After all commonsense is to prevail even in the conduct
of the Insurance Bill. The Government have decided that they will not proceed further with the Bill this summer, but that there shall be an autumn session at which its consideration shall be resumed. In accordance with this decision the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the current part of the Session will come to an end on Friday, the 18th, and will be resumed at the end of October or the beginning of November, when the Bill will be proceeded with. We are thus partially relieved of the nightmare of the Insurance Bill in its raw and unconsidered state being forced through Parlia- ment. It is greatly to be hoped that during the holidays the doctors, the Friendly Societies, the local authorities and the Trade Unions and the other great interests concerned will have been able to convince the Chancellor of the Exchequer that if sound and practical results are to be obtained from legislation, and if he is to attain the objects he desires to attain, his Bill must be entirely remodelled.
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