Why should members^ lose the power, of defending their own

dignity, and private character, if the n&essipyfjap&Q ? yrxjf r'p 7'n *■■ ,-! ; 3lr MAIN must press for fhe adoption of the whole report., when i he was not a me-mbe*, but sat in Mr Speakers Gallery, he had on more- than j one occasion seen the privilege £n question j abused ; and at the tune he thought and said that the power to have strangers turned out of the House was too greai to I be placed in the hands of one member, as j the Council wa3 then constituted/ At j present, the Council nur>ht not possess, a I member with so many private grievances »s it possessed last session j bufc, if there was in future a member wiih. a private grievance, he must be very far forgotten, mdeed, if he could not find a.friend to concur with him in calling attention to the presence of strangers.— (Hear, hear.) Besides, the power of Mr Speaker to or der strangers to withdraw, whenever, in his discretion, he thought fit to do so, would remain untouched. The amendment having' been put, a division wa3 called'for, and there voted Aybs, 11: Messrs Barr, Gredn, Haugh ton, Hutcheson, M'Kenzie, Mitchell, M'lndoe, Mosley, Murray, Sibbald and Thomson. Noes, 20 : Meesrs Burns, Clark,, Driver, Duncan, Franco, Haggitt, Hay, Hender son, Julius, Main, M'Dermid, Millar, MolPson, Muir, Kobet&on, Seaton, Shand, TayJer, Turnbull, Yogel; The amendment was, therefore, nega tivek. Mr THOMSON moved, as an anorul ment, to substiiaue the following for the lOofch clause :—-" Any member may move thatstrangera w)..7idraw,andonthe motion being carried, Mr Speaker shall order strangers to withdraw from the House, and such strangers shall immediately withdraw." A member might have a grievance, which he could not tell to an other—which he might not have time to tell, oi- which might not be fully under stood—and so he might not find a seconder in asking that strangers should be ordered to withdraw. As the Houso had resolved that individual members should not have the right, he (Mr Thom son) saw no possible middle course; and therefore he thought that it should be loft •Lo the Houso to dee'do in each case, whether strangers should be ordered to withdraw. Captain MACKENZIE seconded the amendment, pro forma. 