HC Deb 24 April 1895 vol 32 c1604
THE PATRONAGE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. THOMAS ELLIS, Merionethshire)

moved that the name of the Attorney General be added to the Select Committee on the Rules of the Road at Sea.

MR. J. HAVELOCK WILSON

suggested that the seamen ought to be represented on the Committee.

MR. T. E. ELLIS

thought that the Committee as proposed would be a fair representation of the House, but he was quite willing to consider whether a Member, as desired by the hon. Member, could be added, as it was still competent to appoint two more members to serve on the Committee.

MR. G. C. T. BARTLEY (Islington, S.)

thought it was hardly fair to alter the constitution of the Committee, in the absence of the hon. Member for King's Lynn (Mr. T. Gibson Bowles) and others, who had taken a great interest in the subject, and who had assented to the Committee as now constituted.

MR. J. HAVELOCK WILSON rose to address the House again, but,

MR. SPEAKER

, interposing, said that the hon. Member had already spoken.

Question put,

That Mr. Attorney General be a Member of the Committee.

MR. HAVELOCK WILSON

opposed the Motion, and

Motion accordingly stood over.

House adjourned at Six o'clock.