§ Order for Committee road.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."—(Mr. Strachey.)
§ Objection taken.
§ MR. STRACHEYsaid, there was practically agreement in all parts of the House; but the President of the Local Government Board, for Departmental reasons, objected to the Bill.
§ *MR. H. H. FOWLERI do not object to the Bill at all; and if the hon. Member is prepared to accept the Amendments which I have put down for public reasons, I shall be happy to further the progress of the Bill; but, unless they are accepted, it will be impossible for me to do so.
§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELL (Wigton)said, he had an objection to the Bill. The subject with which it dealt was now being inquired into, and, therefore, it would be inexpedient to legislate upon it at the present time.
§ MR. STRACHEYdesired to make a personal explanation. The right hon. Gentleman the President of the Local Government Board seemed to think he was charging him personally with objecting. He did not at all mean that. 1211 What he meant to convey was that there were technical objections from the right hon. Gentleman's Department; but he did not mean to suggest that the right hon. Gentleman himself had no sympathy with the Bill.
§ Committee deferred till Wednesday, 31st May.