§ Mr. GLYN-JONESI would like, Mr. Speaker, to ask a question, of which I have given private notice—whether your attention has been drawn to the fact that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Strand Division (Mr. Long), in moving the rejection of the Government of Ireland Bill, on Tuesday of last week, used an argument, reported in the OFFICIAL REPORT, page 1733, and that of the twenty-two hon. Members who have since that speech addressed the House in support of the rejection of the Bill, nineteen have repeated that argument; whether, in view of Standing Order 19, which is directed against tedious repetition by a Member, either of his own arguments or of the arguments used by other Members in Debate, it will be in order for any hon. 591 Member during the subsequent course of this Debate to repeat that argument: which was that certain people in Ulster were opposed to Home Rule, and would resist?
§ Mr. SPEAKERI do not think the Standing Order was designed to meet the case suggested by the hon. Member. The Standing Order was designed to meet the case where Members deliberately and with malice aforethought set out to repeat arguments simply for the purpose of wasting time. I do not think the hon. Member would suggest that that is the motive actuating any hon. Members in this Debate. The hon. Member will see, if he presses to its logical conclusion his view, that one speech on either side would be sufficient, and therefore all Debate would come to an end.