§ Order for Committee read.
§ MR. SPEAKERThe two Motions for Instruction to the Committee are both out of Order. I, therefore, leave the Chair.
§ Considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ Clause 1.
§ Committee report Progress.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House will, upon Wednesday, 22nd June, again resolve itself into the said Committee."—(Mr. G. W. Balfour.)
§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Longford, N.)I object. The hon. Member takes the first Wednesday after the Whitsuntide Vacation. I object, and I understand that by the Standing Order if objection be taken at this stage the question stands over. I ask your ruling on the point.
§ MR. SPEAKERIt is for the hon. Member in charge of the Bill to appoint the date when the Bill will be taken unless the House should decide otherwise.
§ Mr. SPEAKER ascertained by the preponderance of voices that the House was in favour of Wednesday, 22nd June.
§ Committee to sit again on Wednesday, 22nd June.