Dr MALONEY (MELBOURNE, VICTORIA) . - I move -

If the motion be agreed to, it will give effect to the opinion of one of the greatest beings who ever did honour to Australia by living in it, the late Chief Justice Higginbotham, a statesman revered throughout the length and breadth of the land, who, as editor of the Argus, made a name that will long be remembered, and who, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was without stain or reproach. In his view, every leading article in a newspaper should be signed, and if effect is given to that view, it will herald a new era for journalists, whose names, now known only to their fellow newspaper men, will become household words in the mouths of the general public. Newspaper readers will then know who write the articles which meet with their approval. A column of the mighty Argus, headed with the name of Mr,. Donald McDonald, is keenly scanned by youths and boys, because they know that everything he writes is worth reading, and when that great genius, Frank Myers, wrote under the pen name of " Telemachus, " his articles excited so much curiosity that the people discovered his identity, and his name is now widely known. It is hard, however, that only the Himalayas of the journalistic world should be known to the public.