TOWN EDITION. The Daily Telegraph SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1881.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3171, 27 August 1881, Page 2

TOWN EDITION. The Daily Telegraph SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1881.

The Government being unable to carry their Representation Bill through the House by the ordinary forms of procedure would now burke discussion and opposition by the introduction of the " Tron Hand." The Government would •'ntroduce into the New Zealand Parliament the rules that were found necessary *o adopt in <he House of Commons as a dc-fance against the ta*itics of Irish voemheis. Mr Hall, to bolster up the weakness of hh. Cabinet, and to expedite tbe close of the session to escape the worry of opposition, would grant the Government power to declare any matter hafore the Fonse as " urgent," when no other subject could be discussed till the first was disposed of. What at home Mr Gladstone bad to nss as extraordinary and powerful machinery to overcome that which was a danger to the State, is, if the Government get their own way, to be applied here to crush a butterfly. The following are the rules which the Government desire to adopt for tbe regulation of the House while the state of public business is " urgent:"—-1. That no motion for the adjournment of the House shall he made except by leave of tbe House before tbe orders of the day or notices of motions have been entered upon. 2. That when a motion is made for the adjournment of the debate or of the House during any debate, the debate thereupon shall be strictly confined to the matter of that motion. 3. That if during any debate a motion be made for the adjournment of the debate or of the House Mr Speaker may decline to nut the question thereupon, if in his judgment such motion is made for the nurpose of obstruction; or if he thinks fit to put such question he may put it from the chair forthwith. 4. That no member having spoken to a motion for the adjournment of a debate or of the House during any debate sball be entitled to meve or to speak to any similar mot'on during tbe fame dobate. 5. That Mr speaker may call the attention of the House to continued irrelevancy or tedious repetition on the part of a member and may direct the member to discontinue his speech. 6. That when it shall appear to Mr Speaker during any debate to be the general sense of the House that the question be now put, he may so inform the House, and, on a motion being made that the question be now put Mr Speaker sball forthwith put such question, and if the same be decided in the affirmative by a majority of three to one the question previously under debate shall be forthwith put from the chair. 7. That when tbe order of the day for the committee on any bill o.* other matter declared urgent is read, Mr Speaker shall forthwith leave the chair without putting any question", and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into committee. 8. That in reading the order of the day for the consideration of a bill (declared urgent) as amended the House do proceed to consider the same without question put. 9. That when before a division Mr Speaker's decision, that the ' ayes' or 'noes' have it, is challenged, Mr speaker may call upon the members challenging it to rise in their places, and if they do not exceed 20 he may forthwith declare the determination of the House. The rules regulating tbe proceedings of the Committee of the whole House upon any bill or other matter declared urgent are as follows :—lO. That when a motion is made that the Chairman do report progress or do leave the chair, the debate shall be strictly confined to tbe matter of such motion. 11. That if a motion that the Chairman do report progress or do leave tbe chair be made, tbe Chairman may decline to put the question, if in his judgment such motion is made for the purpose of obstruction; or if he think fit to put such a question he may put it from the chair forthwith. 12. That no member having spoken to a motion that the Chairman do report progress or do leave the chair, shall be entitled to move or to .-peak to any similar motion during the same sitting of the Committee. 13. That the Chairman may call the attention of tbe Committee to the continuance of irrelevance or tedious repetition on the part of the member, and may direct the member to discontinue his speech. 14. That no member shall be allowed to speak more than once to the same question, unless the member in charge of the bill or any member who has made a motion or moved an amendment desires to offer explanation. 15. That tbe preamble of a bill do stand postponed until after the consideration of the clauses without question put. 16. That when before a division the Chairman's decision, that the • ayes' or ' noes' have it, is challenged, the Chairman may call upon the members challenging it to rise iv their places, and it they do not exceed ten he may forthwith declare the determination of the Committee. 17. That when in any of the rules framed by Mr Speaker a question is to be put from the chair forthwith no amendment, adjournment, or debate shall be allowed."