In The House Of Lords On Monday Lord Salisbury Moved
that Select Committee of both Houses should be appointed to inquire into the Honours scandal. The fact, he said, that " the swindlers who offered peerages and baronetcies" were......
On Monday The House Of Commons Also Debated The Honours
scandal. Mr. G. Locker-Lampson proposed that a Select Committee of both Houses should be appointed. Mr. Lloyd George said that the Government were quite prepared to assent to......
Lord Selborne Very Justly Criticized The Idea Of Limiting...
Commission to proposals for the future. It was necessary to know what the evil really was before it could be cured. The Duke of Northumberland also demanded an inquiry into the......
He Then Affirmed His Own Ignorance Of Anything In The
nature of money transactions. " There is no Prime Minister, either of to-day or in the past, who has any knowledge, when names are submitted, as to who has contributed to the......
The Lord Chancellor Admitted That The Matter Was One That
specially concerned the dignity and authority of the House of Lords. He rejected Lord Salisbury's view that a party sub- scription should be treated as an absolutely irrelevant......
News Of The Week
• N OT much news has been coming through from Ireland. Something like a veil has been drawn over the principal operations at Limerick, but we suppose that it will be lifted very......
A Particularly Interesting Point In The Statement Is That...
deals with the reports of an attempt between certain sections of the irregulars and of the Free State forces to come together and patch up a truce. Mr. Collins, we are glad to......
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