Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
LIBERALS SCORED
BY LLOYD GEORGE
Personal Attack Brings
Laughs From Laborites, Pro-.
tests From Conservatives.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 3.-Lloyd George
answered the detection of Sir John ST.
mon and two fellow Liberals from the
party ranks today with one of the most
bitter personal attacks heard in the
House of Commons in many years.
Emphasizing points with an uplifted
pince -nez, which he pointed accusingly
at his former lieutenant and co-leader
he mercilessly twitted Sir John and
painted word pictures of him which
drew shouts of laughter from the Labor
Denches. From the Conservative
benches came loud protests.
Gets Labor Ovation.
When Lloyd George had finished he
was given a four-minute ovation by the
Labor benches.
Sir John was sitting behind the man
who attacked him. At first he appeared
to pay no attention, but later on OBJ
servers thought he tolerated the stud
led sarcastic jibes of the head of the
Liberal party with difficulty.
With venom yelled with sweetness
Lloyd George said that only a few days
before Sir John quit the Liberals tc
enter higher sphere there was meet
ing of the Conservative party in one
of the committee rooms, and Sir John
most appropriately was invited to ad-
dress it.
Cites Past Speeches.
1.-THE committee was one on India and
Sir Johns India report" the Liberal
leader said. "The quite honorable gen
tleman made such an impression al
the meeting that it was decided each
member, of the committee, should buy
the report and read it for the first
time"
Lloyd George then suggested ironi-
cally that the Conservatives should &c
a step further and buy copies of Sir
Johns past speeches in favor of the
land tax. 1t was disagreement with the
land tax proposals of Chancellor of the
EXchequsr Snowden which prot oked the
quarreI between Sir John and Lloyo
George and resulted in his withdrawal
from their Libsral discipline.
Prolonged Labor laughter developed
when the Liberal leader likened Sil
John to "teetotaler who all his life
had been so stern that he looked witt
wrathful disdain at anybody whC
touched drop of alcohol, however di-
luted, and suddenly when he was ap-
preaching the seventh decade of his
life he took to drink and you saw hin
rolling from one side to the other, anc
then he ended his career by entering
into the inebriates home"
It was Lloyd Georges first answer tc
the letters of Sir John and two other
Liberals withdrawing from the dis
cipline of the party whips. Since these
letters were published, Lloyd George
has been the object of jibes in Parlia-
nd o~f0 r0]a
he made his effort to even the score
Action on Brawl Promised.
Philip Snowden, chancellor of the
exchequer, announced that the govern
ment intends to take appropriate &C
ton" about the brawl in the House YES
terday
We made this announcement after
the reading of report from the SER
geant at arms in which the sergeant
said that his men had been INSTRUCTED
by several members of Parliament when
they endeavored to restore order.
Meanwhile members of the Left wing
Labor group who figured in the scuffle
called on the Speaker today and, it
was understood, offered apologies.
It was believed the visit did away
with the possibility of further develop
ments from the Commons fight.
Yesterdays row started when the
Speaker ordered j. McGovern, Laborite
member from Glasgow, to leave the
House. He refused, and the sergeant
at arms was ordered to eject him
Several Left Wingers rallied around
their comrade and in the resulting
scuffle there was much tearing of gold
braid adjoining the costumes of the at
tendants.
The Conservatives moved today tc
make a change in the standing orders
by which suspended members would be
barred until they had made full
apology"