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Sternly Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy of the House of Commons demanded that Scot McGovern come to order. But he stood his ground: "It was no crime for those four good men to go out on the green and preach! I demand Justice...
...Speaker is not empowered to wring necks or have them wrung. It was 20 years last week since any Speaker had had anyone thrown out of the House (in 1911 the late Mr. Speaker Gully had some Irish nationalist M. P.'s ejected). Last week, as Mr. Speaker Fitzroy hesitated to make history, John McGovern taunted, "You don't have to tell me when to sit down! I sit down when I please...
...Speaker Fitzroy ignored the interruption, scratched his chin under...
Aghast, Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy, himself of Royal blood (i. e. of illegitimate Stuart descent as implied by his name Fitzroy or Son-of-a-King), warned Mr. Kirkwood that he would be severely dealt with...
...Fitzroy gulped, subsided...