§ MR. BAUMANN (Camberwell, Peckham)asked, When the Government proposed to move the Speaker out of the Chair on the Local Government Bill; and, whether they proposed to proceed with the Bill de die in diem.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster), in reply, said, it was the intention of Her Majesty's Government to ask the House to go into Committee on the Local Government Bill on Thursday next, and when in Committee the Government proposed to proceed with the Bill on Government days—namely, Mondays and Thursdays, subject to the demands of Supply—and also on Tuesdays and Fridays at Morning Sittings.
§ MR. HERBERT GARDNER (Essex, Saffron Walden)asked, when the Government proposed to proceed with the Tithes Bill?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHsaid, the Local Government Bill must, for the present, take precedence of all other measures of the Session.
§ MR. BIGGAR (Cavan, W.)asked, what the Business would be on Monday, and whether it would include the Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Bill or any other Irish Business?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHsaid, the first Order would be the Resolution with regard to Imperial Defence, and the second Order would be the National Defence Bill, which, he presumed, would only occupy two or three minutes. Then advantage would be taken of the occasion to move for the introduction of three Drainage Bills for Ireland relating to the Bann, the Barrow, and the Shannon, which, he thought, were not likely to meet with any opposition from Irish Members, and after that the Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Bill would be taken.