POLITICAL NOTES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11058, 21 September 1903, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

, (From Our Parliamentary Special).

(By Telegraph). f . WELLINGTON, September X2l.X 21.

; The Committee of the" whole House sat ; till 10 minuteß past 7 off Saturday morniing — the last six hours over the Railway Estimates.' When the Agricultural Department's business was. through, which the farmers of the House, who' are the strength of the Opposition, consider their special and treat accordingly, the Premier maddened them by proposing to add the Railways' to the list of business done, i This they resisted as a breach of faith, not' HMnl -HW "formidable task of maintaining their^ usual indictment against the : raanagfem6nV.& 'so late an hour as 1 a.m. i Being^foreed,. they indictedwith great vigour,.' and- the House got a#" the old arguments; about various iniauities in the matter of the much-discussed tions to open lines." Sir Joseph trapped himself in a rug, aritt enjoyed' theijr oratory , under a canopy of sleep,, and the railway officers waited in patience behind the, chair. Hour after .hour the ( indictment' proceeded in ten minute spells — four per "man per clause and • amendment, the men [being Sir W. Russell,' Jfessrs Massey, [, Herries, arid J. Allen for? the most, part, ['with occasional service % the less experienced members of thfe party. Gradually this devoted band weakened, came under an increasing pressure of yawn, got more and more wound up with the broken thread of discourse, and 'finally collapsed. The House went home dragging its feet in the morning sun. The general manager, .1 noticed, refreshed himself with his usual 'morning swim in the harbour— a 'thing 'he' never misses winter or .sumnier, and turned vp s afe his office at the usual hour ' as , fresh as paint.