§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)I wish to ask the Chief Secretary if his attention has been called to the extraordinary language of Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords on Tuesday in reference to the Redemption of Kent (Ireland) Act, 1891?
§ * MR. SPEAKEROrder, order! It is a Rule of the House not, to refer to statements made in the other House.
§ MR. T. M. HEALYI understand, Sir, the noble Lord said that a Bill which was brought in by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for East Manchester was not a Government Bill, though it had the names of Mr. Arthur James Balfour and the Attorney General for Ireland on the back of it.
§ MR. SPEAKERDoes the hon. and learned Gentleman wish to ask whether the Bill was a Government Bill or not?
§ MR. T. M. HEALYI wish to ask whether the attention of the right hon. Gentleman the Chief Secretary has been called to this language—
§ * MR. SPEAKEROrder, order! It is a very wholesome Rule in this House not to allude to statements or Debates in the other House of the present Session, as to do so might bring the two Houses into collision. If the hon. and learned Gentleman likes to ask whether the Bill was a Government Bill or not, no doubt the right hon. Gentleman will give him an answer.
§ MR. T. M. HEALYThen I will ask the Chief Secretary whether the Redemption of Rent Act was not a Government measure?