© THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SAWURDAY. AP RIL 18, 1908. i PAGE FIFTEEN CAVADKS PARLIAMENT THE PROCESSION INTO THE COMMONS Is Headed By . the Sergeant-at- Arms, Lieut -Col. H. BR. Smith, of Kingston--Some About the Speaker. Froderich Hamilton Fast ny €, West. i you happen mons lobby at three o« afternoon of house is sitting, you protession It leaves apartmenty--the door one commer of the lobby- arid straight ta the commons chamber In front stalks arms, in his black sword at his side, and the mace upon his shoulder. Then comes My. Speaker, in flowin : with thrée-corned cocked hat upon his head Behind him, also in black gowns, are the clerk and' assistant clerk. The attendants springito at tention; persons who are in the way are imperiously wgaed 10 one side; the procession stalks Z with an air tha says it will swerve for no man. Unc inside the chamber, the speaker is in the chair, the house is sitting, aml go unauthorized persons may upon the floor. Just about five hundred vears history are behind the litte proces sion which vou mav see five dave out of the week in session time The first speaker of whom we have record, was elected in 1376, in the good parlia- ment. There was trouble in England: Fdward 11] had iallen upon evil days, mis-govérnment was rife, and bad fa- vorites were despoiling the jand. The peo we were getting angry n- ey and the summoning of parlia to be in the com- the the « in lo a day on which the speaker to which mov entrance wmio behind the chair the sergeant court suit, ponderous at his ¢ black gown, be very ment, in the language of a oreat his- | torian, "marked the climax ol a long-rising excitement What the good parliament did in the way of sending the bad [avorites packing, peed not detain us; the way it about its work is important The noblemen went apart chamber, the commons The commons felt it necessary some very plain things to the went into their into theirs to king shout' kils advisers; some one had to | do the necessary talking; and so they selected a foreman, a prolocutor they | called him, at first, also a "vant patlor' or "commune parlor," as French was then the language of the ruling classes, The foreman they chose was Sir Peter de la Mare, a knight who came from Herefordshire. Alter it had heen settled what the commons thought about things, they waited on the King's refwesentatives, and this first speaker delivered a speech of terrifying boldpesy. lie said, among other things, that all the troubles of the realm were due te the bad advice given by the verv men exceedingly powerful men, too -- to whom thus speech was directed. It took good stull to do that sort of work; Sir Peter was Hung into prison when parlinment had dispersed. How- ever; he eame out ageinethe city of London got up a riot on his account ~anl was cliosen speaker of another parliament which sav in 1397, and did some good work. Gradually the commons learned to transact their business. For a erent many years--several hundred years, in fact--the speaker was the leader of the house in a very real sense" He had two sets of duties; he had to manage the business of the house, and he had to speak on its behalf to the king- Inthe house, he would explain each bill when it was introduced and guide the discussion, as well as maintain order, When the house had to trans: act business with the monarch, it was Me. Speaker who went to him. In the house, his power was enormous. "This Was the state of affairs for a long time: Then the speaker's rela tions with the sovereign underwent a ovurious change. Queen Elizabeth and hor masterful father, who were the most absolute rulers Fagland has ever had, were very skilful, as well as very determined, in having their own way, and they managed very neatly by taking core the speaker was safely on their side. ln a way, the speaker was a royal officer, who led the commons, anid saw that the lower house was not too independent: But in the reign of Charles I, this suddenly changed, and the speaker once more became the champion of the house against the king. Com- paratively, early in the long quarrel between the king and the parliament, the speaker was a royalist. In 1629, when the house passed the famous re solutions against Roman Catholicism dil unconstitutional taxes like tom- nage and poundage, the speaker, Sir John Finch, tried to leave the chair, so a8 to stop the sitting, and was held in the chair by 'force, while the resolutions were carried. Later, in 1642, when Charles paid his memor- able visit to the commons, to seize the five members, he asked Speaker Lenthall where they were, and the speaker, although a royalist, made "his famous veply that be had neither eve to see, nor tongue to speak, save as the house commnnddd. For a great many years, the speak- i i He was the ers. But, within the last two hundred has come. Io ; : Flizabeih King Charles, the ministers, the t : of state, who manage the 's business, ~wer¢ not mem- the House of Copwnons. The of Commons and the House of between them made the laws conn House Facts} 3 nd} will see a little | the | te of | say | and voted the money; certain officersof state, whe calug 10 be call- of ministers, ed to ine hus 4 {of the ceunvy, ar the honey § whic h the caanmons supplied. 11 the ffouse of Commons did pot like the ministers, its only way of getting nd to refuse to vole MONEY, thing to the whole while 1 pitend jol then was ; {but this was a very serious stopping country, { do, for. it meant | business of the | sets of them settled their quarrel. i his state of aliairs was ended in a urious way; the munstiers became members of parliament. Some of them {were lords; clhers held seats | House ol Commons. In time, ame the practice that oo man could ¢ a minister unless he a nem er of one house or the other 1 hen, t became the practice that so maa ould remain in office as a mimster, less the house approved. The minis- ws really became @& commitiee of | partiament, and kept their othees only {when the Mouse of Communi favored | them. i Along | grew up. lon the face { ter should be a {other minister. | ministers often e two i l in the it be wore : i i with this, another change I here is no especial reason of things, why ote mins pohtical friend of an- in the old days the were bitter enemies, and this often is the casé to-day in {foreign countries, such as Russia. But, in England, the practice grew up of having the ministers all of one { party, und all in accord. With this { camie the habit of having one as the chief, or fast, or prime minister, who { became the sovereigns adviser in a { mote especial manner than the others. 1 Lider the new set of circumstances, {it became part of the business of tha | ministry 10 manage the House of | Commons; lor one adverse vote by {the house would mean that they { would alt be ouvliged to resign. A | minister, ~the prime minster if he | a member of the commons-- be selected to "lead" the house. When the government would bring in bills, he, or the minister | most interested, would explain the | pille--gust as the speaker was wont to do three or four hundred years be- {fore. As things now are, the first | minister, who is the leader of the | house--usually the premier--is the real | chief of the house, not the speaker. | He decides what government business | shall be brought in; be decides when {to adiourn; he directs its course. fhis meant a great change in the became a | were would | position of the speaker. He sort of vhairman of the house. Hence- {forth his task has been to see the de- conducted fairly, and little He is very highly respected, good order of the house de- his fairness, and firmness, But he no longer 1s ol bates | more. {and the { pends on {and good sense, | the head of the house as he was | old. J : Y | A curious thing is, that the speaser lof the English House of Commons Was officially recognized as "first common- © at the very time when it was er," 2 ministers should sit in settled that the the first commoner was really the he leader of minister who was t commaon®. Thus the speaker is not auite the great personage he was two or three hundred years ago. la Canada we change our speaker every parliament. That i net - done in Great Britain. The practice there is to select a suit- able man as speaker, and then to elect him for parliament after parlia- went, as long as his health continues. When he retires, he goes to the House of Lords, with a pension. One speak: er, My. Ouslow, kept the post for thirtusghree years. Speaker Brand pre- sided for twelvé years; Speaker Deni son for filtean; Speaker Shaw-Lefevre for eighteen; Speaker Peel for eleven, and Speaker Gully for eleven years. A curious thing was that Mr, Lowther, the present speaker, was the first conservative {o occupy that post in seventy years; it so happened that, every time the speakership fell vacant, the liberals were in power and select od a liberal. On coming into power thes conservatives would re-elect the liberal speaker. This came into no- tiee in a very marked manner not long ago. In 1895 it became netes sary to select a vew speaker. The Hiberal government of the dav Lord Rosebery 3, was oxcesdingly weak, aud it was driven from offiee a very short time afterwards. The liberals put up Mr. Gully; the comservatives put up a member on their side; when they were heaten by a very narrow majority, the conservatives gave notice that if they 'won the approaching elections they would displace Mr. Gully. They won: smd Mr. Gully was re-elected. The member who proposed him was the member who had nominated his opponent a year before. And when the hberalds won the last election they re-elected Myr. Lowther, who had sue ceeded Mr. Gully in 1906. Our Canadian parliament does not do this, but elects a new speaker with each change of government. Some day we may adopt the custom of the Eng~ lish house, Have It In The House. in your house worth so much White Liniment. If will enable to escape the discomfort of sprains bruises, sweliings, neuralgia, matism and the various aches pains' apt to come to any one. "hut 2c. for a big bottle at you and Costs great | parliament, so that the man who was | There is nothing else you can have that costs so little as a bottle of Smith's rheu- Wade's A MAGNIFICENT PLACE. Sir Novel. 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