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Scene in the Lobby, House of Commons: distributing Report of the Parnell Inquiry Commission, 1890. 'The Lords, with habitual dispatch, managed to sum up their opinion of the Parnell Commission Report in one evening. Lord Salisbury, of course, carried his motion on the Twenty-first of March that the report be adopted and the Commissioners thanked, but not without an elaborate and eloquent remonstrance from Lord Herschell, and another from the Earl of Rosebery, and pleas for Mr. Parnell from Earl Granville, Earl Spencer, and Lord Kimberley'. The Parnell Commission, officially Special Commission on Parnellism and Crime, was a judicial inquiry in the late 1880s into allegations of crimes by Irish parliamentarian Charles Stewart Parnell which resulted in his vindication. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.