§ MR. BROADHURST (Nottingham, W.)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether, on the occasion of the second reading of the Employers' Liability Bill, he will make that measure the first Order of the Day? Would the right hon. Gentleman now fix a date when the second reading would be taken?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster),in reply, said, he should be glad to fix a date for the second reading, but until the Local Government Bill was taken he was in a difficulty with regard to the Business which must follow. The hon. Gentleman was aware that it was the intention of the Government to take this Bill as the important Business on some specified evening; but he was not able to give an undertaking that the measure should appear as the first Order of the Day, because the Government might find it necessary to put down less important measures which would require to be advanced a stage before other Business was taken.
§ In reply to Mr. J. E. ELLIS (Nottingham, Rushcliffe),
§ MR. W. H. SMITHsaid, that he regarded the Bill as one of very great 1196 importance, and both that Bill and the Railway and Canal Traffic Bill must be taken at a very early date.