| Show the house of commons london feb 18 quite a beccne was created in the house of commons today by john burns socialist member of the division of battersea and clapham the occasion was the debate of a proposal to erect a new ball tor the use of the london conaty council in the coliee ot the discussion mr burne himself a member of the county council made an attack upon the fall mall gazette which newspaper is owned by wm waldorf astor because of hie opposition to the proposal tho opposition of the paper to the erection of a new building on the site of the present one was purely in the interest ot mr astor whose bouse adjoined the council building in concluding his remarks mr burns said be could stand a decent duke or a militant maquis ma quis but be could not endure the miserable and ungentlemanly conduct of a new millionaire after further discussion the proposal to erect a new county council hall was rejected by a vote of to right lion joseph chamberlain secretary for state for the colonies in the course of the discus ioa of the claim made by the south african republic mr indemnity for damage sustained by the raid of dr jameson and bis followers into the transvaal said that atio boer government claimed for actual damage and for moral and intellectual damage this remark of the colonial secretary provoked great laughter |
