HOUSE OF COMMONS
IB IT DETERIORATING? THE. OLOSURifcONDEMNED. i By Telegraph, -frets ABeociitioft.— Copyright) (Received February 3, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 2nd February. Mr. 'Austen Chamberlain, ftpeakihg at Birmingham, commented on the deterioration of the House of Commons. Th© closure, he said, made it impossible for members to exercise real preesuro on Ministers whose benches were empty. The debates were unreal, and they, lessened the respect for Parliament. The threatened danger of representative institutions was growing, and there was an inclination to question the sanctity of the law.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1913, Page 7
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87HOUSE OF COMMONS Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1913, Page 7
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