 | 1854 - 718 pages
...for that purpose, their proceedings should be assimilated to those of a Committee of the whole House. Each committee should have assigned to it a chamber,...Jurisdiction, in all legislative matters, as it is at present. It would determine the questions fit to be referred to its Committees, and would revise their decisions... | |
 | 1888 - 934 pages
...Erskine May : " The number of days in the week on which the House would sit might be diminished. .... The tendency of such an arrangement would be to make the House a sort of Court of Appeal, as it were, from its Grand Committees." JOINT OPERATION OF CLOSURE AND STANDING... | |
 | 1874 - 470 pages
...that extent, diminished. Perhaps the number of days in the week on which the House would sit might te diminished ; at all events the length of the sittings...Jurisdiction, in all legislative matters, as it is at i) present. It would determine the questions fit to be referred to its committees, and would revise... | |
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The main object in view is to invest the deliberations of these committees with as much importance as possible, and to delegate to them the discussion, and, as far as possible, the decision, of questions which now devolve wholly on the House. If this... 