The Washington herald., 1913-01-02
COURT GOSSIP MATTERS
OF UNUSUAL INTEREST

, Secretary, was appealed to. He backed
| up Lord Raglan. saying that the stand
| that he had taken was I'm accordance
| with constitutional practice" The
House of Keys" was very angry, in
deed. and practically went on a strike.
They refused to proceed with any OF
their business, and the Governor was
obliged to adjourn the session indefinitely.
Some six years ago Ito be accurate,
| in December. 1900 Spain was In a SINH
lar peculiar plight. On October 30 Of
that year. Senior Dominguez, who had
held the reins OF office four months only.
resigned with his entire cabinet, and
Senior Moret became Prime Minister.
His policy was obnoxious to the Cham
Der of Deputies and when. in December,
they were called together II was found
impossible to get a quorum. and there
fore to transact business of any kind
whatever, Moret was forced to resign.
after holding office the shortest time on
record. even in Spain, country where
ministerial crises are VIGOROUSLY fire.
quent.
The most extraordinary scene which
ever occurred In Spanish. or perhaps
IN any Parliament. was that of No.
vember, 1904 Certain deputies were
more than suspected of tampering with
public money and with taking brides. The
cute. but ii was necessary first to obtain
authorization from the House
Seemingly there were more members
involved than was suspected. for large
minority went on a strike and commenced
the most determined filibuster. They
organized reliefs and began talking
against time. One discussed the impor-
lance of sturgeon. another proposed an
alteration in the tariff on imported por-
cupfnes. They sang litianies In chorus,
and occasionally burst into roars OF
cheering
They ignored the Speaker. This sort
OF thing went on for two days and a
night and part OF the second night.
Sheer exhaustion forced a snort recess,
but as soon as the Cortes reassembled
the flibuster became worse than ever
and degenerated into a riot, when ink
stands were thrown, and the silver cruci-
fiex. on which the oath was administered.
was broken to pieces. For days business
absolutely was at a standstill, and
eventually the prosecutions were given
up.
The only scene of the Kind that ever
occurred in the British House of Com
mons took place in February. 1891. dur
ing a discussion on Irish home rule
When the House was to be cleared for
division thirty-six Irish members struck
and refused 10 leave their places. They
were suspended. the Speaker having the
power to order members into custody for
contempt.
Another Parliament that went on strike
was the House of Congress of the small
but warlikc South American state-Para.
quay. A number of political opponents
OF the President DIR. Aceval. forced him
at the points of pistols TO sign his resiS-
nation. Parliament resented this, declar-
ing that IL there was any fault to md
with the President he should have been
brought before the bar OF the House and
impeached openly. They ordered him to
be reinstated. and refused to vote appro-
priations till this was DONE The result
was appalling. The insurgents. heavily
armed. entered the House and began
shooting. Three were killed, thirty
wounded. and the remainder fed for their
lives. FLANEuR.
Copyright 1913 By Court Gossip syudicat.l