§ Sir D. MACLEANMay I ask the Leader of the House what Bill he proposes to take after eleven o'clock to-night, and particularly what he proposes to take after nine o'clock? Will it be either the Ministries and Secretaries Bill or the War-Emergency Laws (Continuance) Bill?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWWe only hope to take the first two Orders to-day. We should like to proceed with the Ministries and Secretaries Bill if we have an opportunity after nine o'clock.
§ Sir D. MACLEANIs the right hon. Gentleman aware of the great interest taken in the Ministries and Secretaires Bill? I think we should be given an opportunity of raising questions relating to the Prime Minister and the War Cabinet.
§ Sir F. BANBURYDoes the right hon. Gentleman intend to take more than one stage of any Bill after eleven o'clock?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWNot to-night. I think we had better judge of the form the discussion is likely to take after we come to the Bill. I am sure my right hon. Friend and the House will realise that it is very important, if we can, to push on these Committees on account of the Adjournment.
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESSIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Ministries and Secretaries Bill is the second Order?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI said we would take the first two Orders, and I would take the Ministries and Secretaries Bill after nine o'clock.
§ Lord R. CECILI would like to know whether the Government intends to issue any Paper explanatory of the Welsh Church Tenporalities Bill, and, if so, when will it be issued?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWSuch a Memorandum has been prepared, and the delay is due to difficulties of printing. I think it will be available this afternoon, or, at any rate, by to-morrow.
§ Colonel ASHLEYAre we to distinctly understand that the War Emergency Laws (Continuance) Bill is not to be taken to-night? If that be so, will the right hon. 181 Gentleman say when it is going to be taken, because a good many hon. Members attach great interest to it?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWIt is not going to be taken to night, but I cannot say now when it will be taken.
Lieut.-Colonel MURRAYMay I put a point to you, Mr. Speaker, with reference to the Forestry Bill? A Report has been issued which is largely founded upon, the Report of a Sub-committee of the Reconstruction Committee. I asked in the Vote Office this morning whether I could obtain a copy of that Report for 1917, and there was no such Report in the Vote Office. 1 wish to ask whether on a similar occasion in the future it will be possible to obtain such a Report in regard to a question of this kind before the House is asked to consider it?
§ Mr. SPEAKERIf the hon. and gallant Gentleman had given me notice, I would have seen that copies were there. But it is impossible to know what hon. Members may want, and it is not practicable to keep
§ all documents in the Vote Office, which is very small. They are, however, all kept in the Sale Office, and if the hon. and gallant Member will go down to that office, which is only a few steps further, he will be able to get a copy.
§ Captain W. BENNThere are thirteen pages of the Schedule of the War Emergency Laws (Continuance) Bill relating to War enactments which it is proposed to continue. Would the right hon. Gentleman consider the possibility of publishing a Paper, so that hon. Members may know what are these enactments?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI will consider that suggestion with my right hon. Friend who has prepared the Bill.
§
Motion made, and Question put,
That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted at this day's Sitting from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sitting of the House)."—[Mr. Bonar Law]
§ The House divided: Ayes, 224; Noes, 50.
183| Division No. 83.] | AYES. | [3.56 p.m. |
| Adair, Rear-Admiral | Cooper, Sir Richard Ashmole | Hacking, Captain D. H. |
| Adkins, Sir W. Ryland D. | Coote, Colin R. (Isle of Ely) | Hall, Lieut.-Col. Sir Fred. (Dulwich) |
| Agg-Gardner, Sir James Tynte | Cope, Major W. (Glamorgan) | Harmsworth, Cecil B. (Luton, Beds.) |
| Ainsworth, Captain c. | Courthope, Major George Loyd | Harris, Sir H. P. (Paddington, S.) |
| Astor, Major Hon. Waldort | Cowan, D. M. (Scottish University) | Henderson, Major V. L, |
| Atkey, A. R. | Cowan, Sir H. (Aberdeen and Kinc.) | Hennessy, Major G. |
| Bagley, Captain E. A. | Craig, Col. Sir James (Down, Mid.) | Henry, Danis S. (Londonderry, S.) |
| Baird, John Lawrence | Craig, Lt.-Com. N. (Isle of Thanet) | Herbert, Col. Hon. A. (Yeovil) |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Craik, Right Hon. Sir Henry | Herbert, Denniss (Hertford) |
| Barnes, Rt. Hon. G. N. (Gorbals) | Curzon, Commander Viscount | Hewart, Rt. Hon. Sir Gordon |
| Barnston, Major Harry | Davies, Sir Joseph (Crewe) | Hinds, John |
| Barrand, A. R. | Davies, T. (Cirencester) | Hoare, Lt.-Col. Sir Samuel J. G. |
| Bellairs, Com. Carlyon W. | Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) | Hope, Harry (Stirling) |
| Benn, Sir Arthur S. (Plymouth) | Davies, M. Vaughan- (Cardigan) | Hope, James Fitzalan (Sheffield) |
| Bennett, T. J. | Dawes, J. A. | Hope, Lt.-Col. Sir J. (Midlothian) |
| Bentinck, Lt. Col. Lord H. Cavendish | Dennis, J. W. | Hopkins, J. W. W. |
| Betterton, H. B. | Doyle, N. Grattan | Hopkinson, Austin (Mossley) |
| Birchall, Major J. D. | Du Pre, Colonel W. B. | Houston, Robert Paterson |
| Bird, Alfred | Edge, Captain William | Hughes, Spencer Leigh |
| Blair, Major Reginald | Edwards, Major J. (Aberavon) | Hunter, Gen. Sir A. (Lancaster) |
| Blake, Sir Francis Douglas | Eyres-Monsell, Commander | Jameson, Major J. G. |
| Borwick, Major G. O. | Falcon, Captain M. | Jesson, C. |
| Boscawen, Sir Arthur Griffith- | Falle, Major Sir Bertram Godfray | Jodrell, N. P. |
| Bowles. Col. H. F. | Farquharson, Major A. C. | Johnstone, J. |
| Bowyer, Captain G. W. E. | Fisher, Rt. Hon. Herbert A. L. | Jones, G. W. H. (Stoke Newington) |
| Boyd-Carpenter, Major A. | FitzRoy, Capt. Hon. Edward A. | Jones, Henry Haydn (Merioneth) |
| Bridgeman, William Clive | Flannery, Sir J. Fortescue | Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen) |
| Buchanan, Lieut.-Col. A. L. H. | Forestier-Walker, L. | Jones, William Kennedy (Hornsey) |
| Burdon, Colonel Rowland | Forster, Rt. Hon. H. W. | Kelly, Major Fred (Rotherham) |
| Carr, W. T. | Foxcroft, Captain C. | Kidd, James |
| Carter, R. A. D. (Manchester) | France, Gerald Ashburner | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement |
| Casey, T. W. | Ganzoni, Captain F. C. | Knights, Captain H. |
| Cecil, Rt. Hon. Evelyn (Astor Manor) | George, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd | Lane-Fox, Major G. R. |
| Cecil, Rt. Hon. Lord Hugh (Oxford U.) | Gibbs, Colonel George Abraham | Larmor, sir J. |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. (Birm., W.) | Gilmour, Lieut.-Colonel John. | Law, Right Hon. A. Bonar (Glasgow) |
| Chamberlain, N. (Birm., Ladywood) | Glyn, Major R. | Lewis, T. A. (Pontypridd, Glam.) |
| Child, Brig,-General Sir Hill | Goff, Sir R. Park | Lindsay, William Arthur |
| Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Gray, Major E. | Locker-Lampson, Com. O. (Hunt'don) |
| Clay, Captain H. H. Spender | Green, J. F. (Leicester) | Locker-Lampson, G. (Wood Green) |
| Cough, R. | Greenwood, Col. Sir Hamar | Loseby, Captain C. E. |
| Cobb, Sir Cyril | Greig, Colonel James William | M'Donald, Dr. B. F. P. (Wallasey) |
| Cohen, Major J. B. B. | Gretton, Colonel John | Macdonald, Rt. Hon. J. M. (Stirling) |
| Colvin, Brigadier-General R. II. | Guinness, Capt. Hon. (Southend) | M'Laren, R. (Lanark, N.) |
| Conway, Sir W, Martin | Guinness, Lt.-Col. Hon. W. E. (B. St. E.) | Macquisten, F. A. |
| Maddocks, Henry | Prescott, Major W. H. | Talbot, G. A. (Hemel Hempstead) |
| Magnus, Sir Philip | Pretyman, Rt. Hon. Ernest G. | Taylor, J. (Dumbarton) |
| Malone, Col. C. L. (Leyton, E.) | Purchase, H. G. | Terrell, G. (Chippenham, Wilts) |
| Mason, Robert | Rae, H. Norman | Terrell, Capt. R. (Henley, Oxford) |
| Matthews, David | Raeburn, Sir William | Thomson, F. C. (Aberdeen, S.) |
| Mildmay, Col. Rt. Hon. Francis B. | Raper, A. Baldwin | Thomson, T. (Middlesbrough, W.) |
| Moles, Thomas | Raw, Lieut.-Colonel Dr. N. | Tryon, Major George Clement |
| Moreing, Captain Algernon H. | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel | Vickers, D. |
| Mount, William Arthur | Rees, Sir J. D. (Nottingham, E.) | Waddington, R. |
| Munro, Rt. Hon. Robert | Rendall, Athelstan | Wallace J. |
| Murchison, C. K. | Roberts, Rt. Hon. George H. (Norwich) | Ward, Colonel L. (Kingston-upon-Hull) |
| Murray, Lt.-Col. Hon. A. C. (Aberdeen) | Roberts, Sir S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) | Wardle, George J. |
| Murray, Major C. D. (Edinburgh, S.) | Robinson, S. (Brecon and Radnor) | Waring, Major Walter |
| Murray, Hon. G. (St. Rollox) | Rodger, A. K. | Warren, Sir Alfred H. |
| Murray, William (Dumfries) | Roundell, Lieutenant-Colonel R. F. | Watson, Captain John Bertrand |
| Nall, Major Joseph | Rowlands, James | White, Col. G. D. (Southport) |
| Neal, Arthur | Samuel, A. M. (Farnham, Surrey) | Whitla, Sir William |
| Nelson, R. F. W. R. | Sanders, Colonel Robert Arthur | Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P. |
| Newman, Sir R. H. S. D. (Exeter) | Seddon, J. A. | Williams, Col. Sir R. (Dorset, W.) |
| Nicholl, Com. Sir Edward | Seely, Maj.-Gen. Rt. Hon. John | Wills, Lt.-Col. Sir Gilbert Alan H. |
| Nicholson, R. (Doncaster) | Shaw, Hon. A. (Kilmarnock) | Wilson, Capt. A. Stanley (Hold'ness) |
| Nicholson, W. (Petersfield) | Shaw, Captain W. T. (Forfar) | Wilson, Colonel Leslie (Reading) |
| O'Neill, Captain Hon. Robert W. H. | Shortt, Rt. Hon. E. (N'castle-on-T., W.) | Wilson, Col. M. (Richmond, Yorks.) |
| Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William | Sprot, Colonel Sir Alexander | Winterton, Major Earl |
| Palmer, Major G. M. (Jarrow) | Stanley, Colonel Hon. G. F. (Preston) | Wood, Major Hon. E. (Ripon) |
| Palmer, Brig.-Gen. G. (Wastbury) | Steel, Major S. Strang | Wood, Sir H. K. (Woolwich, W.) |
| Parker, James | Stephenson, Colonel H. K. | Yate, Colonel Charles Edward |
| Parry, Major Thomas Henry | Stevens, Marshall | Yeo, Sir Alfred William |
| Pease, Rt. Hon. Herbert Pike | Stewart, Gershom | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—.Lord E. |
| Pollock, Sir Ernest Murray | Strauss, Edward Anthony | Talbot and Captain F. Guest. |
| Pownall, Lieut.-Colonel Assheton | Sugden, W. H. | |
| Pratt, John William | Sutherland, Sir William | |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland, Rt. Hon. Francis Dyke | Harbison, T. J. S | Royce, William Stapleton |
| Adamson, Rt. Hon. William | Hartshorn, V. | Short, A. (Wednesbury) |
| Ashley, Col. Wilfred W. | Hayward, Major Evan | Sitch, C. H. |
| Banbury, Rt. Hon. Sir F. G. | Hirst, G. H. | Spoor, B. G. |
| Benn, Capt. W. (Leith) | Holmes, J. S. | Swan, J. E. C. |
| Briant, F. | Jones, J. (Silvertown) | Thomas, Rt. Hon. J. H. (Derby) |
| Grown, J. (Ayr and Bute) | Kenworthy, Lieut.-Commander | Thome, G. R. (Wolverhampton, E) |
| Cairns, John | Kenyon, Barnet | Tootill, Robert |
| Carter, W. (Mansfield) | Lunn, William | Waterson, A. E. |
| Cecil, Rt. Hon. Lord R. (Hitchin) | Maclean, Nell (Glasgow, Govan) | Wedgwood, Colonel Josiah C. |
| Clynes, Right Hon. John R. | Maclean, Rt. Hon. Sir D. (Midlothian) | Williams, A. (Conset, Durham) |
| Crooks, Rt. Hon. William | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Davies, Alfred (Clitheroe) | Murray, Dr. D. (Western Isles) | Wood, Major Mackenzie (Aberdeen, C.) |
| Entwistle, Major C. F. | O'Connor, T. P. | Young, Robert (Newton, Lanes.) |
| Graham, D. M. (Hamilton) | Parkinson, John Allen (Wigan) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. |
| Griffiths, T. (Pontypool) | Richardson, R. (Houghton) | Hogge and Mr. Newbould. |
| Grundy, T. W. | Roberts, F. O. (W. Bromwich) | |
| Hall, F. (Yorks. Normanton) | Robertson, J. |
Bill read a second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, for To-morrow. —[Sir A. Boscawen.]