HONOURS AND PARTY.
Indignant Supporter's Outburst.
(Received 7.52 a.m.)
LONDON, July 16.
ifr. Hugh Cecil Lea, Liberal M.P. for gt Pancras. East, in a letter to the '•'Times," declared that honours were longht and sold, the proceeds going principally to the war chest of the party in office. VThai the House of Commons met, lord Eobert Cecil (Conservative) moved fiat Mr- Lea's letter amounted to breach of privilege, and urged the appointment .of a Select Committee to inquire into the allegations. Mr. Lea said he would -welcome inSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman dedared that the House would best consult its dignity by avoiding undue notice of jfr/Lea's impropriety, and moved that tie Htrase do proceed with the next busies. The Prime Minister's motion was tamed by 235 votes to 120.
[The immediate occasion cf Mr. H. C. la's outburst is the knighting of Sir 3sss Smith, a strong electioneering suppate of Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-tut-who was a director of the Ayrshire Jasidry, which fraudulently supplied a efective rudder to the battleship King tfward VTL]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 169, 17 July 1907, Page 5
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