§ Motion made, and Question put, "That the proceedings of the Committee of Ways and Means, if the Committee be sitting at Twelve o'clock this night, be not interrupted under the Standing Order, Sittings of the House."—(Mr. Balfour.)
§ The House divided:—Ayes, 274; Noes, 30. (Division List No. 51.)
53| AYES. | ||
| Allhusen, Augustus Hy. Eden | Collings, Rt. Hon. Jesse | Giles, Charles Tyrrell |
| Allison, Robert Andrew | Colomb, Sir John Chas. Ready | Gilliat, John Saunders |
| Archdale, Edward Mervyn | Colston, Chas. E. H. Athole | Goddard, Daniel Ford |
| Arnold, Alfred | Cooke, C. W. R. (Hereford) | Gold, Charles |
| Atkinson, Rt. Hon. John | Corbett, A. Cameron (Gl'sg'w) | Gordon, Hon. John Edward |
| Bailey, James (Walworth) | Cornwallis, Fiennes Stanley W. | Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir J. Eldon |
| Baird, John George Alexander | Courtney, Rt. Hon. Leonard H. | Goschen, Rt Hn G J (St George's) |
| Baker, Sir John | Cripps, Charles Alfred | Goschen, George J. (Sussex) |
| Baldwin, Alfred | Crombie, John William | Goulding, Edward Alfred |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J. (Manch') | Cubitt, Hon. Henry | Graham, Henry Robert |
| Banbury, Frederick George | Currie, Sir Donald | Gray, Ernest (West Ham) |
| Barnes, Frederic Gorell | Curzon, Viscount | Greene, Hy. D. (Shrewsbury) |
| Barry, Rt Hn A H Smith-(Hunts | Dalkeith, Earl of | Grey, Sir Edward (Berwick) |
| Bartley, George C. T. | Dalrymple, Sir Charles | Gurdon, Sir Wm. Brampton |
| Beach, Rt. Hn Sir M. H. (Bristol | Davies, M. Vaughan-(Cardig'n) | Halsey, Thomas Frederick |
| Begg, Ferdinand Faithfull | Denny, Colonel | Hamilton, Rt. Hn. Lord George |
| Bethell, Commander | Dewar, Arthur | Hanbury, Rt. Hn. Robert Wm. |
| Biddulph, Michael | Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles | Hanson, Sir Reginald |
| Bill, Charles | Dixon-Hartland, Sir F. Dixon | Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir W. |
| Billson, Alfred | Donkin, Richard Sim | Hardy, Laurence |
| Birrell, Augustine | Dorington, Sir John Edward | Hayne, Rt. Hn. Charles Seale- |
| Blundell, Colonel Henry | Doughty, George | Hazell, Walter |
| Bonsor, Henry Cosmo Orme | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Heaton, John Henniker |
| Bowles, Capt. H.F. (Middlesex | Drage, Geoffrey | Hedderwick, Thomas C. H. |
| Bowles, T. Gibson (King'sLynn | Duckworth, James | Hemphill, Rt. Hon. C. H. |
| Brodrick, Rt. Hon. St. John | Dunn, Sir William | Henderson, Alexander |
| Brown, Alexander H. | Ellis, John Edward | Hoare, Sir Samuel (Norwich) |
| Brunner, Sir John Tomlinson | Emmott, Alfred | Hobhouse, Henry |
| Bryce, Rt. Hon. James | Evans, Sir Francis H. (South'n) | Holland, William Henry |
| Brymer, William Ernest | Evershed, Sydney | Horniman, Frederick John |
| Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn | Faber, George Denison | Houldsworth, Sir Wm. Henry |
| Buxton, Sydney Charles | Fardell, Sir T. George | Houston, R. P. |
| Caldwell, James | Farquharson, Dr. Robert | Howard, Joseph |
| Cameron, Sir Charles (Glasgow) | Fellowes, Hon. Dillwyn Edw. | Hozier, Hon. Jas. Henry Cecil |
| Cameron, Robert (Durham) | Fergusson, Rt. Hn. Sir J. (Man'r | Hubbard, Hon. Evelyn |
| Campbell, J. H. M. (Dublin) | Finch, George H. | Hudson, George Bickersteth |
| Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H. | Finlay, Sir Robt. Bannatyne | Hutton, Alfred E. (Morley) |
| Carmichael, Sir T. D. Gibson- | Firbank, Joseph Thomas | Jeffreys, Arthur Frederick |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Edward | Fisher, William Hayes | Jessel, Capt. Herbert Merton |
| Causton, Richard Knight | Fison, Frederick William | Johnston, William (Belfast) |
| Cavendish, V.C.W.(Derbyshire | Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmund | Johnstone, Heywood (Sussex |
| Cayzer, Sir Charles William | Flannery, Sir Fortescue | Jones, Wm. (Carnarvonshire) |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Hertford, East) | Fletcher, Sir Henry | Kay-Shuttleworth, Rt Hn Sir U |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | Flower, Ernest | Keswick, William |
| Chamberlain, Rt Hn. J. (Birm. | Forster, Henry William | Kimber, Henry |
| Chamberlain, J. Austen (Worc'r | Foster, Colonel (Lancaster) | Kinloch, Sir John George S. |
| Channing, Francis Allston | Foster, Sir Walter (Derby Co.) | Kitson, Sir James |
| Charrington, Spencer | Fowler, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry | Knowles, Lees |
| Chelsea, Viscount | Galloway, William Johnson | Lafone, Alfred |
| Clare, Octavius Leigh | Garfit, William | Laurie, Lieut.-General |
| Coghill, Douglas Harry | Gedge, Sydney | Lawrence, Sir E Durning-(Corn |
| Cohen, Benjamin Louis | Gibbs, Hon. A. G. H.(City of L.) | Lawrence, Wm. F. (Liverpool) |
| Lawson, John Grant (Yorks.) | Orr-Ewing, Charles Lindsay | Smith, Samuel (Flint) |
| Lecky, Rt. Hon. William E.H. | Palmer, George Wm. (Reading | Smith, Hon. W. F. D. (Strand) |
| Leese, Sir J. F. (Accrington) | Pease, Herb. Pike(Darlington | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Leighton, Stanley | Pease, Joseph A. (Northumb.) | Spencer, Ernest |
| Leng, Sir John | Pilkington, Sir G. A. (Lancs S. W | Stanley, Sir H. M. (Lambeth) |
| Llewelyn, Sir Dillwyn (Swans) | Pollock, Harry Frederick | Stevenson, Francis S. |
| Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine | Powell, Sir Francis Sharp | Stewart, Sir M. J. M'Taggart |
| Long, Rt. Hn. W. (Liverpool) | Priestley, Briggs (Yorks.) | Strachey, Edward |
| Lopes, Henry Yarde Buller | Pryce-Jones, Lt.-Col. Edward | Sturt, Hon. Humphry Napier |
| Lorne, Marquess of | Purvis, Robert | Tennant, Harold John |
| Lowe, Francis William | Pym, C. Guy | Thomas, A. (Glamorgan, E.) |
| Loyd, Archie Kirkman | Rasch, Major Frederic Carne | Thorburn, Sir Walter |
| Macartney, W. G. Ellison | Reid, Sir Robert Threshie | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Macdona, John Cumming | Renshaw, Charles Bine | Tomlinson, W. Edw. Murray |
| Maclean, James Mackenzie | Rentoul, James Alexander | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| Maclure, Sir John William | Richardson, Sir T. (Hartlep'l) | Tritton, Charles Ernest |
| M'Crae, George | Rickett J. Compton | Walton, Joseph (Barnsley) |
| M'Ewan, William | Ridley, Rt. Hn. Sir Matthew W. | Wanklyn, James Leslie |
| M'Iver, Sir L. Edinburgh, W. | Ritchie, Rt. Hn. Chas. Thomson | Warr, Augustus Frederick |
| M'Killop, James | Roberts, John H. (Denbighs.) | Webster, Sir Richard E. |
| Maddison, Fred. | Robertson, Edmund (Dundee) | Wedderburn, Sir William |
| Malcolm, Ian | Robertson, Herb. (Hackney) | Weir, James Galloway |
| Marks, Henry Hananel | Robson, William Snowdon | Welby, Lieut.-Col. A.C.E.(Taunton) |
| Massey-Mainwaring, Hn W.F. | Rollit, Sir Albert Kaye | |
| Mellor, Colonel (Lancashire) | Rothschild, Hn. Lionel Walter | Welby, Sir Chas. G. E. (Notts.) |
| Middlemore, J. Throgmorton | Runciman, Walter | Wentworth, Bruce C.Vernon- |
| Milward, Colonel Victor | Russell, Gen. F. S.(Cheltenham | Whittaker, Thomas Palmer |
| Monckton, Edward Philip | Russell, T. W. (Tyrone) | Williams, John Carvell (Notts |
| Montagu, Sir S. (Whitechapel | Ryder, John Herbert Dudley | Williams, J. Powell (B'ghm.) |
| Moon, Edward Robert Pacy | Samuel, H. S. (Limehouse) | Wilson, F. W. (Norfolk) |
| More, R. Jasper (Shropshire) | Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) | Wilson, John (Falkirk) |
| Morrison, Walter | Sandys, Lieut.-Col. T. Myles | Wilson, John (Govan) |
| Morton, Arthur H A.(Deptford) | Sassoon, Sir Edward Albert | Wilson-Todd, W. H. (Yorks.) |
| Morton, Ed. J. C.(Devonport) | Seely, Charles Hilton | Wodehouse, Rt Hon. E. R(Bath |
| Murray, Rt Hn A Graham(Bute | Sharpe, William Edward T. | Woodhouse, Sir J T (Huddersf'd |
| Murray, Chas. J. (Coventry) | Shaw, Thomas (Hawick B.) | Young, Commander (Berks, E. |
| Murray, Col. Wyndham(Bath) | Shaw-Stewart, M. H. (Renfrew) | |
| Myers, William Henry | Simeon, Sir Barrington | TELLERS FOR THE AYES:— |
| Nicol, Donald Ninian | Sinclair, Capt. J. (Forfarshire) | Sir William Walrond and Mr. Anstruther. |
| Norton, Capt. Cecil William | Smith, Abel H. (Christchurch) | |
| Oldroyd, Mark | Smith, Jas. Parker (Lanarks.) | |
| NOES. | ||
| Abraham, W. (Cork, N.E.) | Healy, Timothy M. (N. Louth) | O'Connor, J. (Wicklow, W.) |
| Austin, M. (Limerick, W.) | Hogan, James Francis | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) |
| Blake, Edward | Jacoby, James Alfred | O'Malley, William |
| Carew, James Laurence | Lawson, Sir W. (Cumberland) | Redmond, J. E. (Waterford) |
| Crilly, Daniel | Lloyd-George, David | Redmond, William (Clare) |
| Curran, Thomas B. (Donegal) | Macaleese, Daniel | Sullivan, Donal (Westmeath) |
| Curran, Thomas (Sligo, S.) | MacDonnell, Dr. M. A.(Q.'sC.) | Tanner, Charles Kearns |
| Dalziel, James, Henry | McDermott, Patrick | |
| Doogan, P. C. | M'Laren, Charles Benjamin | TELLERS FOR THE NOES— |
| Engledew, Charles John | O'Brien, James F. X. (Cork) | Captain Donelan and Mr. Patrick O'Brien. |
| Fox, Dr. Joseph Francis | O'Connor, Arthur (Donegal) |