24 JULY 1920, Page 13

[To nee EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] Sist,—Many of your

readers will share your indignation at the collapse of the Plumage Bill in consequence of the repeated failure to obtain a quorum. Why are not the defaulting members discharged under Standing Order 28? If members who are added to a standing committee deliberately abstain, the obvious way of meeting such a conspiracy is to discharge those members. To drop the Bill, the course followed by the Chairman of the Committee, is to give direct encouragement to