Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-07-22
Scenes in Parliament.
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Judging from scenes which have taken
place already, the new Parliament is like.
ly 10 be q sensational one, The Home
Rulers have been largely reinforced, and
their tactics during the last Parliament
were SO thoroughly 10 the liking Of their
constituents that ii may be presumed
they will pursue them with fresh en-.
thusissm IN TINS House. Moreover, al
though Valley, Onslow and Dr.. kenealy
are gone, there is an exceptionally large
number of members who are possessed
by missions or who possess hobbies
There are atheists, Ultramontanes, Or ,nge.
men, extreme X ,dicals, high Tories,
rabd Dlssenters, Fenians aud JlngOes,
aud the legislation 10 which many OF
them are committed is of the extra
hazardous class. ltis safe to say how
ever, that whatever may occur, Sir Frs.
kline May, the Clerk of the House, and
perhaps the greatest oi Parliamentary
writers, Will be able To find precedent
for It, and for It's treatment also, although
Mr.. Gladstone has contrivtd an uupreCe.
dented method for suppressing Mr.
O'DOnnell Should that Home.Ruler be
come intolerabe, however, there is the
case Of Hemming, Wiltshire member, in
| 1870 Grafton, in his "Chrouicles," says
| this honorable gentlemen yin the Par.
! lament lIous tbeyng sobere) did spreade
abroade lewde sui sedlcious couversa.
| tione, and being thereof detected, he was
I sett on the plllory in Chepesyde In Lon.
! don"--a base and Saxon method for sup-
! pressing free speech which the member
! from Dungarvan would not relish.
| Should Mr.. Bradlaugh ANA the Radicals
attempt to cut down the q leen's privy
purse and deprive the poor German Prln.
| ces OF their allowances, there ~ the case
/ of Queen Henrietta, Charles IS consorl,
| who, under somewhat similar circumstan.
/ ces instructed the Attorney General 10 90
to the House land pull the rogues who
scofied al Royalty out by the ears
Pepys describes scenes not likely to be
psralleed in the present Parliament, with
all its turbulent elements. Here Is one
under date OF the 1914 of December, 1906
Ny Lord Buckingham WAS leaning rude.
! " over my Lord Marquis Dorchester,
when my Lord Dorchester removed his
! elbow The Duke Of Buckingham asked
/ whether he was uneasy. Dorchester re.
! piled that he burst not do that anywhere
else Buckingham said he burst and that
he was a better man than Dorchester,
! Dorchester said that he lied. With this
Buckingham struck of his hat and took
him by his periwig and pulled it aside
and held him" Both were sent 10 the
Tower for this breach OF the peace; but
their conduct Was not SO unpleasant AS
that OF Sir Allen Broderickc and Sir
Allen Apsley, who, says Pepys, "dii
come druuke the other day into the
House, and did both speak for half al
hour together, and could not be either
laughed or pulled or bid TO sit down aad
hold their peace" There was dreadful
row In 1915 over division on the recall
Of the English regiments with the French
army. The ielers were charged with
fraud, and members mounted the benches
aud hurled eplthets OF insult and threats
! Of defiance al one another. This lasted
/ half "a hour, when Mr.. Speaker restored
order and 3 motion WAS passed pIedglng
the members 10 secrecy.
La those days the opponents OF I'm
perialism were in imminent peril JOhn
Coke, the member for Derby, protested
against the arbitrary conduct OF Ames
/ If's Ministers, and was met with cries OF
Take down his words 70 40 the Tower !"
etc and t. the Tower he was cent
Collisions between the two Houses were
Of frequent occurrence. ln lI72, Burke
complained that he had been Kept three
hours waiting at the door OF the Lords
with q bill sent up from the Commons.
The Comm ons were so indignant that
shortly afterwards when bill was brought
down from The Lords TO impose a bounty
on corn they rejected Il by unanimous
vote; Mr.. Speaker tossed Il ross the
table on the floor, and the members rush.
ed forward and kicked il out OF the Guam
Der, almost rivallug the fierce scorn with
which Mr.. Bronson Alcott prodded win
his umbrella the volume which Mr, 90
seph Cook had cast upon the h0or. Inc
rules which existed in the reign OF James
/. against abusing freedom OF speech were
intolerably severe. Mr.. Floyde an Eag-
lish member, for scofilng al the Kings
7 relatives in language much more circum.
spect than Sir Charles Dixie used Jesr
ago in discussing the Royal Princes, was
deprived OF his civil rights, fined 5000,
whipped al the CARTS tail, pIlloried, aud
sen, to Newgatc.
! William Cobbe.t was probably the first