§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. PORTER)moved that the Lords Amendments to this Bill be now considered. He had communicated with the hon. Member for Wexford (Mr. Healy), and he had no objection to the course now proposed.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Lords Amendments to the Commons Amendments to the Amendments made by the Lords to the Arrears of Rent (Ireland) Bill be considered forthwith."—(Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland.)
§ MR. HEALYsaid, he had intended to move an Amendment to the Bill to the effect that the suspended rent for seven years should not exceed the amount of judicial rent, if the judicial rent be declared on the holding. He understood it could not be moved, and, of course, there was no use his objecting to the Bill being taken now.
§ MR. WARTONwished to enter a most earnest and deliberate protest against this very improper way of doing Business. The Business of the House ought to be done in a way in which Members might know what was going on, which was certainly not now the case. It was also most objectionable that the Government should make arrangements with private Members as to the progress of a particular Bill.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Amendments considered, and agreed to.