If Mr. G. means business the sooner he gets about it the better.
Swift MacNeill refuses to be named.
Business done.—None.
Friday.—Mr. G. does mean business. Commences on Monday, when Motion will be made to close Report Stage of Home-Rule Bill. Mere reference to it set House bubbling with excitement. Mr. G.'s proposed Resolution not yet drafted. "You know how it is," he said, smiling blandly at Prince Arthur; "you've had a good deal of experience in drawing Resolutions of this nature." But if Ministers not ready with their Resolution, Joseph prepared with Amendment. Read it out amid lively interruption.
Conversation later conducted with much vigour across the Gangway, where, a fortnight ago, Gunter received an Irish Member (not iced) full in pit of stomach. Once the Blameless Bartley signalled out Member for South Donegal, mentioning him by name as responsible for particular exclamations. "Don't presume to mention my name," said MacNeill, leaning across gangway.
"Look here, Bartley," said Tommy Bowles, "if you're going on that tack, you must come and sit at this side. When I saw MacNeill open his mouth to speak, I confess I thought I was going to be swallowed whole. You sit here; there's more of you."
Business done.—Notice given that business is about to commence.
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