUTTER POOL</title>
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<para class="block">Prices in Western Australia. </para>
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<name role="metadata">NEEDHAM, Edward</name>
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<para>- I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Customs if he is yet in possession of the information which I asked for on Friday in connexion with the price of butter in "Western Australia? </para>
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<para>- The reply I have received is as follows : - </para>
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<para>With reference to your letter of 28th inst., enclosing extract fromHansard of 27th idem, relative to the price of butter in Western Australia, I have to state that the butter, which is being sold in Melbourne for local consumption at 177s. 4d. per cwt., is fresh butter, upon which no costs for storage, <inline font-style="italic">&c,</inline> have been incurred, but as there is not sufficient of this butter to supply Western Australia, that State is being supplied with stocks from the Winter Pool, which was provided for that purpose. The extra cost represents charges for storage and other expenses incidental for the pooling scheme. </para>
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<title>Relief of Distress</title>
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<para>SenatorFOLL. - I ask the leader of the Senate whether he has seen a letter published in the <inline font-style="italic">Argus,</inline> ' and signed " Loyalist Workers," with regard to the relief that has been given by the Government to people suffering as a result of the seamen's strike, from which it appears that the men known as "Loyalist workers" are . not receiving assistance under the Government scheme. Will steps be taken by the Government to see that loyalist workers receive their fair share of assistance from the Government grant? Is it the intention of the Government to give the sum of £500 for the assistance of persons suffering from unemployment in Brisbane as they have done to meet distress due to unemployment in Melbourne ? </para>
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<para>- I have not seen the letter referred to, but I shall take steps to secure it, and if there is any evidence therein of a grievanceI shall bring the matter under the notice of the Acting Prime Minister at once. </para>
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<para>Sale of Blankets and Flannel</para>
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<para>- I ask the Acting Minister for Defence whether, in view of the statement made by him last week, that 5,000 blankets and 5,000 yards of flannel were to be placed at the disposal of people in Melbourne, the same treatment is to be accorded to people in the other capital cities of the Commonwealth; and, if not, why not? </para>
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<para>- If the honorable senator can give an assurance that such action is necessary, I shall take it into consideration with a view to dealing with the people sympathetically. </para>
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<para>Sentences for Breach of Discipline</para>
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<para>- I ask the Acting Minister for Defence if it is a fact that on board the <inline font-style="italic">Australia</inline> British officers have inflicted most severe and! savage sentences upon Australians who have done creditable service for many years ? </para>
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<para>- Before an answer is given to the honorable senator's question,. I should like, sir, to have your ruling, as to whether it is not in effect the same as a question which you have already disallowed. </para>
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<para>- It is practically to the same effect. </para>
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<para>- Bef ore you, sir, give your ruling on the point of order let me say that you ruled that I could not ask a question in which I made a statement. I have made no statement in the question I have now asked; I have merely asked the Minister if it is a fact that certain British officers have inflicted savage and vindictive sentences upon Australian sailors who have done good service during the war. I do not make a statement. I ask whether a statement is correct, and I believe I am in order in doing so. </para>
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<para>- The Standing Orders are clear and emphatic that a question must be asked only for the purpose of eliciting information, and must contain no statement, no argument, and no comment. The practice of the House of Commons as laid down in <inline font-style="italic">May</inline> confirms the practice followed under our own Standing Orders. The word "savage" used in the honorable senator's question to qualify the word "sentences" is undoubtedly comment, and his question is therefore contrary to our own Standing Orders and to the practice of the House of Commons. </para>
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<para>Questions are continually coming under my notice which are asked, not so much for the purpose of obtaining information as for ventilating the opinions of the questioners. <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Gardiner</inline> preferred not to have his question placed on the notice-paper if the word " savage " were to be left out of it. That proves to me clearly that the honorable senator is more interested in having his own commentpublished with the question than in obtaining information. </para>
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<para>- Do you rule, sir, that my question is not in order? </para>
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<para>- Yes. </para>
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<para>- Then I give notice of dissent from your ruling. </para>
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<para>- The dissent must be moved at once. </para>
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<para>- I think I can give notice of the motion, but I wish now to take exception, sir, to your conduct in attacking me personally when giving a ruling. </para>
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<para>- I did not attack any one; I merely stated the facts. I think I am right in my statement that when a ruling is challenged a motion of dissent must be moved at once. It is not competent for the honorable senator to give notice of his intention to dissent from my ruling. </para>
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<para>- I thought it' required a resolution of the Senate to take up the question at once. </para>
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<para>- The Standing Orders provide that if objection is taken to a ruling or decision of the President it must be stated at once, and in writing, and motion made, and then the time of its discussion is determined by the Senate. </para>
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<para>- I dissent from your ruling that the question asked by me, "Is it a fact that British officers in command of the Australian Navy have passed severe and savage sentences on men who have rendered distinguished service during the war ? " is not in order, and I move - </para>
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<para>That the said ruling be disagreed with. </para>
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<para>- I second the motion. </para>
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<para>- The debate on this motion must stand over until tomorrow unless the Senate decides that it be immediately proceeded with. . </para>
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<para>- I do not want to go on with it to-day. </para>
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<para>- There may be some misunderstanding about this matter, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President,</inline> and- </para>
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<para>- Order! The matter is not open for discussion now. </para>
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<para>-i merely wish, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President,</inline> to ask a question to clear away any misconception and misunderstanding as to the use of the word " savage " if- </para>
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<para>- Order! Our Standing Orders provide that the matter is not open for discussion now. </para>
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<para>- But, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President,</inline> I only desire to ask a question of <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Gardiner,</inline> in order to help clear away misunderstanding- </para>
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<para>- Order! The honorable senator is not entitled to ask a question. He must resume his seat. We can have no debate now that will in any way anticipate the discussion on the motion to-morrow. </para>
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<para>- <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President,</inline> is not an honorable senator in order in asking a question of another honorable senator with regard to questions on the- business paper ? </para>
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<para>- As a matter of fact, no honorable senator is in order in asking questions at all, either of the Minister or anybody else, except upon notice given. Hitherto the practice has been allowed, but strictly speaking it is not in order. It is only a privilege: not a right. A private member is entitled to ask a question of another private member regarding pending business - Bills, or a substantive motion - but not regarding a point of order. If it were otherwise, points of order would lead to endless debate. </para>
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<para>- But, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. President,</inline> I was referring to pending business. This matter will come before the Senate tomorrow. </para>
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<para>- The pending business is a dissent from my ruling, and our Standing Orders provide that the discussion of such motions must stand over until the following day. There can be no discussion upon the matter now unless the Senate decides otherwise. </para>
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<para>Later -</para>
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<para>-I desire to ask <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Gardiner,</inline> without notice, whether, in view of the necessity for clearing up a little misunderstanding that has arisen, the honorable senator- </para>
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<para>- Order ! I have already ruled the honorable senator out of order. If he disagreed with my ruling he had an opportunity of challenging it at the time. He must not repeat the offence now. </para>
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<para>- I ask the Leader of the Senate <inline font-weight="bold">(Senator Millen)</inline> whether Peace has been signed since the last meeting of the Senate, and, if so, has he any information to give to honorable senators, or are we to be content with the newspaper statements. </para>
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<para>- I am not prepared' to make any statement on the matter. </para>
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<para>The following papers were pre sented : - </para>
<quote>
<para>War Debts of the British Empire: Scheme for their Administration, Conversion, and Extinction, prepared by the Honorable W. A. Watt, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia, on behalf of the Commonwealth Government. </para>
<para>Papers presented to British Parliament - British Air Effort during the War - Synopsis. </para>
<para>Germany - Economic conditions prevailing, April, 1919. - Further Reports by British Officers. </para>
<para>Audit Act 1901-1917. - Regulations amended, &c. - Statutory Rules- 1919, Nos. 145, 159, </para>
<para class="block">160. </para>
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<para>Entertainments Tax Assessment Act 1916. - Regulations amended. - Statutory . Rules 1919,No. 130. </para>
<para>Inter-State Commission Act 1912. - </para>
<para>Fifth Annual Report. </para>
<para>Prices InvestigationReports - </para>
<para>No. 10. - Fruit and Vegetables. </para>
<para>No. 11.- Clothing. </para>
<para>No. 12.- Rents. </para>
<para>Public Service Act 1902-1918.- </para>
<para>Appointments, Promotions, &c. - </para>
<para>Department of Trade and Customs - </para>
<para>P. W. Mitchell. </para>
<para>A. Stuart. </para>
<para>Postmaster-General's Department - F. W. Arnold. </para>
<para>Regulations amended. - Statutory Rules 1919, No. 101. </para>
<para>Public Works Committee Act 1913-1914.- Fourth General Report. </para>
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<para>ask asked the Acting Minister for Defence, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Will the case of Paul Freeman come under the consideration of the Board or Commission of Magistrates which has been appointed to deal with deportation cases? </para>
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<para>- The magistrates' jurisdiction is limited to the cases of enemy aliens. It is not proposed to submit the case of Paul Freeman to the Board. </para>
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<para>asked the Minister representing the Prime Minister, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Will the Government bring down an amendment of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act with a view to increasing the pensions, owing to the increased cost of living? </para>
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<para>- The financial proposals of the Government are at present under consideration, and will be presented in the Budget. </para>
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<para>Blind Soldiers' Pensions</para>
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<para>asked the Minis ter representing the Prime Minister, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Will the Government bring down legislation to increase pensions to blind soldiers to £4 a week, and also increase the pensions of totally and partially incapacitated soldiers? </para>
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<para>- The following benefits are provided for a blind soldier by the Pensions and Repatriation Departments respectively 1.(a) Permanent pension at full rates for himself, wife, and children; in addition, where necessary, he is entitled to 10s. a week for an attendant. These pensions are unaffected by earnings. </para>
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<para>) Vocational training. </para>
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<para>While every sympathy is felt for blind soldiers, it cannot be admitted that they are at a greater disadvantage than other totally incapacitated soldiers. The blind can be trained for an occupation, and the view is held that they should be encouraged to take up employment, which would assist them to refrain from brooding over their misfortunes. It is not proposed to provide for any special increase of their pensions. </para>
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<para>The question of liberalizing the War Pensions Act in other directions is receiving the consideration of the Government. </para>
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<para>Preferential Freight</para>
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<para>asked the Minister representing , the Minister for Works andRailways, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Will the Minister give preference oh the trans- Australian railway for the transport of those foodstuffs that Western Australia generally imports from the eastern States, and of which there is at the present time a great scarcity, so as to relieve the consequent distress? </para>
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<para>- The Commonwealth Railways Commissioner reports that for some time past he has been doing his utmost to encourage the use of the trans-Australianrailway for the conveyance of foodstuffs. Special rates of freights, have been quoted, and all the loading offered is being conveyed as expeditiously as practicable, and as great a quantity as possible of the perishable goods is being conveyed by passenger train, the balance being sent across by special weekly goods train, which has now been running for about six weeks. If sufficient loading offers, additional trains will be run, as there is ample rolling-stock to handle a larger traffic. Representations have been made to the Governments of the States forwarding foods to Western Australia to expedite their conveyance over the State railways, as inquiry has shown that the greater portion of the time of transit is on those railways. </para>
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<para>asked the Acting Minister for Defence, <inline font-style="italic">upon notice -</inline></para>
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<para>Is the Defence Department taking any steps to utilize the land recently acquired at Leichhardt for a Defence store? </para>
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<para>If so, what steps are being taken? </para>
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