§ Mr. BOTTOMLEYasked the Prime Minister whether, in view if the recent decision in the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and others and Osborne, he would consider the desirableness of introducing legislation at an early date providing for the payment of Members of Parliament?
§ The PRIME MINISTER (Mr Asquith)I am afraid that, for reasons that are well known and that have already been stated, I cannot promise any legislation in regard to this or any other contentious matter during the present Session?
§ Mr. BOTTOMLEYDoes not the right hon. Gentleman really think that some provision for the maintenance of Members of this House is a necessary preliminary to the destruction of the other House?