PROPOSED INTRODUCTION OF THE "CLOTURE" INTO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [BY ELECTRID TELEGRAPH, UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1428, 27 August 1881, Page 2

PROPOSED INTRODUCTION OF THE "CLOTURE" INTO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [BY ELECTRID TELEGRAPH, UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Last Night. The following is Mr Hall's notice of motion for Monday :—": — " Whereas Standing Order No. 352 declares ' That in all cases not hereinbefore provided for, the Speaker shall desire, taking for his guide the rules, forms, and usages of the House of Commons, so far as the same can be applied to the proceedings of this House,' and whereas doubts exist as to whether rules for the guidance of the proceedings of the House of Commons are applicable to the proceedings of this House, and whereas on the 28th day of February, 1880, the House of Commons adopted a standing order in reference to wilful obstruction of the business of the House resolved that whenever any member shall have been named by the Speaker or by the chairman of a committee of the whole House as disregarding the authority of the chair, or abusing the rules of the House by persistently and wilfully obstructing the business of th? House or otherwise, then it the offender has been committed in the House the Speaker shall forthwith put the question, on a motion being made, no amendment for the adjournment of the debate being allowed, that such member be suspended from the House during the remainder of that day's sitting, and if the oifender has been committed in a committee of the whole House, the Chairman shall, on a motion being made, put the same question in a similar way. If the motion is carried, he shall forthwith suspend the proceedings of the committee and report the circumstance to the House, and the Speaker shall thereupon put the same question without amendment for the adjournment of the debate, us if the offence had been committed in the House itself. If any members be suspended three times in one session under this order, his suspension oa the third occasion shiill continue for one week, and until a motion has been made upon which it shall be decided at once sitting by the House whether the suspension shall then cease or for what length of period it shall continue ; and on the occasion of such motion the member may, if he desires it, be heard in his place, provided always that nothing in this resolution shall be taken to deprive the House of the power of proceeding against any member according to ancient usages. And whereas by a resolution of the House of Commons, of date 3rd February, 1881, the Speaker of the said House was authored to frame rules for its government in certain cases, and the Speaker did lay on the table on the 4th and 9th February, 1881, the following standing orders : — The following 1 are the rules framed by the Speaker for the regulation of the business of the House: (1) When the state of the public business is urgent no motion for the adjournment of the Hou c c shall be made except by leave of the House before the orders of the day or notices of motion have been entered upon. (2) That when a motion is made for the adjournment ef the debate or of the House during any debate, the debate thereupon shall be strictly confined to the i 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 put the question thereupon if in his judgment such motion is made for the purpose of obstruction, or if he thinks fit to put such motion he may put it from the chair forthwith, (i) That no member having spoken to the motion for the adjournment or a debate of the House during any debate shall be entitled to move or to speak to any similar motion during the same debate. (5) That Mr Speaker may call the attention of the House tocontinuedirrelevanceortediousrepetition on the part of a member, and may direct the member to discontinue his speech. (6) That when it shall appear to the 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. the Speaker shall 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 the Order of the Day for the committee on any bill or other matter declared urgent is read, the Speaker shall forthwith leave the chair without putting any questions, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into committee. (S) That on reading the Order of the Day for consideratiou of a bill (declared urgent) as amended, the House do proceed to consider the same without question put. (9) That when before a division the Speaker's decision that the ayes or noes have it is challenged the Speaker may call upon the I 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 the proceedings of the committee of the whole House upon any bill or other matter declared urgent are as follows :—: — (10) That when a motion is made that the Chairman do report progress or do leave the chair, the debate shall be strictly confined to the matter of such motion. (11) That if a motion that the Chairman do report progress or do leave the chair be made, the Chairman may decline to put the question if in his judgment such motion is made for the purpose of obstructing, or if that he think fit to put such 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 speak to any similar motion during the same sitting of the committee. (13) That the Chairman may call the attention of the committee to continued 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 the preamble of a bill do stand postponed until after the consideration of the clause without the question being 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 in their places, and if they do not exceed 20 he may forthwith declare the determination of the committee. (17) That when in any of the rules framed by the Speaker a question is to be put from the chair forthwith, no amendment for adjournment of the debate shall be allowed, and whereas it is expedient that the said rules of the House of Commons shonld govern the proceedings of the House of Representatives this House resolves that it is within the power of the Speaker to take the said standing order ! for his guidance in cases not provided I for -"

Geeat damage r has been ,done by the bursting of a waterspout iv Behemia. A terrible shower *of bail fell and a large tract; of land was inundated. Busing the week ending July 2nd, 85,500 dollars in specie was imported at New YorkV and' 582,800 dollars; was exporte'dl This is the largest^ amdunt exported' from that port.insotole 1 time, and w«te nearly all ' in fine 1 silver I for Europe, v / - I ,'" •»/'"' '" '