§ MR. TOLLEMACHEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, when the House is in Committee on the Cattle Diseases Bill, he will consent to separate the compensation clauses from the other portions of the Bill, and to embody such clauses in a separate Bill? Cheshire would be greatly affected by the compensation clauses; but he had had no opportunity of consulting with any persons connected with that county respecting those clauses, as he had not yet received a copy of the Bill.
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, it would be impossible for him to accede to such a request. The payment of compensation for animals slaughtered, by order of the local authorities, and the power to cause such animals to be slaughtered, were essentially connected. The power to slaughter could not be given without a power to award compensation. At all events, he thought it would be better to postpone, to a future occasion, any consideration of the question of separating the Bill into two parts.
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTHthought it would be more convenient to leave all details as to the mode of raising the money for compensation, in order that they might be dealt with in a separate Bill.
§ MR. TOLLEMACHEasked, if he was to understand that the right hon. Gentleman definitively declined to accede to the request which he had just made?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYrepeated that he thought it would be impossible to separate those two provisions of the Bill.