Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — House of Commons Debates. [ARTICLE]

House of Commons Debates.

Old members of the house of commons are usually of the opinion that the debates, compared with twenty or thirty years ago, are now more businesslike and less oratorical than they were. Some welcome the change and, rejoicing in the greater efficiency of the house as a governing assembly, praise the conversational style of speaking now so much in vogue as less stilted than the old. Others, regretting the loss of the picturesque, distressed that the house should be less attractive as a show, condemn the new manner as more slipshod. There is agreement that the average member takes less trouble with the form and phrasing of his speeches.—London Spectator. Bead The Democrat for news.