§ MR. HALDANE (Haddington)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it is the intention of the Government to propose the Adjournment of the House for the Whitsuntide Recess on a date subsequent to Wednesday, May 13th, on which date the Women's Suffrage Bill stands as First Order of the Day, and to leave that date as a Private Members' day?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH,) Strand, WestminsterI received a deputation on this subject yesterday, and I informed them that the Government did not intend to propose the Adjournment of the House till after the 13th of May, that, so far as I could foresee, there would be no necessity for the Government to appropriate the 13th of May, which would therefore remain a Private Members' day, but that I was not in a position to give a definite pledge on the subject.