Lords Sitting of 11 June 1901

Preamble
An Asterisk (*) at the commencement of a Speech indicates revision by the Member.

EARL OF GOSFORD.
VISCOUNT BARRINGTON.
Petitions of Archibald Brabazon Sparrow Acheson, Earl of Gosford, and of Walter Bulkeley, Viscount Barrington, both in the Peerage of Ireland, claiming a right to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland; read, and referred to the Lord Chancellor to consider and report thereupon to the House.

Several Lords took the Oath.
The Lord Howard de Walden sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates
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from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—

Newry Port and Harbour Trust.

Mansfield Corporation.

Bingley Urban District Council.

British Gas Light Company.

Burton-upon-Trent Corporation.

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Electric Power.

Dublin (Equalisation of Rates).

Irish Presbyterian Church.

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Dearne Valley Junction Railways).

Metropolitan Water Companies (Amendment of Acts).

Pembroke Urban District Council (County of Dublin).

Swanage Gas and Water.

Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway.

Also the certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—
London County Council (Money).
Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 3).
And also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to

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the following Bills have not been com-plied with:—

City and North-Eastern Suburban Electric Railway [H.L.]—(Petition for additional Provision).

North British Railway.

Biggleswade Water.

Belfast and Northern Counties Railway.

Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway (New Ross and Waterford Extension).

Winsford Urban District (Gas Transfer, &c.).

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.

  CITY AND NORTH-EASTERN SUBURBAN ELECTRIC RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]—(PETITION FOR ADDITIONAL PROVISION).
  NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY BILL.
  BIGGLESWADE WATER BILL.
  BELFAST AND NORTHERN COUNTIES RAILWAY BILL.
  DUBLIN, WICKLOW, AND WEXFORD RAILWAY (NEW ROSS AND WATERFORD EXTENSION) BILL.
  WINSFORD URBAN DISTRICT (GAS TRANSFER, ETC.) BILL.
  Examiner's Certificates of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Monday next.

  WEST SURREY WATER BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed.
  CALEDONIAN RAILWAY BILL.
  Read 2a and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  KETTERING URBAN DISTRICT WATER BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed.
  LLANDRINDOD WELLS URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL WATER BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

  RICHMOND GAS BILL.
  STROUD GAS BILL.
  NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed.

  BOLTON CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
  WISBECH WATER BILL [H.L.].
  BRISTOL CORPORATION CEMETERY BILL [H.L.].
  HARPENDEN DISTRICT GAS BILL [H.L.].
  BARROW-IN-FURNESS CORPORATION BILL [H.L.].
  MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL ELECTRIC EXPRESS RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
  DOVER CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]

  HEYWOOD AND MIDDLETON WATER BOARD BILL [H.L.]
  Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

  COLWYN BAY AND COLWYN URBAN DISTRICT GAS BILL.
  BURY CORPORATION TRAMWAYS BILL.
  MIDLAND RAILWAY BILL.
  Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.

  ALFRETON GAS BILL [H.L.]
  OMAGH GAS BILL [H.L.].
  Commons, Amendments considered, and agreed to.

  GLASGOW CORPORATION (POLICE) PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.] (No. 104.)
  AYR COUNTY BUILDINGS PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]. (No. 103)
  To be printed.

  PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No 3) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Bexhill, Burghead, Carradale, Elgin and Lossiemouth and Urr Navigation. Was presented by the Earl of Dudley: Then it was moved that the Sessional Order of the 21st March last, "That no Provisional Order Confirmation Bill originating in this House shall be read a first time after Thursday, the 9th day of May next," be dispensed with in respect of the said Bill; and that the Bill be now read 1a; agreed to; Bill read 1a; accordingly: To be printed, and referred to the Examiners. (No. 102.)
  METROPOLITAN COMMON SCHEME (HAM) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday next.

  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 8) BILL [H.L.]
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 9) BILL [H.L.]
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 11) BILL [H.L.].
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 12) BILL [H.L.].
  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 1) BILL [H.L.].
  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 3) BILL [H.L.].
  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 4) BILL [H.L.].
  WATER ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 2) BILL [H.L.].
  Read 2a (according to Order).

  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 6) BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to Order): Amendments made: Standing Committee negatived: The Report of Amendments to be received on Thursday next.
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 10) BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to Order): Bill reported without amendment: Standing Committee negatived; and Bill to be read 3a on Thursday next.
  GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to Order): Amendments made: Standing Committee negatived: The Report of Amendments to be received on Thursday next.
  GAS AND WATER ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to Order); Bill reported without amendment: Standing Committee negatived; and Bill to be read 3a on Thursday; next.

  ALDEBURGH CORPORATION (WATER) BILL.
  BLACKPOOL IMPROVEMENT BILL.
  BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL.
  BURY CORPORATION BILL,
  GOLBORNE GAS BILL.
  LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS AND STREET WTDENINGS) BILL.
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.

  METROPOLITAN RAILWAY BILL.
  SHIREOAKS, LAUGHTON, AND MALTBY RAILWAY BILL.
  WEST CUMBERLAND ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS BILL.
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  ROYAL OBSERVATORY, EDINBURGH.
  Eleventh Annual Report of the Astronomer Royal for Scotland.

  TRADE REPORTS—ANNUAL SERIES.
  No. 2623. Russia (Batoum);
  No. 2624. France (Corsica);
  No. 2625. France (Pondicherry and Karikal).

  BOARD OF EDUCATION.
  1. Directory, with regulations for establishing, conducting, and inspecting schools and classes in connection with the Board of Education, South Kensington (from 1st August, 1901, to 31st July, 1902).
  2. Directory, Part II., comprising syllabuses and lists of apparatus, etc., for use in schools and classes in connection with the Board of Education, South Kensington (from 1st August, 1901, to 31st July, 1902).
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

PETITIONS.

  CHARITY COMMISSION (SCHEMES).
  Petition for power of appeal against the dismissal of head teachers and assistants

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  in schools; of Thomas Allen, M.A.; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

  SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL [H.L.]
  Petition against; of certain licence holders of Leicester; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

  HABITUAL DRUNKARDS BILL [H.L.]
  LICENSING BILL [H.L.].
  Petition in favour of; of the Rochdale Temperance Society; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

  TRAMWAYS (CONSENTS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES).
  Petition against the Amendment of Standing Order No. 22; of Paddington Corporation; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
  PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
  Leave given to the Viscount Esher to attend the Select Committee of the House of Commons, pursuant to the message of yesterday, if he think fit, and, his Lordship consenting thereto, a message ordered to be sent to the Commons to acquaint them therewith.

  HABITUAL DRUNKARDS BILL [H.L.] (No. 105).
  NOW
  DRUNKARDS BILL [H.L.].
  LICENSING BILL [H.L.] (No. 106).
  Reported from the Standing Committee with further Amendments: The Report of the Amendments made in Committee of the Whole House and by the Standing Committee to be received on Friday next; and Bills to be printed as amended.

  BISHOPRIC OF SOUTHWARK BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to Order).
  Clause 1 agreed to.
  Clause 2:—
  THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY said this clause provided that, from the date of the foundation of the Bishopric of Southwark, the existing residence of the Bishop of Rochester should become the residence of the Bishop
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  of Southwark, and that as soon after that date as practicable the Ecclesiastical Commissioners should, out of the surplusin their hands arising from the sale of Addington, after providing for an archiepiscopal residence at Canterbury, apply a sum of £15,000 to the provision of a suitable residence for the Bishop of Rochester. The object of the Amendment was simply to complete the proposal contained in the clause.
  Amendment moved—
  "In Clause 2, page 2, line 11, after 'provision' to insert 'and, so far as not required for the provision, towards the maintenance."—(The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.)
  Amendment agreed to.
  Clause 2, as amended, agreed to.
  Clause 3:—
  THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY said that the parishes of Bromley, Chislehurst, and Dartford were already in the diocese of Rochester, and that if the Bishop of Worcester consented to the transference to the Bishop of Rochester of the patronage of these benefices it would be a very great addition to the power of the latter to work his diocese.
  Amendment moved—
  "In Clause 3, page 2, line 33, after 'Act' to insert 'and on such a re-arrangement being made the scheme effecting the re-arrangement may, if the Bishop of Worcester assents thereto, contain provisions for transferring from the Bishop of Worcester to the Bishop of Rochester the patronage of the benefices of Bromley, Chislehurst, and Dartford, mentioned in that schedule."—(The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.)
  Amendment agreed to.
  Other Amendments agreed to.
  Schedules amended and agreed to.
  Standing Committee negatived.
  The Report of Amendments to be received on Thursday next; and Bill to be printed as amended. (No. 107.)

  QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY BOARD.
  THE PRIME MINISTER AND LORD-PRIVY SEAL (The Marquess of SALISBURY): My Lords, I rise to move the

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  motion standing in my name. We discussed this matter last year†, and it is not necessary to raise the question again. I do not think that any good would he attained by proving that the constitution of Queen Anne's Bounty Board is complicated and antiquated, for I do not imagine that anybody would maintain the other side.
  Moved to resolve—
  "That it is expedient that a Select Committee be appointed to join with a Committee of the Commons to consider the constitution of Queen Anne's Bounty Board, and to report whether economy and efficiency of administration would be promoted by any change in its constitution or by its amalgamation with any other body."—(The Marquess of Salisbury.)
  On Question, agreed to, and a message ordered to be sent to the Commons to acquaint them therewith.

  DEMISE OF THE CROWN BILL.
  Brought from the Commons; Bead 1a; and to be printed. (No. 108.)
  House adjourned at ten minutes before Five of the clock, to Thursday next, half-past Ten of the clock.