SCENES IN PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 36

SCENES IN PARLIAMENT.

London, Alay 22. The House of Commons sat for 20 hours continuously in discussing tho Voluntary Schools Bili. There were some disorderly scenes, and several members woro expelled. London, May 23. Air Chaplin’s Agricultural Rating Bill has passed through Committee. Tho only obstruction offered to tho measure was that of a few Radicals and liish members. Air Lloyd-George, member for Carnarvon ; Air Lewis (Flint); Air Dillon, Leader of the Irish Party ; Dr Tanner (Cork), and Air D. Sullivan (Westmeath) were suspended for a week for defying the chair. Tho Sergeant-at-Arms removed Air Alichael Davitt, Mr James O’Connor, members for Wicklow West, and Air Alacaleeso (Alonaghan) for refusing to voto. The llouso lias adjourned until Ist June. Air Redmond accuses Air Dillon of opposing tho Rating Bill in order to wreck the Irish Land Bill. Ah Gladstone declines to intervene between tho Dissenters and the Irish Party.

Mr Gladstone, writing upon tho subject of the Voluntary Schools Bill and tho broach botween tho Nonconformists and the Irish Part}', blames the Irish members little, and the Dissenters more, but the Parnellites most of all.