The Telegram. — 1896-04-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE SMOKING RESOLVTION. —The chairman said under the circumstances Mr. Elcock's resolution would not be in order.—Mr. Elcocic then left the room.—Mr. Salisbury then questioned the chairman's ruling as to this and persisted in speaking after the chairman had ruled him out of order—The chairman said if Mr. Salisbury persisted in speaking after he had ruled him out of order he should put it to the council that the meetin g should stand adjourned. —Mr. Salim bury : I move that the meeting do adjourn.—Mr. Sutton seconded, Mr. Salisbury: [mean business.—Mr. Ford: I think it is a serious question. We ought to have a policeman here to take amen who behaves in this manner. It is disgraceful to max here and defy us all.—Mr. Salisbury: I claim that my motion shall be put.—Mr. Pike said he was prepared to go into the villages and hold meetings at which he would take the sense of the people on this question.—The motion for adjournment was lost by a large number of votes. Mr. Salisbury again moved the adjournment of the meeting but the chairman ruled him out of order. Mr. Salisbury continued to interrupt and Mr. Ford suggested that the chairman should go on with the business in the best Way he could.— The chairman : No, I cannot do that ; it will be simply turning the council into a bear garden. Mr. Salisbury won't obey my ruling Si,:: tinge is nothing for us but to adjourn. Capt. Cartwright said he did not vote on the smoking question, but had simply voted against the rescinding of the resolution. He was sorry Mr. Salisbury continued to annoy. He could appreciate anyone who fought him as long as they fought fair, hut Mr. Salisbury had been beaten and could not take his licking. He hoped the gentleman at his end of the table, supposing they had been beaten, would have accepted defeat in a good spirit, Mr. Salisbury seemed to think he was to have the ' monopoly of everything there, and it WU a fact that the smoking resolution would never have been passed I had it not been for a dogmatic spirit which was manifested by certain members. He begged to move that the action of Mr. Salisbury in refusing to obey the chairman's orders be reported to the Local Government Board and instructions asked for.—Mr. Salisbury and Mr. Martin both seconded.— Mr. Sutton proposed that an explanation should be added to the resolution to theeffeet that Mr. Salisbury's conduct was in consequence of the smoking resolution.—Mr. Forcey secormed.—Five voted in favour of this and eight against. and Capt. Cartwright's resolution was earned. Mr. Salisbury: I rise to move that we instruct the clerk to apply for an injunction to restrain certain members of the ' council from committing the nuisance of smoking. He was advised that such an injunction could be obtained. Mr. Sutton seconded, but the motion was lost by 10 votes to s.—Mr. Salisbury : I have another resolution. Capt. Cartyrnglit : I move tiutt we adjourn, sir.—Mr. Salisbury : I move that those gentlemen who smoke shall bring their own spittoons.—Mr. Martin, who understood Mr. Salisbury to say he had seen him spit on the floor, said," I bet you a sovereign you didn't see nie spit on the floor. Come and look."—The chairman The meeting is adjourned.—The members of the court. cil then left the room, Mr. Salislituy declaring that he should persist in his conduct at the next meeting.  The Wurnhorne District Council in permitting smoking during their deliberations have only followed the example of the Transvaal Parliament. which the late Lord Randolph Churchill in his letters from ...;outh Africa respectfully submitted for the consideration and imitation of Members of the British Legislature. In the Legislative Chambers at Pretoria, independently of an actual suspension of business for one hour, the concluding ten minutes of each how: of the sitting are devoted to smoking and general conversation. In the House of trunnions in former times, members appear occasionally to have indulg.ed in the chamber itself in the use of the fragrant weed. The standing orders issued about the middle of the seventeenth century contain the following : " Ordered. that no member of the House do presume to smoke tobacco in the gallery or at the table of the Housesitting as committees."  An English:mar named George Mortimer, second engiueer on board Captain Hamilton's yacht Seahoese, committed suicide on Monday morning by shooting himself.  A Dissmassiim maritiuse disaster occurred off lipM Bank in the Irish sea during the early hours of Sunday rimming, when the 4..arque Firth of Solway and the steamship Marden came into collision with the result that the former was immediately sunk. In all fifteen persons, among them the cap• tan's wife and child, were drowned.