§ MR. DALRYMPLEasked the honourable Member for the Kirkcaldy Burghs, Whether, with the view of expediting Scotch business, without having recourse to a Grand Committee, the principle of which has not been sanctioned by the House, he will remove the blocking notice which stands in his name, and use his influence with his political Friends who are Scotch Members of Parliament, and supporters of Her Majesty's Government, to induce them to remove the seven other blocking notices which arrest the progress of the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Bill?
§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL,in reply, said, he was afraid the hon. Gentleman had very much overrated his influence with other Scottish Members; but he would state his own position. 1948 He had tried to elicit the opinion of his constituents on the subject. Two of the school boards had expressed themselves in its favour, and another body specially interested in the Bill had also declared in favour of the Bill, with one or two Amendments, which he meant to press. If he had no other communications against the Bill, he would withdraw the Notice standing in his name. If the Bill were referred to a formal Committee, or the clauses settled and discussed at an informal meeting, or if the Vice President and the Lord Advocate were to adopt such a course, he thought it not unlikely that something might be done.