And that Bill also was delayed.
[Sidenote: The government and private members.] There is always something foredoomed about a night which ends in a count-out.

You can almost feel its untimely end in the air at the very beginning of the sitting.

There is always a great to-do about doing away with the privileges of the private member, but I have never really seen anything like a strong desire on the part of the House generally to keep the small quorum together which is necessary for giving the private member his opportunity.

To the uninitiated, it is perhaps necessary to say that the sittings of the House are divided into two classes--what are called Government and what are called private members' nights.
Government nights are Mondays and Thursdays.

On these days, the Government is entirely master of the time of the House.