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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 277, 20 June 1868, Page 2

MR. DONNE AND THE PRESS. In the Provincial Council, on Wednesday last, the redoubtable Donne found friends to champion him, and Mr J. Kelling brought forward the following resolution : —" That in the opinion of this Council the language used in the Colonist newssaper on the 9th of the month now current, towards Mr Donne, a member of this Council, is deemed a breach of this Council's privileges, highly insulting to the member of the Grey district and the Council generally, and if permitted to pass unnoticed, would tend to check a free and full discussion of questions which may come before this Council." Mr Horne made an excellent speech in opposition. from which we are only able to give the following extract: —How an article of this sort can in the slightest degree interfere with the free discussion of this Council, passes my comprehension. (Hear, hear). lam not aware that there is one particle of the real business of the Council referred to in this article. There is nothing of the sort. (Hear, hear). If a member of this House chooses to go out of his way, screening himself under the supposed privileges of this House, and uses language which would not be allowed by any man out of doors ; he and those who sympathise with him (for I put his friends who support this motion along with him) are guilty of unwarranted attacks on private commercial character." The Council then divided with the following result: — Ayes, 7. Noes, 7. Mr Pitt Provincial Solicitor Mr C. Kelling Provincial Secretary Mr Wigley Mr Thompson Mr Donne Mr Horne Mr F. Kelling Mr Smith Mr Bentley Mr Simmond3 Mr Burn Mr Macmahon Declined to Yote- Messrs Redwood, Gibbs, Sparrow, Dreyer, Beitt, and Akersten. The votes being equal, the Speaker gave his casting vote in favor of the ayes, thus enabling Mr Donne to achieve a triumph.