SCENE IN COMMONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 11

SCENE IN COMMONS.

PARNELLAND THE PARK TRAGEDY. ■ TORY ALLEGATION. NATIONALISTS AEOUSED TO FURY. London, April 22. Tho most exciting incident of the present Parliament occurred late last night. Mr. Campbell, the Conservative member for Dublin University, was addressing the Commons on the proposal to deprive Sir Kobert Anderson, the retired Assistant-Commissioner of Police, of his pension for the part ho played in connection with "Fariiellism and Crime." For a time Mr. Campbell met with nothing more obstructive, than an occasional chorus of ironical laughter from the Nationalist benches, but when in one sentence he used the phrase, "Apart altogether from tho question of the privity of. Mr. Parnell with the terrible murders in Phoenix Park," there was instant uproar from the Nationalist benches. '■ Mr.. Campbell remained standing prepared to finish his sentence and continue his speech, but the Nationalists would

let-him-do- neither the one nor the other; Cries of "Withdraw, withdraw," were kept up-incessantly, and,, stung by Mr. Campbell's obdurate bearing, many Liberals- 'and . Labour 'joined'in • the chorus. Then Mr. Churchill essayed • to . speak, and Air. Campbell gave.way to him. Mr. Churchill, said: The cause of tho interruption, as far as. I am concerned, is a feeling of indignation that/ after the Pigott forgeries it should be'held as an open question whether Mr. Parnell was associated with the Phoenix Park murders'. (Loud Nationalist'and Ministerial cheers, and renewed cries of '"Withdraw.") ■-.... . . Mr. Campbell said, he , could assure the House that he was very little concerned with ■ the present views of the Homo Secretary.- .-■.'-. -~'■'■ . ■ Signal for Uproar. This reply was the signal' for more uproar. Still standing, Mr. Campbell waited for silence, but the demands for a retraction of his reference to Parnell became more insistent and more heated as the minutes passed. ' • Mr. J. Redmond: In view of the fact that the Commission explicitly acquitted Mr. Parnell of any complicity in this horrible murder, is the right hon. gentleman in order in the statement that he has made ? . - Mr. Emmott (the chairman): I would remind the right hon. gentleman that in* a matter of this kind a very good motto was de mortuis nil nisi bonum. (Nationalist cries of "Withdraw": and uproar.) ... ■ ■■ • Mr. Campbell: I would be the last to contravene the wise principle of that motto, and speaking for myself I am now and have always been prepared to accept the finding of the Commission in respect of that particular issue, provided hon. gentlemen below the gangway will do me the favour of agreeing with the other findings. This statement was received with re-, nowed cries of "Withdraw" from the Nationalists, and "Order, order," from the Unionists. ■Mr. Emmott: I must ask that the right hon. gentleman bo allowed to proceed. He has said nothing that 1 can order him to withdraw. This declaration was received with loud cries by the Nationalists, and again Mr. J. Redmond rose. "I say this is , an outrage," he said, in a loud, angry voice. "Tho Commission, packed as it was, unanimously acquitted Mr. Parnell, and yet the right hon.' gentleman is to be allowed. to say whether Mr. Parnell was guilty or not. I say it is an outrage, and if you do not ask him to withdraw he ought not to be allowed to be heard. (Wild Nationalist cheers.) Mr. Emmott: What the right hon. gentleman said was that he was willing to accept tho, finding of the Commission witli regard to Mr. Parnell' if hon. gentlemen below the gangway accepted the findings- on the other points. (Derisive cries from tbe -Nationalists.) ! - Jlr.. B-edmond: That is just as bad (Nationalist cheers- and cries of "Order, order!" f/om the Unionists.) Mr. Emmott: I am here to carry out the rules of order. I do not. think what the right hon. gentleman .paid was a happy way of putting it, lrat there is nothing I can ask him lo withdraw. ft Hearing Refused. Mr: Campbell ■ again rose "and essayed to continue his speech,, but was met with loud cries of "Withdraw" and "Divide," and for some time nothing articulate could be heard. Eventually Mr. Campbell succeeded in sitvin" above the din that lit- was quite willing and glad to accept all the conclusions of tlie Commission, but this did not satisfy the Nationalists, and the uproar was renewed. -Mr. Ilnldane made a vii'm attempt to obtain order. Sir Henry Dolssiol, the Liberal member for KirkcaUly, on a point of order, said the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Campbell) had insinuated that Mr. Parnoil might have boon cognisant of thelMiocnix Vai-k murders. "Inasmuch," Sir. Henry- said, "as any reflection upon Mr. Pan'iell's conduct directly reflects upon a large body of monitors in this House—(Nationalist cheers)—T submit that any siieh suggestion is grossly out of order, and failing a modification or withdrawal by the right hon. gentlemen, you should rail upon him to withdraw i his remark." (Nationalist cheers.)

Mr. Emmott: I do not consider that a remark made solelv in reference to the lato Mr. Paniell can be said h> be an insult to any presont member of the House of Commons. (Derisive shoutsby tho Nationalists.) Mr. John liedmond (in an angry voice): AVo considor- it an iusult. (Nationalist cheers.) Mr. Dillon: .And we will not submit to it. Mr. Emmott: I have already expressed my opinion. I wish the right lion, gentleman had had the grace to withdraw what he said, but he is not out of order, and I must carry out the proceedings to tfio best of my ability. Ultimately Mr. ■ Churchill solved the difficulty' by moving the closure, and the Chairman put. the question amid enthusiastic cheers for Pnrnell by tho Nationalists,, who stood ■ up in '• their places and waved their hands and their iiats. . ; Tho clfisure having been carried, the committee divided on the reduction of the vote of .£1)00, tho amount of Sir Jtob.ort Anderson's pension, proposed by Mr. T. P. O'Connor. The result was: For. tho. reduction 94 Against 164 Majority against 70 The Vote on Account was then agreed to and ordered to be reported to the House. It was now five minutes, to 11 o'clock, arid on the motion of the Master of Elibank the House rose. —"Daily News."