Date when Closure Moved and by whom. RETURN respecting Application of Standing Order No. 26 (Closure of Debate) during Session 1907-continued. Question before House or Committee when Moved. Whether in House or Committee. Whether Assent given to Motion or withheld by Speaker of Chairman. Assent withheld because, in the opinion of the Chair, a decision would shortly be arrived at without that Motion. Result of Motion, and, if a Division, Numbers For and Against. Sir Henry Campbell- Business of the House (Procedure) "(1) When a Bill has been read a second time it shall stand committed (a) Bills for imposing taxes, or Consolidated Fund, or Appropriation (b) Bills for confirming Provisional Orders. (2) The House may, on Motion made by the Member in charge of a Bill, Date when Closure Moved RETURN respecting Application of Standing Order No. 26 (Closure of Debate) during Session 1907-continued. Ayes, 313; Noes, 81 26th March Incidence of Taxation Mr. Bennett. Ditto ditto In House The Speaker's assent given Closure carried on Division: "(1) When a Bill has been read a second time it shall stand committed to one of the Standing Committees, unless the House, on Motion to be decided without amendment or debate, otherwise order, and such a Motion shall not require notice, must be made immediately after the Bill is read a second time, may be made by any Member, and may, though opposed, be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. But this Order shall not apply to (a) Bills for imposing taxes, or Consolidated Fund or Appropriation Bills; or (b) Bills for confirming Provisional Orders. In House The Speaker's assent given Business of the House (Procedure) (Termination of Proceedings thereon) "That the Proceedings on the Motions with respect to Business of the 1. At 10 p.m. on that day, Mr. Speaker shall put forthwith the 2. On that day the proceedings to which this Order relates shall not Closure carried on Division: Closure carried on Division: Closure carried on Division: Territorial and Reserve Forces Bill In House The Speaker's assent given Closure agreed to. "That the Bill be now read a second time." Land Law (Ireland) Acts Amendment Bill "That the Bill be now read a second time." Mr. Secretary Haldane. RETURN respecting Application of Standing Order No. 26 (Closure of Debate) during Session 1907-continued. Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word "That," to the end of the Question, and add the words "in view of the continued confidence expressed in the policy of Sir Horace Plunkett by the Council of Agriculture, two-thirds of whose Members are directly appointed by the county councils of Ireland, it is inadvisable, before the House has had an opportunity of considering carefully the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the organisation and working of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, to make any change in Sir Horace Plunkett's tenure of the Vice-Presidency.' "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." In House ditto "That the position of Vice-President of the Board of Agriculture in "That the Bill be now read a second time." |