§ Order for Consideration, as amended, read.
§ MR. ONSLOWsaid, he did not know who had charge of the measure that evening; but if the Bill was to be put down evening after evening, and morning after morning, it was the duty of someone either to move that the Order for its Consideration should be discharged, or that it should be fixed for some day when hon. Members might know that it would be definitely disposed of. The Bill had been put down night after night before Easter, and night after night before the Whitsuntide holidays, and now it seemed likely that it would be put down night after night again. He moved, as an Amendment, that Consideration of the Bill be definitely fixed for Monday, July 1st.
§ MR. SPEAKERpointed out to the hon. Member that, according to the usual course followed in the House, the Member in charge of a Bill named the time for its Consideration as amended. To move that the Order for that Consideration should be discharged, in the absence of an hon. Member in charge of a Bill, might cause the greatest inconvenience; and was a proceeding which was never taken without due Notice.
§ MR. ONSLOWsaid, he should be the last person in the House to do anything irregular; but he begged to give Notice, that when anyone who appeared to have charge of the Bill stated to the Clerk at the Table that he desired it to be considered on such and such a day, he would move that the Order be discharged.
§ Consideration, as amended, deferred till Thursday.