GOVERNMENT DEFEAT
NOT REGARDED AS VITAL.
(REUTERS TELEGRAM.) LONDON, 13th March. ' A Government motion to suspend the 11 o'clock rule, in the House of Commons, on the ground that business was behindhand, was defeated by 234 votes to 207.
The defeat is not regarded as vital, within the terms of the statement Mr. Eamsay Mac Donald lias made more than once, and Mr. Stephen Walsh, Minister of War, proceeded to introduce the Army Estimates.
Mr. J. R. Clynes explained that the course proposed was alternative to taking up private members' time. He admitted, in response to pressure, that an ex-Labour back bencher's motion to Teduce the personnel of trie Army by 130,000 would be debated after 11 o'clock. This evoked Conservative and Liberal protests, culminating ir.' a challenge and the division.
The only effecfof the defeat is that all the time available for private merabers^ will be occupied by the Government, m order to overtake the business that must be completed before 31st Alarcn.
A number of Liberals voted with the Government. Hence the announcement of the figures evoked an outrZ ° f .f5 "Slapi"' and Conservative ones of Resign!
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 15 March 1924, Page 7
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189GOVERNMENT DEFEAT Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 15 March 1924, Page 7
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