§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONI wish to ask you a Question, Sir, as to the manner in which you propose to put the Question on the Amendment of the hon. and learned Member for Brighton (Mr. Marriott). I understand that you will put the Question in such a way as to exclude as few as possible of the subsequent Amendments. I have an Amendment on the Paper of some little importance which proposes to leave out the words "Mr. Speaker," in order to raise the very important question whether or not this important power should be exercised by Mr. Speaker and the Chairman of Ways and Means or by a Minister of the Crown. I wish to ask you, Whether, if the form in which the Question was put precluded my Amendment, it would be competent for me afterwards to raise the Question in another form?
§ MR. SPEAKERThe Question that will have to be submitted to the House on the Amendment of the hon. and learned Member for Brighton is that the words "when it shall appear to Mr. Speaker" stand part of the Question. If the House think proper to resolve that those words stand part of the Question, the Amendment proposed to be moved by the noble Lord to omit the words "Mr. Speaker" will come too late, and cannot be put, because the House will have already affirmed that those words stand part of the Question. If the Amendment of the noble Lord had been on the Paper before I put the Question to the House, I should have put it so as to admit of the noble Lord's Amendment; but now his Amendment 314 cannot be put, unless the House thinks proper to withdraw both the Motion and the Resolution now before the House.
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONIn those circumstances, I beg to give Notice that on the Amendment of the hon. Member for Dungarvan (Mr. O'Donnell) I shall propose to insert, after the words "Mr. Speaker," the words "after appeal by a Minister of the Crown, or by the Member in charge of the subject under discussion."