Show BRINGING JN IN BILLS mow bew measures are introduced into int the nt always at the beginning of parlia an lacet ent there are a hundred in member embers who having found as many subjects calling for legislation announce their readiness to introduce bills the time honored process procesa of bringing in bills I 1 is ia thus described by thy author of A diary of the salisbury inri lament t 1 the s speaker x alker holming ii hi shand sand a long list of notices given tha day b before e calls the names of the members in succession mr Mur phyl phyll calls the speaker ep eaker mr murphy raises his hat whereupon the speaker says the question is that leave be given to bring in a bill to and he reads a description of the bill of which mr murphy has given notice who is prepared to bring in this bill asks the speaker then mr murphy rises and reads out th the e names of the members who indorse his bill and the speaker er goes on to the next on the list As the sp speaker ker approaches the end of the list members who are to bring in bills artru 1 I 0 for places at the bar of the house tho the speaker calls on the member whose name heads the list he makes his way through the throng at the bar and advances toward t the clerks table holding a piece of folded foolscap in his hand this is understood to be the bill he is bringing braingin in but there is nothing within but a blank sheet elaborately indorsed endorsed indor sed on the outside with the title the text test of the measure will be deposited in the bill office at some future convenient date the clerk carefully concealing his knowledge of the fiction respectfully takes change of the bin bill recites its title which is the first reading of the bin bill and then asks a second reading in g ta eighth of may says the member bill read second time esth of may says saya the clerk read bead second time ath of may echoes the sp speaker eaLer and the member disappears behind the r speakers pe akers chairs chair and so on through the hundred 46 L |