HC Deb 30 June 1896 vol 42 cc376-7
*MR. JAMES CAMPBELL () Glasgow and Aberdeen University

was called upon by Mr. SPEAKER to move the following Instruction of which he had given notice:— That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Glasgow and South Western and North British Railway Companies Bill to inquire, if they think fit, into the present mode of rating of the City of Glasgow Union Railway to all school, poor, and other local rates, and whether it may be necessary or expedient to provide that the undertaking now known as the City of Glasgow Union Railway shall, in the event of the partition thereof between the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company and the North British Railway Company, continue to he rated as a separate undertaking as at present for all school, poor, and other rates in Glasgow. That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records. He said that when he placed the Notice on the Order Paper he was under the impression that without an Instruction of this kind it was doubtful whether it would be possible to raise in Committee the question to which it related. He had found, however, that the Corporation of Glasgow had petitioned against the Bill in such a way that the whole question could be brought up under their Petition, and under these circumstances, the Corporation having obtained a locus standi, he felt it was unnecessary to detain the House with the Instruction standing in his name.