[342:3] May, 574; Ilbert, "Manual," § 231.
[342:4] May, 574.
[342:5] Ilbert, "Manual," § 45.
[343:1] The change consisted in leaving the Committee of Ways and Means out of the exceptions, in S.O. 51, to the general rule that the House goes into committee without question put.
The Committee on Indian Accounts.
Debate on the motion to go into committee on the East Indian Accounts is still allowed, in order to provide an opportunity for general debate on the questions that may arise on these accounts. (S.O. 51, cf. Ilbert, "Manual," § 64.) An amendment can also be moved (Ibid., § 117), but in practice this has no serious effect.
[344:1] Hans. 4 Ser. XXXVII., 724-26. With this may be contrasted the Report of the Select Committee on Procedure in Supply in 1888 (Com. Papers, 1888, XII., 27), which said that the debates on the estimates were an effective means, both of criticising the administration and of controlling expenditure. It expressed the opinion that although the estimates were not often actually reduced, the discussion prevented future extravagance. For the condition at the present day see the Report of the Committee on National Expenditure, and the evidence thereto annexed (Com. Papers, 1902, VII., 15; 1903, VII., 483).
[344:2] Hans. 4 Ser. XXXVII., 727-30.
[344:3] Debate on supplementary and excess grants is limited to those particular grants. May, 585-86.
[345:1] May, 584-85.