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Question proposed —
That the proceedings on the Metropolitan Water Companies (Government) Bill have precedence this day of the Notices of Motions and the other Orders of the Day."—(The First Lord of the Treasury.)
THE FIRST LOUD OF THE TREASURYI justify this Motion by stating that if the Measure was to have its full utility it ought to pass immediately in order that the works which it authorises should be at once put in hand and carried out before the possibility of any want of water should be felt in any part of the Metropolis. Remembering that this Bill has already passed the ordeal of the First and Second Reading, as well as through the Select Committee and a Committee of the whole House, I think that whatever differences of opinion there may be must necessarily now refer more to the details of the Measure than to the principle of the Bill itself. Therefore I hope that the amount of time that will be withdrawn from Private Members "Motions by the discussion will be of a trifling character.
§ MR. LOUGHI think one word must be said on the statement which the right honourable Gentleman has just made,
§ and which he made to the House last night. Now, this Bill has never passed through any ordeal, and there was not a word of discussion on the Second Reading, for it was hustled through the Committee, and the Report of the Committee was published in such a way during the holidays that we had no opportunity afforded us of putting down any Amendments. We find that, contrary to arrangement, that contentious business would not be taken immediately after the holidays, that on the very first day after the Easter holidays this contentious Bill is put first on the Paper. The result was that the Report stage was taken in about two minutes after the dinner hour on the first night after the recess, and consequently the House had no opportunity of examining it. I think it is rather unfortunate that the right honourable Gentleman should make this Motion, for. I think the Measure should be dealt with in Government time.
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Question put —
That the proceedings on the Metropolitan Water Companies (Government) Bill have precedence this day of the Notices of Motions and the other Orders of the Day."—(The First Lord of the Treasury.)
§ The House divided:—Ayes 170; Noes 102.—(Division List No. 84.)
1465| AYES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Capt. Sir A. F. | Bowles, T. G. (King's Lynn) | Duncombe, Hon. Hubert V. |
| Arnold-Forster, Hugh O. | Brassey, Albert | Fardell, Sir T. George |
| Arrol, Sir William | Brodrick, Rt. Hn. St. John | Fellowes, Hon. Ailwyn E. |
| Ashmead-Bartlett, Sir Ellis | Cayzer, Sir Charles William | Fergusson, Rt Hn Sir J (Manc'r) |
| Atkinson, Rt. Hon. John | Cecil, Evelyn (Hertford, East) | Finlay, Sir Robt. Bannatyne |
| Bagot, Capt. J. FitzRoy | Chaloner, Capt. R. G. W. | Firbank, Joseph Thomas |
| Baillie, Jas. E. B. (Inverness) | Chamberlain, Rt. Hn J.(Birm.) | Fisher, William Hayes |
| Balcarres, Lord | Chamberlain, J. A. (Worc'r) | Fison, Fredk. William |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon A. J. (Manch'r) | Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry | FitzGerald, Sir R. Penrose- |
| Balfour, Rt. Hn. G. W. (Leeds) | Cochrane, Hon. T. H. A. E. | Flower, Ernest |
| Banbury, Fredk. George | Coddington, Sir William | Folkestone, Viscount |
| Barnes, Frederic Gorell | Coghill, Douglas Harry | Garfit, William |
| Barry, Sir F. T. (Windsor) | Cohen, Benjamin Louis | Giles, Charles Tyrrell |
| Bartley, George C. T. | Collings, Rt. Hon. Jesse | Godson, Sir Augustus Fredk. |
| Barton, Dunbar Plunket | Cornwallis, F. Stanley W. | Golds Worthy, Major-General |
| Bathurst, Hon. Allen Benj. | Courtney, Rt. Hn. Leonard H. | Goschen, Rt. Hn G J (S. George's) |
| Beaumont, Wentworth C. B. | Cruddas, William Donaldson | Goschen, Geo. J. (Sussex) |
| Beresford, Lord Charles | Dalbiac, Col. Philip Hugh | Gray, Ernest (West Ham) |
| Bhownaggree, Sir M. M. | Dalrymple, Sir Charles | Green, W. D. (Wednesbury) |
| Bill, Charles | Denny, Colonel | Greene, W. Raymond- (Cambs). |
| Blakiston-Houston, John | Dixon-Hartland, Sir F. D. | Gull, Sir Cameron |
| Bolitho, Thos. Bedford | Dorington, Sir John Edward | Gunter, Colonel |
| Bonsor, Hy. Cosmo Orme | Douglas, Rt. Hn. A. Akers- | Halsey, Thos. Frederick |
| Boscawen, Arthur Griffith- | Doxford, William Theodore | Hamilton, Rt. Hn. Lord G,. |
| Boulnois, Edmund | Drage, Geoffrey | Hardy, Laurence |
| Hare, Thomas Leigh | Middlemore, J. Throgmorton | Seely, Charles Hilton |
| Haslett, Sir James Horner | Milward, Col. Victor | Sharpe, William Edwd. T. |
| Heath, James | Monckton, Edward Philip | Sidebotham, J. W. (Cheshire) |
| Hickman, Sir Alfred | Monk, Charles James | Simeon, Sir Barrington |
| Hoare, E. Brodie (Hampstead) | More, Robt. J. (Shropshire) | Smith, A. H. (Christchurch) |
| Howard, Joseph | Morton, A. H. A. (Deptford) | Smith, J. Parker (Lanarksh.) |
| Howorth, Sir Henry Hoyle | Mount, William George | Smith, Hon. W.F.D. (Strand) |
| Hozier, Hon. J. Henry Cecil | Muntz, Philip A. | Stanley, Hy. M. (Lambeth) |
| Hudson, George Bickersteth | Murray, Rt. Hn. A. G. (Bute) | Stanley, Lord (Lanes.) |
| Hutton, John (Yorks, N.R.) | Murray, Chas. J. (Coventry) | Stewart, Sir M. J. M'Taagart |
| Jeffreys, Arthur Fredk. | Murray, Col. Wyndham(Bath) | Stirling-Maxwell, Sir J. M. |
| Johnston, William (Belfast) | Myers, William Henry | Stone, Sir Benjamin |
| Kenyon-Slaney, Col. William | Newdigate, Francis Alex. | Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester) |
| Lafone, Alfred | Nicol, Donald Ninian | Thorburn, Walter |
| Laurie, Lieut.-General | Northcote, Hn. Sir H. Stafford | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Lawson, John Grant (Yorks) | Orr-Ewing, Charles Lindsay | Tomlinson, Wm. E. Murray |
| Lea, Sir Thos. (Londonderry) | Pease, Herbt. P. (Darlington) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Leighton, Stanley | Percy, Earl | Vincent, Col. Sir C. E. H. |
| Loder, Gerald W. Erskine | Pilkington, Richard | Warde, Lt.-Col. C. E. (Kent) |
| Long, Col. C. W. (Evesham) | Pretyman, Ernest George | Webster, Sir R.E.D. of Wight) |
| Long, Rt. Hon. W. (Livrpool) | Priestley, Sir W. O. (Edin.) | Welby, Lieut.-Col. A. C. E. |
| Lopes, Hy. Yarde Buller | Pryce-Jones, Lt.-Col. Edwd. | Whitmore, Chas. Algernon |
| Lowe, Francis William | Purvis, Robert | Williams, J. Powell (Birm.) |
| Loyd, Archie Kirkman | Rasch, Major F. Came | Wilson, John (Falkirk) |
| Lucas-Shadwell, William | Renshaw, Charles Bine | Wodehouse, Rt. Hn. E. R. (Bath) |
| Macartney, W. G. Ellison | Rentoul, James Alexander | Wolff, Gustav Wilhelm |
| Macdona, John Cumming | Richardson. Sir T. (Hartlepool | Wortley, Rt. Hn. C. B. Stuart- |
| Maclure, Sir John William | Ritchie, Rt.Hn.C.Thomson | Wyvill, Marmaduke D'Arcy |
| M'Killop, James | Royds, Clement Molyneux | Younger William |
| Marks, Henry Hananel | Russell, T. W. (Tyrone) | |
| Mellor, Col. (Lancashire) | Samuel, H. S. (Limehouse) | TELLERS, FOR THE AYES—Sir William Walrond and Mr. Anstruther. |
| Mellor, Rt. Hn. J. W. (Yorks) | Sandys, Lieut.-Col. T. Myles | |
| Mersey-Thompson, Sir H. M. | Savory, Sir Joseph | |
| NOES. | ||
| Abraham, Wm. (Cork, N.E.) | Gold, Charles | Pickersgill, Edward Hare |
| Allan, William (Gateshead) | Gourley, Sir Edward T. | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Allen, W. (Newc. under Lyme) | Harwood, George | Reckitt, Harold James |
| Austin, M. (Limerick, W.) | Hayne, Rt. Hn. C. Seale- | Richardson, J. (Durham) |
| Bainbridge, Emerson | Hedderwick, Thomas C. H. | Roberts, John Bryn (Eifion) |
| Baker, Sir John | Hogan, James Francis | Roberts, John H. (Denbighsh.) |
| Balfour, Rt. Hn. J. B. (Clackm.) | Holland, W. H. (York, W.R.) | Robertson, Edmund (Dundee) |
| Barlow, John Emmott | Horniman, Frederick John | Samuel, J. (Stockton on Tees) |
| Bayley, Thos. (Derbyshire) | Humphreys-Owen, A. C. | Shaw, Chas. E. (Stafford) |
| Billson, Alfred | Johnson-Ferguson, Jabez E. | Sinclair, Capt. J. (Forfarshire) |
| Blake, Edward | Jones, David B. (Swansea) | Smith, Samuel (Flint) |
| Broadhurst, Henry | Jones, Wm. (Carnarvonshire) | Souttar, Robinson |
| Brunner, Sir J. Tomlinson | Kinloch, Sir John George S. | Spicer, Albert |
| Buchanan, Thos. Ryburn | Labouchere, Henry | Steadman, William Charles |
| Burns, John | Leese, Sir J. F. (Accrington) | Stevenson, Francis S. |
| Burt, Thomas | Leng, Sir John | Strachey, Edward |
| Buxton, Sydney Charles | Lewis, John Herbert | Stuart, James (Shoreditch) |
| Caldwell, James | Logan, John William | Sullivan, Donal (Westmeath) |
| Cameron, Sir C. (Glasgow) | Lowther, Rt. Hon. Jas. (Kent) | Thomas, Alf. (Glamorgan, E) |
| Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H. | Macaleese, Daniel | Thomas, David A. (Merthyr) |
| Causton, Richard Knight | M'Arthur, Wm. (Cornwall) | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| Cawley, Frederick | M'Ghee, Richard | Wallace, Robert (Perth) |
| Clark, Dr. G. B. (Caithness-sh) | M'Kenna, Reginald | Walton, Joseph (Barnsley) |
| Curran, Thos. (Sligo, S.) | M'Laren, Charles Benj. | Warner, Thomas C. T. |
| Davies, M. Vaughan-(Cardigan) | M'Leod, John | Weir, James Galloway |
| Davitt, Michael | Maddison, Fred. | Whittaker, Thomas Palmer |
| Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles | Maden, John Henry | Wilson, H.J. (York, W.R.) |
| Dillon, John | Moore, A. (Londonderry) | Wilson, John (Durham, Mid.) |
| Donelan, Captain A. | Norton, Capt. Cecil Wm. | Wilson, John (Goran) |
| Ellis, John Edwd. (Notts.) | O'Connor, J. (Wicklow, W.) | Woods, Samuel |
| Farquharson, Dr. Robert | Oldroyd, Mark | Young, Samuel (Cavan, East) |
| Ferguson, R. C. M. (Leith) | Paulton, James Mellor | Yoxall, James-Heury |
| Foster, Sir W. (Derby Co.) | Pease, Alfred E. (Cleveland) | |
| Gladstone, Rt. Hn. Herbt. J. | Pease, Jos. A. (Northumb.) | TELLERS FOR THE NOESߞMr. Lough and Mr. Pirie. |
| Goddard, Daniel Ford | Pease, Sir J. W. (Durham) |
Bill read the third time, and passed.