M.P.'S DUAL POSITION.
. CASE OF SIR STUART SAMUEL. By .Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright •■ London, November 23. : . : 'A Parliamentary Select-Committee has been. appointed to. report on the case of Sir: Stuart M. Samuel, Liberal M.P. for "Whitechapel, whose' position as a: member of the banking firm of Samuel, Montagu, and C 0.,- through which Indian, Government purchases of silver' were made, has been held in some quarters to place the member in an undesirable situation. "Tyhen'the question of setting up the committee was': .being considered in the House of Commons, x Mr. Bonar Law, Leader of the Opposition, refused to serve on the committee. • . • He Opposition urged that the Court was the proper tribunal.. •; ' lord Balcarres (Unionist) contended thit the .law required revision. It was possible for a member of the House of Commons, to ' supply , the Government, while holding the bulk of the shares in . accompany, though a'small partnership interest, debarred him from contracting.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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152M.P.'S DUAL POSITION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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