Parliament's Week

The Lords:

Grumbled because they could not even watch the Indian Round Table Conference, held in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords from the balcony of that hall. Reason: the haughty Indian princes would not stomach that any spectator, even a peer of the realm, should sit on a higher level than themselves.

The Commons:

Empowered the Government to insure for $22,000,000 each two super-ships proposed to be built by the Cunard Line, private insurance companies having balked at the huge risk.*

Stampeded in a wild, all-parties, vote-getting scramble to voice (but not vote) approval for a proposal to "equalize" (raise) the pensions of 40,000 British veterans of previous wars to the pension scale of World War veterans.

The budget being too precariously balanced to meet this extra charge, the MacDonald Government tried to pigeonhole the bill, was suddenly knifed in the back by radical Laborite James Maxton (sworn foe of his Chief) who moved for im mediate action, hoping that the House would vote the pensions against Government protest, thus unseating the Cabinet. Dopesters declared that Scot MacDonald was saved from being ousted as Prime Minister solely by the striking of the hour agreed for adjournment.

* Shopkeepers in Cobh, Ireland, protested last week the proposed erection by U. S. contributors of a mammoth memorial to the torpedoed Cunarder Lusitania in Cobh's public square, "so big that it would injure business by obscuring our premises."

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