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ery little as yet. The motion was laid over under the rules. Stay Law.--The hour of 1 o'clock having arrived, the Speaker announced that the proposition for a general Stay Law having been made the special order, must now be considered. Mr. Keen moved that the subject be made the special order for next Wednesday, at the same hour. Members had expressed a desire to give the subject a more thorough examination. Mr. Boreman suggested that it be laid on the table, whence it could be called at any time. Mr. Keen said that the committee who had reported against enacting such a law, had suggested its being made the special order for to-day. Any motion made by him to postpone temporarily was not to be construed into an admission that he did not regard the law as of vast importance. Mr. Collier moved an adjournment. Lost. Mr. Seddon moved the indefinite postponement of the special order. The fact that such a proposition was under consideration by the House would b