HC Deb 25 February 1878 vol 238 cc296-7

Moved, "That Mr. ARTHUR PEEL, Sir GRAHAM MONTGOMERY, Mr. KNIGHT, Admiral EGER-TON, and Mr. MAURICE BROOKS be Members of the Select Committee on Tramways (Use of Mechanical Power) Bills."—(The Chairman of Ways and Means.')

MR. J. W. BARCLAY

said, he wished before the Committee was appointed, to call attention to its proposed composition. The question of tramways was a very important one; and, in investigating the subject, the Committee would be called upon to deal with matters that were of the very greatest interest to the burghs in Scotland. He, therefore, thought it would be desirable, before they appointed the Members of the Committee who were to be selected by the House, to ascertain who were the Members to be nominated by the Committee of Selection. This course would enable the House to see how every interest was likely to be represented, in the Committee.

MR. RAIKES

said, it had been decided by the House that the Select Committee on Tramways should be a hybrid one, and that it should consist of nine Members, five of whom were to be chosen by the House, and four to be nominated by the Committee of Selection. The Scotch Members would be adequately represented upon the Committee; indeed, he did not know how they could have enjoyed a better representation. They had had the good fortune to secure, among the Members the House was about to nominate, the services of a most experienced Scotch Member (Sir Graham Montgomery). The course which had been taken in the nomination of this Committee was the same as that pursued in the nomination of Hybrid Committees for many years past—that was to say, it would be partly chosen by the House and partly nominated by the Committee of Selection. He was quite certain that the interests of the Scotch burghs would be fully considered by that Committee.

Motion agreed to.

Ordered, That Mr. ARTHUR PEEL, Sir GRAHAM MONTGOMERY, Mr. KNIGHT, Admiral EGERTON, and Mr. MAURICE BROOKS be Members of the Select Committee on Tramways (Use of Mechanical Power) Bills.—{The Chairman of Ways and Means.)

And, on Thursday, February 28, it was—

Ordered, That the Report and Minutes of Evidence of the Select Committee on Tramways (Use of Mechanical Power) 1877, be referred to the Select Committee on Tramways (Use of Mechanical Power) Bills.—{Sir Charles Adderley.)

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