HC Deb 16 June 1899 vol 72 cc1328-9
*MR. J. W. LOWTHER (Cumberland, Penrith)

I have to move that certain parties be ordered to attend the Committee on the Greenock and Port Glasgow Tramways Bill on Monday. As the circumstances are a little unusual I wish to explain why I make the Motion instead of the hon. Member for Knutsford, who is chairman of the Committee. The fact is that the Committee have adjourned until Monday, and it was only discovered to-day that it would require an Order of the House to enable the gentlemen to attend on that day. In the absence of the hon. Member for Knutsford I take upon me the responsibility which ordinarily falls on the chairman. Mr. James William Lowther informed the House that the Committee on Group 8 of Railway and Tramway Bills having adjourned, the parties promoting the Greenock and Port Glasgow Tramways Bill [Lords], which was comprised in the Group, had appeared before him, and proved that the evidence of Robert Cook, of 9, Orangefield Place, Greenock, John Daniel Clink, of 53, Octavia Terrace, Greenock, John Cameron, of 46, Linnart Street, Greenock, Daniel M'Arthur Erskine, of Linnart Grove, Greenock, and Hugh M'Master, of Port Glasgow, was essential to their case; and that their attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House. Ordered, that Robert Cook, John Daniel Clink, John Cameron, Daniel M'Arthur Erskine, and Hugh M'Master do attend the Committee on Group 8 of Railway and Tramway Bills upon Monday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.—(Mr. James William Lowther.)