§ SIR EDWARD J. REEDI wish to ask my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, who has the first place on the Paper for a Motion on going into Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates, Whether, in view of the scope and character of the Motion of which I have given Notice, he will be good enough to make way by withdrawing his Motion, and giving precedence to that of which I have given Notice?
DR. CAMERONI have very carefully read my hon. Friend's Motion, and it appears to me to look so very much like a Vote of Censure that I am convinced that if proper representations are made to the Prime Minister he will readily afford proper facilities for its discussion. Such facilities I could not hope to obtain for my own Motion. There are four other Members whose Notices on going into Supply have priority over that of my hon. Friend; and having secured the first place, and without attaching exaggerated importance to my own Motion, I must reluctantly decline to give way.
§ SIR EDWARD J. REEDsaid, that, under those circumstances, he would on Thursday ask the Prime Minister, in view of the character of his Motion, and its relation to the Navy and Admiralty, whether he would give facilities for bringing it on?