THE HOUSE IMPRESSED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 144, 20 June 1913, Page 5

THE HOUSE IMPRESSED.

SIR RUFUS ISAACS'S ANGUISH

THE PRESS COMMENTS

i f (Received June 20, 0.10 a.m.) , j LONDON, June 19. ' Sir Rufus Isaacs's manly tone impressed the House. He spoke with a deal of emotion, aJtid made frequent , dramatic gestures, especially when ; describing the spread of the rumors, and the hateful feeling that men were , pursuing him in the lobby, the streets, ! and the courts. j "1 could hear the pointing of the I finger as I passed," he exclaimed. ■ Sir Rufus's look was eloquently ex- ! pressive of the anguish caused by the slander. Mr Lloyd George's specific admission regarding the investments was equally frank. His closing personal appeal to the whole House was ' delivered with great eloquence, finely phrased and highly charged with emoj tio-1. ■ Previously the Liberals made warm demonstrations at intervals during both speeches, and when Sir Rufus '- Isaacs and Mr Lloyd George retired, i the Ministerialists, rising in a body, i cheered again and again. J The Daily Mail, reviewing the debate, says it would not have been surj prised had Mr Cave's resolution been withdrawn. The paper adds that the standard of public duty maintained, and the principle for which the ■ debate was initiated, have been fully vindicated. The Times says: "Neither Minister seems to understand how his conduct will strike a public man. For being splashed with mud he would be commiserated, but if he steps easily into an avoidable puddle we say it is his own fault. If he.says .he did not know it was a puddle we say that he ought to have' known better, but if he says after all it was quite a clean puddle we judge him deficient in a ! sense of cleanliness. Ministers, of course, had no corrupt intention, but the public will look at facts and not motives."