§ MR. KENYON (Denbigh, &c.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, under the proceedings of the Commission on Land Tenure in Wales, the employment of counsel with power of cross-examination will be authorised?
§ MR. W. E. GLADSTONEThat is not a matter in which the Government have any power or title to interfere. It is a matter for the judgment and regulation of the Commission itself. Hearing counsel before Commissions is a common proceeding, but I understand that in the particular case in 1889, on the Welsh Sunday Closing Bill, the Commission refused to allow counsel to examine witnesses either on what is called the "liquor" or the temperance side.