CREATING A PRECEDENT.
The British House of Commons has always been jealous of its constitutional usages. It is not surprising, therefore, that when the Prime Minister sought to establish a.precedent—and a dangerous one at that —by submitting a resolution to the House after it bad already been negatived, a disorderely sceno occurred. Had such a precedent been established in New* Zealand under a Liberal -Government, one would not have been .surprised. But for the British House of Commons. an institution whose customs and traditions bare J>een the envy of the world, to stultify itself in the manner proposed, is almost unthinkable. The cable tells us that the disorder was so great when the Prime Ministor brought down his resolution, that the Speaker bad to adjourn the House. We may depend upon it that the resolution will not be earned until every form of the House has been exhausted.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 15 November 1912, Page 4
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148CREATING A PRECEDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 15 November 1912, Page 4
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