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Parliament has an appropriate ceremony for almost anything that may occur. Then and there Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy, Speaker of the House, inflicted the official censure upon Laborite Sandham. Looking as dignified as anyone can under a woolly white wig with a black three- cornered hat balanced precariously on top, Speaker Fitzroy sat in his chair, faced the standing, embarrassed libelous Elijah, and intoned...
...contrary, Mr. Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy of the House of Commons sits not high upon a rostrum but low in his great oak-canopied Chair, facing an oblong room richly panelled. On his right rise the Government benches, on his left the Opposition. The members may recline at full length when the House is not too full. They may wear hats (must wear them when raising a point of order during a division), may not smoke, may not drink, may not address the House in any language except English...
...sedate Speaker of the House, Captain E. A. Fitzroy started under his wig: "The right honorable gentleman knows perfectly well he must not impute motives," he rapped...
Capt. Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, M. P., diligent soldier, former Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, now a grizzled, crop-lipped campaigner with 25 years' service in the Conservative ranks, was led last week to the Chair of the House of Commons. Solemnly following the ritual, Capt. Fitzroy made "formal gestures of protest,'' shook his head, thrust out his arms pleadingly. Then, still in ritual, he abandoned formal gestures, sat upon the chair, and became for the second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such...
...evening after Speaker Fitzroy was installed on his Chair, "Beefeaters" (Yeomen of the Guard) from the Tower of London marched through the cellars of Parliament. Carrying halberds and horn lanterns they poked in crannies, peered in corners. The purpose of this search was to look for Guy Fawkes, a gentleman who, one Nov. 4, tried to blow up Parliament, but who, to the comfort of present-day "Beefeaters," has been dead since...