Mr Reeves scouts the idea of the unfitness of members ; he scouts it warmly, almost fiercely. If members are unfit for this they are unfit for everything ; even unfit to appoint Ministers who ap point tlie Civil servants of this country. There is the best guarantee here for their good behaviour in their responsibility to their constituents. To doubt them is an insult to the Democracy and the choice of the Democracy. He is interrupted as he goes by, numerous exclamations signifying that he is overdrawing his logic. The discussion goes briskly on, member following member on this side and that; at tention is close, and interruptions numerous. Mr Meredith enlivens matters a little by quoting bis study of the land laws of the ancient Britons, the Anglo-Saxons and Auld Ireland, where rack rents have sent him on to the side of the masses. Sir Robert Stout descends on the Minister for Education hard. If members are so fit for these boards and functions, why did the hon gentleman not place them on bis Concilia tion Board ? The fact is that members of the House cannot be considered land valuators and negotiators of bargains. The effect of so regarding them would be a degradation ot the Parliamentary standard. If we are to have a political board, put politicians on it; if a judicial board, keep them off. He stands for the judicial above all things. After a time the Minister of Lands gets on the judicial horse, and it carries him to Tara naki, where he draws his claymore on the Judge who attacked a Minister of the Crown very unwarrantably in the discharge of his duty. Mr Bell wants him called to oraer in re ferring to a Judge of the Supreme Court. “Against the Standing Orders,” puts in Sir Robert Stout. The Chairman rules him in order, claymore and all. Mr Bell says he couldn’t have heard. Mr Reeves wants the Chairman’s ruling on this reflection upon the chair. Mr Bell explains. The subject of order drops, leaving the way open for the claymore. 