In the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Balfour moved
the vote of £30,000 to Lord Kitchener. He was followed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who told the old story out of Punch of the little girl whose mother said of swearing : "It is worse than wicked, it's vulgar ; " and added : " I believe that that is an illustration exactly of the sort of feeling with which we regard what has happened on this occasion as far as we understand it." He ended, however, by stating that this view of the treatment of the Mandi's remains must not be set against Lord Kitchener's great labours and services, and he ended by the declaration : "I see in neither of the criticisms which have been applied to this vote anything of such pro- portion or gravity as can be set against the undoubted claim of Lord Kitchener to our grateful recognition ; and therefore I shall support, and cordially support, the vote before the Committee."
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