ORDERS OF THE DAY. (Hansard, 24 January 1878)

HC Deb 24 January 1878 vol 237 cc377-8 377

§ Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Orders of the Day be postponed until after the Notice of Motion for a Select Committee on the Public Business of the House."—(Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.)

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§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE
thought it would be more convenient to discuss at the same time the Motion of which the right hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Mowbray) had given Notice—namely, that except for a Money Bill, no Order of the Day, or Notice of Motion be taken after Half-past Twelve o'clock.

§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
said, he had no objection to that course, if it were considered to be for the convenience of the House.

§ MR. MOWBRAY
trusted that his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer would consent to the proposition of the hon. Member for Chelsea (Sir Charles W. Dilke).

§ MR. RYLANDS
thought it would save the time of the House if the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would place on the Table the recommendations of the Government on the subject, and challenge the opinion of the House upon them. At the same time, he would observe that not one of the recommendations of the Committee which sat on this subject in 1871 had been adopted as a Standing Order by the House.

§ MR. SPEAKER
The Motion to refer this question to a Select Committee is not now before the House. The Motion before the House is that the Orders of the Day be postponed.

MR. GATHORNE HARDY
said, that there would no doubt be a considerable advantage in the whole of the discussion as to Public Business being taken consecutively. He would therefore propose so to alter the proposal of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford (Mr. Mowbray), which was not an Amendment to the Motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as to terms that it would read— That the Orders of the Day be postponed until after the Notices of Motion relating to the Public Business of the House.

§ MR. BERESFORD HOPE
expressed his satisfaction with the course proposed by the right hon. Gentleman.

§ Motion (Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer), by leave, withdrawn.

§ Ordered, That the Orders of the Day be postponed until after the Notices of Motion relating to the Public Business of the House.—(Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.)