The Chancellor of the Exchequersaid, he hoped the hon. Baronet opposite (Sir J. Graham) would not press his motion for an account of all salaries and emoluments received by the Members of his Majesty's Privy Council, on going into the Committee of Supply. All the information which the hon. Baronet 305 demanded would be laid before the House in the course of a fortnight, in consequence of the motion which had been made by the hon. member for Lincolnshire.
Sir J. Grahamsaid, he was anxious to have an opportunity of stating his view with respect to the question of superannuations, of full military pay enjoyed by officers having civil allowance, and on another point of great importance—he alluded to sinecures being held by individuals, who otherwise received large allowances. If, however, the returns alluded to by the right hon. Gentleman were satisfactory, it would not be necessary for him to proceed with his motion, but if they were not so, he certainly would persevere, and under that feeling he consented to postpone his motion until the eleventh of May.
§ Mr. Humesaid, he was unfortunately absent when the right hon. Gentleman moved for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the existing superannuations. If he had been present, he would have opposed such a mockery. It appeared to him, that since the dissolution of the Finance Committee, Ministers had done every thing to prevent proper inquiry. In the formation of this new committee, an hon. Baronet (Sir Henry Parnell) the ablest man, he would say, that ever sat on any committee, had been most unaccountably excluded.
The Chancellor of the Exchequersaid, that the hon. Baronet referred to, had been inadvertently, and not intentionally, excluded; for his own part, he had no objection that the hon. Baronet should be placed on the committee.