§ Order for Third Reading read.
§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked what arrangement would be made by the Government for enabling hon. Members, who postponed their Motions on Thursday to enable the Government to get the Supplementary Estimates, to 1705 bring forward such Motions on another day?
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSONsaid, that the hon. Member, having stood fifth on the occasion he referred to, could not have obtained a first position, unless the Motion to go into Supply had been prolonged for five nights. What he said last night pointed to one of the opportunities which would be offered to the hon. Gentleman for bringing forward this Motion. The Government were not prepared to consider what had been done as at all shutting out the question of nights of Supply; and they would take care that the Civil Service Estimates should be put down, so that there could be foil discussions on going into Committee. In addition, the natural opportunities of Tuesdays and Fridays were still open to the hon. Member.
§ SIR JULIAN GOLDSMIDwished to take the opinion of the Speaker as to whether it was a regular proceeding for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to put down for a Tuesday a Bill as an Order of the Day, to have precedence over Notices of Motion. It seemed to him to augur ill for the future conduct of proceedings of the House. He thought the House ought to have some clear understanding as to whether it was to be taken as a precedent or not, as he thought it trenched on the rights of private Members.
§ MR. SPEAKERsaid, that the course taken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was a course not unusually taken, especially with reference to Bills of an urgent character, and which had met with no opposition in their several stages.
§ Bill read the third time, and passed.