MR. STAVELEY HILLsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Why the Trades Union Bill has been placed in the hands of the editor of a public journal, as appears from an analysis of it published on Thursday, before it has been placed in the hands of Members of this House?
MR. BRUCEreplied, that the hon. and learned Member had assumed as a fact that which was not a fact. No copy of the Bill had been placed in the hands of the editor of a newspaper or any other person; but, inasmuch as he was aware that some slight delay would occur in the issue of the Bill, he had directed that an analysis of it should be sent, not to any one paper, but to all. The Bill, in its complete form, would be circulated to-morrow morning.