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ANALYSIS OF THE PARLIAMEN- TARY SESSION OF 1890. How the Time was Wasted, Tlje Hansard Publishing Union have just coin- P'ftted the oflicial record of the debates of last ess>on, in eight volumes. The House of Lords sat jnL&J days, and the total length of the Bit tings was th i'0l,rs 30 minutes. The longest silting was on of March, to consider the report of the r^oell Special Commission, when their lordships »jr. 8| hours. Fourteen peers took the oath and i seats during the session, either on creation or accession. Altogether 1,117 speeches were .^ered in the House of Lords, ot which J?, were delivered by Ministers and ex- b IDlstelll, 21 by members of the Episcopal and the remainder by independent peers. 24 questions were asked, of which the Wqueas of Salisbury answered 8, Viscount Cross Vl9C0Unt Cranbrook 3. Although 266 Bills including those brought up from the Commons) a first time in the House of Lord?, aua 8 (including Lords' Bills) wore before the House yOmnionj, only 63 received the Royal Assent, wring the past sessioD the House of Commons sat 1 days, or ten days mora than in 1889. ccorjjjng to the records in Hansard, Her ajesty's faithful Commons" during the past l*rw5>U 8a' ^or L055 hours 15 minutes, against >W3 hours in 1889, or an average of nearly eight j.°Urs per sitting. Sixty-nine and half hours of he sittings weie after midnight. Tlie most pro- jected sitting was on the 14th of August, a few Qaya before the prorogation, when the House met three o'clock in the afternoon, nnd did not Adjourn until seven o'clock on the following Orning, having been in session for 16 hours, But out of the 1,055 hours during hic1 the House flat, only 890 hours minutes were employed in what may be termed &e work of public legislation 159 hours, 35 enrUles' or a more than one-seventh of the forr^0 time House, were taken up either by business, the consideration of private Bills, .Presentation of petitions, or in questioning Asters, in addition, about 36 hours were con- t.j in the 262 divisions which took place, so 750 °Ut t,le enl're sittings of 1,050 hours only Ord Were ren^er°d available for the purposes of tim'na'y ^bite, an(* this, too,- exclusive of tlie i,^ e lrjvolved in discussing matters of urgent Thortance upon six motions for adjournment. gc8 closure was successfully applied upon occasion?, as against 17 in 1889— Tha at the instance of the Government, berf ^mber for East Islington—Mr. Cowley Lam- 8o was successful in inducing the House to re- 11° the closure on three occasions. But these the only instances in which the hon. member's is recorded in Hansard he appears neilher have asked a question nor to iiave made a Peech, Upon 40 occasions either the Speaker or Chairman of Committees refused to allow the for closure to be put," Mr. to be put." Mr. lton was the only Irish Nationalist mem- who succeeded in having it applied. course of the session 25 members their seats, including Mr. Samuel Thomas for Mid-Glamorgan, v. Mr. Christopher Mansel Talbot, deceased Mr. Lloyd George, P* Carnarvon, v. Mr. Edmund Swetenham, leased and Mr. Abel Thomas, Carmarthen, v. 5** David Pugh, deceased. Two hundred and *^y-tw0 divisions occurred, without including « mcident which happened upon the 14th of when a motion by Mr. Conybeare to j^ort progress was regarded by the Chairman of U6411nitteas as an abuse of the forms of.the House, right hon. gentleman declared that the «oes" had it. This decision was challenged, ^hereup0n Mr. Courtney, without requiring the Jj^mbers present to pass through the lobbies, ^?r«cted the Ayes to stand up in their places. only stood up, and their namey *Uving been formally taben, Mr. Courtnen *S&in declared that the Noes" had it. Is «hrea divisions naore than 600 members voted, Exclusive of the Speaker, or Chairman, and the four tellers. In five other divisions more than 500 members took part. Mr. Akers-Douglas, r. Sidney Herbert, and Sir R. Temple voted lla every division, and Colonel Sir W. H. Walrond in all but one. Hansard records that rjn.g the session 9,536 speeclies weie delivered Jv Ministers, ex-Ministers, and independent mem- v?r°- Some of them, such as the interposition of *r- Speaker and the Chairman of Committees, necessarily brief, but by far the ltrger jjtJ^ber were substantial orations. In addition were 2,060 occasions in which I lie ordinary tu> 6 °f a speech was interrupted by an explana- Of °iua Corre°tion, or an interrogation. The name Speaker is recorded by Hansard, with •"°>arks attached to it, 469 times, as gainst 497 in X889; of Mr. Courtney, Chairman of Committees, 502 times, ngainst Rnd as Deputy-Speaker during the six J8 that Mr. Peel was prevented by indisposition IHA*0 diking the chair (April 21 to 28), 29 times. ftbers are credited with 1,666 speeches, against tho 1889. The most frequent orator amongst I- was Sir William Harcourt, whose Jj. appears in Hansard 95 times, against 90 j0 j H. Fowler, 68, precisely the same number as w i«89 Mr. Gladstone, 27 and the Marquess of to^fgton, 6, against 2. Of the independent l8a^ S| ^r- Tanner heads the list this year with w:.} but he is run pretty close by Mr. Sexton (j 195, and by Sir G. Campbell with 187. Sir tori e was first last year with 273. The other ^embers who are credited in the pages of J^ard with upwards of a hundred speeches are tealy, 178, and Mr. Libouchere, 104. 1 speeches made by independent members, l2ni Were mnde b? English representatives, W* by Irish, 843 by Scotch, and 91 by Welsh. Tear the number of questions addressed to Qj t'«ter. were 5,745 this year they reached 6,919. i these 3,317 were supplementary that is, aris- ^5 out uf answers to the questions on the or Put altogether without notice. The betu, questions before Easter was 1,762; Whifften and Whitsuntide, 1,483 and after SiO^nUde, 3,664. 3,076 were put by English, re.j "7 Irish, 631 by Scotch, and 98 by Welsh mji1?sentatives. Nearly one-lhird of the whole ^5 vvere P11^ members—six Irish, three Mr o one Scotch. Four hon. gentlemen— ■«^t°D, Mr. T. M. Healy, Dr. Tanner, and Mr. Gist/ asked 1)406; .six others asked 795, and lh riother?,915; 3,068 questions altogether appear Ini nail,es of 34 members—16 English, 14 Irish, 4 Scotch. Altogether the names of 411 are recorded in Hansard as having questions to various members of her Majesty's |wp*erntnent—241 were English representatives, j? Irish, 51 Scotch, and 21 Welsh. Estimating l?*.1 »t takes a minute, which is a fair compu- to put and answer a question, 113^ hours consumed in the past session by questioning Executive, or about 14 working days of 8 <IUe • eac'1, Cpon 15 occasions upwards of 100 J?!l0ns were asked at one sitting, the highest *'tti having been 160 on June 26. In eight daye, from June 16 to 27, no less than 1,042 w 'ong were asked, of which 527 were English, 332 nSh, 127 Scotch, and 20 Welsh byt'.°l nearly one-lhird of them, were answered h#a(je Chief Secretary for Ireland. Mr. Sexton WZ 'he list of questioners with 420. Last year stood at 428. Dr. Tanner comes next bm • Rioro than treble the number in 1889, te»U|la, that year the hon. member was not ?Ou<sor y, in attendance at the sittings of the for having been imprisoned in May U* DQ offence against the Criminal tV Precedure Act, and again in July. ScQj^Wication in separate form of the Irish, the Ada!: Indian, the Army, and the tUuj '4'ty Hansards affords convenient oppor- °ccui? 0f contrasting the proportion of time under each of these great divisions. The Irish ,ansard contains 14,800 pages the tha *>?00 the Sootcli, 1,450; the Indian, 850; -'l1t t 800 the Admiralty, 700. As the pre- 5tti Qf r''&ment was summoned to meet on the n August, 1886, the septennial limitation does 0P^te till 1893.

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