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C hronicle of th e W e ek : Page

Imperial Parliament : The Land Rating Bill— An A ll-N ight S itting : Scenes— Previous A ll-N ight Sittings— More Revelations From. Pretoria— The Outlook in South Africa — Mr. Chamberlain and South Africa— Trouble in Crete— The Uganda Railw ay— The Suez Canal — The Decline of Wheat Growing— The Coming Total Solar Eclipse — A C ity of Six Millions— The Coronation of the Tsar— The Disaster at St. Louis — Cycle Race from Bordeaux to Paris . . . . ......................... 837 L e a d e r s :

The Canadian Bishops and the

Education C risis.. . . . . 841 Conference o f Catholic Head-

Masters on Secondary Education . . . . . . . . . . 842 Penalty of Isolation in Education 843 The Eastern Churches in Union

With the Holy See . . . . 845

CONTENTS.

N o t e s . . R e v ie w s :

Pace • 847

Captain Younghusband’s Travels 848 The Expositor’s Bible . . . . 849 Outlines of Dogmatic Theology.. 850 The Apostle of the Indies . . 850 A Story of Three Parrots.. . . 851 Lives of the Saints . . . . . . 851 A Ride in the Red H o o d . . . . 851 Books o f the W e e k . . _ . . 851 “ Ex-M onk” Widdows at Sitting-

bourne . . . . . . . . 851 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . ... . . — 853 News from Ireland ... . . » 854 News From Frajice . . . . 855 Throwing the Discus at the Olympic

Games . . . . . . . . 856 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

“ The Modern Goth ” . . . . 857 The Second National Eucharistic

Congress in Spain . . . . 857

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con­

Page tinued) : English Freemasonry . . . . 857 Annual Conference of Catholic

Guardians.. . . . . . . 858 The Late Mr. Henry Bacchus ^. . 858 Dean Fremantle and Anglicanism 858 Father Ignatius and Dean Fre­

mantle w n a 858

The Amendments to the Education

B i l l ........................._ . . . . 859 Father Black and Marriage . . 860 Catholic Truth Society . . . . 86r Old Catholicism ......................... 862 Solutore Zola . . . . . . . . 863 In the CorkW oods . . . . . . 863 The Anglican Archbishops and the

Education Bill . . . . . . 864 Blessing of Bells at Port-of-Spain,

Trinidad . . . . . . . . 864 The “ Essentials ” o f Reunion Work 866 F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . ... . . 866 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . 866

S U P P L EM E N T . Page N ew s from t h e S c h o o l s :

Catholic Education Leaflets . . 869 Bradford School Board and the

Education Bill . . . . . . 869 The Denominational Question in

Manitoba . . . . . . . . 870 Sir John Fitch . . . . . . 870 Warned Schools . . . . . . 870 The Needs o f Small Schools . . 871 Parliamentary Intelligence . . 871 The Schoolmaster o f the Brontes 872 St. Ignatius’s, Stampford Hill,

London, N . . . _. . . . 872 Success of an Old Oscotian . . 872 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s : Westminster . . . . . . 872

Southwark . . . . . . ... 872 L i v e r p o o l .................................... 873 N o ttin gham .. . . . . . . 873 The Vicariate . - . . . . 873 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 874 Glasgow ....................... ... 874

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

THE LAND RATING BILL.

TH E beginning of the end of the Agricultural Land Rating Bill opened on Thursday in last week. As we pointed out, the

Government were determined if possible to complete the Committee stage of the Bill before the House adjourned for the Whitsuntide holidays. Preparations for a prolonged sitting were made, and Mr. Balfour had on the day before given notice that he would move the suspension of the twelve o’clock rule. Accordingly, after question time on Thursday, the motion was put by the Leader of the House, and thus the decks were cleared for a long night struggle. Then the House went into Committee and resumed the discussion on Clause 2, which provides for the payment out o f the local taxation account in respect of the deficiency arising from the exemption granted under Clause 1. Mr. Lloyd-George moved a drafting amendment that the amount to be paid should be described as paid to make up the “ difference,” and not the “ deficiency” in the rates. There was also the difficulty that would arise from the variations of rise and fall in the deficiency. The proposed payment would sometimes be too much, and sometimes too little. In the end the matter was shelved by a promise from Mr. Chaplin that it should be dealt with on Report. The amendment was then withdrawn, and Mr. LloydGeorge next made an attempt to limit the sum to be paid into the Local Taxation Account in respect to the deficiency, which gave rise to a discussion which the House closured on the motion of Mr. Balfour. Sir William Harcourt’s proposal, on behalf o f Sir Henry Fowler, to omit SubSection 3, which provided that the Inland Revenue Commissioners should pay as the Treasury directed the amount of the local grant to the Local Taxation Account out of the proceeds of the estate duty derived in England from personal property, and which he denounced as “ highway robbery,” provoked considerable discussion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer defended the Government proposal on the ground that the Bill was only of a temporary nature. He afterwards moved the Closure, but this was found to be unnecessary as the debate was exhausted and the amendment was rejected by 180 votes to 91. A t midnight, when on ordinary nights debate is compulsorily closed, there were still seven clauses to be discussed and four pages o f amendments on the paper.

Though the principle and details of AN the Bill had been thoroughly threshed scenes. out before even the sitting began, the

Opposition elected to persist in what can be described as nothing else but a policy o f obstruction. It would be tedious to follow the debate from amendment to amendment and from one division to another. In the small hours Mr. Chaplin moved that the question that Clause 4 o f the Bill should stand should be put. A point of order was raised, and on the House being cleared for a division twenty members refused to leave their seats and go into the lobby. The Speaker was called in, and the Chairman mentioned the names of Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. H. Lewis, Mr. Dillon, and Dr. Tanner, among the disQbedient members. In reply to the Speaker they acknowledged their refusal to obey the Chair, and Mr. Donal Sullivan stated that he also had disobeyed the Chairman’s order. The Speaker then named the five members in question for defying the Chair and for disorderly conduct, and Mr. Balfour moved their suspension from the service o f the House. Then Mr. Macaleese and Mr. Davitt refused to rise and vote. The Sergeant-at-Arms was ordered by the Speaker to remove them, but considering that discretion was the better part of valour, they both rose and went into the lobby. Later in the morning, on Sir W. Harcourt’s motion that Progress should be reported being closured by Mr. Balfour, Mr. James O ’Connor declined to go into the lobby and was accordingly promptly removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms. In spite of the friction thus caused, the discussion of amendments and the divisions continued, and gradually an air of good humour began to prevail. Dr. Clark complained of the want o f a bath and breakfast, and moved that Progress should be reported. There were still two Clauses to be discussed, and Mr. Balfour, in the blithest o f moods, whilst assuring the honourable member o f his entire sympathy, stated that the best thing to do was to go on and finish the Bill, and so gain four days’ holiday. He had in happier circumstances formed plans for the day in regard to non-controversial business, but these he would willingly relinquish, and limit himself to the motion for adjournment if the Committee would consent to deal with the remaining Clauses. The motion was therefore withdrawn, and at last, after a sitting of 2 2 ^ hours, during which 36 divisions were taken and nearly 10 hours spent

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