HC Deb 05 May 1892 vol 4 cc189-91
MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN

I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of calling attention to a question of urgent and public importance—namely, the restriction of trade and industry in respect to the unjustifiable refusal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to deal on equal terms, in regard to Crown Royalties, with persons engaged in the mining industry in this country.

*MR. SPEAKER

The hon. Member is not in order. He has this evening got a notice down traversing the Second Reading of a Bill on the Orders of the Day to the effect That, in the opinion of this House, no legislation will be satisfactory that does not deal fully with the administration of the Mines Royal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN

With the permission of the House I will withdraw the Motion.

*MR. SPEAKER

Order, order! The hon. Gentleman cannot do it.

MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN

Well, then, Mr. Speaker—

*MR. SPEAKER

The hon. Gentleman is not in order.

MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN

As a personal matter, I submit that the language used by the right hon. Gentleman towards me was not such as was right in coming from a right hon. Gentleman occupying the position of one of the administrators of the affairs of this country; and upon that ground, with your permission, I will move the Adjournment of the House for a personal explanation.

*MR. SPEAKER

The hon. Gentleman is not in order. He complains of an expression used by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and there is no doubt that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will render an explanation of the expression which has given the hon. Gentleman offence.

*MR. GOSCHEN

I understand that while I left the House for a moment the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydvil complained of some of the language used by me. I should be sorry to wound the feelings of any hon. Gentleman. I spoke of martyrdom, and I presume he does not object to the use of the word.

MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN

You have always been insolent to me ever since I have been a Member of this House.

*MR. SPEAKER

Order, order!

*MR. GOSCHEN

I spoke of martyrdom. (Cries of "Sordid.") Does the hon. Member object to that word? I presume, then, that the word he objects to is "sordid." While I did not apply that term to the hon. Member personally, I thought that the whole proceedings connected with an execution, the selling of an hon. Gentleman's goods, had a kind of sordid aspect. As, however, I do not wish even to seem to apply the expression to the hon. Member I readily withdraw it.