On Tuesday the debate first turned upon Sir John Lubbock's
amendment to the effect that wherever the area of a School Board was conterminous with that of the County or Borough Council the Education Authority should be a body representing both the School Board and the County or Borough Council, but Sir William Harcourt turned it into a new second reading debate by a tremendous speech, chiefly on the general principle decided in the second reading, to which Sir John Gorst declined to reply again, remarking that a new body composed out of two different bodies would have to appoint offices and officials of their own, which would much complicate the whole procedure. Major Banes, a Unionist (M.P. for South-West Ham), made a very rough speech against the Government which gave extreme delight to the Opposition, and eventually the discussion was closured by a majority of 85 (219 to 134), and then Sir John Lubbock's amendment was rejected by a majority of 74 (212 to 138).
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