NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14290, 28 February 1912, Page 10

NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

MR LEVIEN'S CENSURE MOTION DEFEATED. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, February 27. Mr Levien attributed the Speaker's mistakes while occupying the Chair to the weakness of overweening vanity. Mr McGowen declared ' that the motion was the most serious charge ever made, in the isew South Wales Parliament. Ho maintained • that though the Speaker had been insulted, he had always maintained the dignity of his position. If the Chair had been occupied by a man without firmness and dignity, tho House would . have been a Bedlam. - The Speaker, replying from the Chair, was subjected to continual interjections. He declared that he had always been careful to act in accordance with tho Standing Orders, and had always been jealous of the honour of the House, and anxious to do justice to all. ' In so far-as he had failed, it had been due to the frailty of human nature. When he concluded, he called on Mr Levien to reply. Several. Opposition members wished to speak, and when they were not permitted - to do so, they left the Chamber. The motion was defeated by S4 votes to 6, only two members of the Opposition Voting.