§ Bill considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ MR. HEALYsaid, objections to this Bill had been brought before him, and 344 he must complain of the course taken in regard to it. The hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Evelyn Ashley) on Monday night moved that the Order for the Committee be discharged, because there was a blocking Notice against it, and now it was brought up again for Committee. He wished to know whether that was the proper way to treat Members of the House?
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYdenied that he had proposed to move the discharge of the Order in order to get rid of the blocking Notice. The whole of this Bill had been examined by the Standing Order Committee, and had been reported to the House. The Amendments proposed were simply those which had been on the Paper for 10 days or a fortnight, limiting the operation of the Bill. He should be very much interested to know by whom the objections mentioned by the hon. Member were made, for the only people interested in the Bill were the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, and they had no objection to the Bill.
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYexplained that it had not been reprinted simply in order to save expense. The alterations were so small that he did not think it worth while to put the House to the expense of printing 600 or 700 copies.
§ Bill reported, without Amendment; read the third time, and passed.