Lords Sitting of 16 August 1889

SUCK DRAINAGE BILL (PRIVATE BILL).
On the Motion by the Chairman of Committees, Standing Orders No. XXXIX. and 143A be dispensed with in order to enable the Bill to be read the third time.
LORD DENMANbriefly protested against the growing practice of suspending Standing Orders in order that Bills might be forced into law. He pointed out that if he pressed his opposition to the Motion to a Division, and secured a Teller, the House would be compelled to meet on a subsequent occasion, because the Standing Orders provided for the attendance of 30 Peers in order to make a Division effective, and at that moment there were not 10 noble Lords in the House. He did not propose to take that extreme course; but he thought it right formally to protest against this hurried legislation, which, he would mention, was always deprecated by the late Chairman of Committees, Lord Redesdale.
The Motion was agreed to, and the Bill read 3a and passed, and sent to the Commons.

PALATINE COURT OF DURHAM BILL. (No. 71.)
Returned from the Commons with the Amendments made by the Lords to the Amendments made by the Commons agreed to.
GENERAL POLICE AND IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND (ACT 1862.) AMENDMENT BILL. (No. 228.)
Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.
POOR LAW BILL. (No. 195.)
Read 3a (according to order) with the Amendments; further Amendments made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
OFFICIAL SECRETS BILL. (No. 112.)
Read 3a (according to order) with the Amendments; further Amendments made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons; and to be printed as amended, (No. 232.)
PAYMASTER GENERAL BILL. (No. 208.)
Read 3a (according to order), with the Amendment, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
COUNTY COURT APPEALS (IRELAND) BILL. (No. 104.)
Commons Amendments to Lords Amendments considered (according to order), and agreed to.
FEES OF THE HOUSE.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table (pursuant to order of yesterday) a table of the fees of this House relating to Appeals, Claims of Peerage, and Claims to Vote for Representative Peers; the same was ordered to lie on the Table, and to be printed, and circulated with the Standing Order of this House relating to Appeals, &c. (No. 231.)
ARBITRATION BILL. (No. 97.)
Commons Amendment considered (according to order), and agreed to.

COINAGE (LIGHT GOLD) BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1ª to be printed; and to be read 2ª on Thursday next.—(The Marquess of Salisbury). (No. 233.)
House adjourned at half past Four o'clock, to Thursday next, a quarter past Four o'clock.