The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
PARLIAMENT OPENS.
The New House of Commons
Assemblies Today.
One Member Got There at Five
This Morning.
GULLY FOR SPEAKER.
He is Reelected Without Any
Opposing Votes.
Joseph Chamberlain is Jeered
by the Irish.

ACNDON, aug 1S.-1Q0 preparations
for the assembling of the house of COM
mons commenced at an early hour this
morning. One member arrived at
o'clock in the morning and waited out
side until the house was opened at
o'clock in order to win the distinction of
being the first member to enter. The
other members came in later until 10 B.
N. Thirty places were secured on the
government side of the house while only
six seats had been taken on the opposi-
tion.
Mr. E G. Hatch, Conservative who de-
feated Parkhurst, Liberal in the Gorton
division of Lancas hire, was the person
who entered at 5 o'clock
AS generally expected Mr.. VIM. Court
Gully, Liberal, member of parliament
for Carlisle, who was elected speaker of
the house of commons in succession to
the now viscount Peel, was re- elected
speaker when the house of commons as
sembIed this afternoon without oppo-
sition.
There was large attendance of mem
bers The government benches at an
early hour were crowded to excess and
many members were compelled to take
refuge in the cross benches. The Liberal
and Irish benches were not crowded
early in the day. Among the Irish mem
hers of parliament present were the men
who sat between Mr.. T. P O'Conner and
Mr.. Edward Blake.
Also present on the Irish bench
es were Mr.. T. Sullivan, Mr.
John Dillon, DR.. Charles K. D. Tanner
and other distinguished leaders of the
Irish Nationalist party. Later in the day
however the Liberal benches became
crowded and when the proceedings com
menced the Liberals had showed up in
| strong force.
At 2:15 the usher of the BIack..Rod ap-
| peared at the bar of the house of COM
mons and all talking was Immediately
! hushed. The mem bers of the house were
! then formally requested to attend the
house of lords and hear the reading of
the royal commission opening the new
parliament.
Thereupon Sir Reginald Francis Douce
| Palgrave, K. c. B., clerk of the house of
commons, followed by a number of the
lords, where the royal commission was
read. In their turn II. J. BaIfour, first
lord of the treasury and Conservative
| leader in the house of commons, and Sir
| William Vernon Harcourt, liberal leader,
| entered the house and were loudly cheer
ed. The Right Honorable Joseph Cham
| erlaip, secretary of state for the colonies,
who followed, was received with loud,
| derisive cries from the Irish.
The Right Honorable Sir John Robert
Mobray, Bart, member for Oxford uni
versity, Conservative, who has been
chairman of the standing orders and Sc
lection committees since 1884, then
moved the reelection of Mr.. VIM
Court Gully as speaker of the house
of commons, and congratulated the
house upon being able to open
its proceedings with such an act and
without dissenting voice. He pointed
out that Mr.. Gully eminently proved his
fitness for the post.
The Liberal whip, Mr. Thomas E. Ellis,
member of parliament for Merionshire,
seconded the motion, and complimented
the conservative leader, Mr.. Balfour on
the course he had taken in this connec-
tion.
Mr.. Gully then thanked the house for
| the honor done him, which, he said, he
did not think he owed to personal con-
siderations, but to the manner in which
he hoped he had acquitted himself dur
ing his term of Office. The speaker was
then conducted to the chair amid loud
cheers from all parts of the house.
Upon assuming the chair Mr.. Gully
again thanked the house for the honor
done him, and the mace was then laid
upon the table.
MIR. Balfour congratulated Mr.. Gully
upon his reelection in a few words ex-
pressing confidence in his impartiality.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, on be-
half of the Liberals, also congratulated
Mr. Gully, but it was noticed that he was
not cheered as warmly as was Mr.. Bal
four.
The house of commons then adjourned
until tomorrow,