§ On going into Committee of Supply:
§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)On Navy Estimates, to call attention to relative strength in ships and men; and to move a Resolution.
§ MR. RECINALO McKENNA (Monmouth, N.)On Civil Service Estimates, to call attention to the incidence of local taxation of property leased and occupied by the Government; and to move a Resolution.
MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)On Civil Service Estimates, to move, That this House cannot be the effectual guardian of the Revenues of the State unless the whole amount of the taxes and of various other sources of income received for the public account be either paid in or accounted for to the Exchequer.
§ SIR CHARLES DILKEOn Army Estimates, to call attention to the cost of the Army and the return obtained for it; and to move a Resolution.
§ DR. CLARK (Caithness)On Civil Service Estimates, to call attention to the inequality of the Votes and Grants for local purposes in England, Ireland, and Scotland; and to move, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the financial relations between England, Ireland, and Scotland, and to report (1) the amount and proportion of moneys expended out of the Exchequer (a) upon civil and local government services for the special use of, and (b) upon collection of revenue 602 in England, Ireland, and Scotland respectively; and (2) how far the financial relations established by the sums so contributed and paid are equitable, having regard to the relative amount and proportion of revenue contributed to the Exchequer by the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland respectively.
§ MR. E. LAWRENCE (Cornwall, Truro)On Civil Service Estimates, to call attention to the question of Judges' retirement; and to move a Resolution.
§ MR. MACDONA (Southwark, Rotherhithe)On Civil Service Estimates, to call attention to the question of derelicts.
§ SIR CHARLES DILKEOn Civil Service Estimates, to move, That it is the duty of the Foreign Office to con-suit European Powers having possessions in Africa as to whether they will attend a Conference at which the measures agreed to at the Berlin Conference of 1885–6 and the Brussels Conference of 1889–90, with questions appertaining thereto, shall be considered with a view to the adoption and enforcement of further measures for securing equitable treatment of the Natives of Africa.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGE (Carnarvon Boroughs)On Civil Service Estimates, to call attention to the conduct of the Local Government Board in taking away the power of a single elector to demand a poll at a, parish meeting: and to move a Resolution.