§ MR. CAINEsaid, he wished, with the permission of the Speaker, to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North Lincolnshire (Mr. J. Lowther), Whether he was correctly reported in The Yorkshire Post on the 28th of March as having said, in a speech delivered at a Conservative banquet at Kirby Moorside, that—
Attempts had been made to remove from the immediate control of the House of Commons the consideration of the practical details of legislative enactments and to refer them to carefully packed representatives of the Birmingham caucus. He ventured to think that Members would consider when a Bill came out of that select coterie, and when that monstrous farce had been done, the serious business of legislation would begin?If the right hon. Gentleman were correctly reported, was the House to expect that the resolution thus expressed of systematically re-debating on Report the 13111s coming from Grand Committees would be seriously carried out? And he should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman also—[Cries of "Order!"]
§ MR. SPEAKERAny Question not put to Ministers of the Crown should relate to some Bill or Motion before the House. I do not understand that the Question of the hon. Member does relate to a Bill or Motion before the House.
§ MR. CAINEsaid, that the Question had reference to the Standing Orders of the House and to the Bankruptcy Bill.