The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 57
Mr. Albert Grey, M.P., moved: *
Mr. Albert Grey, M.P., moved: *
"That the Committee consist of Frederick Young, Esq., Chairman; Captain J. C. R. Colomb, R.M.A., Vice-Chairman; Francis P. Labillière, Esq., Hon. Sec.; T. Dennistoun Wood, Esq., H. O. Arnold-Forster, Esq., and Hon. Harold Finch-Hatton, Hon. Treasurers; Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart.; W. J. Courthope, Esq.; Alex. Staveley Hill, Esq., Q.C., M.P.; Roper Lethbridge, Esq.; Sir Samuel Wilson, with power to add to their number; and that, pending further notice, all communications be addressed to F. P. Labillière, Esq., 5, Pump Court, Temple, E.C."
I would like to move an amendment, which will have the cordial goodwill and approval of every gentleman in the room, and will, I trust, receive the ready and willing assent of our Chairman also. It is, that the Committee referred to in Resolution No. 4 be presided over by our Chairman of to-day. (Hear, hear.) If he will kindly give us his approval to that suggestion, I am sure it will be cordially adopted by every one in this room. It is exceedingly important we should have as Chairman some one whose name is a household word in the Colonies. These resolutions will be printed in every Colonial newspaper. They will be eagerly scanned and hotly discussed by people whose loyalty Lord Rosebery has described as passionate. It is most important, I think, that the Chairman of the Committee should be a gentleman of the position of Mr. Forster, whose knowledge of Colonial matters is so great, and whose name is so well known beyond the seas. (Hear, hear.)
* liberal Member for South Northumberland.