But Tuesday belongs to no
man in particular. The Government don't bother themselves about it,
because they don't have money to get at the end of it: instead of its
being occupied with one Bill, which can raise a definite discussion,
Tuesday has a number of motions on all sorts and kinds of subjects; and,
in short, what's everybody's business is nobody's; and Tuesday
constantly ends about eight or half-past eight o'clock in a count-out.
The Government delightedly look on; it is an additional argument in
favour of taking away the rights and privileges of private members and
turning them into the voracious maw of the Government.
[Sidenote: Wales in a rage.]
A curious difference presented itself between the interior and the
exterior of the House on the following day (February 23rd). Inside,
there was for the most part a desert, yawning wide and drear, except on
the benches which were occupied by the sons of Wales; while outside in
the outer lobbies surged a wild, tumultuous, excited crowd, eagerly
demanding admission from everybody who could be expected to have the
least chance of giving it. Every Welshman in the world seemed to have
got there.
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