§ Order of the Day read for the further consideration of the Third Report from the Select Committee.
THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (The Earl of ONSLOW)My Lords, it will be in the recollection of your Lordships that just before the adjournment of the House this Report was considered, and that, in deference to the views of noble Lords opposite, I consented to postpone that part of it which dealt with the office of Black Rod. A Select Committee of your Lordships' House, appointed in the last Session of Parliament, report that in their opinion the House had not power to remove from the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod those appointments of doorkeepers and messengers which at an earlier period it was believed were entirely under the control of this House. In those circumstances 26 they recommend your Lordships to reverse the decision which you arrived at in 1890, and that the appointments of doorkeepers and messengers should in future be in the gift of the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. I therefore ask your Lordships to agree to the Report of the Committee.
§ Moved, "That the Report be now further considered."
§ On Question, Motion agreed to, and the remainder of the said Report agreed, to.