Show GREAT SPEAKER the british house of commons the other day reelected elected re james W lowther speaker and for on indeterminate period the right honorable gentleman will preside over the lower branch of the V mother of parliaments as does undo uncle joe cannon I 1 at washington but the right hon jomes W lowther follows a different system from that of the speaker of p the house of representatives at the capital of the united states nobody ever calls the beitl british h speaker a czar a term that has been applied V p to american speakers nono none of the members of 1 I 1 the house of commons ever gets into an argument N 1 1 with the speaker there te Is no fight against V I 1 his rules 41 20 prior to his election speaker lowther had been as keen a partisan as anybody but when ho he became speaker he became politically dense he had not and must not have a political opinion so far as party politics Is concerned he know anything the emoluments of the speaker of the british house of commons are a year an official residence a year toward its equipment a web of broadcloth every christmas and a buck and a doe each year from the master of buck bounds hounds when the speaker wants to retire from office he gots a pension of a year |