HC Deb 08 June 1876 vol 229 cc1554-5
MR. P. A. TAYLOR

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, If he will take into consideration the propriety, when he proposes that the House shall have Morning Sittings on Tuesday and Friday, of arranging that Notices of Motion shall take precedence in the Morning Sittings of Tuesday?

MR. DISRAELI,

in reply, said, he was afraid if he consented to the suggestion of the hon. Gentleman all that benefit which the House expected from a Morning Sitting would be prevented. It was not a proceeding which he would ever have recourse to, except towards this time of the year, when the pressure of Public Business was great; and it was his intention, with the permission of the House, that there should be a Sitting next Tuesday morning. In that case he should say with reference to the Question of the hon. Gentleman, that the Government could not undertake to make a House in the evening, because that was not in their power; but they used their utmost efforts to make a House in the evening when they asked for a Sitting in the morning. On Tuesday next he would propose, if the House assented to a Morning Sitting, that the Poor Law Amendment Bills for England and for Scotland should be taken at the Morning Sitting.

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