The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-12-18
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singular oIns Inat mean Anatnema
ror Members OF rne BRUSH
PariiamsnI.

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Isheu d 'IIuIue Ior Jne new M l.
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| l,rlllsn paIIlaIueuL, VINO Wds elected Il.
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! AiaUIy lu1pUsslUIe Tor amy man TO Dc
ouIne Ialn4iIar Wlln our conIpncate~
~uue Oh pdrnamenlary usage LnereiJ
| -nIousn TIE sUou OIIIceS OIL MS Irlenue
L ain urea, ne continued, "oI htt,
ing 'Oruer, order. snOuLcu at me o.
| every occasion when, quite lnnocentiJ
| LIauSsresS one OIL Ine muitICuulilO u-
| ules NynIcn constitute the law OF tIl~
mouse OF commons.
some or these rules are quichiy
Iearned. 1T Is sure TO De pointed Out IL
me young NJ. L. InaJ ne must not, 4n
.IdlyInS Il speech, menIion ANY nemDcI
ny name. MY nonoraDle Irlenu, lne
member from so-anu-so, is the correC.
Aorm.
10 address the house as. Gentle
men IS equally anatnema. "Honord
JIe members is the proper metnou.
L ne name OF the KING may not D.
drought InIo any dvOate, whlIe tn
house OF IoIds. Is only alluded to d..
another pace. Finally IL Is an abSo-
IuJe rule JnaL a member in deDat-
must never address hImsef to any
one out the speaAer.
1he new memper is also especially
Instructed in the use oil - nat. HI
ledrns tnat ne must take 1t OF When
ne enters the house, ana must keep IL
uLr so long dS ne remains SJanuing al
,ne bar OIL Une house, or until ne reaches
MS seat. Then ne puts II on again,
Out wnen ne rises to ask Quesuon'O %
ADDRESS the mouse he dotts it once
more.
rms much he learns at once, but
tnere is a further refinement of hat
eUlquette. a member desiring to au-
uress the char after the house has
Deen declared for a division must uo
so seated and with hls hat on. Tn.
4eason no one knows, but there is the
iuIe emboded IN a standing order VI
ancient date.
NO less a parsonage than the late MI.
Gladstone once transgressed TINS OF
uer. Inc house was IN committee upon
an irish lana bill, and had been cleared
lor a division, when members We're
amazed to see he premier himself
standing at the table, bareheaded, en-
ueavor1ng to make a speech.
A roar of "Order!" rose. But Mr.
Gladstone had lett his hat in his prl-
Vate room. Half dozen were Offered
10y his followers. He accepted Sir Far
rar HerschelPs. 1t was three sizes too
small, but he balanced it somehow on
mis- vast Uranium and said what he hau
TO say.
1t is a very curious coincidence that
in February, 1904, almost exactly 70
years later, the late premier's son, Mr..
Herbert Gladstone, repeated the irregu-
larity of his deceased father.
On this occasion it was Sir Joseph
Leese who came to the rescue, As il
happened, his hat was as much too big
for the son as Sir Farrar's had been
small for the father, and the house
shrieked with laughter at the eclipse
which followed.
Lecturing to the boys of a we'll
known school, Sir Benjamin Stone told
the story of the red border lines of the
mating which covers the floor of the
house. During the parliamentary strug-
giles of the times of Charles 1, heated
discussions sometimes ended in blows.
Lines were therefore drawn down the-I
center of the house beyond which the
opposing parties might not go.
To this day, if a member in the ex-
citement of making a speech SHOULD
move both feet beyond the narrow rugs
which lie inside the lines, he will be |
very quickly reminded of the fact by
loud shouts from all parts of the house.
A member may read as much as he |
likes while in his seat-provided he |
confines his attention to Blue Books |
and the like documents. But let him |
not venture to open a newspaper with |
in the sacred precincts. He will very |
soon be hauled over the Goals.