Lords Sitting of 8 June 1915

Preamble
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:
Tramways Provisional Orders.
Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 4).
Also the Certificates that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bills:

Conway Fisheries Provisional Order.

Sea Fisheries (Cardigan Bay) Provisional Order.

Sea Fisheries (Poole) Provisional Order.

And also the Certificate that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:
Lurgan Urban District Council.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

METHODIST CHURCH IN IRELAND BILL.
Committee (which stands appointed for Thursday next) put off to Tuesday next.
SKEGNESS URBAN DISTRICT GAS BILL.
Committee to meet on Tuesday next.
BARNOLDSWICK URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL WATER BILL.
Read 2a, and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
CHELMSFORD CORPORATION GAS BILL.
Read 2a, and committed.
DEWSBURY CORPORATION BILL.
Read 2a, and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
FRIENDS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION BILL.
Read 2a, and committed.
RHONDDA URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS EXTENSIONS, &c.) BILL.
Read 2a, and committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
SOUTHEND WATER BILL.
Read 2a, and committed.
PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a (according to Order).
BURY AND DISTRICT JOINT WATER BOARD BILL.
Read 3a, and passed.
METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY BILL.
Read 3a, with the Amendments: Further Amendments made: Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.
SEAFORTH AND SEFTON JUNCTION RAILWAY BILL.
The KING'S consent signified: Bill read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
KILMARNOCK GAS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.]
To be read 2a on Tuesday next (The Lord Stanmore).
IRVINE AND DISTRICT WATER BOARD (EMERGENCY POWERS) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.]
To be read 2a on Tuesday next (The Lord Stanmore).
GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
To be read 3a on Tuesday next.
SALOP COUNTY COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 to 1909—Special Report by the Board of Trade under Section 1 of the Electric Lighting Act, 1888:
Light Railways Acts, 1896 and 1912—Order made by the Light Railway Commissioners, and modified and confirmed by the Board of Trade, entitled the Clayton-le-Moors Light Railway (Extension of Time) Order, 1915:
Presented (by command) and ordered to lie on the Table.
Railways Companies' Powers Act, 1864—Report by the Board of Trade on applications made during the year 1914 under the Act, and of the proceedings of the Board of Trade with respect thereto:
Light Railways Acts, 1896 and 1912—Report of the proceedings of the Board of Trade up to 31st December 1914, and of the proceedings of the Light Railway Commissioners up to the same date:
Penal Servitude Acts, 1853–1891 (Conditional Licence)—Licence granted to a convict discharging her from Aylesbury Convict Prison on condition that she enters a home:
National Insurance Acts (Unemployment Insurance)—The Unemployment Insurance (Refunds to Employers) Regulations, 1915, made by the Board of Trade on 26th May 1915, in pursuance of Section 91 of the Act of 1911:
Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 to 1909—Special Report by the Board of Trade stating the grounds on which they have dispensed with the consent of the Urban District Council of Haworth to the breaking up of certain roads in the said Urban District, for the purposes of the Keighley Electric Lighting (Extension) Order, 1915:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) and ordered to lie on the Table.
Margate Pier and Harbour Company(1812)—Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ended 5th April 1915:
Delivered (pursuant to Act) and ordered to lie on the Table.

FORFAR GAS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
Read 3a (according to Order): An Amendment made: Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.

PUBLICATION OF PEERS' DEBATES.
THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE)THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE) presented and moved the adoption of the Third Report from the Select Committee on the House of Lords Offices. The Committee reported—
"The Committee have considered the subject of the present system of publishing the House of Lords Debates referred to them by the House:
"They are of opinion that a re-trial should be given to the different method, similar in principle to that of the House of Commons, adopted at the commencement of the Session of 1909 and shortly afterwards dropped, by which the publishing of the Reports of the Debates can be considerably accelerated. They therefore recommend that as soon as arrangements for the change can be conveniently made, the Daily Parts circulated to all Peers desiring them. But each Peer taking part in a debate would receive direct from the printers two copies of the Daily Part, on which he would mark any necessary corrections, and these corrections would be subsequently made for the permanent record (the Volume). The Committee are advised that provided the times in the Table at the end of this Report are accepted, this change can be effected without involving any increased expenditure either for reporting or printing the Debates. But they think it right to draw special attention to the fact that:—

"(1) Under the proposed new system the sending to Peers of proof slips, as formerly, would be quite impracticable; and

"(2) To avoid the pagination and 'make up' being interfered with—an expensive matter from the printing point of view—the corrections made in the Daily Part for the Volume would have to be strictly limited to putting right inaccuracies.

"The Committee recommend further that in order that the present cost of printing may not be exceeded, the number of Daily Parts to which a member of the House is entitled free of charge should be limited to six.
"They recommend further that, as correction in future will be limited to putting right inaccuracies, the asterisk hitherto used to indicate that a speech has been revised by the Peer should be abolished.
"Lastly, the Committee desire to mention that it would considerably assist the recording of the Debates if all extracts, whether typewritten or printed, read by Peers, were as soon as possible afterwards handed to an attendant of the House for delivery to the Official Reporter."

TABLE.

Duration of Sitting.

Day of Debate.

Time of Publication.

Two hours or less

Monday

Wednesday, 5 p.m.

Tuesday

Thursday, 5 p.m.

Wednesday

Friday, 5 p.m.

Thursday

Monday, 12 o'clock noon.

Between two and three hours.

Monday

Thursday, 10 a.m.

Tuesday

Friday, 10 a.m.

Wednesday

Saturday, 10 a.m.

Thursday

Monday, 5 p.m.

Between three and four hours.

Monday

Thursday, 5 p.m.

Tuesday

Friday, 5 p.m.

Wednesday

Saturday, 5 p.m.

Up till 11.30 p.m. each night for a week (with dinner adjournments).

Monday

Thursday, 6 p.m.

Tuesday

Friday, 6 p.m.

Wednesday

Monday, 6 p.m.

Thursday

Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Moved, That the Third Report from the Select Committee on the House of Lords Offices be adopted.—(The Earl of Donoughmore.)
On Questin, Motion agreed to.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (THE MARQUESS of CREWE): My Lords, there is no more business on the Paper, and I only do not move the adjournment of the House because it is desirable that the House should adjourn during pleasure in order to receive from another place the Ministry of Munitions Bill, which will be read a first time herb to-day and printed. To-morrow an opportunity will be given to those noble Lords who may desire to make some observations upon the Bill. But I propose to place on the Paper for to-morrow a Motion for the suspension of Standing Order No. XXXIX, and I hope the House will agree to take the Bill through its remaining stages at that sitting, as noble Lords will understand that it is important that this new office should be brought into being with as little delay as possible.
House adjourned during pleasure; and resumed by the DUKE of DEVONSHIRE.

MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a Tomorrow (The Earl Curzon of Kedleston), and Standing Order No. XXXIX to be considered in order to its being dispensed with. (No. 91.)
House adjourned at twenty minutes past Seven o'clock, till Tomorrow, a quarter past Four o'clock.