HC Deb 22 March 1886 vol 303 cc1503-5
MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Fermanagh, N.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the alleged extraordinary conduct of the police at Leeds last Friday?

MR. SPEAKER

I must point out that the Question of the hon. Member comes within the new Rule requiring that Notice of Questions should be given beforehand to the Clerk at the Table.

MR. WILLIAM REDMOND

subsequently rose and commenced to put the same Question.

MR. SPEAKER

again interposed, and refused to allow the Question to be put.

MR. SEXTON (Sligo, S.)

said, he understood that, according to the Rule, although a Notice of a Question could not be given orally, it would be open to Members to ask supplementary Questions in addition to those on the Paper.

MR. SPEAKER

I have endeavoured to put the best interpretation in my power upon the Rule. Supplementary Questions purely seeking for the elucidation of former answers are in Order; but supplementary Questions which it cannot be in the power of a Minister to answer at the moment, I regard as belonging to those of which Notice should be given.

MR. WILLIAM REDMOND

said, that his Question was one which it was entirely in the power of the Home Secretary to answer. Would the right hon. Gentleman cause inquiry to be made into the conduct of the police at Leeds?

MR. SPEAKER

The hon. Member is now evading my ruling.

MR. CAVENDISH BENTINCK (Whitehaven)

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether, having regard to the rules and conditions laid down, and the views expressed by him on the 8th of June, 1883, the circumstances which occurred at half-past 10 on Friday evening last, when the Government declined to set up Supply, constituted one of those rare occasions when the Government were justified in taking that course?

THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. E. GLADSTONE) (Edinburgh, Mid Lothian)

Yes, Sir; in our opinion they did constitute one of those rare occasions.

MR. CAVENDISH BENTINCK

I beg to give Notice—

MR. SPEAKER

said, that Notice would be required of any further Question the right hon. Gentleman might desire to put on the subject.

MR. CAVENDISH BENTINCK

, rising to Order, asked whether the Resolution come to last week by the House on the Motion of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Essex (Sir Henry Selwin - Ibbetson) excluded Notices of Motion from being given vivâ voce?

MR. SPEAKER

Certainly not. I understood the right hon. Gentleman began his remarks by saying—"I propose to ask."

MR. CAVENDISH BENTINCK

said, he was about to give Notice of a Motion in reference to the Contagious Diseases Acts in the same terms as those used by the right hon. Gentleman on the 8th of Juno, 1883.