§ Sir DONALD MACLEANMay I ask the Leader of the House a question with regard to the Notice of Motion standing in his name suspending the Eleven o'clock Rule to-night? Will he tell us the object, as we do not want to put the House to an unnecessary Division on the Motion?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWThis Motion is put down as it is necessary to fulfil the arrangement at which the House arrived on Monday. The intention of the Government in this Procedure Motion is only to allow free Divisions, as we thought the House ought to have the right to Divide, even though there is no open discussion on every Vote; otherwise, if the discussion goes on till Eleven o'clock, and the Rule is not suspended, it is not possible to take Divisions.
Ordered, "That the Proceedings of the Committee of Supply be exempted at this day's Sitting from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[Mr. Bonar Law,]