§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ MR. O'DOHERTY, who had on the Paper a motion for the rejection of the Bill, appealed to the Government not to take the Bill at that hour.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, Worcestershire, E.)pointed out that the Bill had already been postponed two or three times, and a period of the session had now been reached at which it was necessary that some progress should be made with the measure. He under-stood the objection of the hon. Member to be to one particular measure to be continued by the Bill. Whatever might be the decision of the House with regard to that particular measure, the whole 849 Bill could not be thrown out, and the Second Reading must under any circumstances be obtained. He therefore suggested that the hon. Member could more properly raise his point by moving in Committee to omit the particular measure to which he had objection.
§ MR. O'DOHERTYthought the point of the hon. Member a very fair one, and intimated that he would raise the question in Committee.