Imperial Politics.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 263, 10 May 1895, Page 2

Imperial Politics.

0 A SCENE IN THE HOUSE. LORD ROSEBERY REPROVES HIS PARTY. (Per Press Association). London, May 9. In the House of Commons the Bill to repeal the Irish Crimes Act was read a second time by a majority of fourteen. O'Donovan Rossa, who was in the gallery during the discussion, referring to Mr Harris's remarks on himself and previous speakers, cried " An assassin's blow is being given me in this House and a stain placed on my name." This remark caused quite a sensation among the members and also the officials, and the latter seized and rushed Rossa who was still shouting, from the precincts of the chamber, and ordered bim not to show his face thero again. The small majority by which the Bill to repeal the Irish Crimes Act was carried, ie attributed to a large number of Liberals abstaining from voting. Lord Rosebery, in the course of a speech, reproached the Liberal members for their action, thus magnifying the difficulties and breeding despondency among the party. The Government, he said, would continue till defeated, but the smallness of the majority ought not to ferment sulking in the ranks. The obstacle in the House of Lords was not the fault of the Government, but the Liberal Party which must bestir itself.