THE ROW IN THE COMMONS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4300, 8 March 1901, Page 5

THE ROW IN THE COMMONS

DRASTIC PUNISHMENT : DEMANDED. * LONDON, March 6. The newspapers demand drastic punishment of tlie Nationalists who created the scene in the Commons for the gross and inexcusable insult of the House. The refusal ,of the. Nationalists to allow a division to be taken in the House of Commons was based on the contention that the closure was intended to facilitate a vote on account of seven, teen millions without discussion of Irish questions. (Received March 7, 11.37 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. The scene at midnight in'the House of Commons scandalised the great majority of the members, including the Radicals. The education vote, which caused the scene, passed unchallenged. . t Of the ejected .members, Mir Patrick White, member for‘North Meath, was carried out in the fashion of the frog’s march, but face upwards. The removal of, Captain- A,. J. Donelan, membeir for Cork East, was .accompanied by boisterous: ; demonstrations, hjs colleagues chanting seditious songs.

Mr M. J.’Flavin,iM,P.' for; North 'Kcrry, who is a giant in stature, and was the ringleader in the scene, was carried out last, his captors each hanging on to a limb.

“Freeman’s Journal,” commenting ou the scene, says: “Weat last have got a party able to teach Parliament that the curtailment of Irish’ privileges- will involve the sacrifice of the Parliament’s own character and privileges.” ' The “Irish Times” states that the Nationalists, despairing of monetary support in London, are meditating a mendicant pilgrimage to the Land of the Dollars.