SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
MEMBERS RESORT TO VIOLENCE.
POLICEMEN CALLED IN TO RESTORE ORDER.
(Received March 6, 10.50 p.m.) LONDON, March 6,
In tho House of Commons, at midnight. during the debate on the Education vote, sixteen Nationalist members refused to vote on the motion to apply the closure, and wore suspended, but declined to leave the House.
The Sergeant-at-Arms called in the police, and a free fight ensued over Sir Eugene Grean, member for the Southeast division of Cork, and Lord Mayor of Cork city, who was the first member ordered to be quiet._ Tho others helping him, it took six policemen five minutes to carry out Sir Eugene Orean amidst struggling, _ yells and cheers, several members singing “God Save Ireland." Most of the others resisted and struggled in a similar manner.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4299, 7 March 1901, Page 5
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