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MR. RAIKES moved—
That the Order of the 11th of March that the Liverpool Lighting Bill be committed to a
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Select Committee of Seven Members, Four to be appointed by the House and Three by the Committee of Selection, be read, and discharged.
He said, it was necessary to make this Motion in consequence of circumstances which had arisen in regard to the Bill. He understood that the promoters were not prepared to bear the brunt of fighting the Bill in Committee, owing to the length to which the inquiry ordered by the House might extend, and the cost which might, in consequence, be entailed. He had, therefore, no alternative but to move the discharge of the Order, and this course would arrest the progress of the other Bills which had been referred to the same Committee, which, until some other Committee was appointed, would remain suspended.
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Motion agreed to.
Ordered, That the Order [11th March] that the Liverpool Lighting Bill be committed to a Select Committee of Seven Members, Four to be appointed by the House and Three by the Committee of Selection, be read, and discharged.—(The Chairman of Ways and Means.)