Later in the sitting Mr. William Young returned to the
subject of Mr. Montague Meyer's timber purchases for the War Office. After Mr. Harold Baker had expressed the cont. plete satisfaction of the War Office with their bargain and with the quality of the timber, there was a general discussion, in the course of which Mr. Hope, a Unionist Member, declared that the payment of a commission of two and a half times as much as the custom of the trade was altogether wrong, and a supporter of the Government, Sir Henry Dalziel, used minatory language towards the Treasury Bench. He declared that Ministers would have to answer for other matters of a similar kind, "but far more important than the one now under consideration." Mr. Booth, Liberal Member for Pontefract, also declared that " one of the moat terrible scandals that had ever occurred in the history of the British Government was being investigated by the House."
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