The painstaking st ians of the Parliamentary Gazette have produced their analysis of speeches covering the period from the opening of the session in January till the Easter adjournment. Their Jquantitive measurement of oratoric-Jai output sets Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald on a pinnacle. He spoke 126 Jcolumns of the official report. Mr. William Graham, of Edinburgh, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Jeomes second with 95 to his credit. The general analysis shows the \Clydesiders as a group of reticent gentlemen.
Mr. T. P. O'Connor has been giving his impression of some of the Clydesiders. He says:—James Maxton, with his sombre dark eyes, his long mane of black hair over his dark-complexioned and thin face, is, in private, one of the gentiest of men; David Kirkwood is so kindly a fellow that even the opponents he so oftentimes shocks rather like him; Buchanan looks such a boy—I can't believe he is 40, as some of the papers say—30, I believe, is all he confesses to—bhut nobody takes him too seriously, Mr, Whitley's success as a Par-Hamentarian "is universally _admitted. It is curious and might have been unexpected. He himself has told the world that he lived in 2 humble dwelling until he was 27. I believe his son has built up a modest prosperity by a successful publishing business, and he has two song who are University graduates. But where did he get that immediate jand almost uncanny mastery of the tone of the House of Commons?
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