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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1947;
The Privileges Of The
House Of Commons
The report of the Cramalted members
In
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on to the Houses of Parliament preetide an act from being treat in privilege abuse of which invjed as a trener of prilege. The belaited-with-beavy-punish-succesen sometimes, made that ment, but that the House of Comto take a precedent in a caso of mens, usa constitutent part ofjurivilege is an altempt on the the High Court of Parliament, pret of the House to extend Its has per 1 videate its murivileges-19-misconceived.
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by whoever they are assailed, punish conteinpts of every de-
I try that the Committee express the plein that in this particular are the dignity.of the I use would be vindicated a Safeguarded by, the House
By AN M. P.
eve:
Reports from the Committee, of Privileges are usually cons dered and adopted by the House unless the Committee reports that no breach of privilege has been-
recommends the committed, House to necent the apology made by the offender, or expresses the opinion that in the circumstanceR of the case the Heuse would. best At its own dignity by tak !
or
1 no further notice of the offence. If the offence is a serious one, The House, after adopting the re- purt proceeds to consider the
ring its extreme distensirescription analogous to that pos-nature of the punishment to be
at the Innidents. But even if as
Leered by the superior courts of awarded.
is probable, la rommendation low, ad must of the els punish-
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LONDON WAITS IN FEAR
By A.G.
CARNIVAL
TOPR. SHE BY SITA MERVIER, INC. 7. M. N
By Dick Turner.
FOR
8-1
"Ang if I ever catch you kissing a senator back, we'rej
.through!”
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
Alruough, there is little or no doubt as to the final outcome, the
cf their Labout Governinen, is undoala- is neted on by the House, future have been contempls rathered to attend the House and are
he ill advised than breaches of pelvilege in the heard in extenuation
term. The offences or irtriet sens af the
In mitigation of dh, in this three days debate on offenders
receiving
enin breach of privilege is in fact pantshment before the flouse de- the egunomic rutture of Greg Wond
endly Jenient treatment,
red by the House ti n synnymedes whether to adopt the report Britain likely to encounter
Power To Imprison Efor contempt.
For the Scrfeart at Arns is order-
A Priest test since the General
At Its Own Discretion
arrest them and bring them flow enn the Haters of lection, Critical amendments to
Pas buvish tenters? "
The power to banish for con- to the bar of the House when the sle Cjovernment resolution on the cause them to be detained within tempt is essentially a discretion-report comes up for consideration White Paper are offered from the pureinets or send them,
Whether an act shall) ory power. Persores imprisourd be rented as brench of privi both the Conservative and Liberal prison.
wder of the Itse are pelons: ope is always a matter to be de- sules of the Hoose and the fly retened at the end of the termined by the ileuse in refer-
insurrection, in geon, but if the House, thinks ence to the particular case.
not hych sufficiently On the other hand some nets. 1 Party ranks R uspre they have
they
re-which formerly vere dealt with) disable, even while it mas de uniched ard that Mr. Antler can rhy narooned in the ensuing
This was a ne les 1680 ija brenches of privilege are now!
suffered to pass unnoticed. When atel opat the patry machine to the new of a Me Crisl, whe Sir Alan Herbert prosecuted tae the Government through, bad asserted that he could en-manager of the refreshment de- Si Stafford Cripps who is to open trol the dreision of a Private Thill.
for Seira
ntoxicating rest until the sessi ʼn was nearly liquor without # the debate is expected to give a mitte, hat had led partment of the House of Com- licence, the good deal of information about gir.
Home did not send him, his offender. Acho hes exurses and solicitors to earl their i the incrediate situation and about
bern ist droned presents a "pet hoofs la prison as it would prol: Be Comment's plans for get on expressing per contritionably have done 150 years earlier.
The school children of London, or under on its tret again as
to hir Moner Du use anally The rders made in the 17th
to read the die frost liits. He will find it dit are in the lemed. Som od 18th renturies prohibiting the when they are sel ficult, to minimise the difficulties tincs bolore being role med ledebies or any part of the prolong history of their great rity.
still-guarded J. South hopeless- alich mit be surmonted and breacht to the bar if the Fredings of the House from being no doubt are puzzled when, they
to that reprimand from published have never been re-tcome neross references in theor
ly gave up a trick books to certain erafis the time which must elapse be and receives n
The Specter
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card, whereupon it was impos. tore the inkstrial machine can The "Harle has not exercised į Indeed, in 1875 the Horse, cu Middle Ages. They read of men
were skilled in the
In reckoning how to set up!sible to get nine tricks before
the defence had five. that ths and mysteries" af ancient trades.
a suit, the smart declarer! ebanght back to mouth work power to imprison offenders Disraeli's advice, rejected Lor" who
cordwainers. ang. It is, however, of the first More Ba0, when Mr. Bradisuch Hartington's proposal
as the
The winning declurer, after we emitted to the custody of House should in future refuse 1 such
weighs the relative cost of thei
the heart Q on the second tance, that
p-occupation the Serjeant Armes y disney entertain any complaint in ras paracters, the leriners.
to various methods available
tres. led the 4 to the heart A, with the administrative problems
nyder of the Huge and peel of the publiention of the de- These terms may mean 'little
ites or proceedings of the House or nothing to them, or even to him. He does not, want it to
anal brought forth the clah 9, immediate crisis, should petang its authority. at the
parents, unless they re cost him two tricks to get which he finessed to the R. No one obsme the mycuigrack, than twent for the lake hat or in comunillees except whre their
Antented left, seith directing sach debuits or proceedings bad tficiently curious consultablished if he can acco-matter what the defenes fie beyond. How is Bairdin to res rulers to be reprimandet. An heen ennducted with closet doors their dictionaries and thus lear plish the same end by giving now, the contract was secure,
the CordwainersR industrial activity to it offender who is not a member is or when publication had been ex that
days were the ww maximum potential sturing the brought to the bar of the House pressly prohibited by the Hotse mediaeval remainder of the awe sat se me the Committee or in care ofkers in leather who made shoes for our trefathers: that pors brid such reserses as will af- there repelmanded by authority wilful misrepresentation,
geters were plasters and that the of the House.
Running No Risk loriners were makers of horses' Ford immunite trour a fuel crésis
The editor of a newspaper bow-bits and bridles long st winter? pun these crucial
ever, runs no risk of being baled ago. isdies it is to he hoped that Minis impuding receives the re9m-¡to the bar of the Commona for The time may come when the
standing fa hig
place the breaches of privilege he dail: naine of yet aurther practitione jterial statements will be positive and
Sogn tipes MenderE ara. only remmits. and reassuring.
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were
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exercised the
Libels on
members Aro
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augmentation t credit to itself!
j producer,
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the
Parliamentary
haviour in Parliament.
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ciul 10 worked. Now the club A and dropped the J, and the 6 made the game trick.
The difference in result had one. used the come because. club_Q to knock out the K. while the other had used the 9 for that purpose considera able oconomy.
What is the simple counting formula employed by all export card-readers to determine the distribution of a particular suit. after they have, an exact count of certain other suits?
Labour Govt. The Only Hope
always led mankind de
of an art and mystery will-be nonded in the puzzled minds of In the White Paper the Gov was thus dealt with for inserting kely to be dealt with
many who are now youngster: ernment have set themselves the speech at a oublie meeting
the plumber: Target of 200.000.000 tons of eat that some of his fellow members aches of privilege unless rat school to these archaic, truds
had received bribes to pase doubleption is alleged or suggested, names that. of
or improper matives are attribut- that is to say, unless that worthy This year. In page Britain com a Fans and that others gled. Even where the impartiality comes more promptly when wo | Simeit 191,600,000 tons, of which drunk in the iletese, wadi refusiór of the Speaker has been impugnda call for him than he has done
the for ed In 2,000,000
drawn from to make his charges good.
newspaper articles
seven or eight years There is soupe, doubt whether House hus sometimes contented since the war broke out in Sep Stock, leaving a wholly inadequate the House of Ummons has now itself with branding the publica- tember 1930. winter reserve. It follows that to immose s The Hous
tion as-n
1ibel.
At that time we learned that would merely Lords undoubtedly can do a bu
Anxious as the House of Com-like the Minstrel, Boy-the plu 200,000,000 tons
hit enable the country to consume the the House of Commons has not mors always is to avoid conflict ber, to war, had gone, with fame amount of coal as last year 300 years
power nearly with the Press-conflicts out of tool-bag slurit behind him.
CAJ 10 6 2 ---Another Word “to add ̈ ̈600,000 tons t As an alternative to moriens which the House..as Balfour once
(Dealer: South-North-South! Today it has come to pass tha'
vulnerable). South Weat - North from-maliciously fatre and scanda- many young children may hav tra stocks night barely suffice to be expelled or suspended
15
20 see als through next winter with the service of the Houserious attacks, often repeated and heard of the plumber-Just n
specified period: A not-member
Pass 2NT
3H the Great Auk-but they have sut a shock such as has been ze might be punisced with exclusion continued, might comnel it they have heard of the dodo or
3NT of the cently experienced. But how can from
eyes .ch one pre- The Committee of Privileges is never set
they will know
Two declarers in a duplicate; the country fulfil
programme "cinets.
the oldest standing committee of species. All Among the nets exceeding that of last year unless House is punished are illerder-in 1584.
which the the House. It was first appointed from their dictionaries or their where that same bidding was
parents is that, if not actually done, had the same lead against |
Shrewsbury, Mar. 9. |there is to be, more coal? That ly condret on the part of members
It now consists as a rule of ten extinct, he is or at any rate, he them, the spade 5, the 3 foreingi
"plumbum" the A. One then
The Air Minister, Mr. Philip made the „questioni, remains substantially up of the public admitted to the end-M.P.s, all or nearly, all of them wata worker in
answered. Sir Stafford Cripps ap leries of the Houss er fa sitting members with, lang experience, meaning lead: Fence his name.
contract and the other failed. Noel-Baker, stated here today termittees: the publication of including the Leader of the Their letter-day progenitors, after parently hopes to secure some au information wrongly obtained and House, the Leader of the Oppoal. vrinly telenharing a plumber. will Both said later that they de- that the Labour Government, ditional power for industry how to be private and confiden-tion and one of the law cfficers, no doubt have another word for cléed to seek four club tricks, mean to change the face of the expense of the unhappy do Unl; atqulting or insulting mem-It is thus a very strong commit him. sucepet but not suitable plus two hearts, also that they Britain by planning our, econd- Fristic,,consunter, who faces the best on thele way to or from the tee. It has
reckoned, from West's bid, that mic life and by combining the power to summon for the years of the young.
There saying which we he had the club K. The varia planning with democratic free- prospect of gas and electricity House; attempts to influence the witnesses. and to call for doen-
which Britain has Their Parliontentury conductments.
stress: cften impofi time of
tion in the, result came from dom, In Frationing. It is questionablé she by bribes, rents or other intorn-1
that "the hour produces the man." person úccused Is sume)
the way that they drove out ther the gain in thel supplies to ner nenns; 10:1 assaults on moned before the Committee andAt this writing, the hour is upon
the club honour.
The Labour Government's industry so made would not be abuse of, or threats against nim interrogated. He is not allowed us and nearly all Londoners are
The losing declarer, as well programme, he said, still stands Du necont 117 their be-to be defended by counsel.
whether If he wondering anxlously more than offset by a decline in her
admits the charge, but makes the hour will preduce the plum- as the winner, led, the heart Q unchallenged as the only hope for social justice and hational national morale, for the domestic
to the second trick and, when also intuiciently humble apology, the ber
in The portents are not encoura- it was ducked by Wert, he prosperity the postwar is also the industrial punishment for refusal to attend | Committee usually recommends ; consumer
when gunungbed as a witness, the House to accept it.
Ing. At this season of the year, switched suits. Then the laser world."
<f Landon is normally city
Mr. Noel-Baker added: "In to produce documents or answer
len the club Q right into the questions: prevarication or false
Both Jury And
frozen and or burst water pipes. K, West returned his diamond many countries, countless an
· less consumption of taal but more evidence by witnesses: tampering
Counsel
At this moment, the senson is no to the A. Then the club 10 xious people faced by totall- Aproduction. Sir Robert Renwick, with witnesses: molestation of There is no prosecut: r. The exception. We are in the midst
frost was finessed and followed by tarlan solutions of different the Chairmat of the County of witnesses on renunt of evidence, members of the Committee have of the snow and ice of a
en before Parliamentary com- to combine this Landon Electricity Supply Com forgery of signatures to functions of judge, jury and, even
role with the more prolonged and severo than, the A, which failed to drop the kinds are watching to see whether or not this peaceful for many years past and, strange pany has estimated that if we are metiti ng resisting officers of the ene may almost say, counsel for though it may sound. the
method of social progress will to achieve the full export, pro House if the execution of their the defence.
shivering Londoner is waiting
ucceed. The nation by a nevertheless certain efforts in mine, factory and gramme, 220,000,000 tons of coal duties; libel on the House or
In practice this procedure dees with apprehension tr the thaw dicted, but
in daylight, con-" not work out to the disadvantage which must inevitably follow fn bursts occur will be necessary. Yet, as the
ditions will be bad enough, the field will give the answer. I am of the accused, rather the reverse. at most a matter of days. subject of the debate, the White:
No Alchemist
little gods know, but in present certain of that anawer now and circumstances they may accu through the coming month and Paper shows, the Government re.'are crowding upon the world In the case just decided the Cum.
mitte departed from its usual Why? The Vieturlan olumbe". gards even
when a plumber, even when and years it will bring new hope to 200,000,000 tons as and raising new issues in Angio: procedure and allowed the two, (whose work in slit, with difficult to achieve. All the more uerican relations, it was essent persous concerned to be present although he did not call himself, if he can be captured, may need all the world. It is now plain
s throughout the exaanation of renturkable is the disclosure by dal that it should be filled
alisation has saved us from real At the present time, there is a disaster-Router/st Sir Stafford Cripps that there is quickly as possible, Mr. Douglas's witnesses, to cross-examine the sonitory engineer, know a thing light to do his work and that for all to see that only datin
that the more his ning བྷསྶ མཱ no present intention of going back appointment came in the nature witnesses and even to interrogate two. He knew, for instance 18ht is more than likely to fall. on the introduction of the five of a welcome surprise, for he was The nublic are not nimitted plumbing, were exposed to winter acute crisis in both our gas and day week in the mines, due to be-1 not
advance the sings of the Committen old, the innre often and the more our electric light and power-con- giu in May. In that event it is regulation: but this, as in Privileges, Why they are not alreeds services would be unten at any moment without Mahatma Not
to during the exposed them.
At the moment we suffer frin On Another a practical certainty abar the several of his recent appointments, examination of winesses, and was no alchinist, but he be
Heved a thé transmutalion. of 200,000,000 regs will no
be President Truman has provei pres in thi. case of most-comill- {baser migtals into gold. For, gen. heavy mow and what for, us Is
tees of the House pt Cominons erations, his
Intenst cold. Concurrently we falth has been have little no coal coke reathed, far less exceeded in himself herter than the field. less the Government have surize The new Ambassador's kuris difficul to say.
Before it became the regular abundantly justified and today no certain dates on work and East-Unto Death
to the of elder and battery of equip reliable electric service; for light Mahatma Gandhi today denied
he tan, with the aid of crucible expect delivery; neither have we t better plans of yet disclosed, ledge of Britain is been gained ractice to refer cases
Patna, Bihar, Mar. D.. of. Privileges;- the there seems to be plenty of anat first hand and his belief in the Committee
menituen frozen dr bust or heat. All we need now to
- {~a~nows-agency-report-(not cat uninition for the Oppositis in close identity of British and public were usually led to pipe, if not directly, luta gold, at complete our table of wig is s
present while
rled by Reuters) in wònio (Indian) the person least Into bank notes. And he has simultaneous evening failure of newspapers that he contemplated the debate in progress.
Americans interests has taken pfc-be stical form. He was an; malvõkatel Thorged with the- brench of privi-thousands of such pipes on, which light and heat-accompanied by Andertaking a. fást unte, death if :
lege was under: "examination practise his mystery. of full aid for the Allies before the bar, and even while his guilt.The trouble is that the supply general thaw. Then at least we he does not find a change of Pearl Harbour, “served during the of Innocence was debated." They ut plmáber#:Zik, not, even poeri♥ shall be sure of cold feet, while hoart: among the Hindus of
her, where widespread Hindu war as an associate of Mr. Harri were admitted to a committee on equal to the dentand, Wading about our homes in cold: man in speeding the flow of Lead-question of privilege in 1880. present time, it is said that However, Londoners seem A warm welcome has been Lease aida and later worked in
Barredhe worst hit by this, frost and which about breathittests and tour of Bihar to bring mitr kiveit in Londen to Mr. Lewis close cooperation with, members
Includes London and ben 8.000.000 slaughter against the univerne, Douglas, the near American Am of the British Guernment as De In 1882, 1888 and 1982, how for pay there are likely to be about we do not yet hold the Gaver bowen Hindi and
overmotions that stranger 540 bursts for jasondor in London. This key nuty · Shipping: Administrator should mist in the American diplomatic When to this background is adds bad beamities were rejected plumbers for valeplement responsible for the Weather and Kinath had not
Without Warning
Tommalanceat might?), service has owing to the untime-ed his term ge Principal of all three cases. Irish members ly death of MP Gardner, been, Canadian Univeralty, it will be wore, Involved, and undection Horror, upon horros heading Meanwhile, wo wing, though whieh Tim had bo
to exclude the pullitio may there, curifica bows. If Horror is too wrong, hoarselyas (9ERRATso dentski which he
to undertake ungcupied for nearly six months, seen that in the new, Ambassador vores have fun farotated by, pou-rayawarate inconvenience! lay top!Os) To be in London how that), palladi At a time when so many problemas. Britain is welcoming an old friend, tenir entities Miami Al Kayra v VERKA, LE Dûr, so far only, pred winter's hars,”
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