The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-09
MOTION IS PASSED
 AFTER HOT DEBATE
Opposition Seeks Too Late To Change Their
 Tactics
KING TO BE ASKED
 TO DISSOLVE HOUSE
Prime Minister Welcomes An Appeal To. Country Comfi-
 dent Of Victory
tnv Associated Press)

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 LONDON, Oct. 8,gsreAt Britain's first labor govern- ment virtually came to aIl end at n o'clock tonight, when, by A combination of fAconeervAtive and liberal votes, the Hou4e Of Commons carried q motion de. manding that a select commit tee of the house investigate the action of the attorney gen. eral, Sir Patrick Hastings, sill withdrawing prosecution of the communists.
 The government declined t0 accept the motion and treated 1t as a vote of censures which, |if adopted by the house. would |involv ajK q paa t0 tIs t9slsis |try against parIi4istAlfe yti.s dict.
 The debate wag sharp and exciting, and after t was closed the ,rpvsitaen wanted t0 drop Sir Robert 5. Honfe's motion of eensure and vote on ST John A. simcz's amendment calling Tor an investigation. On the governmenta refusal s0 accept this course. the hcusa divided on the question as to wl.ich v should vote on. By a vote of sI0V to 1gS 1t decided to vote on the simon amendment This was equivalent to the defeat of the censure motion, and the Simon amendment became the sub. stantive motion, and was carried Ssa to 198.
 Moves Adjournment
 Announcement of the figures waa received with loud cheering and counter cheering. Prime Minister MacDonald, immediately arose and said; Tn view of what has happened, Mr. Speaker, I move that the house do now ad- journ." =.
 This was agreed to unanimously. The premier will see the king tomorrow and ask for dissolution of parliament lt iA understood, however, that the govern. rnent has decided to carry on until the Irish boundary bill is safe and the boundary commission appointed.
 Throughout the final scenes the ex- citement rose to the highest pitch jiibes and retorts were flung aeros the house and some of the members ti- dulged in singing. Up to the end theEe were rumors of maDeouvers to avoid defeating the government, but If, as ap- peared not improbable from the tone of some of the speeches, there was som disposition on the part of the oppo-a cition to reconsider it's tactics, 1t had seemingly committed itself too far to reeede.
 
 There is little doubt that the labor party and the government welcome an appeal to the country thus, as they contend. thrust upon them and are convinced they will return to the Hopsa of Commons much stronger party even though they may not cowmand q majority in the house over all other parties.
 They believe they have q good cause to present to the electors in what they argue is the triviality of the question upon which they have beenl defeated and on their record, especially in the realm of foreign affairs and finance.
 There is no reason to supTOee that the king will oppose grantinE dissolu- tiOn of parliament The iiberalA, 1t IS pointed out, can hardly expect in view of all recent political history, that they will improve their party prospects by m appeal to the country, and as far as the conservatives are concerned their idea probably is that if even if they should fail to attain an absolute ma jority in parliament there mny arise Some opportunity to form new eoali- tion from conservatives and liberals to keep labor out.
 Sir Robert IloFnes speech in moving the vote was an attack on Attorney General Hastings conduct of the Campo, hell case. He accused him of lack of candor md asked whether he knew that Campbell vas elected Q member of the red internationale this year and was af- filiated with the Moscow internationale.
 The attorney generals speech in his own defense was strongly militant. He declared he was not an apologist and would take exactly the same course again He then placed before the house long statement of everything concern ing the case from beginning to end and sought to show that precedents for his action had been set by his predecessors in office.
 Sir John Simon. himself a former attorney general, then moved his amend ment calling for a select committee of inyestigation. He protested that the liberals wanted only fair and impartial inquiry which might take any form the house desired, and he contended such demand was no case for a general cleo ton. If the government resisted an in- quiry, he declared, it would be acting like a man required to produce docu- mcnt from n desk who preferred to burn
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