§ Motion made and Question put,
§ "That the proceedings in Committee of Ways and Means and in Committee upon the Resolutions relating to Local Taxation, if under discussion at Eleven o'clock this night be not interrupted under the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[The Prime Minister.]
§ The House divided: Ayes, 267; Noes, 166.
1553| Division No. 16.] | AYES. | [3.53 p.m. |
| Abraham, William (Dublin Harbour) | Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Clynes, John R. |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Boland, John Pius | Collins, G. P. (Greenock) |
| Addison, Dr. C. | Booth, Frederick Handel | Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) |
| Adkins, W. Ryland D. | Bottomley, Horatio | Compton-Rickett, Rt. Hon. Sir J. |
| Agar-Robartes, Hon. T. C. R. | Bowerman, C. W. | Condon, Thomas Joseph |
| Agnew, Sir George William | Boyle, D. (Mayo, N.) | Corbett, A. Cameron |
| Alden, Percy | Brace, William | Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. |
| Allen, Arthur Acland (Dumbartonshire) | Brocklehurst, W. B. | Crawshay-Williams, Eliot |
| Allen, Charles Peter (Stroud) | Brunner, John F. L. | Crumley, Patrick |
| Anderson, A. M. | Bryce, J. Annan | Cullinan, J. |
| Ashton, Thomas Gair | Burke, E. Haviland- | Dalziel, Sir James H. (Kirkcaldy) |
| Asquith, Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry | Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) |
| Baker, H. T. (Accrington) | Buxton, Noel (Norfolk, N.) | Davies, M. Vaughan- (Cardiganshire) |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E.) | Buxton, Rt. Hon. Sydney C. (Poplar) | Dawes, J. A. |
| Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) | Byles, William Pollard | Delany, William |
| Barry, Redmond John (Tyrone, N.) | Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Denman, Hon. Richard Douglas |
| Barton, W. | Cawley, Sir Frederick (Prestwich) | Devlin, Joseph |
| Beale, W. P. | Cawley, Harold T. (Heywood) | Dickinson, W. H. (St. Pancras, N.) |
| Beauchamp, Edward | Chancellor, H. G. | Dillon, John |
| Beck, Arthur Cecil | Chapple, Dr. W. A. | Donelan, Captain A. J. C. |
| Bentham, G. J. | Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Doris, W. |
| Bethell, Sir John Henry | Clough, William | Duffy, William J. |
| Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Rainy, A. Rolland |
| Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) | Lundon, T. | Raphael, Sir Herbert H. |
| Edwards, John Hugh (Glamorgan, Mid) | Lyell, Charles Henry | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields) |
| Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) | Lynch, A. A. | Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) |
| Esmonde, Sir Thomas (Wexford, N.) | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Reddy, M. |
| Essex, Richard Walter | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Falconer, J. | MacGhee, Richard | Redmond, William (Clare) |
| Farrell, James Patrick | Maclean, Donald | Redmond, William Archer (Tyrone, E.) |
| Fenwick, Charles | Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. | Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) |
| Ferens, T. R. | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Ferguson, Rt. Hon. R. C. Munro | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Roberts, G. H. (Norwich) |
| Ffrench, Peter | M'Kean, John | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) |
| Fitzgibbon, John | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald | Robertson, J. M. (Tyneside) |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | M'Laren, H. D. (Leics.) | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) |
| France, G. A. | M'Laren, F. W. S. (Line, Spalding) | Roche, John (Galway, E.) |
| George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd | M'Laren, Walter S. B. (Ches., Crewe) | Rose, Sir Charles Day |
| Ginnell, L. | M'Micking, Major Gilbert | Rowlands, James |
| Glanville, H. J. | Marks, G. Croydon | Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter |
| Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford | Marshall, Arthur Harold | St. Maur, Harold |
| Goldstone, Frank | Martin, J. | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Greenwood, Granville G. (Peterborough) | Mason, David M. (Coventry) | Samuel, J. (Stockton) |
| Griffith, Ellis J. | Masterman, C. F. G. | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Guest, Major Hon. C. H. C. (Pembroke) | Mathias, Richard | Scott, A. M'Callum (Glasgow, Bridgeton) |
| Guest, Hon. Frederick E. (Dorset, E.) | Meagher, Miehael | Seely, Col. Rt. Hon. J. E. B. |
| Gulland, John W. | Meehan, Fransis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Sheehy, David |
| Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) | Meehan, Patrick A. (Queen's Co.) | Sherwell, Arthur James |
| Hackett, J. | Menzies, Sir Walter | Simon, Sir John Allsebrook |
| Haldane, Rt. Hon. Richard B. | Molloy, M. | Smith, H. B. L. (Northampton) |
| Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis (Rossendale) | Molteno, Percy Alport | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Hardie, J. Keir (Merthyr Tydvil) | Mond, Sir Alfred Moritz | Soares, Ernest J. |
| Harmsworth, R. L. | Money, L. G. Chiozza | Spicer, Sir Albert |
| Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) | Montagu, Hon. E. S. | Strachey, Sir Edward |
| Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, W.) | Mooney, J. J. | Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West) |
| Harwood, George | Morrell, P. | Tennant, Harold John |
| Haslam, James (Derbyshire) | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Thomas, J. H. (Derby) |
| Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) | Muldoon, John | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton) |
| Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry | Munro, R. | Toulmin, George |
| Hayden, John Patrick | Murray, Captain Hon. A. C. | Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander |
| Henderson, Arthur (Durham) | Neilson, Francis | Verney, Sir Harry |
| Henderson, J. McD. (Aberdeen, W.) | Nicholson, Charles N. (Doncaster) | Wadsworth, J. |
| Henry, Sir Charles S. | Norman, Sir Henry | Walters, John Tudor |
| Higham, John Sharp | Norton, Captain Cecil W. | Walton, Sir Joseph |
| Hinds, John | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) |
| Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles E. H. | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Ward, W. Dudley (Southampton) |
| Holt, Richard Durning | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Wardle, George J. |
| Hudson, Walter | O'Doherty Philip | Waring, Walter |
| Hughes, S. L. | O'Dowd, John | Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay |
| Hunter, W. (Govan) | O'Grady, James | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Isaacs, Sir Rufus Daniel | O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklew, W.) | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Jardine, Sir J. (Roxburgh) | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | Watt, Henry A. |
| John, Edward Thomas | O'Malley, William | Wedgwood, Josiah C. |
| Johnson, W. | O'Sullivan, Timothy | White, Sir Luke (York, E. R.) |
| Jones, Sir D. Brynmor (Swansea) | Parker, James (Halifax) | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Jones, H. Haydn (Merioneth) | Pearce, William (Limehouse) | Whitehouse, John Howard |
| Jones, Leif Stratten (Notts, Rushcliffe) | Pearson, Weetman H. M. | Whyte, A. F. (Perth) |
| Jones, W S. Glyn- (T'w'r H'mts, Stepney) | Pease, Rt. Hon. Joseph A. (Rotherham) | Wiles, Thomas |
| Joyce, Michael | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) | Williams, J. (Glamorgan) |
| Keating, M. | Pickersgill, Edward Hare | Williams, Llewelyn (Carmarthen) |
| Kelly, Edward | Pirie, Duncan V. | Williams, P. (Middlesbrough) |
| Kilbride, Denis | Pointer, Joseph | Williamson, Sir A. |
| King, J. (Somerset, N.) | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. | Wilson, Henry J. (York, W. R.) |
| Lambert, George (Devon, S. Molton) | Power, Patrick Joseph | Wilson, John (Durham, Mid) |
| Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) | Price, C. E. (Edinburgh, Central) | Wood, T. M'Kinnon (Glasgow) |
| Lansbury, George | Price, Sir Robert J. (Norfolk, E.) | Young, W. (Perthshire, E.) |
| Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Law, Hugh A. | Primrose, Hon. Nell James | |
| Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rld., Cockerm'th) | Pringle, Wiliam M. R. | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Master of Elibank and Mr. Illingworth. |
| Leach, Charles | Radford, G. H. | |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Rt. Hon. Sir Alex. F. | Bathurst, Hon. A. B. (Glouc, E.) | Carlile, E. Hildred |
| Anson, Sir William Reynell | Bathurst, Charles (Wifton) | Cassel, Felix |
| Anstruther-Gray, Major William | Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Castlereagh, Viscount |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Benn, Ion H. (Greenwich) | Cautley, H. S. |
| Astor, Waldorf | Bigland, Alfred | Cecil, Lord Hugh (Oxford University) |
| Bagot, Lieut.-Colonel J. | Bird, A. | Chaloner, Colonel R. G. W. |
| Baird, J. L. | Boyton, J. | Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. (Worc'r.) |
| Baker, Sir R. L. (Dorset, N.) | Bridgeman, W. Clive | Chambers, J. |
| Balcarres, Lord | Bull, Sir William James | Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Burdett-Coutts, W. | Clay, Captain H. H. Spender |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Burgoyne, A. H. | Clive, Percy Archer |
| Baring, Capt. Hon. G. V. | Burn, Col. C. R. | Collings, Rt. Hon. J. (Birmingham) |
| Barnston, Harry | Butcher, J. G. | Cooper, Richard Ashmole |
| Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N.) | Campion, W. R. | Courthope, G. Loyd |
| Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Kerr-Smiley, Peter Kerr | Rice, Hon. W. F. |
| Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) | Kimber, Sir Henry | Ronaldshay, Earl of |
| Craig, Norman (Kent) | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Rothschild, Lionel de |
| Craik, Sir Henry | Kirkwood, J. H. M. | Royds, Edmund |
| Crichton-Stuart, Lord Ninian | Knight, Capt, E. A. | Rutherford, John (Lancs., Darwen) |
| Croft, H. P. | Larmor, Sir J. | Samuel, Sir Harry (Norwood) |
| Dalziel, D. (Brixton) | Lawson, Hon. H. (T. H'm'ts., Mile End) | Sandys, G. J. (Somerset, Wells) |
| Eyres-Monsell, B. M. | Lee, Arthur H. | Smith, F. E. (Liverpool, Walton) |
| Falle, B. G. | Lloyd, G. A. | Smith, Harold (Warrington) |
| Fell, Arthur | Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) | Snowden, P |
| Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey | Locker-Lampson, O. (Ramsey) | Spear, John Ward |
| Fitzroy, Hon. E. A. | Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. | Stanler, Beville |
| Flannery, Sir J. Fortescue | Lonsdale, John Brownlee | Stanley, Hon. Arthur (Ormskirk) |
| Fletcher, John Samuel (Hampstead) | Lowther, Claude (Cumberland, Eskdale) | Stanley, Hon. G. F. (Preston) |
| Forster, Henry William | Lyttelton, Rt. Hon. A. (Hanover Sq.) | Staveley-Hill, Henry |
| Gardner, Ernest | Mackinder, H. J. | Steel-Maitland, A. D. |
| Gastrell, Major W. H. | Macmaster, Donald | Stewart, Gershom |
| Gibbs, G. A | Magnus, Sir Philip | Strauss, Arthur (Paddington, North) |
| Gilmour, Captain J. | Malcolm, Ian | Sykes, Alan John |
| Goldman, C. S. | Mallaby-Deeley, Harry | Talbot, Lord E. |
| Goldsmith, Frank | Mason, James F. (Windsor) | Terrell, G. (Wilts, N. W.) |
| Gordon, J. | Meysey-Thompson, E. C. | Terrell, H. (Gloucester) |
| Goulding, Edward Alfred | Moore, William | Thompson, Robert (Belfast, North) |
| Guinness, Hon. W. E. | Morpeth, Viscount | Thomson, W. Mitchell- (Down, North) |
| Haddock, George Bahr | Morrison, Captain J. A. | Thorne, William (West Ham) |
| Hall, D. B. (Isle of Wight) | Morrison-Bell, Capt. E. F. (Ashburton) | Tullibardine, Marquess of |
| Hambro, Angus Valdemar | Morrison-Bell, Major A. C. (Honiton) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Hamersley, A. St. George | Newman, John R. P. | Weigall, Capt. A. G. |
| Hamilton, Lord C. J. (Kensington, S.) | Nield, Herbert | White, Major G. D. (Lancs., Southport) |
| Harris, Henry Percy | Norton-Griffiths, J. (Wednesbury) | Willoughby, Major Hon. Claude |
| Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E. R.) |
| Helmsley, Viscount | Paget, Almeric Hugh | Winterton, Earl |
| Hill, Sir Clement L. | Parker, Sir Gilbert (Gravesend) | Wolmer, viscount |
| Hillier, Dr. A. P. | Parkes, Ebenezer | Wood, Hon. E. F. L. (Ripon) |
| Hills, John Waller | Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington) | Wood, John (Stalybridge) |
| Hoare, S. J. G. | Peel, Capt. R. F. (Woodbridge) | Worthington-Evans, L. |
| Hope, James Fltzalan (Sheffield) | Peel, Hon. W. R. W. (Taunton) | Yate, Col. C. E. |
| Horner, A. L. | Peto, Basil Edward | Younger, George |
| Houston, Robert Paterson | Pole-Carew, Sir R. | |
| Hunt, Rowland | Pretyman, E. G. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. Samuel Roberts and Mr. Griffth-Boscawen. |
| Hunter, Sir C. R. (Bath) | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel | |
| Ingleby, Holcombe | Remnant, James Farquharson | |
| Jessel, Captain H. M. |
Question put, and agreed to.