PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1914, 24 November 1913, Page 4

PARLIAMENT.

A DAILY SUMMARY.

V> hen a Pleasant morning dawned din bfttuMa;v tlio Opposition members jn tiio Houseof Iteprasentoturos .were o'bstjjuctnig tlio LiOgislattue Amendment la ™, n,UII "early .midnight tlley Vcr«. still «ng;iged i„ Wding tip the business of the ctr.mtry.. The sitting was suspended, during Iho forenoon hi order llmt members might .attend the funeral or tiro ;M'i\ (3, I/auisoitsQi,!. JI.P. but with this exception the obstruction debate" Isste.d . continuously • fram J liursdfty afternoon until Saturday at midnight, Bio dreary drift of • talk was unamrked by incident during the all-night sitting from Friday until Saturday, but just before S? a.m. there Wore soitto jii« Wresting exchanges 'between the Prime Minister and the- Louder of the Opposi. tioH. Mr, Jlasseyv jnadfi a statement about "cutting the ' CortTian knot," wliieli Sit Joseph Ward interpreted as meaning that a dissolution might bo sought, A motion to report .progress was talked threadbare ill the afternoon, and ju tlio ©veiling the Oppositionists were hard put to it to vamp up ''Speecfjes" which would bear tlio Chairman's scrutiny. Just before 0.30 p,ni. tlio motion wits thrown out on a division, and tlio short title of tlio .Bill beeanio agiiin the question before tho House, It was still under discussion when the Chairman stated, at 11.62 p.m., thai ho. would leave t'ho, chair until 2.50 p.m. to-day. " V '