Premier's Ansiety for Immediate Signature: Promise to: Lay Treaties before Parliament for Acceptance, Rejection or Amendment Lonon, Aug. 7.
Parliament, which should have adjourned yesterday, was forced to meet to-day in consequence of the vigorous Conservative and Libera) opposition to the Russian treaty yesterday evening.
At the outset of the debate to-day the Opposition secured a ruling by the Speaker that the abortive draft treaty on which the Russian negoti ations broke down must be publish-
Sir Robert Home (Conservative) evoked angry Ministerial cries and cheers by urging that the agreed draft treaty should not be signed till Parliament had reassembled.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said tha: he wished to sign the treaty to-day. The Prime Minster cmaphasized that signature of the treaty did not involve the sanction of the House of Commons. The Government pledged themselves produce the treaties and lay them before Parliament for acceptance for rejection. They were anxious that not a clause, provision or line of the treaties should be operative until the House had sunetioned them, , djournment had been complied with when the Prime Minister stated that the treaties would available to the House of Commo He therefore supported Mr. Clynes's appeal that the Mouse should dise cass adjournment.
The House of Commons thereupon passed the third reading of the Consolidated Fund Rill, finally passing the financial provisions for the year, Tt is unlikely that any vote regards Ruzsia that the Opposition may press during the adjournment debate will have any political significance, even if the Liberals support the Conservatives, which unlikely; consequently the Russian debate is virtually dead. A vote is unlikely.
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