§ MR. FLYNNrose to call the Speaker's attention to a personal matter. About 1 o'clock on the previous evening he had moved the adjournment of the House, but the Motion had been ruled out of order. He found the Journals recorded the fact with the statement that the Speaker was of opinion that the Motion was an abuse of the Rules of the House. He hardly thought that that was the opinion of the Speaker at the time, and he urged that he was entitled to a fairer and more accurate record of the incident.
§ *MR. SPEAKERThe entry appears to be in order. I am entitled to refuse a Motion if I think it is an abuse of the Rules of the House. That refusal does not reflect any personal discredit on the hon. Member who moves. But it was my opinion at the time that, after an Order of the House suspending the 12 o'clock Rule, that suspension became one of the Rules of the House for the night, and that it would be an abuse of that Rule to move the adjournment of the House at so early an hour.