MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can hold out any prospect that he will afford an opportunity this Session for taking a discussion and a decision of the House on the propriety of continuing the system whereby 439 pluralists each hold two or more posts in the Public Service and each receive two or more salaries or payments from public funds; and whether he will take into consideration the fact that Her Majesty's Government have appropriated to Government business the day which was already fixed for the discussion of a general Resolution on this subject, and will therefore give another opportunity for its discussion and a Division thereon, in order to avoid the necessity for discussing each one of the 439 cases as it comes up under the Vote in which it appears?
§ SIR W. HARCOURTI should be very glad to consider any arrangement which might relieve the hon. Member of the necessity of making 439 speeches on the same subject.