§ Order for Second Beading read.
§ SIR F. BANBURYmoved the Second Reading of this Bill. He explained that its object was to prevent experiments on dogs. He held that the dog, being the faithful friend of man, ought to be exempt from having experiments performed upon him. There were many other animals on which experiments could be performed. He would like to see the hon. Member who would get up and oppose this Bill.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ MR. MOONEY (Newry)in moving that the Bill be read upon this day six months said that the hon. Baronet in charge of the measure might have given a more detailed explanation of it. Although he opposed the Bill, he was in favour of the object which it sought to achieve. The whole subject of vivisection ought to be dealt with in a comprehensive manner, instead of a piecemeal fashion. They ought not to exempt dogs from the cruel practice of vivisection and allow other animals to be operated on. The hon. Baronet could have achieved the object he had in view if he had made the Bill more comprehensive. He would probably have been able to carry it through the House without any opposition. He was in full sympathy with everything the hon. Baronet had 1884 said about dogs, but he did not see why an exemption should be made of dogs in regard to the cruel practice of vivisection. He considered that the objects for which that practice was carried on could be equally well achieved by other methods. He was against the whole system of vivisection.
§ MR. T. L. CORBETTrose in his place and claimed to move, "That the Question be now put"; but Mr. SPEAKER withheld his assent, and declined then to put that Question.
And it being Eleven of the clock, the debate stood adjourned.
Debate to be resumed upon Wednesday next.