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...Heard Premier Baldwin admit in the course of debate that Laborite Prohibitionist Dr. Alfred Salter was very nearly correct when he declared that many Right Honorable Members are habitual drunkards (TIME...
...Defeated, 247 to 95, a motion to refer Dr. Salter's charges to the Committee on Privileges, which would have meant an individual investigation of the alleged Right Honorable drunkards...
...Finally passed a motion of censure upon Dr. Salter for committing "gross libel on the members of the House and a gross breach of privilege...
While referendums on the Prohibition question and adept attempts at straddling the issue have been the order of the day in this country. England, still free, is having alcoholic disorders, symptomatic of deeper troubles, higher up in her system of government. The Laborite Doctor Salter brought down the House upon his head when he made the statement that Bacchus had a considerable and enthusiastic following in the House of Commons--recruited for the most part from the Conservatives, whose strength thereby was rather increased than diminished. To make matters even worse, the disturbing Doctor, upon suffering a severe rebuke, seemed...
...although all the members of Parliament were not associated with the Anti-Saloon League, at least the House should not let a breath of the affair get outside. It is quite a pity that with all the strength on his side, as shown by the House's vote against Salter, the Premier could not have shown more spirit in the matter either by declaring himself in favor of a cleaner Commons or of a strict laisser-faire policy in regard to the personal rights of the Members of Parliament. Instead, he merely decried the fact that news of the existing...