Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — Pairing in Parliament. [ARTICLE]

Pairing in Parliament.

The custom of pairing is quite unknown to the forms of parliament itself. Any mention of it within either chamber would be altogether out of order, but there is a pleasant fiction that it is a purely private arrangement to be made at the discretion of those concerned.- This is true enough to a lindted extent and for a short time, but pairing on any great party division cannot be lightly carried out, and a member who desires to pair at such a time will find that this can only be done safely through the whips and not at all unless' some really good reason can be given for absence.—London Times. T, ~ W