§ Mr. CLYNESCan the Leader of the House state what business will be taken next week?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWOn Monday, the Unemployment Insurance Bill, Third Reading; Money Resolution of the Telegraph Bill; Nauru Island Bill, Third Reading; and other Orders if possible.
§ Tuesday: Indemnity (Recommitted) Bill, Committee; Ministry of Food Bill; and, if possible, other Orders.
§ Thursday: Supply, Post Office.
§ I would rather leave the business for Wednesday to be stated on Monday.
§ Sir D. MACLEANIn regard to the Motion standing in the name of the right hon. Gentleman with respect to proceedings on the War Pensions Bill, does the right hon. Gentleman not think it is hardly fair to the Opposition or to the friendly critics of the Bill that this should be the only notice that is given to them, that they should come to the House on a Supply day, which they know is devoted solely to business of Supply, and be faced with this Motion for the first time, that it is proposed to take this very important measure, if possible, before eleven o'clock, and, if not, after eleven o'clock? Would it not have been better 2606 to give, through the usual channels, the usual courteous notice of the intention of the Government in regard to a matter of this importance?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWAs regards taking the Bill after 11 o'clock, the House must realise that unless they co-operate with the Government and get through business it will be very long before we have the Adjournment. It will be necessary to take more business after 11 o'clock if we are to have the Adjournment at a reasonable time. The War Pensions Bill has been on the Paper for a long time, and my Noble Friend (Lord E. Talbot) tells me that it was really by accident that he did not mention it through the usual channels yesterday. He regrets that that was not done.
§ Captain W. BENNOn a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. I should like to ask your ruling with regard to the Motion in the name of the Leader of the House. It consists of two questions. Standing Order No. 1, paragraph (7), lays down in precise words the way in which a Motion for the Suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule may be put to the House and decided without Amendment or Debate. Standing Order 15, paragraph (5), lays it down that a Motion may be made that business other than business of Supply may be taken on a Supply day, without Amendment or Debate. Is it proper that both these questions should be put together in an omnibus Resolution of this kind? Should not the question be put separately from the Chair?
§ Mr. SPEAKERIf it will suit the hon. and gallant Gentleman, I will put the question in two parts.
§ Lieut.-Colonel CROFTCan the Leader of the House tell us when the discussion will be taken on the Report of the National Expenditure Committee concerning St. Omer.
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI believe it has been arranged through the usual channels that one Supply Day will be taken for that purpose, but the particular day has not yet been fixed.
§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKECan the right hon. Gentleman say when the Pensions Increase Bill will be taken?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWWe hope to take it next week.
§ Motion made, and Question put, "That the Proceedings on the War Pensions Bill be exempted at this day's Sitting from the provisions of the Standing Order
2608§ (Sittings of the House)."—[Mr. Bonar Law.]
§ The House divided: Ayes, 211; Noes, 52.
2609| Division No 216.] | AYES. | [4.0 p.m. |
| Addison, Rt. Hon. Dr. C. | Glyn, Major Ralph | Mount, William Arthur |
| Ainsworth, Captain Charles | Goff, Sir R. Park | Munro, Rt. Hon. Robert |
| Amery, Lieut.-Col. Leopold C. M. S. | Green, Joseph F. (Leicester, W.) | Murray, Lieut.-Colonel A. (Aberdeen) |
| Armitage, Robert | Greenwood, William (Stockport) | Murray, John (Leeds, West) |
| Ashley, Colonel Wilfrid W. | Greig, Colonel James William | Murray, Major William (Dumfries) |
| Atkey, A. R. | Guinness, Lieut.-Col. Hon. W. E. | Neal, Arthur |
| Baird, Sir John Lawrence | Hacking, Captain Douglas H. | Newman, Colonel J. R. P. (Finchley) |
| Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley | Hall, Lieut.-Col. Sir F. (Dulwich) | Nicholl, Commander Sir Edward |
| Barnston, Major Harry | Harmsworth, C. B. (Bedford, Luton) | Nicholson, William G. (Petersfield) |
| Barton, Sir William (Oldham) | Harris, Sir Henry Percy | Palmer, Major Godfrey Mark |
| Beckett, Hon. Gervase | Hennessy, Major J. R. G. | Palmer, Brigadier-General G. L. |
| Bell, Lieut.-Col. W. C. H. (Devizes) | Henry, Denis S. (Londonderry, S.) | Parkinson, Albert L. (Blackpool) |
| Bellairs, Commander Canyon W. | Herbert, Hon. A. (Somerset, Yeovil) | Peel, Col. Hn. S. (Uxbridge, Mddx.) |
| Bentinck, Lord Henry Cavendish | Hewart, Rt. Hon. Sir Gordon | Pollock, Sir Ernest M. |
| Bethell, Sir John Henry | Hickman, Brig.-General Thomas E. | Pownall, Lieut.-Colonel Assheton |
| Betterton, Henry B. | Hinds, John | Prescott, Major W. H. |
| Bigland, Alfred | Holbrook, Sir Arthur Richard | Pretyman, Rt. Hon. Ernest G. |
| Bird, Sir A. (Wolverhampton, West) | Hope, Sir H. (Stirling & Cl'ckm'nn,W.) | Raper, A. Baldwin |
| Blair, Reginald | Hope, James F. (Sheffield, Central) | Rees, Sir J. D. (Nottingham, East) |
| Blake, Sir Francis Douglas | Hope, Lt.-Col. Sir J. A. (Midlothian) | Rees, Capt. J. Tudor- (Barnstaple) |
| Borwick, Major G. O. | Hopkins, John W. W. | Remer, J. R. |
| Boscawen, Rt. Hon. Sir A. Griffith- | Hopkinson, A. (Lancaster, Mossley) | Renwick, George |
| Bowyer, Captain G. E. W. | Horne, Sir R. S. (Glasgow, Hillhead) | Roberts, Rt. Hon. G. H. (Norwich) |
| Brassey, Major H. L. C. | Hotchkin, Captain Stafford Vere | Robinson, Sir T. (Lancs., Stratford) |
| Bridgeman, William Clive | Howard, Major S. G. | Roundell, Colonel R. F. |
| Briggs, Harold | Hunter, General Sir A. (Lancaster) | Royds, Lieut.-Colonel Edmund |
| Broad, Thomas Tucker | Hurd, Percy A. | Rutherford, Colonel Sir J. (Darwen) |
| Brown, Captain D. C. | Illingworth, Rt. Hon. A. H. | Samuel, A. M. (Surrey, Farnham) |
| Bruton, Sir James | James, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Cuthbert | Sanders, Colonel Sir Robert A. |
| Buchanan, Lieut.-Colonel A. L. H. | Jesson, C. | Scott, A. M. (Glasgow, Bridgeton) |
| Buckley, Lieut.-Colonel A. | Jodrell, Neville Paul | Seager, Sir William |
| Bull, Rt. Hon. Sir William James | Johnstone, Joseph | Seely, Major-General Rt. Hon. John |
| Burn, Col. C. R. (Devon, Torquay) | Jones, Sir Evan (Pembroke) | Sprot, Colonel Sir Alexander |
| Butcher, Sir John George | Jones, J. T. (Carmarthen, Llanelly) | Stanier, Captain Sir Beville |
| Casey, T. W. | Jones, William Kennedy (Hornsey) | Stanley, Major H. G. (Preston) |
| Chadwick, Sir Robert | Kellaway, Rt. Hon. Fredk. George | Stevens, Marshall |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. A.(Birm.,W.) | King, Commander Henry Douglas | Stewart, Gershom |
| Chamberlain, N. (Birm., Ladywood) | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Strauss, Edward Anthony |
| Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Lambert, Rt. Hon. George | Sturrock, J. Long |
| Clay, Lieut.-Colonel H. H. Spender | Lane-Fox, G. R. | Sugden, W. H. |
| Cohen, Major J. Brunel | Law, Alfred J. (Rochdale) | Surtees, Brigadier-General H. C. |
| Conway, Sir W. Martin | Law, Rt. Hon. A. B. (Glasgow, C.) | Sutherland, Sir William |
| Coote, Colin Reith (Isle of Ely) | Lewis, T. A. (Glam., Pontypridd) | Talbot, G. A. (Hemel Hempstead) |
| Cowan, D. M. (Scottish Universities) | Lister, Sir R. Ashton | Taylor, J. |
| Craig, Colonel Sir J. (Down, Mid) | Lloyd, George Butler | Terrell, Captain R. (Oxford, Henley) |
| Craik, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry | Lloyd-Greame, Major Sir P. | Thomson, F. C. (Aberdeen, South) |
| Croft, Lieut.-Colonel Henry Page | Locker-Lampson, G. (Wood Green) | Thomson, Sir W. Mitchell- (Maryhill) |
| Curzon, Commander Viscount | Locker-Lampson, Corn. O. (H'tlngd'n) | Townley, Maximilian G. |
| Dalziel, Sir D. (Lambeth, Brixton) | Lorden, John William | Wallace, J. |
| Davies, Alfred Thomas (Lincoln) | Loseby, Captain C. E. | Walters, Sir John Tudor |
| Davies, Thomas (Cirencester) | Lyle-Samuel, Alexander | Waring, Major Walter |
| Davison, Sir W. H. (Kensington, S.) | M'Donald, Dr. Bouverie F. P. | Warner, Sir T. Courtenay T. |
| Dockrell, Sir Maurice | Macdonald, Rt. Hon. John Murray | Wason, John Cathcart |
| Duncannon, Viscount | McLaren, Robert (Lanark, Northern) | Wheler, Lieut.-Colonel C. H. |
| Edwards, Alien C. (East Ham, S.) | M'Lean, Lieut.-Col. Charles W. W. | Whitla, Sir William |
| Edwards, Major J. (Aberavon) | Macleod, J. Mackintosh | Williams, Lt.-Com. C. (Tavistock) |
| Edwards, John H. (Glam., Meath) | Macmaster, Donald | Williams, Col. Sir R. (Dorset, W.) |
| Elliot, Capt. Walter E. (Lanark) | M'Micking, Major Gilbert | Williamson, Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald |
| Eyres-Monsell, Commander B. M. | Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. | Wilson, Daniel M. (Down, West) |
| Falle, Major Sir Bertram G. | McNeill, Ronald (Kent, Canterbury) | Wilson, Rt. Hon. J. W. (Stourbridge) |
| Fell, Sir Arthur | Macpherson, Rt. Hon. James I. | Wilson, Colonel Leslie O. (Reading) |
| Fildes, Henry | Malone, Major P. B. (Tottenham, S.) | Wilson, Lieut.-Col. M. J. (Richmond) |
| Fisher, Rt. Hon. Herbert A. L. | Marriott, John Arthur Ransome | Winterton, Major Earl |
| FitzRoy, Captain Hon. E. A. | Martin, Captain A. E. | Wood, Hon. Edward F. L. (Ripon) |
| Ford, Patrick Johnston | Matthews, David | Yate, Colonel Charles Edward |
| Fremantle, Lieut.-Colonel Francis E | Mitchell, William Lane | Yeo, Sir Alfred William |
| Ganzoni, Captain Francis John C. | Mond, Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred M. | Young, Lieut.-Com. E. H. (Norwich) |
| Gardiner, James | Moore-Brabazon, Lieut.-Col. J. T. C. | |
| Gardner, Ernest | Morison, Rt. Hon. Thomas Brash | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.— |
| Gibbs, Colonel George Abraham | Morris, Richard | Lord E. Talbot and Mr. Dudley Ward. |
| Gilbert, James Daniel | Morrison, Hugh | |
| Gilmour, Lieut.-Colonel John | Morrison-Bell, Major A. C. | |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland, Rt. Hon. F. D. | Bottomley, Horatio W. | Brown, James (Ayr and Bute) |
| Asquith, Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry | Bowerman, Rt. Hon. Charles W. | Cape, Thomas |
| Benn, Captain Wedgwood (Leith) | Brace, Rt. Hon. William | Carter, W. (Nottingham, Mansfield) |
| Clynes, Rt. Hon. J. R. | Kenworthy, Lieut.-Commander J. M. | Short, Alfred (Wednesbury) |
| Crooks, Rt. Hon. William | Kiley, James D. | Sitch, Charles H. |
| Davison, J. E. (Smethwick) | Maclean, Nell (Glasgow, Govan) | Sugden, W. H. |
| Edwards, C. (Monmouth, Bedwellty) | Maclean, Rt. Hn. Sir D. (Midlothian) | Swan, J. E. |
| Finney, Samuel | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Thomson, T. (Middlesbrough, West) |
| Galbraith, Samuel | Mills, John Edmund | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton, E.) |
| Graham, D. M. (Lanark, Hamilton) | Morgan, Major D. Watts | Waterson, A. E. |
| Graham, R. (Nelson and Colne) | Murray, Dr. D. (Inverness & Ross) | Wedgwood, Colonel J. C. |
| Grundy, T. W. | Myers, Thomas | White, Charles F. (Derby, Western) |
| Guest, J. (York, W. R., Hemsworth) | Newbould, Alfred Ernest | Wignall, James |
| Hallas, Eldred | O'Grady, Captain James | Wilson, W. Tyson (Westhoughton) |
| Hancock, John George | Palmer, Charles Frederick (Wrekin) | Wood, Major M. M. (Aberdeen, C.) |
| Hartshorn, Vernon | Rattan, Peter Wilson | |
| Hayday, Arthur | Richardson, R. (Houghton-le-Spring) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.— |
| Hodge, Rt. Hon. John | Rose, Frank H. | Mr. T. Griffiths and Mr. Hogge. |
| Irving, Dan | Sexton, James |
§ Ordered, That the Proceedings on the War Pensions Bill may, notwithstanding anything in Standing Order No. 15, be taken before Eleven of the clock.—[Mr. Bonar Law.]