HOT WORDS

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3998, 12 April 1933, Page 8

HOT WORDS

TWO LEGAL LUMINARIES IX THE FREER. HOUSE STROXO LANGUAGE (Aust. and N.Z. Cable.) (Received April 12, 2 p.m.) London, April 1.1 There were some heated passages in the House of Lords Between Lord Halsbury and Lord Hnilsliam before 1 lie House approved of the names of the members from the Upper House for the joint committee on India. Lord Halsbury declared that the views of the committeemen were known beforehand. and there was hound to lit' a Government. majority. Lord Hnilsliam replied that Lord Halslmry’s attack was an insult, to the Government and to members of ibe committee. Nobody else believed for a moment that the (Government would in any way trick the House. He added : '‘Lord Halsbury seems to have brought the Traditions of low class attorneys into the atmosphere of the House of Lords.” Lord Hailsburv: “I will not withdraw a word. Tricks have been adopted bv the Government, riot by me. It has deliberately chosen a committee on which n majorit- for its policy would he a certainty.” The Government’s motion was carried hy 65 votes to 13.