Lords Sitting of 9 September 1887

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—First Reading—Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous) * (257).
Report—Third Reading—Coal Mines, &c. Regulation (251), and passed.
Third Reading—Friendly Societies Act (1875) I Amendment (No. 3) * (256); Labourers Allotments * (252); Charity Commissioners (Officers) * (254); Tramways (War Department) * (255), and passed.

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL.

  OBSERVATIONS.
  LORD DENMAN: My Lords, I trust that in bringing forward the Women's Suffrage Bill a second time, I did not wish to take any of your Lordships by surprise. After the opinion expressed as to No. 1 Bill, which I supposed to be still in existence—which it was until the decision on the Chairman of Committees' Motion—and being still a Bill in
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  progress, I withdrew my Notice for next Session, and said I should try to carry it.
  THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Viscount CROSS): I am sure that no one would suppose that the noble Lord had any desire to take your Lordships by surprise. No one, I am sure, wishes to treat the House with more I consideration than the noble Lord.
  LORD DENMAN: My Lords, I observe that when the Honourable Colonel Cody, commonly called "Buffalo Bill," came here and signed his autograph, he added these words, "True alike to friends and foes." As I have many friends and foes in this House, I shall follow his example.

COAL MINES, &c. REGULATION BILL.
(The Viscount Cross.)
COAL MINES, &c. REGULATION BILL.

  (NO. 251.) REPORT.
  Amendments reported (according to Order).
  Clause 18 (Exception from provisions as to shafts).
  On the Motion of The Viscount CROSS, the following Amendment made:—Leave out sub-section (c), and insert—
  "The provision in this Act requiring the two shafts or outlets of a mine to be separated by a distance of not less than fifteen yards shall not apply to any mine which is provided with two shafts sunk before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, but at that time separated by a distance of less than ten feet or commenced to be sunk before the commencement of this Act but separated by a distance of more than ten feet and less than fifteen yards."
  Clause, as amended, agreed to.
  Standing Order No. XXXV. considered (according to order) and dispensed with.
  Bill read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

  BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
  THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Viscount CROSS)said, he had made inquiries as to the Business proceeding in the other House, and he found that it was not likely their Lordships would have any Bills sent up to them until rather late on Monday; and, as the only Business then would be to receive Bills from the Commons, he proposed that their Lordships should adjourn until half-past 11 o'clock on Monday night.
  House adjourned at a quarter before Five o'clock, to Monday next, half past Eleven o'clock P.M.