§ MR. CHILDERS,in pursuance of the announcement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that no Government business would be taken in consequence of the vote 646 of last night, proposed that the order for Supply be postponed until to-morrow (this day).
§ MR. BAILLE COCHRANEremarked that a number of Notices of Motion had been placed on the paper on the understanding that Supply was to have been taken on that day. Those Notices would have stood as separate Notices of Motion, perfectly independent of any Committee of Supply, as Tuesday was a Notice day devoted to private Members, had hon. Members been sooner aware that the House was only to meet pro formâ, and he now desired to know whether they could be brought on when the House resumed at six o'clock.
§ MR. CHILDERSsaid, that the hon. Gentleman was entirely mistaken. The Notices of Motion to which he alluded were not ordinary Notices standing for Tuesday; they were all Notices given as Amendments to the Motion that the Speaker leave the Chair in order that the House might go into Committee of Supply. Not one of them was given as a Notice of Motion for Tuesday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer on the night before intimated that no Government business would be taken that morning at twelve o'clock, and he (Mr. Childers) was simply discharging his duty in proposing that Supply be deferred until to-morrow (Wednesday).
§ MR. BAILLIE COCHRANECan the ordinary Notices come on at six o'clock?
§ MR. SPEAKERCertainly, there has been no derangement of the business of the day.
§ Committee deferred till To-morrow.