§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)May I direct your attention, Mr. Speaker, to an error in the Record of Proceedings circulated among the Members of the House yesterday? In the division on 8th May in reference to company directors I find that there has been an error of calculation. There were only eighty-one votes recorded as against the. motion, whereas eighty-two are put down in the list as having voted. There is another and even worse error. An hon. Member was put down as voting with the noes who was not present and has not been present since the session opened— Mr. James Tuite, the Member for Westmeath. I am myself at some fault in the matter, as I was one of the tellers; but the hon. Member for Partick was the 1217 other teller, and to him I left the responsibility of counting, feeling that he would be able to count accurately as he was a Senior Wrangler. I certainly did not see Mr. Tuite, and my hon. friend could only have seen him with the eye of faith. I saw him with no eye at all. I ask that the Government majority be reduced from eleven to nine. This is of some importance, as I shall be able to show in a very few days.
§ * MR. SPEAKERI see that the name of the hon. Member for Westmeath does appear as voting, and I must assume for the present that it correctly appears, but inquiry shall be made.; the clerks in the Lobby may have taken down his name by mistake for that of another Member. But I must take it that the tellers have given the right number, unless they agree that there has been a mistake.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI will communicate with my hon. friend the Senior Wrangler.
§ AN HON. MEMBER: Second Wrangler.