§ (4.42.) MR. A. J. BALFOUR, on rising to move the Resolution standing on the Paper, was prevented speaking by loud and continued cries of "Divide! Divide!" from the Nationalist Members.
§ * MR. SPEAKEROrder, order! I trust that hon. Members will, in the interests of freedom of debate—[loud Nationalist cheers]—in the interests of freedom of debate and of dignity of debate, listen to the observations of the right hon. Gentleman. I trust that will be the case on both sides of the House.
§ MR. JOHN REDMONDI trust I may be allowed, on the question of order, to say to you, Sir, that my hon. friends who have just interrupted by cries of "Divide" have done so in consequence of a ruling of the Deputy Chairman of Committees to the effect that it was not out of order to refuse a hearing to an hon. Member who was making a distasteful speech.
§ * MR. SPEAKERI understand that some dispute arose in Committee. I was not altogether ignorant of what had taken place, although I am not accepting the version of the hon. Member as to the effect of the ruling 1587 of the Chair. But I do trust that, whatever has taken place in Committee, in this House freedom of debate, as I say, and dignity of debate, will be observed on both sides.
§ MR. JOHN REDMONDAll I wish to say is that there are no men in this House who have such a high interest in freedom of debate as those who sit upon these Benches, and that the action taken by my hon. friends was in the nature of a protest against what they regarded—and I think justifiably regarded—as an unwarrantable interference with the freedom of debate in the incident which has just closed.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI trust that, whatever difference of opinion may have made itself felt in connection with the Resolution which has just been agreed to, no such difference of opinion will be shown in reference to the Resolution which I am now about to propose—a Resolution which is intended to convey the thanks of the House to our troops engaged in South Africa, and to express our high admiration of the manner in which they have carried out their duties. I do not know that there is in our history any exact parallel to the Resolution which I am about to move; it includes some paragraphs for which there is no parallel in any previous Resolution of this House, so far as I know, in connection with our military forces. For the first time we have had an Army entirely composed of British subjects, and in that army have been righting side by side not merely the Regular troops of the Crown, but the Militia, the Volunteers, the colonial forces, and the Yeomanry and Volunteers from India. This indicates a very great revolution in the military position of this country. Never before have we sent beyond the seas any force comparable in numbers to the forces that have been engaged during the last few years in South Africa. Never before, when we have sent a really considerable force beyond the seas, have we been without allies or mercenaries other than of English nationality and English blood. That is my recollection; I do not pie-tend to have verified it; but certainly all through the Peninsular War we had the assistance of a famous corps, known 1588 as the German Legion, and all through the great wars of the eighteenth century that was emphatically the case. In the Crimean War we fought side by side with great allies. On this occasion alone, so far as I know, a force of 250,000 men has been collected 7,000 miles from our shores, every one of whom was a subject of his Majesty the King.
It is manifest that to each of the classes of which this great force was composed we ought to tender our thanks, and the first paragraph begins by tendering our thanks to the officers and men of the Regular Army. Sir, they have been the backbone, after all, of our fighting force. On them has the greatest I burden fallen, and they have served without discontent or murmuring side I by side with brothers in arms paid at a much higher rate, and in the circumstances properly paid at a much higher rate than themselves; they have seen that that was one of the necessities of the occasion, and so far as I know, there has been no discontent. They have ungrudgingly, as well as courageously, performed all the duties that have been thrown upon them. Then I come to another branch of the forces engaged in the field, of which we have, indeed, had plenty of experience in the past—I mean the sailors. Our sailors and our soldiers have constantly co-operated, not merely in operations in which the Navy itself was engaged, but in operations of a strictly military character, and never has that co-operation done otherwise than redound to the credit of the naval force engaged. What has been true throughout our history has been true in South Africa, and the naval brigade has earned undying honour in the early stages of the war.
I now come to the Militia, the Yeomanry, and the Volunteers. This is the first time in which these forces have been engaged far beyond the seas in great military operations; this is the first time the Militia, as far as I know, have ever fought side by side with the Regular troops of the country abroad, They were used in our fortresses during the Crimean war, but they never went to the front. In this war for the first time they have actually been in the fighting line with the Regular troops, And, Sir, if the position of the Militia on 1589 this occasion is novel, still more novel is I it that we should have these great bodies of Volunteers and Yeomanry who, even from the very early days of the war, have done such admirable services and have co-operated with an Army, which, by itself, was no doubt numerically insufficient for the work thrown upon it, not by the numbers of the enemy, but by the character of the country in which the military operations were carried on.
The third category of troops we have to thank are the colonial forces. If this is the first time in which the Militia have taken part in actual military operations, if this is the first time in which the Volunteers have co-operated with the Regular troops, so also is it the first time that any large body of our colonies has come forward in a moment of great Imperial need and thrown in their lot with the mother country. I quite agree it is not the first time they have given us assistance; but it is the great example, the first example, of what can be done, from a purely military point of view, by the British Empire when all the parts of that Empire are convinced that some great, common, Imperial need requires of every member of the Empire an equal sacrifice. Sir. the numbers supplied to us from our colonies have been considerable, and the service they have done us in the field has been great, but I venture to say that the benefits that they have conferred upon our common Empire are not to be measured either by the number of men engaged or by the actual military operations in which they have taken part; they are to be measured by the sentiment of which this great contribution is the conclusive evidence, and which makes the present war the opening of a new chapter in our Imperial history. These are the great classes of troops which we ask the House to thank. I think it would be superfluous if I were to waste the time of the House by saying one word in praise of their courage or their conduct. But, Sir, I must say a word about the admirable spirit of humanity which has animated them from first to last. In the speech which fell from the hon. Member for East Mayo in the early part of the sitting I lamented nothing so much as his attacks upon the 1590 inhumanity of the Army. [A NATIONALIST MEMBER: He said nothing of the kind.]
§ MR. DILLONsaid he thought the right hon. Gentleman should do him justice. He said distinctly that neither on that occasion nor on other occasions, as far as he knew, had he made any charge against the Army or officers on the ground of inhumanity. He made the charge against Lord Kitchener, who had himself accepted the whole responsibility for the policy which he attacked.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI am sorry to have misrepresented the hon. Gentleman. The version he gives of his speech is an accurate one. He did throw all the blame on Lord Kitchener, and the soldiers whom I am asking the House to thank must, in the hon. Gentleman's view, only be regarded as his reluctant instruments. However, I am not going back to the previous debate. It will be sufficient if I say I do not believe that the history of the world shows a parallel to the conduct of troops who were practically masters of the whole area in which they were, except just the ground on which these scattered commandos were carrying on their operations, who had the whole thing under their feet, and who never once, so far as I know, transgressed, I will not say the laws of war, but the higher code of humanity to which the laws of war are only a distant and rough approximation. It does show a great growth in humanitarian and humanising sentiment of which we may well be proud in this country. The temptations to excess and outrage must, after all, be great, even in the most disciplined troops, and some of these troops were in the nature of Irregulars; and yet I believe you may scan the annals of what has taken place in South Africa during the last two or three years with the most critical eye, and you will have to admit—I hope you will be glad to admit—that never yet has there in the history of the world been an example of 250,000 men in this uncontrolled possession of a country against whom no charge could truly be made of brutality or of inhumanity.
That concludes all I have to say about the earlier paragraphs of the Resolution 1591 which I shall submit to the House. The final paragraph is one which, in deference to our own feelings, and out of regard for those who have suffered by the war, we always pass on these occasions. It is a vote of condolence with those who have suffered loss and bereavement in the progress of the war. I will not argue the question of form. [A NATIONALIST MEMBER: We are all anxious to pass that.] I am quite sure the hon. Member at all events agrees with the substance of this part of my remarks. I would say that, while it is true that the actual loss by wounds and disease in this war has been less, compared with the total number of the men engaged, than on previous occasions, partly through the changes in modern weapons and partly through the improvement of modern surgery and modern medicine, yet he is fortunate indeed, who has not in the circle of his own immediate experience come across cruel and heartrending cases of bereavement. We can do little to console the widow or the parent for the loss of husband or of child; but it may be some consolation to those who have suffered these irreparable injuries to feel that after all those whom they loved were engaged in a cause which the nation at large believes to be just; to which they freely lent their services: and in which they died and did not die in vain. The cause for which they were sacrificed has been successful; and if this is not a sufficient or an adequate consolation for the loss of their nearest and dearest, at all events it must be some comfort to know that the greatest of all sacrifices has not been made in vain. I now, Sir, beg to move the Resolution which I venture to place in your hands.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the thanks of this House be given to the officers and warrant officers of the Navy, the Army, the Royal Marines, the Militia, the Imperial Yeomanry, and the Volunteers for the energy and gallantry with which they executed the services which they were called upon to perform during the prolonged campaign in South Africa.
§ "That this House doth acknowledge and highly approve the gallantry, discipline, and good conduct displayed by the petty 1592 officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Navy, the Army, the Royal Marines, the Militia, the imperial Yeomanry, and the Volunteers throughout the war.
§ "That the thanks of this House be given to the officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of His Majesty's Colonial and Indian forces, for their co-operation with His Majesty's imperial forces, and for the energy and gallantry with which they executed the services which they were called upon to perform during the prolonged campaign in South Africa.
§ "That this House doth acknowledge and highly approve the gallantry, discipline, and good conduct displayed by His Majesty's Colonial and Indian forces, and doth also acknowledge the cordial good feeling which animated all His Majesty's forces.
§ "That the thanks of this House be given to the officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the several corps of militia which have been embodied in Great Britain and Ireland during the course of the war for the zealous and meritorious services which they have rendered at home and abroad.
§ "That this House doth acknowledge with admiration the distinguished valour, devotion, and conduct of those officers and men who have perished during the campaign in South Africa in the service of the Empire, and desires to express deep sympathy with their friends."—(Mr. A. J. Balfour.)
§ SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI feel much confidence that there will not be a single jarring note in the voice with which the House of Commons will today express its appreciation of the services of the Army in all its branches and all its ranks during the war which we are now happy to speak of as the late war. It was a war, as the right hon. Gentleman has said, of great trial. There was little in it of the ordinary pomp and circumstance of warfare. There was little of the glorious fever of the stricken field. There was endurance of great hardships; there was a wearisome life but always necessitating vigilance; there was a continual chance of encounter with a daring but a singularly artful and 1593 elusive enemy. There was, therefore, everything to disappoint and to harass and depress the soldier. Yet, Sir, the spirit of all these men never failed. Their discipline never relaxed; and they never lost that characteristic of cheerful good nature which we are always in the habit of associating with them. The country feels now that it did well to be confident in its Army at the commencement of the war. Even in the darkest days, when we were feeling our way and only discovering the gigantic nature of the task before us, the country never doubted that our soldiers were equal to the task. Now that it is over, although we have not the character in this country of being effusive, still there wells up from the heart of the nation a profound feeling of gratitude for their conduct which properly finds expression in the Resolution now proposed by the right hon. Gentleman. It is a comprehensive Resolution which embraces the regular, the auxiliary, and the irregular forces of the Army, the colonial and the home troops alike, it deals with the Navy, to which we owe not only the gallant services of the brigade on shore, but also the services of every man of His Majesty's Fleet in every part of the world; because we are well aware that if it had not been for the efficiency and activity of the Navy our difficulties would have been multiplied several fold. The right hon. Gentleman's Resolution also takes account most naturally of the losses which our troops have suffered—of their gallant death, and of the sorrows of their relatives. To all alike our cordial thanks are due, and to all equally they will be freely given.
§ (5.6.) MR. JOHN REDMONDThere is one portion of this Resolution with which I suppose every man in the House, without exception, will be in complete sympathy, and that is the concluding paragraph, which expresses the sympathy of this House to the relatives of those who died gallantly on the field of battle; and I deeply regret that the right hon. Gentleman has tagged that portion on to the remainder of the Resolution. I do not know whether in matters of this kind the House thinks it worth while to have absolute unanimity, but if it were permitted to my friends and my self, we would be only too glad to take 1594 part in a unanimous expression of spmpathy with the relatives of those men who have fallen. I therefore regret very much that the right hon. Gentleman has included that in one Resolution with the other paragraphs, and I would ask you, Sir, whether it would be possible to put to the House the first portion of the Resolution dealing with the thanks to the living and the second portion which expresses sympathy with the relatives of the dead, separately.
§ * MR. SPEAKERI have already put the question to the House. I could not now separate one part of it from the rest without general consent.
§ MR. JOHN REDMONDI wag only anxious to make it plain that in the course which I and my friends propose to take we cannot be held to be out of sympathy with the sentiment expressed in the concluding portion of the Resolution. With the first portion of this Resolution we must, as the House will see in a moment, be out of sympathy. It is not necessary for us, nor is it our desire, to make any attack on the Army or upon the soldier's who carried out this campaign in South Africa, but they are being thanked in this Resolution for carrying out a work, as it was their duty to carry it out, which we have regarded from the first with absolute abhorrence, a work against which we have protested at every stage, and for the furtherance of which we have refused to vote a single shilling. We cannot with any show of consistency now, vote for a Resolution of thanks to those who were engaged in carrying on that work to what is regarded at the moment at any rate as a successful conclusion. That is the reason why we find it impossible to record our votes in favour of this Resolution, and why we must go into the lobby in opposition to it.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I am deeply sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has not divided this Resolution, because I feel very reluctant to go into the lobby against it, and in that way seem even inferentially to Withhold sympathy from the relatives of those who have fallen during this war. I regret deeply the bloodshed and the loss of friends, and I am one 1595 of those who mourn the loss of friends. I would ask the House to allow me to speak of one matter which I think for the honour and dignity of this House should not pass unnoticed. I intend to press for an inquiry into certain matters in connection with this war, and I know that I shall be justified in that, but at present I must take exception strongly to one observation of the First Lord of the Treasury. Do not imagine for one moment that I am bringing any general charge against the Army—I come myself of a military stock—but the First Lord was not informed in reference to public events when he said that on no occasion had one charge of outrage been brought against a British soldier. I am amazed that the Secretary of State for War did not get up and correct him when he made that statement. The marvel is that with so large a force so little crime and outrage was alleged, but in the interests of truth we are bound to acknowledge that within the last twelve months two officers who were tried by court-martial were shot for wilful murder. Therefore it is not
§ proper to say that no charge of that kind was brought against any one. It is not right that this wholesale system of whitewashing should pass unnoticed. I do press on the First Lord of the Treasury that it is not right on his part, as the head and leader of this House, to make a statement which is contrary to what must be apparent to everyone who has read the newspapers. There is one other point which I wish to raise. So far as I am aware, the Resolution before the House is contrary to precedent in every other similar case. In every other vote of the same nature, special mention was made of every General of Division who had taken part in the war. Why are not the Generals of Division in South Africa mentioned in this vote? Why are the names of General Buller, General Gatacre, General White, General Colville, and General Warren mentioned? Is there not a great deal of theatrical pretence about all these proceedings?
§ (5.18.) Question put.
§ The House divided:—Ayes, 382; Noes, 42. (Division List No. 203.)
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| Abraham, William (Rhondda) | Black, Alexander William | Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry |
| Acland-Hood, Capt. Sir Alex. F. | Blundell, Colonel Henry | Chapman, Edward |
| Agg-Gardner, James Tynte | Bond, Edward | Charrington, Spencer |
| Agnew, Sir Andrew Noel | Boscawen, Arthur Griffith- | Clive, Capt. Percy A. |
| Allen, William (Gateshead) | Boulnois Edmund | Cochrane, Hon. Thos. H. A. E. |
| Allan, Charles P. (Glouc, Stroud | Bowles, Capt. H. F. (Middlesex | Coddington, Sir William |
| Allhusen, August's Henry Eden | Bowles, T. Gibson, King's Lynn | Coghill, Douglas Harry |
| Allsopp, Hon. George | Brand, Hon. Arthur G. | Cohen, Benjamin Louis |
| Anson, Sir William Reynell | Brassey, Albert | Collings, Rt. Hon. Jesse |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Brodrick, Rt. Hon. St. John | Colomb, Sir John Charles Ready |
| Arnold-Forster, Hugh O. | Brookfield, Colonel Montagu | Colston, Chas. Edw. H. Athole |
| Arrol, Sir William | Brotherton, Edward Allen | Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow |
| Asher, Alexander | Brown, Alexander H. (Shropsh. | Corbett, T. L. (Down, North) |
| Ashton, Thomas Gair | Brunner, Sir John Tomlinson | Cranborne, Viscount |
| Atkinson, Rt. Hon. John | Bryce, Rt. Hon. James | Cripps, Charles Alfred |
| Austin, Sir John | Brymer, William Ernest | Crombie, John William |
| Bagot, Capt. Josceline FitzRoy | Burdett-Coutts, W. | Cross, Alexander (Glasgow) |
| Bain, Colonel James Robert | Butcher, John George | Cubitt, Hon. Henry |
| Balcarres, Lord | Caldwell, James | Dalkeith, Earl of |
| Baldwin, Alfred | Cameron, Robert | Davenport, William Bromley- |
| Balfour, Rt. Hn. A. J. (Manch'r | Cambell, Rt. Hn. J. A. (Glasgow | Davies, Alfred Carmarthen |
| Balfour, Rt Hn Gerald W. (Leeds | Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H. | Davies, M. Vaughan-(Cardigan |
| Balfour, Kenneth R. (Christen. | Carlile, William Walter | Dewar, John A. (lnverness-sh. |
| Banbury, Frederick George | Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edw. H. | Dickinson, Robert Edmond |
| Barlow, John Emmott | Cautley, Henry Strother | Dickson-Poynder, Sir John P. |
| Barry, Sir Francis T. (Windsor | Cavendish, B. F. (N. Lanes. | Digby, John K. D. Wingfield- |
| Bartley, George C. T. | Cavendish, V. C. W. (D'rbysh're | Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles |
| Bathurst, Hon. Allen Benjamin | Cawley, Frederick | Disraeli, Coningsby Ralph |
| Bayley, Thomas (Derbyshire | Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor | Dixon-Hartland, Sir Fred Dixon |
| Beaumont, Wentworth C. B. | Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | Dorington, Sir John Edward |
| Beresford, Lord Charles William | Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. (Birm. | Doughty, George |
| Bownaggree, Sir M. M. | Chamberlain, J. Austen (Worc'r | Douglas, Rt. Hn. A. Akers- |
| Bignold, Arthur | Chamberlayne, T. (S'thampton | Douglas, Charles M. (Lanark) |
| Bill, Charles | Channing, Francis Allston | Doxford, Sir William Theodore |
| Duncan, J. Hastings | Holland, William Henry | Morton, Arthur H. A. (Deptford |
| Dunn, Sir William | Hope, J. F. (Sheffield, Brightside | Mowbray, Sir Robert Gray C. |
| Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin | Hornby, Sir William Henry | Murray, Rt Hn A. Graham (Bute |
| Elibank, Master of | Horniman, Frederick John | Murray, Charles J. (Coventry) |
| Elliot, Hon. A. Ralph Douglas | Houldsworth, Sir William Henry | Murray Col. Wyndham (Bath |
| Ellis, John Edward | Hoult, Joseph | Myers, William Henry |
| Emmott, Alfred | Houston, Robert Paterson | Newdigate, Francis Alexander |
| Evans, Sir Francis H. Maidstone | Howard, J. (Midd., Tottenham | Newnes, Sir George |
| Faber, Edmund B. (Hants, W. | Humphreys-Owen, Arthur C. | Nicol, Donald Ninian |
| Faber, George Denison (York) | Hutton, John (Yorks, N. R.) | Norman, Henry |
| Fardell, Sir T. George | Jackson, Rt. Hon. Wm. Lawies | Norton, Capt. Cecil William |
| Farquharson, Dr. Robert | Jacoby, James Alfred | Nussey, Thomas Willans |
| Fellowes, Hon. Ailwyn Edward | Jebb, Sir Richard Claver house | O'Neill, Hon. Robert Torrens |
| Fenwick, Charles | Jeffreys, Arthur Frederick | Palmer, George Wm. (Reading |
| Fergusson, Rt. Hn. Sir J. (M'ner' | Johnston, William (Belfast) | Palmer, Walter, Salisbury |
| Finch, George H. | Johnstone, Heywood (Sussex) | Parker, Gilbert |
| Finlay, Sir Robert Bannatyne | Jones, David Brynmor (Swansea | Partington, Oswald |
| Fisher, William Hayes | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire | Paulton, James Mellor |
| Fison, Frederick William | Kearley, Hudson, E. | Pease, Herbert Pike (D'rlingt'n |
| FitzGerald, Sir Robert Penrose- | Kennaway, Rt. Hon. Sir John H. | Pease, J. A. Saffron Walden |
| Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond | Kenyon, Hon. Geo. T. (Denbigh | Pemberton, John S. G. |
| Flanuery, Sir Fortescue | Kenyon-Slaneyl Col. W. (Salop) | Perm, John |
| Fletcher, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry | Keswick, William | Perks, Robert William |
| Forster, Henry William | Kimber, Henry | Pickard, Benjamin |
| Foster, Phillip S (W'rwick, S. W. | Knowles, Lees | Pierpoint, Robert |
| Fowler, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry | Lambert, George | Pilkington, Lieut.-Col. Richard |
| Fuller, J. M. F. | Lambton, Hon. Frederick Wm. | Platt-Higgins, Frederick |
| Furness, Sir Christopher | Laurie, Lieut.-General | Plummer, Walter R. |
| Galloway, William Johnson | Lawrence, Joseph (Monmouth | Powell, Sir Francis Sharp |
| Gardner, Ernest | Lawson, John Grant | Price, Robert John |
| Garfit, William | Layland-Barratt, Francis | Priestley, Arthur |
| Gibbs, Hn. A. G. H. (City of Lond. | Lecky, Rt. Hn. William Edw. H. | Purvis, Robert |
| Gibbs, Hon. Vicary (St. Albans | Lee, Arthur H. Hants (Fareham | Pym, G. Guy |
| Gladstone, Rt. Hn. Herb'rt John | Leese, Sir Joseph F. (Accrington | Randles, John S. |
| Godson, Sir August's Frederick | Legge, Col. Hon Heneage. | Rasch, Major Frederic Carne |
| Gordon, Hn. J. E. (Elgin & Nairn | Leng, Sir John | Ratcliff, R. F. |
| Gordon, Mj Evans (T'w'rH'ml'ts | Leveson-Gower, Frederick N. S. | Rattigan, Sir William Henry |
| Gore, Hn G. R. C. Ormsby-(Salop | Lewis, John Herbert | Rea, Russell |
| Gore, Hn. S. F. Ormsby-(Line. | Lloyd-George, David | Reed, Sir Edw. James (Cardiff) |
| Goschen, Hon. George Joachim | Lockwood, Lt-Col. A. R. | Reid, James (Greenock) |
| Goulding, Edward Alfred | Long, Col. Charles W. (Evesh'm | Reid, Sir R. Threshie (Dumfries |
| Graham, Henry Robert | Long, Rt. Hn. Walter (Bristol, S | Renshaw, Charles Bine |
| Grant, Corrie | Lough, Thomas | Renwiek, George |
| Greene, Sir E. W. (B'ryS. Edm'ds | Lowe, Francis William | Ridley, Hn. M. W. (Stalybridge |
| Grenfell, William Henry | Lowther, C. (Cumb, Eskdale) | Ritchie, Rt. Hn. Chas. Thomson |
| Gretton, John | Lowther, Rt. Hn. James (Kent) | Roberts, Samuel, Sheffield |
| Groves, James Grimble | Loyd, Archie Kirkman | Robertson, Edmund (Dundee |
| Guest, Hon. Ivor Churchill | Lucas, Reginald J. (Portsm'uth | Robson, William, Snowdon |
| Gunter, Sir Robert | Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Gurdon, Sir W. Brampton | Macdona, John Cumming | Rolleston, Sir John F. L. |
| Guthrie, Walter Murray | MacIver, David (Liverpool) | Rollit, Sir Albert Kaye |
| Hain, Edward | M'Arthur, Charles (Liverpool) | Ropner, Colonel Robert |
| Halsey, Rt. Hn. Thomas F. | M'Calmont, Col. J. (Antrim E. | Round, James |
| Hamilton, Rt Hn Lord G (Midd'x | M'Killop, James (Stirlingshire) | Runciman, Walter |
| Harcourt, Rt. Hn. Sir William | M'Laren, Charles Benjamin | Russell, T. W. |
| Hardy, Laurence (Kent, Ashf'rd | Majendie, James A. H. | Rutherford, John |
| Hare, Thomas Leigh | Malcolm, Ian | Sackville, Col. S. G. Stopford- |
| Harmsworth, R. (Leicester | Markham, Arthur Basil | Sadler, Col. Samuel Alexander |
| Harris, Frederick Leverton | Mather, William | Samuel, Harry S. (Limehouse |
| Harwood, George | Maxwell, Rt Hn Sir H E (Wigt'n | Samuel, S. M. (Whitechapel |
| Hatch, Ernest Frederick Geo. | Maxwell, W. J. H. (Dumfriessh. | Sassoon, Sir Edward Albert |
| Hay, Hon. Claude George | Mellor, Rt. Hn. John William | Saunderson, Rt. Hn. Col. Edw. J |
| Hayne, Rt. Hon. Charles Seale- | Middlemore, John Throgmort'n | Scott, Chas. Prestwich (Leigh |
| Hayter, Rt. Hn. Sir Arthur D. | Mildmay, Francis Bingham | Seely, Charles Hilton (Lincoln |
| Heath, Arthur Howard (Hanley | Milner, Rt. Hn. Sir Frederick G. | Seton-Karr, Henry |
| Heath, James (Staffords. N. W. | Milvain, Thomas | Sharpe, William Edward T. |
| Helder, Augustus | Mitchell, William | Shaw, Charles Edw. (Stafford) |
| Helme, Norval Watson | Montagu, G (Huntingdon) | Shaw, Thomas (Hawick B.) |
| Hemphill, Rt. Hn. Charles H. | Moon, Edward Robert Pacy | Shaw-Stewart, M. H. (Renfrew |
| Henderson, Alexander | More, Robt Jasper (Shropshire | Shipman, Dr. John G. |
| Hermon-Hodge, Robert Trotter | Morgan, David J. (W'lthamst'w | Sinclair, John (Forfarshire) |
| Hickman, Sir Alfred | Morgan, Hn. Fred. (M'nm'thsh. | Sinclair, Louis (Romford |
| Hoare, Sir Samuel | Money, Charles (Breconshire) | Skewes-Cox, Thomas |
| Hobhouse, Henry (Somerset, E. | Morley, Rt. Hn. John (Montrose | Smith, James Parker (Lanarks. |
| Smith, Hon. W. F. D. (Strand) | Thornton, Percy M. | Williams, Rt Hn J Powell-(Birm |
| Snares, Ernest J. | Tomkinson, James | Wills, Sir Frederick |
| Spear, John Ward | Tomlinson, Wm. Edw. Murray | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E. R.) |
| Spencer, Sir E. (W. Bromwich) | Toulmin, George | Wilson, Chas. Henry (Hull, W. |
| Stanley, Hon Arthur (Ormskirk | Trevelyan, Charles Philips | Wilson, Fred W. (Norfolk, Mid. |
| Stanley, Edward Jas. (Somerset | Tritton, Charles Ernest | Wilson, John (Durham, Mid.) |
| Stanley, Lord (Lanes.) | Tufnell, Lieut.-Col. Edward | Wilson, John (Falkirk) |
| Stewart, Sir Mark J. M 'Taggart | Valentia, Viscount | Wilson John (Glasgow) |
| Stock, James Henry | Vincent, Col. Sir C E H (Sheffield | Wilson, J. W. (Worcestersh. N. |
| Stone, Sir Benjamin | Wallace, Robert | Wilson-Todd, Wm. H. (Yorks.) |
| Strachey, Sir Edward | Wason, Eugene (Clackmannan | Wodehouse, Rt. Hn. E. R. (Bath |
| Strutt, Hon. Charles Hedley | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney | Woodhouse, Sir J T (Huddersf'd |
| Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester) | Welby, Lt-Col A. C. B. (Taunton | Worsley-Taylor, Henry Wilson |
| Talbot, Rt. Hn. J. G. (Oxf'rd Un. | Welby, Sir Charles G. E. (Notts | Wortley, Rt. Hn. G B. Stuart- |
| Taylor, Theodore Cooke | White, Luke (York, E. R.) | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Tennant, Harold John | Whiteley, George (York, W. R. | Yerburgh, Robert Armstrong |
| Thomas, Abel (Carmarthen, E. | Whiteley, H (Ashton und-Lyne | |
| Thomas, David Alfred (Merthyr | Whitley, J. H. (Halifax) | |
| Thomas J A (Glamorgan, Gower | Whitmore, Charles Algernon | TELLERS FOR THE AYES— |
| Thomson, P. W. (York, W. K.) | Whittaker, Thomas Palmer | Sir William Walrond and |
| Thorburn, Sir Walter | Williams, Osmond (Merioneth) | Mr. Anstruther. |
| NOES. | ||
| Abraham, William (Cork, N. E.) | Leamy, Edmund | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) |
| Barry, E. (Cork, S.) | Lundon, W. | O'Donnell, T. (Kerry, W.) |
| Blake, Edward | MacDonnell, Dr. Mark A. | O'Kelly, James (Roscomm'n, N. |
| Boland, John | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | O'Malley, William |
| Burke, E. Haviland. | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. |
| Campbell, John (Armagh, S.) | M'Gorern, T. | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Crean, Eugene | M'Hugh, Patrick A. | Reddy, M. |
| Delany, William | M'Kean, John | Redmond, John E. (Waterford |
| Dillon, John | M'Killop, W. (Sligo, North) | Redmond, William (Clare) |
| Ffrench, Peter | Mooney, John J. | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Flynn, James Christopher | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Sullivan, Donal |
| Gilhooly, James | Nolan, Joseph (Louth, South | |
| Hammond, John | O'Brien, James F. X. (Cork) | |
| Hayden, John Patrick | O'Brien, Kendal (Tipp'r'ry, Mid | TELLERS FOR THE NOES— |
| Joyce, Michael | O'Brien, P. J. (Tipperary, N.) | Sir Thomas Esmonde and Mr. Patrick O'Brien. |
| Law, Hugh Alex. (Donegal, W.) | O'Connor, James (Wicklow, W |
Bill read a second time, and committed for Monday next.
§ Resolved, That the thanks of this House be given to the Officers and Warrant Officers of the Navy, the Army, the Royal Marines, the Militia, the Imperial Yeomanry, and the Volunteers for the energy and gallantry with which they executed the services which they were called upon to perform during the prolonged campaign in South Africa.
§ That this House doth acknowledge and highly approve the gallantry, discipline, and good conduct displayed by the Petty Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Men of the Navy, the Army, the Royal Marines, the Militia, the Imperial Yeomanry, and the Volunteers throughout the war.
§ That the thanks of this House be given to the Officers, Warrant Officers, Noncommissioned Officers, and men of His Majesty's Colonial and Indian Forces, for their co-operation with His Majesty's Imperial Forces, and for the energy and gallantry with which they executed the 1600 services which they were called upon to perform during the prolonged campaign in South Africa.
§ That this House doth acknowledge and highly approve the gallantry, discipline, and good conduct displayed by His Majesty's Colonial and Indian Forces, and doth also acknowledge the cordial good feeling which animated all His Majesty's Forces.
§ That the thanks of this House be given to the Officers, Warrant Officers, Noncommissioned Officers, and men of the several Corps of Militia which have been embodied in Great Britain and Ireland during the course of the war for the zealous and meritorious services which they have rendered at home and abroad.
§ That this House doth acknowledge with admiration the distinguished valour, devotion, and conduct of those Officers and men who have perished during the campaign in South Africa in the service 1601 of the Empire, and desires to express deep sympathy with their relatives and friends.
§ Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do signify the said Resolution to the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, and to the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief His Majesty's Forces, and to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, to communicate the same to the Officers and men referred to therein.—(Mr. A. J. Balfour.)