I don't know whether we were able to keep the Ministry
going for a whole night on the subject or not; but still we managed to
get some excellent change out of the business.
[Sidenote: The wistful Whip.]
This brief explanation will make the reader understand what it is you
can do on the Estimates, and therefore bring home to your mind the wile
of the Ministerial Whip. For his second reason for putting down the
Estimates until after vacation is, that he knows there will be a very
small attendance of members, and that thus he will be able to sneak
through his Estimates more quickly than usual. When, therefore, you hear
of a vacation in the House of Commons, you will always find that the
members ask with peculiar anxiety what is to be the first business on
the day on which the vacation concludes; and you will hear the audible
sigh of relief which will rise from hundreds of oppressed bosoms when
the Leader of the House for the time being announces that it will be
Estimates. Members then know that they need be in no violent hurry to
get back, and that things will go right, even though they should tarry
that additional day, or even two days, longer by the sad sea waves or
amid the tall grass.
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