On Tuesday, Lord Mao moved the adjournment of the House
over the Derby Day, pleading for a-holiday as a holiday after so laborious a Session, and also for an additional day on which the microbes of influenza might perhaps be disestab- lished by the disinfecting agencies applied. He was one of the few Members, he said, who had never seen the Derby run, and even if the motion was carried, he had no intention of going to see it run. He was to be opposed, he remarked, by some Members who, though conspicuous for their opposition to the motion, would also he conspicuous by their presence on the turf. He specially appealed to those who disapproved of racing to support his motion. He found that members of the County Council who disapproved of music-halls had availed themselves of managers' passes to visit music-halls for the purpose of finding arguments for their suppression, and, of course, especially those music-halls to which there was most ground of objection ; and. he thought that, in the same way, Members of Parliament who disapproved of racing might satisfy their consciences, and collect arguments against racing, by visiting the Derby.
Previous page
