DR. CAMERONMr. Speaker, I beg to move "That the Order for the Adjourned Debate on the Seed Advances (Scotland) Bill be discharged," and, with the indulgence of the House, I will briefly state my reasons for doing so. The object of the Bill is very urgent, and unless accomplished at once, cannot be accomplished at all. From the form which the opposition to it has assumed, it appears to me that any attempt 3 to get the Bill passed before Easter is now practically hopeless. After Easter, it will be too late; and, in these circumstances, I have come to the conclusion that the most humane course is to withdraw the measure forthwith, rather than, by retaining it on the Order Book, to interfere with an earnest attempt being made to do, by means of private charity and by way of gift, what I was anxious to see accomplished by way o loan.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Order discharged; Bill withdrawn.