The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1914. RUSHING THINGS THROUGH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 4 November 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1914. RUSHING THINGS THROUGH.

The haste to wind up the session which is being shown causes Wellington’s Evening Post to exclaim: Was there ever a session of any Parliament which did not end with a wild rush? Always the press has pointed in vain to the peculiar inverted order of pro-j cedure by which politicians fresh from the recess are loth to Work, - and when they are tired the wheels of the Bill machinery are driven at a high speed. They seem to have more than the average share of perversity. When they should bo legislating they are talking incessantly, .and when they should 1)0 speaking intelligently on Bills they are sweeping them through the mill in a manner to amaze the unsophisticated. The phrase “legislation by exhaustion” was correctly >applied to the sessions of Mr Soddon. Of course, he accused the Opposition of delaying business, but usually he himself was chiefly responsible for the closing helter-skelter, because he habitually reserved numbers of largo Bills (or the important stages of them) for the final hurry-scurry. That regime was improved by Sir Joseph Ward, and' further reformed by Mr Massey. Thej Opposition cannot complain this year that big Bills have been held back till members have become weary in mind .apd body and eager to return home. “No Opposition,” the Post concludes, “in this country was ever treated as' fairly in this respect as Sir Jospphj Ward’s party, has been, the blame for] the prespM congestion of business can-1 not be put fairly on the Government,”