§ MR. TREVELYAN (Yorkshire, W.R., Elland)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, in view of the general support on both sides of the House accorded to the Criminal Aliens Bill he can provide the necessary facilities for its passage.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI understand that in the course of the proceedings of the Committee upstairs some sort of compact, not distantly resembling this, was suggested, but that it was rejected by the Committee. It was understood that the very lengthy, talkative opposition to the Bill would cease if some kind of compact of a character resembling this was accepted, but that suggested transaction was rejected by the majority of the Committee. [OPPOSITION cries, "By the Government."] By the majority of the Committee. I also understand that this particular proposal is objected to by some Gentlemen on the ground that it goes too far and by others on the ground that it does not go far enough; in these circumstances to expect the passage of the Bill in the course of the present session appears to me hopeless.