[Enthusiastic cheering.
Second Mem. Then it is you who are infamous!
[Uproar.
The Speaker. Gentlemen, Ministers, do not force me to put on my hat—do not cause me to suspend the sitting.
First Mem. Surely a civil question deserves a civil answer?
Esquire Harcourt. Not in a nation that has bled on the field of battle.
[Roars of applause.
First Mem. (after a pause). And yet what I required to know was reasonable. I wished to know whether Esquire Harcourt proposed to name a popular Budget?
Esquire Harcourt. He repeats the calumny!
[Uproar.