On Monday the Volunteers Bill continued its stormy progress through
Committee. Mr. Wyndham succeeded, in spite of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's sudden conversion to the other side, in carrying Clause 1, which contains the diplomatic amendment of "imminent national danger" for "invasion." But the anxiety of the House to see the old basis of the Volunteers preserved compelled Mr. Wyndham to give an assurance that the Volunteers would not be 'ailed upon to take garrison duty simply to enable the Regulars to go on foreign expeditions." Consequently, he proposed to amend Clause 2, which allows a Volunteer to sub- ject himself to a liability to be called out for actual military service at any time in certain specified places in Great Britain, by inserting the words "for coast protection." With this reasonable amendment the Bill passed through Committee.
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