Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-02
AN AUSTRALIAN BREEZE.

SOme Gossip From the Parliament
 House at Sydney, New South Wales
 -An Interesting Letter From MT.
 A. Stilh Ives.
 The following interesting letter was rs- cently received from Mr. A. Stiln Ives. son of Dr. R. s. Ives, who is travelling abroad: } SYDNEY, New South Wales, Feb. 3, 1894; room, Parliament House: To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 have been joking about the Parliament house for some time and enjoying the hn- gual "scrapping" with gusto. By jove (which Is the English idea of an oath), talk about New Haven town meeting, why, these fellows do nothing but talk and .'caH each other out" There was one bit of talk which thought might amuse you. After the weighty conference about acan- dalous transactions in connection with . ministerial office, a. minister of the crown having risen in his place to speak whilst in condition of insobriety-what we call ''jsgged"- attention having besn directed to the fact, became disordsrly and was removed from the chamber. After this the house worked itself up into condition of much excitement because an evening paper suggested that a debate upon this matter might lead to disclosures of the do- .ings of the rsfreshment rooms and tho gambling tables, and went into some de- tail in the same direction. There was some talk about the appointment of . select committee to enquire into the mat ter, but ultimately 1t was resolved to sum- mon the editor under the Parliamentary ordinance act, whatever that is, and ques- tion him about 1t. So the poor man was search and brought before the "tribunal." l" He declined to answer question relating to the authorship of the paragraph and by 6 majority of 96 to 6-speaks we'll of the crowd does 1t not?-he was adjudged guilty of contempt; and, hay then considered what was to be done with the offender. The first proposition was to jug him or as they say here, ''commit him to goal for 8 month." Amendment was moved to geant- at arms," for 'sgoal" The amend ment was carried by considerable majori- ties, but that still left in tho original reso- lution the term custody" and further amendment was carried to strike this out. Thus the unfortunate editor having been adjudged guilty of contempt, was appar. ently in danger of being committed to the custody of the sergeant at-arms tor g pc.
 riod undefned. Vas 1t to be for 6 minute'
 Was it to be for months No one could
 tell. Certainly 1t could not be for more
 than 8 month, for in that case the ''House,'
 or its representative, would have been ex.
 posed to the risks of an action at law. The
 ''House''met the difficulty by negativing the
 amended resolution by majority of 55 te 32, and, on further motion the editor, al though adjudged guilty of contempt, wal discharged from further attendance. Whs
 is the morala Surely the honor of thu "House" is in It's own keeping and what
 ever may be done by people outside it fl with those jays themselves that rests thu
 supreme faculty of bringing itself int contempt. It is the old story Of 'Towl Topics," they can prove what they say i brought to bsy. Hurrsh for the ''frsedon ! of the press."
 A. STILLE IVES. MT. Ives will sail from Sydney to Ant | wsrp, where he will be the latter part o May,