STORMY SCENES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 April 1910, Page 3

STORMY SCENES.

IX THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. " A GRAVE [ny ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] (.I'Klt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, April 22. Mr Asfju.iith denounced Tho Times for having sent its representatives accompanied by an ex-detective into the cells of men serving life-sen-tences with tho object of inducing tlieni !to give evidence. Doubtless Sir Robert Anderson supplied Le Carou with the documents which came into his possession as a servant of the State, but though the Blackwood's anticle was a grave indiscretion the case was not one for tho withdrawal of tho pension. Some hours' desultory debate followed, till Mr J. H. Campbell, ex-Attorney-Geueral for Ireland, incidentally let fall the words: "Apart from the question of the privity of the late Mr Charles Parnell to two terrible murders in Phoenix Bark." The "Nationalists .then became frenzied and shouted "Shamel" ""Withdraw!" Mr J. E. Redmond, Leader of the rrisli Party, declared that the Commissioners had expressly acquitted Mr Parnell of complicity in tho murder. Mr Campbell replied that ho was willing to accept that if the Nationalists agreed to tho other findings of tho Commission. Despite the repeated intervention of the Chairman of Ways and Means (Rt. Hon. All'. EnimottV the Nationalists refused to allow .>l r Campbell to continue. Mucking laughter greeted Mr Einmott's plea that his duty was to carry out the rules of Order. Mr W. Redmond shouted: "Ton ■are here to carry out the rules of decency." Shouts of "Castle," "Hack." "Pigott," and "send for-the Speaker" Were repented again and again. Mr Campbell remained unperturbed and stood by the table waitin'.r for the uproar to subside. Mr Haldane and cither members appealed to the Nationalists, but the uproar only became more deafening. Finally Iho chairman accepted Mr Win«ton Churchill's sn<r<restion to apply the closure to the debate, and this was cirri"'! bv 232 to 111, amid Hie waving of hats and hands and frantic cheers for "Parnell."