HC Deb 05 March 1890 vol 342 cc57-8
MR. F. S. POWELL (Wigan)

I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time.

DR. TANNER (Cork, Mid)

I object.

MR. F. S. POWELL

I hope the hon. Member will not persevere with his objection, as it is very important that this stage of the measure should be taken as soon as possible, in order that it may afterwards be referred to a Select Committee.

* MR. H. H. FOWLER (Wolverhampton)

I would remind the House that there is another Bill on the same subject a little lower down on the Paper. That Bill was brought in by myself, and I suggest that the House should accept both these measures, and that they should then be referred to a Select Committee, in order that the necessary means may be devised of carrying out a very effective and desirable reform. I am not prepared to accept the Bill of the hon. Member opposite unless my own Bill is also read a second time to-day, and both of them referred to the same Committee, which course, I believe, will meet the views of the Local Government Board.

DR. FARQUHARSON. (Dorset (?)

I hope my hon. Friend (Dr. Tanner) will not press his objection after what has just been stated.

MR. SEXTON

Will the hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. F. S. Powell) assent to the suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wolverhampton (Mr. H. H. Fowler) in the event of my right hon. Friend withdrawing his objection?

MR. F. S. POWELL

Yes.

DR. TANNER

But I must really ask for some explanation. I shall, however, withdraw my objection on the understanding that both Bills are to be referred to a Select Committee.

MR. F. S. POWELL

What has taken place is-that the Sanitary Committee has been overburdened with work for several Sessions, and I have been asked by the Committee to marshall the clauses they have been passing into something like an appreciable form. They have been so marshalled and, in that form, have been duly adopted by the Committee. In the form they have thus assumed, they will be the means of effecting a great saving of time and also of expense to the parties.

Motion made, and Question put, "That this Bill be read a second time." Motion agreed to.

Bill read a second time, and committed to a Select Committee.