§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. T. W. Russell.)
§ *MR. SPEAKERThe Instruction left by the hon. Member in charge of the Bill was that it should be deferred to Wednesday.
§ MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.)My name appears on the back of the Bill, Sir. Is it not competent for me to move that the Second Reading be taken now?
§ *MR. SPEAKERNo doubt a Bill is in charge of the hon. Members whose 1158 names appear on the back of it, and it is competent for the hon. Member to move the Second Reading, but that would be an unusual course to adopt in the absence of the hon. Member who has left Instruction that the Bill should be set down for another day. Perhaps the hon. Member is acting by the authority of his colleagues in charge of the Bill.
§ MR. T. W. RUSSELLIf it is open to me to do so, I move that the Bill be read a second time. It has a very simple object, the changing the dates of the sittings of the Municipal Revision Courts in Dublin and Belfast. It has that simple object, in which it meets with the approval of the Attorney General for Ireland.
§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)I object.
§ Second Reading deferred till Wednesday.