The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 18 Feb 1931, p. 1

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> C ; ' % s 1# '\:":t ;x"' «5 V\A v. h Mr. Speaker Shudders I c % » les Brok -- As House Rules Broken, ve_izzzzaaaazizal e 'for Toronto--Woodbine, took the prize | # '., and brought roars of laughter from the Unconscious Errors in Hnuts hC m beunding -- thele i . desks in hearty appreciation of his fdr ?Ac e d u r e Chma;( unique procedure. im Three times Cartoonist Shields rose < l,d Laughter, by to introduce bills. Three times he said: Cartoomst--Member Movy--| "Mr. Spsaker, moved by myself, sec-- * * ' onded by myself, I beg leave to intro-- ing and Seconding ThreQ auce, ctc." | i \ The Clerk of the House, who is a Bl"S He Introduces stickler for procedure and author of WWe wiiibiiie on oc es aaerircecs the House's official book on that in-- y h tricate subject, probably will have a There were so many minor breaches| sof; word of advice to whisper in the of the rules of Parliamentary procedure| aars nf nffendine members tomorrow. in the Legislature before the orders of the day yesterday afternoon that the greying head of the genial Clerk-- Major Alex. Lewis--almost turned snow white in ten minutes. First, when motions were called, a back--bencher thought the Speaker meant introduction of bills, and im-- mediately jumped to his feet. 'The amiable Speaker, Hon. T. A. Kidd, so much dislikes to discipline a member who makes an unconscious error that . * he let the matter slide, and so didl Premier Henry, who was halfway to| his feet when interrupted. . To make it worse, the same member | * read two bills at one time. Another{ member did the same thing, and still | others blithely disregarded the tradi--; tional wording which procedure insists | be used in introducing new measures | for first reading. Still anosther mem-- | 'b'flr was too hasty in rising to move a| ~~ bill and seriously annoyed the geonial | Major, who was interrupted in suavclyi completing the time--tested ritual. | > But George T. Shields, the ubiquitous | cnd prrambulating cartoonist--memher C 'on Doom A hing ? oenvention DPoom Approaching : @ % Sinclair Suggests to Henry Is it the destiny of three honor Hon. Arthur Meighen. So did I. graduates of the class of '96, Uni-- i Vlve Wet"egsan hgnordg;ad't'b":- hThe a 5 class of '96 produced front--benchers. versity of Toronto, to '\\m pohtic'al The _ Tory Party ferminated renown on the hustings and in Meighen's public career. The Lib-- legislative halls, cnly to meet with erai Party torminated mine. The reverses at party conventions? |\ Premier remains to face his con-- The idea was suggested by Wil-- | vention sonn. He is of the ill--fated liam E. N. Sinclair in the Legisla-- | class of '96." ture yesterday. | Then the leader of the Opposi-- "I have known Premior Henry ' tion directed a plea to the Premier: for nearly 40 years," he said. "He "For the sake of our class, get graduated from the University of busy and do not make it three out Toronio in 1896. So did Right --all out."

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