A PROTEST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 801, 26 April 1910, Page 5

A PROTEST.

THE PHOENIX PARK DEBATE. By Teleirranh—Prets Association—Copyrlshl ■'■.'.■ London, April 24. The "Spectator" (Unionist), in an article; commenting on the closuring, at the instance of' Mr. Winston'Churchill, Home Secretary, of the debate in the House of Commons regarding the pension' of' Sir Robert Anderson, says.— "Tho closure was übed, hot because the House considered the subject had been sufficiently debated, but becauso'the Irish iycre determined to deprive of free speech members who said.things they disliked. The Nationalist domination is comploto." . ■"',•■''.

[The subject of debate was a motion by Mr. T. P, O'Connor (Nationalist) to reduce the vote for Sir Robert Anderson's pensioa on the ground that, while, in State employ, Sir Robort Anderson in .188Jigavo "Tho Times" the.'aid:.of cpnfi- - dential documents in connection■jfith, the "Parnellism and Crime" articles, .A scone arose during the debate in consequence of Mr. J. H.- M. Campbell (Unionist) letting fall the words .-r- apart- from the question.of tho privity of Mr.. Parnell to the twD. terrible murders in the Phoenix Park." Despite'the efforts of the Chairman (Mr. Eramctt), ths Irish Nationalists' uproar, provoked by.'these wto'ds,preventel Mr. Campbell being•• further heard, and, oh Mi. CliurcMll's sugge-ti •», the Chairman found a way out of the difficulty bj-\accDpting a motion to cloture the di'bate.' The . debate clo-: sured, find 'Mr O'Connor's. inotbn was negatived.. The "Spectator" pr'vi'ste against this use of the closure, as canceding to disorderly persons the power to prevent debate.]