Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [‎206v] (412/442)

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671 Glasgow Corporation Order [ LORDS ] Confirmation Bill.
GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 2)
BILL, [h.l.]
House in Committee (according to
Order) : The Amendments proposed by
the Committees made: The Report of
Amendments to be received To-morrow.
PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL
ORDER (No. 1) BILL.
House in Committee (according to
Order) : The Amendments proposed by
the Select Committee made : The Report
of Amendments to be received To-morrow.
PIER AND HARBOUR ORDERS CONFIR
MATION (No. 4) BILL, [h.l.]
SEA FISHERIES (LYNN) PROVISIONAL
ORDERS BILL.
House in Committee (according to
Order) : The Amendments proposed by
the Committee made: The Report of
Amendments to be received To-morrow.
GLASGOW CORPORATION ORDER
CONFIRMATION BILL, [h.l.]
Debate on Amendment moved after
Third Reading resumed (according to
Order).
Lord WILLINGDON : Your Lordships
will remember that the Amendment which
I moved on the Third Reading was to omit
from the Schedule of the Bill Clause 7—
Purchase of Tramways outside City hy Local
Authorities.
7. The provisions of Section 43 of the Tramways
Act, 1870, shall apply to the intended tramways so
far as situated outside the city. Provided that in
the application of those provisions the period of
forty-two years shall be substituted for the period
of twenty-one years therein mentioned.
The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES
(The Earl of Donoughmore) : This is
a question which your Lordships will
remember was raised by Lord Camperdown
on the last occasion that this Bill was
before the House. We then had some
little disagreement as to the history of
the case, and I promised to look into it.
I find that what the noble Earl, Lord
Camperdown, said was perfectly right—
that he did raise this question when acting
as Chairman of Commissioners in 1 S 01 ,
and he reported that whilst he had not
the power to refuse this grant to the
Glasgow Corporation he would have refused
it to them had he possessed the power.
The position under the Bill now before
your Lordships is a very simple one.
The tramway under this Bill is only seventy
yards long—merely a siding. It is in the
burgh of Renfrew and turns into a culde sac
off a tramway in a street belonging to the
burgh of Renfrew, but a street in which
the exact position of affairs is what the
position would be in respect of this seventy
yards of tramway if the clause which Lord
Willingdon has moved to leave out is
omitted. The ordinary purchase clause
does not apply in the case of the main line
of tramway, and it is desired by the
promoters that the purchase clause should
not apply to this arm, which is merely a
siding and would be quite useless for
tramway purposes to any one not owning
the main tramway. I think, therefore,
that on the merits your Lordships will
be well advised in agreeing to the Amend
ment.
On Question, Amendment agreed to :
Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
BISHOPRICS BILL, [h.l.]
House in Committee (according to
Order) : Bill reported without amendment,
and to be read 3 a To-morrow.
PERSIA.
*Lord LAMINGTON rose to call the
attention of His Majesty’s Government
to the position of affairs in Persia with
particular reference to the Anglo-Russian
Convention.
The noble Lord said : My Lords, on
several occasions I have troubled your
Lordships with remarks on the trend of
events in Persia, and the present situation
in that country justifies the fears to which
I have from time to time given expression.
The Anglo-Russian Convention was adopted
as a kind of healing plaster for the political
sore in Persia ; but I fear that at the
present time the wound is gaping far
beyond the edges of the plaster that was
then applied. The Anglo-Russian Con
vention was adopted in 1907 on the basis—
and it is important to remember this—
as stated in the Preamble of the Con
vention, that the Governments of Great
Britain and Russia engaged to respect the
integrity and independence of Persia.