HC Deb 09 August 1905 vol 151 cc779-80

Order read for Consideration of Lords Amendments.

Objection was also taken to this Bill.

MR. CALDWELL (Lanarkshire, Mid.)

said he would put the Bill down again at the evening sitting.

MR. MOONEY (Dublin County, S.)

asked if it was in order to put the Bill down for the same day. Was it not bound to go over till another day?

MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)

argued that the fixing of the date was a question open to debate, and that when a private Bill was objected to it lapsed altogether for that day and could not be put down again in the same sitting.

*MR. SPEAKER

ruled that it was within the province of the Chairman of Ways and Means, on whose behalf the hon. Member for Mid.-Lanark was acting, to fix it for the evening sitting.

The hon. Member for North Louth rose again, and was speaking at a quarter-past two o'clock, when the time for private business terminates.

Subsequently—

SIR JOSEPH LEESE (Lancashire, Accrington)

drew attention to the fact that the Rathmines and Rathgar Bill had been placed on the Order Paper for the morning sitting. The Bill had been objected to, and then the hon. Member for Mid.-Lanark, acting for the Chairman of Ways and Means, put the Bill down for consideration that evening. Objection was taken to that course of action, and the question was whether the Bill should not be taken tomorrow.

MR. T. M. HEALY

said that even at, the close of the session the rules of the House applied just the same. There was no reason why, because the House was at the close of the session, the promoters, through their own fault in causing delay, should have any consideration whatever.

*MR. SPEAKER

read Standing Order No. 8, regulating the days on which private business should be set down for consideration. The Chairman of Ways and Means now informed him that it had been decided to take the Bill tomorrow.