§ MR. J. E. ELLIS (Nottingham, Rushcliffe)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in view of the fact that the Burial Grounds Bill now before Parliament, which is similar to the Bill read a second time May 1886, will, if passed, remove the objections now taken to the consecration 767 of cemeteries, he will suspend legal proceedings against Burial Boards in regard to consecration until Parliament has had an opportunity of expressing an opinion on the question?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (MR. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)The hon. Member asks me to suspend the operation of the existing law until the House has had an opportunity of expressing its opinion on a Bill proposing to alter the law. I am not clothed with any such dispensing power, and must therefore decline to accept the suggestion of the hon. Member.