THE SPEAKER INSULTED.
SCENE IN THE COMMONS. A MEMBER SUSPENDED. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, February 20. The House of Commons considered the action of Mr L. Ginnell, the Nationalist member for West Meath North, who accused the Speaker (Hon. J. W. Lowther) of unfairness, and of Mr J. C. Wedgwood (member for Newcastle-on-Tyne), who denounced the Speaker as impartial and as being a deadly enemy of land taxation. On the subject beider mentioned, Mr Wedgwood withdrew his statements, and offered ample apology which the House accepted. Mr Ginnell apologised to Mr Wedgwood for publishing a personal letter, and renewed his protest that members were not allowed to speak unless their names were banded to the Speaker on lists supplied by Party Whips. ■ The Speaker repiled that these lists were nob binding. The House resolved that the, publication of Mr Wedgwood’s letter was a grave breach of the privileges of the House. Mr Asquith moved that Mr Ginnell be suspended for a week if he did not apologise to the Speaker. The motion was carried ; the Laborites and Nationalists dissenting.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1911, Page 6
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