§ MR. M'LARENasked the honourable Member for Dumbartonshire, Whether, with the view of facilitating the passing of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) (recommitted) Bill, he will withdraw the 190 Notices of Amendments, which he has placed on the paper, to be moved when that Bill is in Committee?
§ MR. ORR EWINGMr. Speaker, if the hon. Member for Edinburgh (Mr. M'Laren) had spent as much time in reading my Amendments as he has done in counting them, he would have discovered that I had only two Amendments upon the Paper, and that the other alterations were verbal ones, consequent on those two Amendments. I am as anxious as the hon. Member that the present system of maintaining roads and bridges by tolls and pontages should be abolished; but when making this change, I desire that between county and burgh the mode adopted should be equitable, simple, and definite, and without the intervention of Provisional Orders, which, when opposed, are as expensive as Private Bills. ["Order, order!"] I believe that my Amendments—
§ MR. SPEAKERThe hon. Member must not anticipate the discussion upon the Bill.
§ MR. ORR EWINGI was only giving my reasons for not being able to comply with the suggestion made by the hon. Member for Edinburgh.