Punch (93.1887)

July 16, 1887.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAEIVAEI. 23

ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

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THE DIAKY OF TOBY, M.P.

Souse of Commons, Monday Night, July 4.—Moor of House
strewed with crackers to-night, popping off unexpectedly as proceed-
ings advanced. Immediately after Questions, Abthur Baleottb

desperation. Gladstone had declared that he and his friends had not
been charged with conniving at Obstruction.

" If the charge has not been made," said Goschen, trying to edge
himself behind the plump figure of Old Morality, " it shall be made,
and I make it."

This brought up Habcoubt, who called Goschen " a deserter."
This did not add to general amity of proceedings. Opposition
cheered ; Conservatives howled; then, amid uproar, a voice was

brought up to whipping-pofct. For so clever a young man Abthub ; heard denouncing the conduct of Members_ of the Government as

has made serious mistake. Gave definite pledge upon certain clause
of Coercion Bill, then omitted to fulfil it, and finally, when challenged,
wriggled about and endeavoured to show that his remissness of no

" wanting in dignity and decorum." The voice spoke more in sorrow
than in anger. There was a tear in every syllable. It was
clear that, out of the fulness of a heart crushed with pain at wit-

P.M. PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW.

Fac-Simile of Sketch made by our Special Artist on the Field.

ttf°tioal consequence. House doesn't like wriggling. Nobody but nessing these unruly proceedings, the mouth spoke. The voice not
rmw?T*" KE oame to assistance of beleaguered Minister, and he was unfamiliar. All eyes turned to the quarter whence it proceeded

of vi fmen y put down by Speaker. Halley-Stewam, that child
cheerTf7' in fresl1 from sPaltiirjgr. Greeted with thunderous

fVM °m ^PP08^011 wn0 have plucked up spirits wonderfully,
armrn ^/^ity, in his oldest and most moral manner, moved to
opened 6 ren^a™'I1S time of House for Government business. Fire
Everv UP°n from all sides in protest against arrangement.
^ . ^an with a'Bill wanted day to bring it forward. Chaplin in
dptn'i gm en*manner joined in protest. Smith having replied in
beein ®eemed that the incident was closed. Bat in fact was only
allud"nm*f ^MITH bad greatly shocked Gladstone by incidentally
Hamp t8"tcL0PPosition as " entirely unparalleled in annals of Par-
raisedI fc- y1adst°ne, recalling some scenes between 1880 and 1885,
John M18 ands appealingly to 'igh 'taven against the statement,
to frn 't0:ei'?y dashed in with vigorous speech ; then Goschen came
-___™nt> wringing his hands and working himself up to height of

Who could it be that ihus addtd a final reproach to a guilty and
trembling Government ? Who, m accents trembling with convic-
tion and emotion, convicted it of ' lack of decorum and dignity ? "
It was Joseph Gillis !

Business done. — Government secured all remaining days of
Session.

Tuesday Night.-■" A bad Cass, a very bad Cass," murmured Old
Morality, moving uneasily on his seat. It was Seven 0'Clock Things
certainly looking very bad. At Question-time, Athebly- Jones who
had been watching the case for some time, asked the Home Secretary
whether he had made inquiry into the Regent Street affair, and if so,
what was the result r1 Home Secbetaey had, from the first,
blundered hopelessly. When first questioned peremptorily refused
to interfere. 1 hen Chambeblain interposed and backed up claim
for inquiry. Matthews with ludicrous baste knuckled down and