subterfuges. " Could anything," he asked, " be conceived more
utterly at variance with every sentiment of gentlemanly honour and conduct" than a Member, when, "as a man of honour and a man of truth," he has withdrawn language used in the heat of debate, "writing to the newspapers next day to say his withdrawal was a sham and an empty formality, and that his expression of opinion remains unaltered, as if he had not, as a man of truth and honour, withdrawn it F " Lord Randolph Churchill concluded by moving that the letter was " a gross libel " on the Speaker, and that Mr. Conybeare be suspended for the rest of the Session. The Speaker, in referring to the events of the previous night, explained that he had allowed the Closure motion on the Bann Drainage Bill to be put because he understood that no Irish Member desired to speak on it, and Mr. Lea, an Irish Member and the repre- sentative of a district affected by the Bill, declared that he had moved the Closure because "when he saw the Bill being talked out and remembered the suffering tenants, it was enough to make their Member's blood boil with rage."
