TIDE TABLE. The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3952, 29 August 1881, Page 2

TIDE TABLE.

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1881.

Moon's First Quarter--2nd, 1.41 a.vi

This evening Mr Hall's motion in the direction of amending the rules and forms of the House come on for discussion. In our last issue we gave in extenso the wording of Mr Hall's motion, which, in effect, means the introduction into our Par liament of the rules and regulations which the House of Commons was driven to adopt in the face of the obstruction of the Home Eulers. It is almost unnecessary to point out how little the circumstances which led the Imperial Parliament to adopt such rules correspond with the circumstances of our House of Representatives, and how absurd it is for Mr Hall to attach such importance to the action of a few discontented members as to think it necessary to treat them as the Home Eulers were treated. Other Legislatures have from time to time found it necessary to provide means to suppress unruly members, and in the present circumstance it may be interesting to enquire into the various methods at present in

practice: —

In Germany, at any time during a debate a member may submit a motion in writing to the President in favor either of adjourning or of closing the discussion (cloture). Such motion must be supported by 30 members. When this is done, the President puts the question "that the debate be closed," and the House, without requiring the mover to defend his motion by arguments, and without further discussion proceeds to rote by show of hands.

In Italy one member only has the right of speaking against the cloture before it is pronounced, but once the cloture has been decided by the Chamber and pronounced by the President, the debate ceases, and no further speaking is permitted, unless some member who may bare been personally alluded to in the course of the debate demands to speak on a personal matter {per un fatto personate) ; but he is bound to confine himself to the personal explanation, and must not enter into the subject matter of the debate. Any member, however, who may have given notice of an order of the day before the cloture has been pronounced has the right of developing it after it has been pronounced. In the Austro-Hungarian Reichsrath, the President may put a motion to close the debate to the vote at any time, and a simple majority suffices to carry it. This must be done, nowerer, without interruption to any speech in actual course of delivery. "When a vote to close the debate is passed, each party for and against the proposition under discussion shall choose one member to make a final speech for it. If, however, after these two speeches any member of the Government rises, the debate shall be considered to be reopened.

In Belgium, in the Senate, the close of the debate (" cloture ") may be demanded by five members, in the Chamber of Representatives by ten members, and may be pronounced by a vote of the Assembly. There is also a mode of checking the undue prolixity of a speaker, viz., that of " closing him to the question," and finally of withdrawing his right to speak on the subject during the rest of the sitting.

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