SCENE IN PARLIAMENT
NORTHERN IRELAND HOUSE POLICEMEN CALLED IN BELFAST, Dee. 4. Amid uproarious scenes, eight members of the Opposition, leaving only two, withdrew, or were ejected, from the Northern Ireland House of Commons as the result of a protest against the Representation of the People Bill, conferring suffrage on women over 21 years of age. Mr Cahir Healy (Nationalist), when t( named,” declined to leave, and defied the sergeant-at-arms, but wenr quetly at the request of police who were called in by the deputy-Spcaker, Mr Moles. Mr Beattie McMullen shouted: “It is a scandal. If you put me out you’ll have to put out the whole damned lot.” He invited the deputy-Spcaker to eject him, and when Mr Moles declined Mr McMullen bellowed: ‘There will be no business done until I am put out.” He was suspended and ordered to leave. He declined, but left when the police entered for the third time.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 8
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