"SCENE" IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 128, 26 March 1881, Page 3

"SCENE" IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

■ j . ; * I^owDcar, lJth~Peljniary. I^h? House of Commons, which asai^ o f dpipk on the Qlsjt. Januajry vtojcotttjnue the debate on the" n^otion of l^^^^ritefrfitf leave %x. introduce the Coercion Bill,«*tuninterii'ptedly : tbrougb the night Of the 31st, all through the Ist, and the night of the Ist, until $30 an the -xaorning b/the.2ad of-jFebryary, wtien .. Jhe disc.BMipn, waf peremptorily, closed p'- ;^y\t^^^m^'^TJkejM^;sdinted put ' tbat» eriaii had arrived^demanding the ' 'prompt interposition, of the Chair 5 that -- ~tbA]TS|£tSittJ>e bouw 1 ' proved ' "pb Wer jess brdinaiy Vefl^ct of debate. t^eitei^b>^vcofl«der»l)le minority of n , membe/^lvhicfi fesort?d to inDdes of iob-,fc-«tructi(an tt rejeognised by" tfie 5 House at a 1 " Parlitmesta,ry nflfence. fbe dignity, eve- . dit. anil <utb«rity of the Rw«e bad been **^ fertdus^f tbreatened t and it waa^^^^qecegsary t '-to' Vihaicate themf The: Bpe 'ker» therei Vibrep -dfcljnfd- . wiling ,uppn any rtiore fer "*aießabeni. ■ The Speaker then proceeded ~&VWJte : „Tb.e amendment of .^.■Di^^ypff^^dernanding: precedence! for : rgmeaitljfcgislatiQi^^tbereupan; Eiega.3 'M,s: ?M Speaker tytJfi put the question, that leave bje 1 givtir - v 3yhjfreups|.th^ ihembe^Tfrsir-to thdr fet find pried 3/;/.tt privilege '*54«.ring,sev.erat,nvnntes amid i't^nparailtduproap. -^hclrisb., members '« -<taa% JgftßtlieChallhin T ft)Bbdyr.o^Mr. fursV £^er,lfrobg)t t |w»be bUFCamid^ cheering, Cfl «S^l» ? WTfadin^ |te|e^v dlad.«i

stone then gave notice of motion that if, upon notice being given that State busiwat urgent; - and- if, on- a- call by the Speaker, 40 members should support the demand of urgency by rising m their 'places, the Speaker: should; forthwith jl&estion without debate. . Mr. Gladstone was proceeding -to. address the House m support of the motion when he was in-1 terrupted*by ,Mr.JC)illofl, who; disregarding the order oHhe;Speaker ? i<i resume -bis seat, was '? named 'v and suspended. On declining to leave the -House, he was removedfoylthe Sergeant-at- Arras. Mr. Parnell pursuing a similar course was suspended and expelled.; By s. a, subsequent vote immediately following thi«, two Parnelites were expelled for refusing to leave athe House when the division' was called. -Mr. ( Gladstone's resolution was then Adopted. The proceedings occupied four hours. Mr. Gladstone afterwards made .an eloquent and impassioned speech — one of his greatest oratorical efforts—dep'oring the necessity of making new rules, the | adoption of which had become a question of honor or dishonor, life or death for the House. The .Government accepted an amendment of Sir Stafford Nortbcote's, that a Crown Minister be required to state the reasons for urgency. The debate on the second readi ig of the bill occupied five sitting.", and terminated on the'eight-of when the second reading was passed by 859 to 56. The debate m Committee was still proceeding when the mail left. The Speaker laid on the table new rules " for the better conduct of public business." They are stringent, and will effectually kill obstruction m the future. They introduce the foreign system of cloture on certain conditions, te enable the Speaker to silence members guilty of contined irrelevance and. tedious repetition. '