Being again ignored by the startled
SPEAKER, went back to own place again to try his chances there. Don't
remember that the manoeuvre was a success. Certainly not been generally
adopted.
GRAHAM seems now to have recurred to it; or can it be the case that he,
too, has joined "the Gentlemen of England"? House so agitated by this
problem, that it quite loses thread of debate; a thrilling discussion, to
which FERGUSSON contributed a luminous speech, upon the Telephone.
WILFRID LAWSON much interested in new development of affairs.
"The Government," he says, "if only with the instincts of self-
preservation, should hasten the Dissolution. If they go on a little longer,
no saying what they may come to, with JOE as their principal champion in
town and country, with JOHN REDMOND as their favourite orator; led into the
Lobby the other day by BURT against the Eight Hours Bill, they only want to
recruit CUNINGHAME GRAHAM to their ranks to make the medley complete. If
they go on another three months, we shall see them some Sunday following
CUNINGHAME GRAHAM'S red flag as he leads them to Trafalgar Square, there to
be addressed by Alderman JOHN BURNS."
_Business done._--Got into Committee on Civil Service Estimates.
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