§ Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to control the arrangements for the Kitchen and Refreshment Room in the Department of the Serjeant at Arms attending this House.
§ Ordered, That the Committee do consist of seventeen Members.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of—Mr. James Bailey, Mr. Broad-hurst, Mr. Cremer, Mr. Dalziel, Sir Horatio Davies, Sir Thomas Firbank, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Jacoby, Colonel Lockwood, Mr. Lonsdale, Dr. MacDonnell, Mr. Malcolm, Mr. Seymour Ormsby-Gore, Mr. Pier-point, Mr. Power, Mr. William Redmond, and Sir Harry Samuel.
§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
696§ Ordered, That Three be the quorum.—(Sir A. Acland-Hood.)
§ On the Motion for the Adjournment of the House,
§ MR. SOARES (Devonshire, Barnstaple,asked whether the Government intended to-morrow in any way to interfere so as to prevent the House from giving an opinion, aye or no, on the Motion of the hon. Member for Oldham.
§ *THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (Sir A. ACLAND-HOOD, Somersetshire, Wellington)thought it would have been courteous on the part of the hon. Gentleman to have given him notice of the question. The Government certainly intended to give a decision on that question, and hon. Gentlemen opposite would discover that decision when the time came.
§ Adjourned at Ten minutes after Twelve o'clock.