§ Ordered, That all Members who are returned for two or more places in any part of the United Kingdom do make their election for which of the places they will serve, within one week after it shall appear that there is no question upon the return for that place; and if 55 anything shall come in question touching the return or election of any Member, he is to withdraw during the time the matter is in debate; and that all Members returned upon double returns do withdraw till their returns are determined.
§ Resolved, That no Peer of the Realm, except such Peers of Ireland as shall for the time being be actually elected, and shall not have declined to serve, for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, hath any right to give his vote in the election of any Member to serve in Parliament.
§ Motion made and Question proposed—"That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom for any Lord of Parliament, or other Peer or Prelate, not being a Peer of Ireland at the time elected, and not having declined to serve for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, to concern himself in the election
56§ of Members to serve for the Commons in Parliament, except only any Peer of Ireland, at such elections in Great Britain respectively, where such Peer shall appear as a candidate, or by himself, or any others, be proposed to be elected; or for any Lord Lieutenant or Governor of any county to avail himself of any authority derived from his commission, to influence the election of any Member to serve for the Commons in Parliament."—(Mr. A. J. Balfour.)
§
Amendment proposed—
To leave out the words from the word 'kingdom,' in line 2, to the word 'for,' in line 8."—(Mr. James Lowther.)
§ Question put—"That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
§ The House divided:—Ayes, 337; Noes, 101. (Division List No. 1.)
59| AYES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Capt. Sir A. F. | Burt, Thomas | Douglas-Pennant, Hon. E. S. |
| Aird, John | Buxton, Sydney Charles | Doxford, William Theodore |
| Allan, William (Gateshead) | Caldwell, James | Drage, Geoffrey |
| Allsopp, Hon. George | Campbell, J. H. M. (Dublin) | Drucker, A. |
| Anson, Sir William Reynell | Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H. | Dyke, Rt. Hon. Sir Wm. Hart |
| Archdale, Edward Mervyn | Carlile, William Walter | Egerton, Hon. A. de Tatton |
| Arrol, Sir William | Carmichael, Sir T. D. Gibson- | Elliot, Hon. A. Ralph D. |
| Atkinson, Rt. Hon. John | Causton, Richard Knight | Emmott, Alfred |
| Bailey, James (Walworth) | Cavendish, R. F. (N. Lancs.) | Engledew, Charles John |
| Bainbridge, Emerson | Cavendish, V.C.W. (Derbysh.) | Evans, Samuel T. (Glamorgan) |
| Baird, John George Alexander | Cayzer, Sir Charles William | Evershed, Sydney |
| Baker, Sir John | Cecil, Evelyn (Hertford, East) | Fardell, Sir T. George |
| Balfour, Rt. Hn. A. J. (Manch'r) | Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | Fellowes, Hon. Allwyn E. |
| Balfour, Rt. Hn. G. W. (Leeds) | Chaloner, Capt. R. G. W. | Ferguson, R. C. M. (Leith) |
| Banbury, Fredk. George | Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. (Birm | Fergusson, Rt. Hn. Sir J.(Man'r) |
| Barlow, John Emmott | Chamberlain, J. Austen (Wor.) | Field, Admiral (Easthourne) |
| Barnes, Frederic Gorell | Channing, Francis Allston | Finch, George H. |
| Barry, RtHnAH.Smith-(Hunts | Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry | Finlay, Sir Robert Bannatyne |
| Barry, Sir Francis T. (Windsor) | Charrington, Spencer | Firbank, Joseph Thomas |
| Bathurst, Hn. Allen Benjamin | Clarke, Sir Edwd. (Plymouth) | Fisher, William Hayes |
| Barley, Thomas (Derbyshire) | Collings, Rt. Hon. Jesse | Fison, Frederick William |
| Beach, RtHn.SirM.H.(Bristol) | Colston, Chas. Edw. H. A. | Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond |
| Beaumont, Wentworth C. B. | Colville, John | Fitz Wygram, General Sir F. |
| Begg, Ferdinand Faithfull | Compton, Lord Alwyne | Flannery, Sir Fortescue |
| Bemrose, Sir Henry Howe | Cook, Fred. Lucas (Lambeth) | Fletcher, Sir Henry |
| Bhownaggree, Sir M. M. | Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow) | Flower, Ernest |
| Biddulph, Michael | Cornwallis, Fiennes Stanley W. | Forster, Henry William |
| Bigwood, James | Courtney, Rt. Hn. Leonard H. | Foster, Col. (Lancaster) |
| Billson, Alfred | Cox, Irwin Ewd. Bainbridge | Foster, Sir W. (Derby Co.) |
| Blakiston-Houston, John | Cripps, Charles Alfred | Fowler, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry |
| Blundell, Colonel Henry | Currie, Sir Donald | Fry, Lewis |
| Bolitho, Thomas Bedford | Curzon, Viscount | Garfit, William |
| Bonsor, Henry Cosmo Orme | Dalbiac, Colonel Philip Hugh | Gedge, Sydney |
| Bowles, Capt. H. F. (Middlesex | Dalrymple, Sir Charles | Gibbons, J. Lloyd |
| Brassey, Albert | Davies, M. Vaughan-(Cardigan | Gibbs, Hn.A. G. H.(City of Lond. |
| Brigg, John | Denny, Colonel | Giles, Charles Tyrrell |
| Brodrick, Rt. Hon. St. John | Dickinson, Robert Edmond | Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbt. J. |
| Brookfield, A. Montagu | Digby, Jn. K. D. Wingfield- | Goddard, Daniel Ford |
| Brown, Alexander H. | Disraeli, Coningsby Ralph | Gold, Charles |
| Brunner, Sir John Tomlinson | Dorington, Sir John Edward | Goldsworthy, Major-General |
| Bryce, Rt. Hon. James | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Gordon, Hon. John Edward |
| Bullard, Sir Harry | Douglas, Charles M. (Lanark) | Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir John E. |
| Graham, Henry Robert | Lyell, Sir Leonard | Ritchie, Rt. Hon. C. Thomson |
| Gray, Ernest (West Ham) | Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred | Roberts, John Bryn (Eifion) |
| Green, Walford D. (Wednesbury | Roberts, J. H. (Denbighs.) | |
| Greville, Hon. Ronald | Macartney, W. G. Ellison | Robertson, H. (Hackney) |
| Grey, Sir Edward (Berwick) | Macdona, John Cumming | Rollit, Sir Albert Kaye |
| Griffith, Ellis J. | MacIver, David (Liverpool) | Rothschild, Hon. Lionel W. |
| Gull, Sir Cameron | M'Arthur, C. (Liverpool) | Russell, Gen. F. S. (Chltnhm.) |
| Gurdon, Sir W. Brampton | M'Arthur, W. (Cornwall) | Russell, T. W. (Tyrone) |
| Guthrie, Walter Murray | M'Crae, George | Rutherford, John |
| M'Ewan, William | ||
| Hall, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles | M'Killop, James | Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Halsey, Thomas Frederick | Malcolm, Ian | Savory, Sir Joseph |
| Hamilton, Rt. Hon. Lord Geo. | Manners, Lord Ed. Wm. J. | Schwann, Charles E. |
| Hanson, Sir Reginald | Marks, Henry Hananel | Scoble, Sir Andrew Richard |
| Hardy, Laurence | Massey-Mainwaring, Hn. W. F. | Sharpe, William Edward T. |
| Harwood, George | Mellor, Colonel (Lancashire) | Shaw, Chas. E. (Stafford) |
| Haslett, Sir James Horner | Mendl, Sigismund Ferdinand | Shaw-Stewart, M.H. (Rnfrw.) |
| Hayne, Rt. Hon. C. Seale- | Meysey-Thompson, Sir H. M. | Sidebotham, J. W. (Cheshire) |
| Hazell, Walter | Middlemore, J. Throgmorton | Sidebottom, W. (Derbyshire) |
| Healy, Maurice (Cork) | Milward, Colonel Victor | Sinclair, Capt. J. (Forfarshre.) |
| Healy, Thomas J. (Wexford) | Monckton, Edward Philip | Sinclair, Louis (Romford) |
| Healy, Timothy M. (N. Louth) | Monk, Charles James | Skewes-Cox, Thomas |
| Hedderwick, Thomas Charles H. | Montagu, Sir S. (Whitechapel) | Smith, Abel H. (Christchurch) |
| Helder, Augustus | Moon, Edward Robert Pacy | Smith, J. Parker (Lanarks.) |
| Hemphill, Rt. Hon. Chas. H. | Moore, William (Antritn, N.) | Smith, Samuel (Flint) |
| Hill, Rt.Hn.A.Staveley (Staffs | More, R. J. (Shropshire) | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Hoare,Edw Brodie(Hampstead | Morgan, Hn.F.(Monm'thshire) | Spencer, Ernest |
| Hobhouse, Henry | Morgan, J. Lloyd (Carmarthen) | Spicer, Albert |
| Holland, William Henry | Morley, Rt. Hon. J. (Montrose) | Stevenson, Francis S. |
| Horniman, Frederick John | Morrell, George Herbert | Stewart, Sir M. J. M'Taggart |
| Houston, R. P. | Morton, A. H. A. (Deptford) | Stone, Sir Benjamin |
| Howard, Joseph | Moss, Samuel | Strachey, Edward |
| Howell, William Tudor | Muntz, Philip A. | Strutt, Hon. Charles Hedley |
| Howorth, Sir Henry Hoyle | Murray, Rt. Hn. A. G. (Bute) | Stuart, James (Shoreditch) |
| Hozier, Hon. J. H. Cecil | Murray, Chas. J. (Coventry) | Sturt, Hon. Humphry Napier |
| Hubbard, Hon. Evelyn | Murray, Col. Wyndham (Bath) | Sutherland, Sir Thomas |
| Hudson, George Bickersteth | Myers, William Henry | |
| Talbot, Rt. Hn. J. G. (Oxf'd Uni. | ||
| Jackson, Rt. Hon. Wm. Lawies | Newdigate, Francis Alexander | Tennant, Harold John |
| Jebb, Richard Claverhouse | Nicholson, William Graham | Thomas, Abel (Carmarthen, E.) |
| Jeffreys, Arthur Frederick | Nicol, Donald Ninian | Thorburn, Walter |
| Jessel, Capt. Herbert Merton | Nussey, Thomas Willans | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Johnson-Ferguson, J. E. | Tomlinson, Wm. Edw. Murray | |
| Johnston, William (Belfast) | Oldroyd, Mark | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| Johnstone, Heywood (Sussex) | Tritton, Charles Ernest | |
| Joicey, Sir James | Palmer, G. W. (Reading) | Usborne, Thomas |
| Jones, D. Brynmor (Swansea) | Parkes, Ebenezer | Vincent, Sir Edgar (Exeter) |
| Jordan, Jeremiah | Parnell, John Howard | Wanklyn, James Leslie |
| Paulton, James Mellor | Ward, Hon. Robert A. (Crewe) | |
| Kay-Shuttleworth, RtHnSir U. | Pease, Alfred E. (Cleveland) | Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. |
| Kearley, Hudson E. | Pease, H. P. (Darlington) | Webster, Sir Richard E. |
| Kennaway, Rt. Hon. Sir J. H. | Pease, J. A. (Northumberl'nd) | Weir, James Galloway |
| Kenyon, James | Pease, Sir J. W. (Durham) | Welby, Lieut.-Col. A. C. E. |
| Kenyon-Slaney, Col. Wm. | Penn, John | Whitmore, Charles Algernon |
| Kimber, Henry | Phillpotts, Captain Arthur | Williams, Col. R. (Dorset) |
| Knowles, Lees | Pickersgill, Edward Hare | Williams, J. Powell- (Birm.) |
| Pierpoint, Robert | Willoughby de Eresby, Lord | |
| Pilkington, R. (Lancs., Newton) | Wilson, Frederick W. (Norfolk) | |
| Lafone, Alfred | Pilkington, Sir G.A. (Lancs S. W. | Wilson, John (Govan) |
| Langley, Batty | Platt-Higgins, Frederick | Wilson, J. W. (Worcestersh, N.) |
| Lawrence, Sir E. Durning (Corn) | Plunkett, Rt. Hon. Horace C. | Wilson-Todd, W. H. (Yorks.) |
| Lawson, John Grant (Yorks.) | Pollock, Harry Frederick | Wodehouse, Rt. Hn. E. R. (Bath |
| Leese, Sir J. F. (Accrington) | Powell, Sir Francis Sharp | Woods, Samuel |
| Leigh-Bennett, Henry Currie | Pretyman, Ernest George | Wortley, Rt. Hn. C. B. Stuart- |
| Leng, Sir John | Price, Robert John | Wylie, Alexander |
| Lewis, John Herbert | Provand, Andrew Dryburgh | Wyndham, George |
| Llewellyn, E. H. (Somerset) | Pryce-Jones, Lt.-Col. Edward | Wyvill, Marmaduke D'Arcy |
| Lloyd-George, David | Purvis, Robert | |
| Lockwood, Lt.-Col. A. R. | Yerburgh, Robert Armstrong | |
| Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine | Randeli, David | Young, Com. (Berks, E.) |
| Long, Col. C. W. (Evesham) | Renshaw, Charles Bine | Yoxall, James Henry |
| Long, Rt. Hon. W. (Liverpool) | Rentoul, James Alexander | |
| Lowe, Francis William | Richardson, J. (Durham, S.E.) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES—Sir William Walrond and Mr. Anstruther. |
| Loyd, Archie Kirkman | Rickett, J. Compton | |
| Lucas-Shadwell, William | Ridley, Rt. Hon. Sir M. W. | . |
| NOES. | ||
| Abraham, Wm. (Cork, N.E.) | Galloway, William Johnson | Norton, Capt. Cecil William |
| Allhusen, Augustus Hy. Eden | Gibbs, Hon. Vicary (St. Albans) | O'Brien, James F. X. (Cork) |
| Ambrose, Robert | Gibney, James | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) |
| Ashton, Thomas Gair | Goulding, Edward Alfred | O'Connor, J. (Wicklow, W.) |
| Austin, M. (Limerick, W.) | Gourley, Sir Edward T. | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) |
| Barry, E. (Cork, S.) | Haldane, Richard Burdon | O'Malley, William |
| Bartley, George C. T. | Hammond, John (Carlow) | Perks, Robert William |
| Birrell, Augustine | Harrington, Timothy | Pinkerton, John |
| Blake, Edward | Hayden, John Patrick | Pym, C. Guy |
| Bond, Edward | Heath, James | Reckitt, Harold James |
| Boulnois, Edmund | Heaton, John Henniker | Redmond, William (Clare) |
| Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn | Hogan, James Francis | Reid, Sir Robert Threshie |
| Burns, John | Hutton, Alfred E. (Morley) | Roche, John (East Galway) |
| Cameron, Robert (Durham) | Jacoby, James Alfred | Runciman, Walter |
| Commins, Andrew | Jameson, Major J. Eustace | Scott, Chas. Prestwich (Leigh) |
| Crean, Eugene | Jones, W. (Carnarvonshire) | Shee, James John |
| Crilly, Daniel | Kinloch, Sir John George Smyth | Sheehy, David |
| Curran, Thomas B. (Donegal) | Kitson, Sir James | Souttar, Robinson |
| Curran, Thomas (Sligo, S.) | Laurie, Lieut.-General | Stanhope, Hon. Philip J. |
| Daly, James | Macaleese, Daniel | Steadman, William Charles |
| Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles | MacDonnell, Dr. M. A. (Queen's C. | Sullivan, Donal (Westmeath) |
| Dillon, John | Maclean, James Mackenzie | Sullivan, T. D. (Donegal, W.) |
| Donelan, Captain A. | Maclure, Sir John William | Tanner, Charles Kearns |
| Doogan, P. C. | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Thomas, Alfred (Glamorgan, E.) |
| Duncombe, Hon. Hubert V. | M'Cartan, Michael | Thomas, D. Alfred (Merthyr) |
| Ellis, John Edward | McDermott, Patrick | Tully, Jasper |
| Esmonde, Sir Thomas | M'Ghee, Richard | Wason, Eugene |
| Farquharson, Dr. Robert | M'Hugh, Patrick A. (Leitrim) | Wedderburn, Sir William |
| Farrell, Thomas J. (Kerry, S.) | M'Kenna, Reginald | Wharton, Rt. Hon. John Lloyd |
| Fenwick, Charles | M'Leod, John | Wilson, Henry J. (York, W.R.) |
| Ffrench, Peter | Maddison, Fred | Woodhouse, Sir J. T. (Huddersf'd |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | Mandeville, J. Francis | |
| Flynn, James Christopher | Maple, Sir John Blundell | TELLERS FOR THE NOES— Mr. James Lowther and Sir Wilfrid Lawson. |
| Foster, Harry S. (Suffolk) | Moore, Arthur (Londonderry) | |
| Fox, Dr. Joseph Francis | Murnaghan, George |
Main Question put, and agreed to.
§ Resolved, That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom for any Lord of Parliament, or other Peer or Prelate, not being a Peer of Ireland at the time elected, and not having declined to serve for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, to concern himself in the election of Members to serve for the Commons in Parliament, except only any Peer of Ireland, at such elections in Great Britain respectively where such Peer shall appear as a condidate, or by himself, or any others, be proposed to be elected; or for any Lord Lieutenant or Governor of any county to avail himself of any authority derived from his commission, to influence the election of any Member to serve for the Commons in Parliament.
§ Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person hath been elected or returned a Member of this House, or endeavoured so to be, by bribery, or any other corrupt practices, this House will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as shall have been wilfully con- 60 cerned in such bribery or other corrupt practices.