§ Mr. LANSBURYWill the Prime Minister tell us what are the Government's intentions with regard to business to-night? Why do they want the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe proposal to suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule is purely precautionary. There are certain bits of business that we must have to-
§ day. We must have the Third Reading of the Financial Emergency Enactments (Continuance) Bill, and also the Committee stage of the Money Resolution for the Tanganyika and British Honduras Loans. If there is time before Half-past Seven, or in the event of the Debate on the Second Reading of the Private Bill being disposed of before Eleven o'Clock, the Government will proceed with the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, Committee; the Dangerous Drugs Bill, Second Reading; the Report stage of the Money Resolution for the Destructive Imported Animals Bill; and the Committee stage of that Bill. These Measures have passed their preceding stages with practically no discussion, and we think it reasonable to ask for the stages on the Paper tonight, but it is not intended to have an inordinately late sitting.
§
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 (Sittings of the House)."—[The Prime Minister.]
§ The House divided: Ayes, 224; Noes, 25.
29| Division No. 103.] | AYES. | [3.26 p.m. |
| Adams, Samuel Vyvyan T. (Leeds, W.) | Crookshank, Col. C. de Windt (Bootle) | Gunston, Captain D. W. |
| Agnew, Lieut.-Com. P. G. | Crookshank, Capt. H. C. (Gainsb'ro) | Hacking, Rt. Hon. Douglas H. |
| Albery, Irving James | Cross, R. H. | Hales, Harold K. |
| Allen, Lt.-Col. J. Sandeman (B'k'nhd.) | Crossley, A. C. | Hall, Lieut.-Col. Sir F. (Dulwich) |
| Anstruther-Gray, W. J. | Davies, Maj. Geo. F.(Somerset, Yeovil) | Hamilton, Sir R. W.(Orkney & Ztl'nd) |
| Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley | Dawson, Sir Philip | Hanley, Dennis A. |
| Beauchamp, Sir Brograve Campbell | Denman, Hon. R. D. | Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry |
| Beaumont, Hon. R. E. B. (Portsm'th, C.) | Denville, Alfred | Harris, Sir Percy |
| Benn, Sir Arthur Shirley | Despencer-Robertson, Major J. A. F. | Hartland, George A. |
| Bernays, Robert | Dickie, John P. | Haslam, Sir John (Bolton) |
| Betterton, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry B. | Donner, P. W. | Headlam, Lieut.-Col. Cuthbert M. |
| Boothby, Robert John Graham | Doran, Edward | Heneage, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur P. |
| Bossom, A. C. | Drewe, Cedric | Hillman, Dr. George B. |
| Boulton, W. W. | Dugdale, Captain Thomas Lionel | Hoare, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir S. J. G. |
| Bower, Lieut.-Com. Robert Tatton | Duggan, Hubert John | Hope, Capt. Arthur O. J. (Aston) |
| Bowyer, Capt. Sir George E. W. | Duncan, James A. L. (Kensington, N.) | Hore-Belisha, Leslie |
| Boyd-Carpenter, Sir Archibald | Eden, Robert Anthony | Hornby, Frank |
| Broadbent, Colonel John | Edmondson, Major A. J. | Horsbrugh, Florence |
| Brocklebank, C. E. R. | Elliot, Major Rt. Hon. Walter E. | Howitt, Dr. Alfred B. |
| Brown, Ernest (Leith) | Elliston, Captain George Sampson | Hudson, Capt. A. U. M. (Hackney, N.) |
| Brown, Brig.-Gen. H. C.(Berks., Newb'y) | Emmott, Charles E. G. C. | Hudson, Robert Spear (Southport) |
| Buchan-Hepburn, P. G. T. | Erskine, Lord (Weston-super-Mare) | Hurd, Percy A. |
| Burnett, John George | Erskine-Bolst, Capt. C. C. (Blackpool) | Hurst, Sir Gerald B. |
| Campbell, Edward Taswell (Bromley) | Essenhigh, Reginald Clare | Hutchison, W. D. (Essex, Romf'd) |
| Campbell-Johnston, Malcolm | Falle, Sir Bertram G. | Jackson, Sir Henry (Wandsworth, C.) |
| Cayzer, Sir Charles (Chester, City) | Fermoy, Lord | Jackson, J. C. (Heywood & Radcliffe) |
| Cazalet, Thelma (Islington, E.) | Fleming, Edward Lascelles | James, Wing.-Com. A. W. H. |
| Chalmers, John Rutherford | Ganzoni, Sir John | Joel, Dudley J. Barnato |
| Chorlton, Alan Ernest Leofric | Gillett, Sir George Masterman | Johnston, J. W. (Clackmannan) |
| Chotzner, Alfred James | Gilmour, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir John | Johnstone, Harcourt (S. Shields) |
| Clarke, Frank | Glyn, Major Ralph G. C. | Ker, J. Campbell |
| Clarry, Reginald George | Goff, Sir Park | Knatchbull, Captain Hon. M. H. R. |
| Colville, John | Goldie, Noel B. | Knight, Holford |
| Conant, R. J. E. | Goodman, Colonel Albert W. | Knox, Sir Alfred |
| Cooke, Douglas | Gower, Sir Robert | Lambert, Rt. Hon. George |
| Cooper, A. Duff | Granville, Edgar | Latham, Sir Herbert Paul |
| Craddock, Sir Reginald Henry | Griffith, F. Kingsley (Middlesbro', W.) | Law, Richard K. (Hull, S.W.) |
| Craven-Ellis, William | Grimston, R. V. | Lees-Jones, John |
| Crooke, J. Smedley | Guinness, Thomas L. E. B. | Leighton, Major B. E. P. |
| Levy, Thomas | Peto, Sir Basil E.(Devon, Barnstaple) | Southby, Commander Archibald R. J. |
| Lindsay, Noel Ker | Pike, Cecil F. | Stanley, Lord (Lancaster, Fylde) |
| Lloyd, Geoffrey | Powell, Lieut.-Col. Evelyn G. H. | Stanley, Hon. O. F. G. (Westmorland) |
| Locker-Lampson, Rt. Hn. G. (Wd. Gr'n) | Purbrick, R. | Steel-Maitland, Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur |
| Lovat-Fraser, James Alexander | Pybus, Percy John | Stones, James |
| Lumley, Captain Lawrence R. | Raikes, Henry V. A. M. | Strauss, Edward A. |
| MacDonald, Rt. Hon. J. R. (Seaham) | Ramsay, T. B. W. (Western Isles) | Strickland, Captain W. F. |
| Macdonald, Capt. P. D. (I. of W.) | Rawson, Sir Cooper | Sugden, Sir Wilfrid Hart |
| McKie, John Hamilton | Rea, Walter Russell | Tate, Mavis Constance |
| Maclay, Hon. Joseph Paton | Reid, David D. (County Down) | Taylor, Vice-Admiral E. A. (P'dd'gt'n, S.) |
| McLean, Major Alan | Reynolds, Col. Sir James Philip | Thomas, Rt. Hon. J. H. (Derby) |
| McLean, Dr. W. H. (Tradeston) | Rhys, Hon. Charles Arthur U. | Thomas, James P. L. (Hereford) |
| Macpherson, Rt. Hon. James I. | Rosbotham, S. T. | Thomas, Major L. B. (King's Norton) |
| Macquisten, Frederick Alexander | Ross, Ronald D. | Thompson, Luke |
| Maitland, Adam | Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter | Tryon, Rt. Hon. George Clement |
| Manningham-Buller, Lt.-Col. Sir M | Runge, Norah Cecil | Wallace, Captain D. E. (Hornsey) |
| Margesson, Capt. Henry David R. | Russell, Alexander West (Tynemouth) | Wallace, John (Dunfermline) |
| Marjoribanks, Edward | Salt, Edward W. | Ward, Lt.-Col. Sir A. L. (Hull) |
| Marsden, Commander Arthur | Samuel, Sir Arthur Michael (F'nham) | Ward, Irene Mary Bewick (Wallsend) |
| Mason, David M. (Edinburgh, E.) | Samuel, Rt. Hon. Sir H. (Darwen) | Waterhouse, Captain Charles |
| Mayhew, Lieut.-Colonel John | Sandeman, Sir A. N. Stewart | Watt, Captain George Steven H. |
| Millar, Sir James Duncan | Sanderson, Sir Frank Barnard | Weymouth, Viscount |
| Mills, Sir Frederick (Leyton, E.) | Savery, Samuel Servington | White, Henry Graham |
| Milne, John Sydney Wardlaw | Scone, Lord | Whiteside, Borras Noel H. |
| Mitchell, Harold P. (Br'tf'd & Chisw'k) | Shakespeare, Geoffrey H. | Williams, Charles (Devon, Torquay) |
| Morris, John Patrick (Salford, N.) | Shaw, Helen B. (Lanark, Bothwell) | Williams, Herbert G. (Croydon, S.) |
| Morris, Owen Temple (Cardiff, E.) | Simmonds, Oliver Edwin | Wills, Wilfrid D. |
| Muirhead, Major A. J. | Simon, Rt. Hon. Sir John | Winterton, Rt. Hon. Earl |
| Munro, Patrick | Skelton, Archibald Noel | Womersley, Walter James |
| Nation, Brigadier-General J. J. H. | Smiles, Lieut.-Col. Sir Walter D. | Wood, Rt. Hon. Sir H. Kingsley |
| Nicholson, Godfrey (Morpeth) | Smith, R. W. (Ab'rd'n & Kinc'dine, C.) | Wood, Sir Murdoch McKenzie (Banff) |
| North, Captain Edward T. | Smith-Carington, Neville W. | Worthington, Dr. John V. |
| Nunn, William | Smithers, Waldron | Young, Ernest J. (Middlesbrough, E.) |
| Ormsby-Gore, Rt. Hon. William G. A. | Somerset, Thomas | |
| Patrick, Colin M. | Somervell, Donald Bradley | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.— |
| Peake, Captain Osbert | Somerville, Annesley A (Windsor) | Sir George Penny and Sir Victor |
| Peat, Charles U. | Sotheron-Estcourt, Captain T. E. | Warrender. |
| NOES. | ||
| Adams, D. M. (Poplar, South) | Hirst, George Henry | Thorne, William James |
| Attlee, Clement Richard | Jones, Morgan (Caerphilly) | Tinker, John Joseph |
| Batey, Joseph | Lansbury, Rt. Hon. George | Watts-Morgan, Lieut.-Col. David |
| Cocks, Frederick Seymour | Lawson, John James | Wedgwood, Rt. Hon. Josiah |
| Daggar, George | Logan, David Gilbert | Williams, Thomas (York, Don Valley) |
| Davies, Rhys John (Westhoughton) | Lunn, William | |
| Edwards, Charles | McEntee, Valentine L. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.— |
| Grenfell, David Rees (Glamorgan) | Parkinson, John Allen | Mr. Groves and Mr. Gordon |
| Grundy, Thomas W. | Price, Gabriel | Macdonald. |
| Hall, F. (York, W.R., Normanton) | Salter, Dr. Alfred |
Bill read a Second time, and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.