[Illustration: AN EX-ADMIRALTY CRICHTON.
DR. MACNAMARA EFFECTS A LABOUR EXCHANGE.]
If the cheers that greeted Mr. MACPHERSON were meant to console him for his
"Irishman's rise" in slipping down from the Chief Secretaryship to the
Ministry of Pensions, they were assuredly superfluous. The supposed victim
was obviously delighted to be rid of the responsibility for a policy which
seems to grow more tangled every day. Only on Tuesday Mr. BONAR LAW was
assuring the House that the Mountjoy hunger-strikers must be left to commit
suicide if they chose; the Government could not release men suspected of
grave crimes. This afternoon he announced that sixty-six of them had in
fact been liberated on parole.
The new Minister of Labour (late of the Admiralty) came on board again,
looking none the worse for his strenuous exertions at Camberwell. He had a
hearty welcome from all quarters of the House, which would hardly know
itself without its "Dr. MAC."
It is one thing to gain a seat in the House, but quite another thing to
keep it, as Sir W.
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