NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 6 March 1925
6 MARCH 1925
In the House of Lords the Advertisements Regulation Bill was read a second time, and several Scottish provisional order measures received the Royal Assent. The Earl of Clarendon said the British Government and the Irish Free State Government had failed to reach an agreement on the question of land purchase annuities, but the Treasury hoped to have another conference at an early date.
The House of Commons heard a statement on foreign affairs by Mr Austen Chamberlain.
Interrupting with an irrelevant remark Mr Austen Chamberlain’s statement in the House of Commons on foreign affairs, Mr Kirkwood was named by the Chairman, Mr J. F. Hope. Uproar followed, and the Speaker, having been sent for, Mr Kirkwood’s suspension was voted by the House. As a protest the Socialist members left the House in a body.
Stanley Baldwin, speaking at Birmingham on the industrial situation, pleaded for a truce of God.
Clause 8, dealing with the payment of standardised stipend, was added to the Church of Scotland Bill in the Scottish Grand Committee. A Socialist amendment gave rise to a long discussion.
The Rev. Dr Norman Maclean, in an article entitled “Port After Stormy Seas,” gives his impressions of the proceedings in Committee on the Church of Scotland Bill.
An arrangement relative to the rights of Edinburgh Town Council in the City Churches under the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Bill was reported at a meeting of the Council.
Negotiations in London regarding the wage claim of the engineers broke down. A complete deadlock exists, and the position is described as “very delicate.”
