§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Notices of Motions now standing for any Tuesday stand for the Wednesday evening sitting in the same week, and that the business now appointed for any Wednesday stand for the Friday sitting in the same week."—(Mr. A. J. Balfour.)
593§ (5.30.) MR. GRIFFITH BOSCAWEN (Kent, Tunbridge)said the object of the Amendment which he had to move was simply to arrange the order in which the transfer to the following Friday should be made. A very hard case might arise in the case of the two Fridays reserved for the later stages of private Members' Bills after Whitsuntide. A private Member might have got a Bill through the Grand Committee and put down for the first Wednesday after Whitsuntide. Subsequently another Member might get a Bill through the Committee, and put it down for the Friday and unless the Amendment he was proposing was inserted, the second Bill, which had got through the Committee at a later sitting, would have precedence. He did not think that the object of the First Lord of the Treasury was to allow that state of things.
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Amendment made—
By adding, at the end of the Question, the words 'and, subject to Standing Order No. 12, shall have priority as if set down for Friday at the date at which it was set down for Wednesday.'—(Mr. Griffith Boscawen); and by adding, at the end of the last Amendment, the words 'and Questions of which notice has been already given shall be treated as if they were distinguished by an asterisk.'"—(Mr. Blake.)
§ Ordered, That the Notices of Motions now standing for any Tuesday stand for the Wednesday evening sitting in the same week, and that the business now appointed for any Wednesday stand for the Friday sitting in the same week, and, subject to Standing Order No. 12, shall have priority as if put down for Friday, at the date at which it was put down for Wednesday, and Questions of which notice has been already given shall be treated as if they were distinguished by an asterisk.