HC Deb 05 April 1864 vol 174 cc500-1
MR. CLIVE

moved that the Select Committee on Turnpike Trusts consist of twenty-one Members.

Motion agreed to.

Then it was moved that the following hon. Members be Members of the said Committee:—

MR. BRUCE, Colonel HUSSEY PACKE, Mr. ALCOCK, Mr. FENWICK, Mr. MILDMAY, Mr. WRIGHTSON, Lord HENLEY, Mr. DODSON, Mr. CLIVE, Colonel PENNANT, Colonel BARTTELOT, Colonel SMYTH, Mr. SCLATER-BOOTH, Colonel Stuart (Bedford), Sir JAMES FERGUSSON, Sir WILLIAM JOLLIFFE, Colonel GILPIN, Mr. WALTER, Colonel FRENCH, Mr. WILLIAM LEGH, and Mr. WESTERN.

MR. FERRAND

said, that the Committee moved for by the hon. Member for Hereford did not contain in its list any representative of the agricultural interests in the neighbourhood of the manufacturing districts. He would therefore request the hon. Gentleman to postpone the Motion for a week, to enable the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department to place some unprejudiced Member of the House upon the Committee.

MR. CLIVE

said, he must deprecate the idea of any prejudice existing in the minds of the Members nominated. Originally, he proposed that there should he seventeen Members on the Committee, but at the suggestion of the hon. Member (Mr. Ferrand) he had increased them to nineteen, and afterwards to twenty-one. He had succeeded in inducing the hon. Member for South Lancashire (Mr. W. Legh) to serve upon the Committee, but he could not get any other hon. Members, representing manufacturing counties, to do so.

MR. FERRAND

said, he objected to the name of Mr. Western, and would suggest instead the appointment of Sir John Ramsden.

MR. SPEAKER

said, that the hon. Member could not then oppose Mr. Western's appointment, but that he could do so by giving notice.

MR. H. A. BRUCE

said, that Mr. Western was eminently qualified to act as a Member of the Committee, from the fact that he represented a county which was peculiarly situated with regard to turnpikes.

Motion agreed to.

Committee nominated.—Power to send for persons, papers, and records; Five to be the quorum.

Instruction to the Committee, that they do limit their inquiry to the Turnpike Trusts of England and Wales.