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Twice in three weeks has the hoary House of Commons been publicly outraged. No sooner had horrified Briton's gooseflesh subsided over Laborite John Beckett's "Rape of the Mace" (TIME, July 28) than the nation shuddered again. One Elijah Sandham, Liverpool Laborite, stood up in the House and said...
Abstemious Ramsay MacDonald demanded proofs, names. They were not forthcoming. The House, greatly relieved, voted 304 to 13 that Elijah Sandham, member for Kirkdale, Liverpool, had been "guilty of a breach of privilege and a gross libel upon the House," merited an official censure...
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...
...Elijah Sandham, member for Kirkdale, Liverpool, you have degraded the House of Commons publicly and in the eyes of the world...
...Guests"- Mr. Henry Sandham and Dr. Grinfield-Coxwell...