MR. GOLDSMIDsaid, he desired to ask a Question of the right hon. Gentleman in the Chair upon a point of Order. Standing Order No. 1 was to the effect that whenever Notice had been given that Estimates would be moved in Committee of Supply and the Committee stood as the First Order of the Day upon any day, except Thursday and Friday, upon which Government Orders had precedence, the Speaker should, when the Order for Committee was read, forthwith leave the Chair without putting any Question, unless an Amendment were moved relating to the particular division of the Estimates which was to be considered. In the early days of the Session he had given Notice of a Motion relating not to the Supplementary Estimates, which were set down for that evening, but to the whole of the Civil Service Estimates; but he found that his Notice had been omitted from the Paper. He asked whether he was not justified in asking to be allowed to address the House when the Order of the Day was called?
§ MR. SPEAKER,in reply, said, that as the Supplementary Estimates which were to be considered and the hon. Member's Amendment both related to the Civil Service Estimates, he considered the hon. Member was entitled to proceed with his Amendment.