Sitting of 28 June 1895

SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT.
I. Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890; Technical Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891; Technical Instruction Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1892; Public Libraries Acts—Return showing the extent to which, and the manner in which, Local Authorities in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland are applying funds to the purposes of technical education (including science, art, technical and manual instruction);
II. Calendar, history, and general summary of regulations of the Department of Science and Art, for the year 1896 (with tables):
Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table,

PROVISIONAL ORDER BILLS.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 4) BILL [H.L.], and
EDUCATION PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION (LONDON) BILL [H.L.]
Amendments reported (according to Order); and Bills to be read 3a on Monday next.

INCLOSURE (UPTON ST. LEONARDS) PRO VISIONAL ORDER BILL,
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 4) BILL, and
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (HOUSING OF WORKING CLASSES) BILL.
Read 3a (according to Order), and passed.

MARKET GARDENERS' COMPENSATION BILL.
House in Committee (according to Order); an Amendment made; Standing Committee negatived; the Report of Amendment to be received on Monday next; and Standing Order No. XXXIX. to be considered in order to its being dispensed with.
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a (according to Order); Amendments made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.

VOLUNTEERS (MILITARY SERVICE) BILL.
LORD MONKSWELL,in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, said he hoped their Lordships would allow him the satisfaction of passing this Bill. It was merely an enabling Bill, and would not put anybody under any new obligation. The objection taken to the Bill in the House of Commons was that it did not go far enough, and he did not suppose that their Lordships in the present circumstances would think that a fatal objection. The first object of the Bill was to enable the Secretary of State to call out any part of a Volunteer corps when, under the Act of 1863, he might call out the whole corps. Secondly, it proposed to empower the Secretary of State to accept, whenever the Militia were embodied, the services of Volunteers who might signify to him their willingness to serve. It was quite possible that the Militia might be embodied in circumstances when it would be impossible for the Secretary of State to call out the Volunteers, because the Militia might be embodied in cases of

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national danger or great emergency, whereas the Volunteers could only be called out in case of actual or apprehended invasion.
Read 2a (according to Order); then it was moved that Standing Order No. XXXIX be considered and dispensed with; agreed to. Bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House forthwith; House in Committee accordingly. Bill reported without Amendment. Standing Committee negatived. Bill read 3a, and passed.

OUTDOOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL.
LORD RIBBLESDALE,in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, said, he hoped their Lordships would allow the Bill to belong to that fortunate class of measures which the noble Marquess promised should reach their full perfection. The Bill itself only re-enacted certain clauses of the Irish Relief Bill of 1880, which was introduced by Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Lowther. It enabled the Local Government Board for Ireland to authorise the boards of guardians to distribute out-door relief to poor persons who happened to be in the occupation of land exceeding a quarter of an acre, and the importance of the Bill was that there was a validating clause, which made valid the action taken by boards of guardians in anticipation of the passing of the Bill. During last winter the Local Government Board recommended this distribution of relief to poor people, and the Government thought the best way of dealing with the matter was to pass a measure of this sort, following the lines of the Bill of 1880. It was not anticipated that there would be any
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delay, and if this Bill did not pass into law the guardians would be surcharged for the charitable relief they had given. Beyond that, the Third Clause provided that the receipt of such relief should not carry with it any electoral disability, and that followed the precedent of the Seed Potatoes Act and the Irish Relief Act.
Read 2a (according to Order); then it was moved that Standing Order No. XXXIX be considered and dispensed with; agreed to. Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House forthwith; House in Committee accordingly. Bill reported without Amendment. Standing Committee negatived. Bill read 3a and passed.

PUBLIC BUSINESS.
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY moved—"That this House do now adjourn until Monday next."
THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYsaid he did not see any advantage in meeting on Monday.
THE EARL OF MORLEYpointed out that there were several Bills on the Paper for that day, and that it would be convenient to proceed with them.
THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY: Very well; I will not oppose our meeting on Monday, but I presume none of the Bills referred to by the noble Earl are of a contentious character.
House adjourned at Twenty minutes before Five o'clock to Monday next, a quarter past Four o'clock.