§ Mr. ASQUITHMay I ask the Leader of the House what Business will be taken to-night in the event of the Resolution on the Canadian Cattle Embargo being disposed of before Eleven o'Clock?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI do not know how long that discussion may take. We are not proposing to suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule to-night. Assuming that the Canadian Cattle Debate went on until Eleven o'Clock—I am afraid that that is probable—it would facilitate business, and help towards an early end of the Session, if the House would agree to take further stages of the following Bills after Eleven o'Clock, each of them being, I believe, quite non-contentious at their present stages: War Services Canteens (Disposal of Surplus) Bill—
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThat Bill was contentious on Friday morning, but ceased to be so in the course of the afternoon. [HON. MEMBERS: "No!"] I hope that that is so. Certainly the proposals then made by the Secretary of State seemed to make it non-contentious.
Then there are the Representation of of People (No. 4) Bill, the Telegraph (Money) Bill, and the Celluloid and Cinematograph Film Bill. I do not anticipate that these Bills will be reached before Eleven o'Clock to-night. Should they be objected to after Eleven o'Clock, we cannot take them. I only make an appeal to the House to allow us to clear the Order Paper or these Bills, so as to facilitate an earlier rising than might otherwise be the case.
§ Sir F. BANBURYDoes that mean that no more Bills are to be introduced?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINExcept the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill.
§ Mr. ACLANDWhen may we expect to have in the Vote Office the Amendments of the Minister of Agriculture to the Allotments Bill? We received the reprinted Bill only this morning, and have no knowledge of any Amendments that 42 are to be brought forward. It is extraordinarily short notice for us to put down our own Amendments, if we do not know what are the Government Amendments.
Sir A. BOSCAWENThere are very few Amendments, and they relate only to matters which I promised to deal with when the Bill was in Committee. The majority are on the Paper already. There may be one or two others to be added.
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI would like to qualify the answer I have given to my right hon. Friend the Member for the City of London (Sir F. Banbury). There are two Bills down for introduction today That is for the sake of getting them printed and formally published, and not with any idea that we should proceed with them at this stage of the Session.
§ Mr. STEWARTWill the Government take the first Order on the Paper to-day —the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Bill—as there is no contention about it?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINOf course, we should be glad to take it, if it were with the consent of the House. We cannot take it, otherwise. I understood, however, that it would not be in accordance with the feeling of some sections of the House to take it to-day.