19 MAY 1900, Page 3

The Extremists in the Italian Chamber appear determined to make

Parliamentary government impossible. The new rules of procedure invest the President with ample powers to prevent obstruction of the ordinary kind, but the Socialists and fanatic Radicals declare they will never obey them, and when any Motion is made arrest business by singing Revolutionary hymns. The President, instead of moving their expulsion, and, if necessary, disfranchisement by statute, adjourns the sitting, and when it recommences so does the disorder. According to the Times correspondent, the King has now authorised a Dissolution, but it is by no means certain that the disorderly will not all be returned. In that event direct and severe punishment for disorder must be resorted to, or the Constitution suspended.