§ MR. TREVELYAN (for Mr. DILLWYN)asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, in view of the discrepancies now existing between the duties, as compared with the salaries, of the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords and the Chairman of Ways and Means in the House of Commons, he will this Session take any steps to rectify the anomalous position of the latter officer?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in reply, said, the subject had been under the consideration of the Commission of which the Speaker was Chairman, who were charged with the duty of looking into questions connected with the administration of both Houses, and a general conclusion had to be arrived at that the discrepancies were such as ought not to be continued. It was, therefore, the intention of the Government to make a proposal to raise the salary of the Chairman of Ways and Means to the same amount as that of the Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords.