Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1913 — Parliamentary Suspension. [ARTICLE]

Parliamentary Suspension.

Sir Henry Lucy drops a hint from the “Cross Benches” in the Observer as to the “suspension” of members of the house —and the vagueness of the penalty. Can it be true that members get themselves named and suspended get themselves named and suspended on purpose to achieve a compulsory holiday? Eight pounds a week will make for modest comfort at Brighton or Eastbourne. The member of parliament is paid whether he is in the house or at Margate or in the Clock Tower. Budapest has a more drastic way. If the member is suspended he is fined 16 shillings a day. That teaches him to behave. Now that we pay our representatives we might make payment conditional on their representing us in the proper place.— London Cl^-onlcle.