§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. MARJORIBANKS (Berwickshire)I hope the Lord Advocate will not consider me importunate in regard to this Bill. If he objects to refer the Bill to a Select Committee I would like him to give me some assurance as to the course the Government propose to take in regard to the Bill they intend to introduce. This is a Scotch subject, one on which I do not think there need be any Party feeling, and one on which I think the Government would do well to consider the desirability of satisfying the justifiable wishes of the Scotch fishermen.
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. P. B. ROBERTSON,) ButeI by no means think the right hon. Gentleman importunate, and I trust we all recognise the valuable services he rendered upon the recent Committee. At the same time, the Bill he has expressed some anxiety about is not in a position to be read a first time, and I hope he will still further exercise some reserve. It would be impossible to assent to the Second Reading of his Bill. I have heard objections taken in various quarters of the House.
§ Second Reading deferred till Monday next.