On Monday night, the Closure was applied four times, bat
with- out really finishing even the second clause of the Bill, as Mr. W. H. Smith bad to consent to postpone the fifth sub-section to the report, and to strike it out for the present. Dr. Tanner was twice called to order,—once for calling the Tory Members "damned cowards," and once for interrupting Mr. G. Balfour with a request to him " to swallow " some remark which he had made. Mr. Courtney extracted a withdrawal in the first instance, and an affirmative answer to his question whether he (Dr.Tanner) apologised in the second instance, but nothing like a genuine apology. Dr. Tanner's conduct seems to us to have been during the Session so uniformly and deliberately insolent to the House, that we cannot understand the almost immoral and demoralising patience with which that conduct has been treated.
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