§ "1. Sec. 3. That a sum, not exceeding £5,612,000 be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Contract Work for Shipbuilding, Repairs, etc., which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1899."
§ "2. Sec. 2. That a sum, not exceeding £2,971,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Materiel for Shipbuilding, Repairs, Maintenance, etc., including the cost of Establishments of Dockyards and Naval Yards at Home and Abroad, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1899."
§ "3. Sec. 1. That a sum, not exceeding £2,218,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Personnel for Shipbuilding, Repairs, Maintenance, etc., including the cost of Establishments of Dockyards and Naval Yards at Home and Abroad, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1899."
§ "4. That a sum, not exceeding £2,549,200, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of Naval Armaments, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1899."
§ "5. That a sum, not exceeding £1,491,700, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of Victualling and Clothing for the Navy, including the cost of Victualling Establishments at Home and Abroad, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1899."
§ In answer to a Question by Mr. Warner,
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonThe 1288 honourable Member apparently does not understand the difference between the money voted for the Consolidated Fund and that voted to the Appropriation Act.
§ DR. TANNERThe majority of the Irish Members were not here on Friday night, consequently there was not a single Irish Member spoke upon this question until I spoke myself. It appears to me to be a very bad precedent indeed, and I hope that the country will take notice of this system. The Report stage of the Appropriation Bill was absolutely grabbed at a late hour of the evening, when it should have been debated when more Members were present and more interest taken in it than a great number of us here now at this Report stage which is at present under consideration are likely to give. I only wish to protest against this system as I have done before, and as I shall continue to do as long as I happen to be in my place in this House.
§ Resolutions agreed to.