§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Order for the Second Reading of this Bill be discharged, and that the Bill be withdrawn."—(Mr. Broad-hurst.)
§ MR. BERESFORD HOPEasked whether the Resolution in pari materiâ, of which the hon. Member had given Notice, was consistent with the Standing Order, it being identical in substance with the Bill now before the House, and having been given previous to the Notice of withdrawal?
§ MR. SPEAKERThere was nothing informal in the Notice given by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Stoke. He now proposes to adopt a different mode of proceeding; but when the hon. Member gave Notice of his Motion, he intended, as I understood, to withdraw the Bill which now stands on the Order Book. I may remind the House that it is action, and not Notice, that is the material point, and the Motion of which Notice has been given could not come on for discussion so long as the Bill remained on the Orders. The hon. Member was quite in Order in taking the action which he did.
§ MR. HEALYsupposed that the right hon. Gentleman might, if he pleased, object to the adoption of the hon. Member's present Motion for discharging the Order for the Second Reading of the Bill?
§ MR. SPEAKERYes; in that case the Order would stand over till to-morrow, lint nobody has objected.
§ Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
§ Second Reading deferred till Tomorrow.