UNSEEMLY BEHAVIOR IN PARLIAMENT

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3509, 8 December 1913, Page 9

UNSEEMLY BEHAVIOR IN PARLIAMENT

LATE SITTING AT PERTH. “PIGS,” “GOATS,” “LIARS,” AND “WHISKY DRINKERS.” 7 PERTH, Nov. 26. The Legislative Assembly sat till 1 o’clock this morning over the estimates. Personalities were indulged in by members. The Opposition leader, Mr Wilson, told the Attorney-General, Mr Walker, not to play the goat. Mr Walker retorted that Mr Wilson was acting like a- pig. In reply he was told not to play the fool. When Mr Wilson demanded information as to what tho supply bill for £670,000 was for, he reminded the Premier (Mr Scaddan) that lie had bought the State steamers and stranded State saw mills without Prliamentary authority. Mr Scaddan replied that Mr Wilson never spoke the truth. Mr Wilson retorted that he was not accustomed to lying, but the Premier sometimes indulged in it. Mr Scaddan made the rejoinder thatMr Wilson had no sense of decency, and that the Liberal win at Geraldtou. election was obtained by illegal votes. After the usual withdrawals, Mr ’Purvey, the ex-school teacher who obtained a Labor seat at last election, and was awarded compensation by the Scaddan Government for retiring from the service, made an attack on the Opposition leader. He said Mr Wilson was the biggest larrikin in the House. When Premier he and bis friends drank 68 bottles of whisky at a Government function, and his wife had gone shopping in the State car. When obliged to withdraw these charges, Mr Purvey declared that Mr Wilson’s daughter had gone for a. ride to Claremont, a suburb of Perth, in the Government car.