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Report London Corporation (Charges of Malversation), together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix, Parliamentary Paper, 161, 1887. A brief account of the matter was written by Bradlaugh for _Our Corner_, July and August 1887, under the title,
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How the City Fathers Fight.
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I am credibly informed, he wrote,
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It was no secret that the Government intended at first to oppose Mr Bradlaugh's motion, but it gave way on receiving an intimation from a large number of Conservative members sitting below the gangway that, if a division took place, they would be compelled to vote with the junior member for Northampton. So oddly had the tables been turned. Yet he had in no way slackened his opposition to Tory policy. On the Coercion Bill he had made three forcible speeches, and he was always pursuing ministers with awkward questions. His success with the enemy was due simply to the irresistible impression he created of honesty and industry and single-mindedness. And when in May he made a merciless exposure of Churchill on the point above alluded to, of his old imputations on the integrity of Liberal judges, it did not appear that Conservatives failed to enjoy the proceedings. It was in the course of the privilege debate on the _Times'_ articles on
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Parnellism and Crime. Bradlaugh first elicited from Churchill a repudiation of one of his former utterances, and then proceeded to quote in full the passage from Hansard, with the now verified reference. Another challenge elicited another denial, and yet another quotation, with the reference. They were all ready for this occasion.
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I am not responsible for Hansard, cried the noble lord, in much agitation; whereupon Bradlaugh added new and sharper punishment, going on to quote yet more of the damnatory passages from Hansard.
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The noble lord, he went on,
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whereupon Churchill again indicated dissent.
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It was perhaps, admitted Bradlaugh,
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And still the castigation went on, the House punctuating it with laughter, till Churchill rose and protested that in regard to his recent speeches on the _Times_ question he had been utterly misrepresented. Whereupon
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Mr Bradlaugh said he was not dealing with the noble lord's views--he did not know what they were. (Opposition cheers and laughter.) He was only giving the noble lord's words. At the close of the speech, which as a whole was unanswerable, Churchill rose to offer a
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on the Hansard business. Delivered with anxious prolixity, it was primarily to the effect that in 1884 his speeches were
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in Hansard,