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but it has that vitality that always members. This is probably due comes from fidelity to principle.business Whatever the cause, it.

to the demands of trade union Its weight and influence áre entirely disproportionate to its is a grave defect. It is not fair numerical strength. It has done to Mr. Adamson that he should admirably in the present session. so often be in the position of a It has wrung many valuable general fighting without an army. Whenever the Labour members concessions from the Goverment. notably on the new rules of are present in force, attracted by procedure; and to its insistence a subject in which they are We owe it that the powers of the specially interested, they do House over finance have been uncommonly well. carefully preserved. Obnoxious Tower Hill, Mr. Jack Jones has fought in France.

Notorious in other days on features in legislative measures become in the space of a few to use it in providing some have also in several instances weeks one of the characters of recreation every night in the been modified or eliminated as a result of its criticism.

the House. His downightness week in the parish room. He in- and unconventionality stamp him tends to have dances and some SIR D. MACLEAN'S LEADERSHIP. 29 an original. There is always sort of a cinema, and to try to Much of the success it has pith in his speeches. After some compete with people who were making money by providing "very achieved is due to Sir Donald of the mediocrities who swarm on Maclean, who has displayed the Coalition benches have bel-poor stuff" to entertain the people

in their leisure hours. courage, sagacity and patience in lowed out their hatred of our a position of no little delicacy beaten enemy or talked arrant and difficulty. He is always in rubbish about super-indemnities, his place, vigilant and imper- the wholesome wisdom of the turbable, prepared to speak for member for Silvertown comes Liberalism.. on every necess- like a refreshing breeze. ary occasion, ready to maintain Jones reminds me of Mr. John Bin overwhelmed its criticate at TEL. 482. BEST CARS IN THE COLONY TEL: 482. the authority of the House of Burns in his earliest phase. HeSir Eric is not a Farliamenterian. Commons against encroachment has not the stormy eloquence of Like other of the super-men from any quarter, and quick to Burns, but he has more wit, brought into the Government by take advantage of any opening which has come to him with his Mr. Lloyd George, he is seldom for attack on the Government--a | Irish blood. faithful watch-dog, too, of public interests, of whose warning presence Ministers are keenly conscious.

THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE.

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is Sir Eric Geddes, whose speeches on the first and second reading of the Ways and Communications

on the Government bench, and does not care for, and seems ill' at case in, the House.

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On the Unionist side, Mr. Bonar Law retains easily his

COALITION BANK AND FILE. Of the Coalition rank and file supremacy. He stands well with there is not much to say. Its Everyone who knows Sir the House of Commons, and not quality was Donald Maclean my knowledge least well with the Labour Party.debates on the war

shown în the indem- of him goes back to his Cardiff Not in my time has the Housenity and the treatment of aliens days in the early nineties-knew been led with more skill or withdebates in which ignorance that he had the root of the matter such adroitness, tact and goodpacity, malignity, masqueraded in him, and that Liberal principles teraper. His unvarying courtesy as patrotism and statesmanship, would be safe in his keeping to Sir Donald Maclean is and this in a temple of liberty Admirably has he justified in his pleasant trait. A defect in Mr. consecrated by memories of Burke present responsible position the Bonar Law from the Pressman's and Fox and Gladstone! A de- faith reposed in him. His latent point of view is his frequent cant remnant of high-minded power has flowered forth in an lapses into inaudibility, astonishing way in the present

Tories remain, but of 'the mass of Another leading Minister who the Coalitionists, Mr. Bottomley is session. Among other things he has shone in the House this Ses-the fitting spokesman. The rising has become a very competentsion is Mr. and powerful debater fact the Parliamentary

Churchill. His hopes of Toryism are grouped

gifts more remarkable because in his never

have together on the fourth bench been displayed former position as Deputy-Chair-uch perfection as in his elo

below the gangway on the Gov. man his lips were sealed in all quence, ingenuity, and con- Hoare, Mr. Edward Wood, Mr. J. ernment side, where Sir Samuel matters of party controversy. In ciliatory temper in commending W. Hills, Mr. Walter Guinness short, his adequacy to the role of hateful measures and abhorred and Major Lloyd Graeme for- Opposition leader is complete; policies. The deplorable want of gather. Lord Robert Cecil, a the occasion has found the man judgment he has so often shown rather isolated figure, is the man Thinking of Si: Donald's "modest came out afresh in the proposal of greatest distinction among the stillness" in the past and con- to incorporate in the Army unofficial Tories. trasting with it his efficiency as Annual Bill one of the most Lord Hugh Cecil, is not often in His brother, leader of the Opposition, one is obhoxious of the Dora regulations.the House, and new members reminded of a pregnant saying by The proposal evoked a tempest of have had all too few opportuni- George Meredith-strength is anger even in this compliant ties of admiring his lofty oratory the barvest of the quiet years.” House, and he bowed submissive and the sturdy independence of

Mr. J. M. Hogge and Mr. to the storm. What is unforgiv-his political judgments. MASSAGE HALL George Thorne are doing ex-able in Mr. Churchill was the

Soldier members who have cellent work as Whips for the exultant militarism of his speech fought in the war have with one findependent Liberals. In the in introducing the

first month of the Session Mr. Estimates. He spoke as though, of hate and clamours for super- Army accord stood aloof from choruses. Hogge was prominent in debate, after the agony of this war, indemnities. Three of them, all speaking on many topics with our destiny was not to lead young men, have impressed the vigour and raciness. Latterly be humanity in the ways of peace, House by their gifts of speech and has been devoting most of his but to be "lords of the wide power of thought viz., Colonel attention, to organisation in the world and wild watery seas," constituencies, and the House and also of the circumambient (CL), and Captain Walter Elliot Moore-Brabazon, Colonel Malone was the loser by his silence. air. No wonder an astonished Two speeches of surpassing merit ATTENDANCE OF LABOUR. Labour member interjected: But by Captain Elliot revealed a Labour is numerically much we thought this was a war to richly-gifted and original mind. stronger than the independent end war." The Minister who It is a pity that his medical duties Liberals, but the real fighting brought in these colossa estim- prevent him from taking & daily work of the Opposition bas ates is a son of the Chancellor of more active part in the work been done by Sir Donald Maclean the Exchequer to whom public of the House.

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