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Show PARLIAMENT TO DEVOTE ITS TIME TO WAR MEASURES London, Feb. 3. Premier Asqulth presented a resolution In the house of commons today to devote tho present pres-ent session entirely to government measures. "Thero Is no precedent for this res" olutlon," Bald tho premier, "but nil our energies as a nation are concentrated concen-trated on the war nnd ovory Interest must bo subordinated to this overmastering over-mastering purposo. Accordingly, tho government purposes to tnko away tho opportunity for private members to Introduce bills and will confine Its legislative proposals to measures for tho prosecution of tho war." A Bonar Law, speaking for tho opposition, op-position, ngrced to tho resolution. Ho said the opposition intended to treat tho presont sitting ot tbo house as a war session, ns had been dono in Canada and Franco. |