On Monday, in the Commons, several questions were asked by
the Opposition in regard to the manner in which the money required for the Evicted Tenants Commission. will be provided. The Government's answers were vague, but it seems that the money will appear under the vote for "temporary commissions not otherwise provided for." In view of this, Mr. T. W. Russell asked "whether such. a course of procedure is not a grave breach of constitu- tional practice in withdrawing, as it does, a contentious vote from the control of the House of Commons ? " In the course. of the heckling to which the Government were subjected, it appeared that the Evicted Tenants Commission has coat 22,170. Ultimately, Mr. Gladstone agreed that "so far as the Government were concerned, they would take no objec- tion to the discussion of the cost of the Commission on the Estimates." Without question, the Unionists were right to insist that the House should have an opportunity of dis- cussing the whole question of the Commission.
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