HC Deb 06 December 1878 vol 243 cc204-5
MR. NEWDEGATE

wished to know, whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to submit to the House the Resolutions which had been agreed to by the Committee on Public Business last Session? No. 3 of those Resolutions was to the effect that no hon. Member should move for the second reading of a Bill which he might introduce a day later than one month from the date of the first reading. There were 51 Notices of Bills.

MR. MITCHELL HENRY

wished to know, whether the hon. Member was not making use of the indulgence of the House in a very unusual way?

MR. SPEAKER

said, he understood the hon. Member for North Warwickshire did not intend to raise any discussion. At the same time, he must point out to him that he could only put any Question by the indulgence of the House.

MR. NEWDEGATE

thought it would have been competent to him to have raised the question on the first Bill; but that would be invidious, and therefore he had preferred to take his present course. There were 34 Wednesdays between now and the end of July.

MR. SPEAKER

The hon. Member is now going into matter which he is not entitled to go into.

MR. NEWDEGATE

would not trespass on the House. There were 51 No- tices; and he asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he would move the second and third Resolutions which he carried in the Committee on Public Business last Session?

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

said, he was afraid that he could not give a very full answer to the Question. Undoubtedly the Resolution was adopted by the Committee to which the hon. Gentleman referred; but he was not at the present moment able to say whether he would make proposals to that effect in the House. He would not do so, at any rate, in the present short Session.