Opening the Floodgates.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2189, 20 July 1886, Page 2

Opening the Floodgates.

Wr.u.tNt. ton, Saturday. Ir is generally admitted that yesterday's debate was one of the moht bitter and personal discussions that h.is been heard in the House for year.-, and some exceedingly nu pleasant tiling weiv slid even bytiovem merit hiipjiin t.ei-> about the, action ot Sir J. Yogel and Mi Sti'uard over the railway tiebentnies icand.il. Jt has fuither been repoited th;it no more bittei speech than Air (Jamck made ve-terday has bton listened ti> in the House -nice Mi Onnoiid •» celebiated attack on Sir tieoitro <Jiey in 1*77, when the member for Xapiei \va^ Almistet fi»r Public Woiks in the Atkinson Cabinet, when he hid bjen signalled out for ippci.il tiiticlc by Sh (ieoige (Jrey nnd his then h^iitmg henten.wit' Mr W. L. Kees. The House treneially i^ of opinion th.it List night's debate will go a long way towards putting a chick on such tiansactiotit as Mr Stewaid's w iLh (-rovfinuient in future. In that lespect it is not let^.uded as wasted tune ; on tlw contraiy it i- hinted that the mattt r 1^ not even disposed of yet, but it is scaicely likely to come up again unless the Pieiuier^ reply on Monday, as to whetlier ot not he eondidet.s Mr Slee guilty of bleach of privilege, pro\okes anothei di>oUs>iou. Sir lv. Stout said last night th it lie did not think any bieach had been committed, but he pro inisod to look fuither into the matter. Tlu opinion w.is fieely e\pies>ed duiiug t !<■ debate that Mr Site's lettei to Mr Stewaid should ha\e been indignantly lesented at the tune, and lepmted to the Speak^i . That lettir stated th.it if Mr Stew aid and " J»lank " (which now tuuis out to be Sir J. Vogol, lilank having buen put in by the committee, out ot consideration for Su Julius made a gocd of tin; dcbentiues the company would not forget their services, although it would be a heavy lo&?. Sir Julius aNo saii yesterday that he had only heard of the letter for the first time on Thui.sday night last, in conversation with another member (\lr Lance), a. id that it had filled him with indignation. He added that if Slee's letter was not a contempt of Parliament and a breach of its privileges he did not know what was. Yet, in the face of that, the Premier said he thought there was no breach of privilege in it.