Lords Sitting of 17 April 1923

Preamble
Reassembling after the Easter Recess, the House met at a quarter past four of the clock, The LORD CHANCELLOR on the Woolsack.

BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL. [H.L.]
EARL RUSSELL: My Lords, I beg to present a Bill to amend the laws relating to blasphemy. It is only a one-clause Bill, but as your Lordships will probably like time in which to consider it, I Propose to take the Second Reading some time after Whitsuntide. I beg to move that the Bill be read a first time.
Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a.—(Earl Russell.)
On Question, Bill read 1a; and to be printed.

ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.
Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and to be printed.
DANGEROUS DRUGS AND POISONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.
Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and to be printed.

STANDING JOINT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.
LORD ISLINGTON: My Lords, I notice that the Resolution which was to have been moved by Viscount Peel, the Secretary of State for India—namely, That it is desirable that a Committee of eleven Lords be appointed to join with a Committee of eleven Members to be appointed by the House of Commons as a Standing Joint Committee on Indian Affairs—has been postponed. Will the noble Marquess
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who leads the House be good enough to say on what day it is likely that that Resolution will be moved?
THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY): My Lords, I am much obliged to my noble friend for asking the question. I think that my noble friend the Secretary of State for India proposes to put it down again for this day week. I will take care that the point is ascertained, so that the noble Lord and others may have due notice. While I am on my feet I think I ought to tender an apology to noble Lords for the fact that this Order has been postponed at the last moment, owing to there being some sort of confusion about it. So far as I am concerned I am sorry, and I will take care that it does not happen again.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY: My Lords, I beg to move that this House do now adjourn.
Moved, That the House do now adjourn.—(The Marquess of Salisbury.)
THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF DONOUGHNIORE): My Lords, on that Motion it may be for the convenience of your Lordships that I should say, with reference to an important debate on the Croydon Corporation Bill which is down for Second Reading tomorrow—when my noble friend opposite, Lord Crawford, will move, That it be an instruction to the Committee on the Croydon Corporation Bill to strike out of the Bill all powers relating to the compulsory acquisition of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity (otherwise known as the Whitgift Hospital) in Croydon with its chapel and offices—that a model of the hospital will be on view in the Royal Gallery to-morrow and, of course, available for all your Lordships to see.
On Question, Motion agreed to.
House adjourned at twenty minutes past four o'clock.