§ Bill for the better regulation of Home Industries, ordered to be brought in by Colonel Denny, Mr. John Burns, Sir Henry Howorth, and Mr. Alexander Cross.
MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I do protest against the practice of introducing Bills when there is no possibility of their being advanced any further. The only result is that they will be printed at the public expense. I am not at all sure that I ought not to divide the House, and but for taking up the time of the House at this period of the session, I should do so as a protest. We have given the Government all the time of the House for the rest of the session, and the introduction of these Bills is really an abuse of the rules of the House, while it imposes a burden which should not be laid on the public shoulders.