THE MARCONI INCIDENT.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13756, 23 June 1913, Page 5

THE MARCONI INCIDENT.

EXONERATION OF MINISTERS.

DETAILS OF THE DIVISION.

COMMENTS ON THE DEBATE

London, Juno 20.

During the debate on the Marconi Committee report, Sir Edward Grey, after referring t6 the imputations of dishonour and corruption so freely bandied about the country, concluded that whatever tho House did it was unable to right all tho wrong v, the Ministers concerned.

The majority of the Labour numbers voted for Sir William Adkints' nmandment, but Messrs Jowett, Snb*vdoa, Thorno, S- /Walsh, and O'Gra-l.y, cr.d nlso tho O'Brienites, abstained front voting. Messrs Martin, D. Mason, and Mun-ro-Ferguson (Liberals) voted «.;hh the minority. The amendment was afterwards put as the substantivo motion, and agreed to without the House dividing.

Leading Unionist papers deplore that the House did not rise above partisanship.

Tho "Daily Mail" says tho dobato should have ended when Sir Rufus Isaacs and Mr Lloyd George confessed their error and quitted tho House.

Somo Unionist papers regard Mr Bonar Law's rejection of Sir William Adkins compromise as a mistake.

"Tho Times" considers that mainly owing to Mr Asquith's and Mr Balfour's fine speeches tho House of Commons emerged from a very critical ordeal with more credit than seemed at one time probable.