HL Deb 27 May 1892 vol 5 c33

FIRST READING.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND PRIME MINISTER (The Marquess of SALISBURY)

My Lords, in moving that this Bill be read a first time, in order to enable your Lordships to become acquainted with it we should, I think, leave a little interval before the Second Reading; it would not be very convenient to take it early next week, and I think if we took it on the first day after the Recess, Monday the 13th June, that would be sufficient time. I do not know whether that day would be convenient to your Lordships.

THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY

Is not the day of meeting, particularly if it is a Monday, generally one on which there is not a very good attendance? I have no particular feeling myself, but those who have been away, and have to come back on a Monday, if they happen to be any distance away from town, find it rather difficult. Would not Tuesday be equally convenient?

THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY

There are certain things that take place which are not recognised in Parliament, but which have a considerable effect on the attendance in this House, and Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in that week, I believe, are very great days; so that I think, unless the noble Lord has some strong objection, we had better keep to Monday.

THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY

I had entirely overlooked that.

Bill brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Monday the 13th June next. (No. 139.)

House adjourned at a quarter past Six o'clock.