COURSE OF BUSINESS.

HC Deb 15 March 1889 vol 333 cc1812-3

MR. SEXTON

With reference to the Business of the House, I wish to call attention to the following announcement in the Times:— Parliamentary Notices, House of Commons, Friday, March 15. Notices of Motions. At half-past 3 o'clock. Mr. W. H. Smith,—That the proceedings of the Committee of Supply, if the Committee be sitting at 12 o'clock this night, be not interrupted under the Standing Order 'Sittings of the House' Mr. W. H. Smith,—That so much of Standing Order 11 as requires that the question shall be proposed 'that Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair' be suspended this day; and that the provisions of Standing Order 66 be extended to this day's sitting of the Committee of Supply. As there is no Notice of the Motion in the name of the right hon. Gentleman, either upon the notice of proceedings circulated to hon. Members or on the Orders of the Day now in our possession, I beg to ask whether those notices are mere inventions of the Times, or whether there is any reason to believe that any intermediary between the Government and the Times has forged them.

* MR. W. H. SMITH

I am not responsible for anything except that which appears on the Papers of the House. I have no idea how these notices appeared in the Times newspaper.