The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed his rather mild resolutions
on Obstruction on Thursday night. He suggests that when a Member shall be " named " by the Speaker or the Chairman of Committees, as guilty of obstruction, the matter shall be immediately reported to the House, who shall take action, without amendment or debate, on the proposal that the Member in question be suspended for the rest of the sitting,— the suspension, of course, to follow the vote of the House. If any Member be suspended three times in one Session, under this order, his suspension on the third occasion would continue for a week, and further, till the House has decided,—and this it must decide in a single sitting,—when the suspension is to, cease, or for what period it shall continue ; and on this ques- tion the Member may, if he pleases, be heard in his place. The foregoing resolution it is proposed, by a second resolution, to make a Standing Order of the House.
