§ LORD HERSCHELL, in moving in the case of the Fishery Acts Amendment (Ireland) Bill, that Standing Order No. XXXIV be considered in order to its 2 being dispensed with, observed that Members of the other House were not aware that there was a time within which such Bills should come up to their Lordships' House, and he recommended that the Committee on the Standing Orders should consider whether this Standing Order should be retained.
§ Moved, "That Standing Order No. XXXIV be considered in order to its being dispensed with."—(The Lord Herschell.)
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (The Marquess of SALISBURY)said, that it was very important that measure, particularly those introduced by private Members, which might have received very little notice in the other House, should not be allowed to come up to their Lordships' House at the end of the Session, when the House was compara- 3 tively empty, and they might pass with little observation. The particular application of the noble and learned Lord might fairly be adopted, as there was no opposition to the Bill; but where the Bills were of a contentious nature the Standing Order was very useful. Though not prepared to raise his own individual voice against the suspension of the Order, he hoped it would not be made a precedent in the case of contentious Bills.
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEYsaid, that means should be taken to give Notice, so that a Bill should not be suppressed by accident any more than passed by accident, as the noble Marquess feared.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Standing Order No. XXXIV. considered (according to order), and dispensed with.