§ Order read, for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [18th April], "That this House doth agree with the Committee in the Second Resolution, That a sum, not exceeding £5,961,815, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1903, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Post Office Services, the Expenses of the Post Office Savings Banks, and Government Annuities and Insurances, and the Collection of the Post Office Revenue."
§ Question again proposed.
§ Debate resumed.
§ Question put.
§ The House divided :—Ayes, 178; Noes, 63. (Division List No. 187.)
1001| AYES. | ||
| Abraham, Wm. (Cork, N. E.) | Hope, John Deans (Fife, West | O'Malley, William |
| Ambrose, Robert | Horniman, Frederick John | O'Mara, James |
| Atherley-Jones, L. | Jones, William (Carnarvonsh | Pease, Alfred E. (Cleveland) |
| Bayley, Thomas (Derbyshire) | Joyce, Michael | Pease, J. A. (Saffron Walden |
| Blake, Edward | Leamy, Edmund | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Boland, John | Lloyd-George, David | Redmond, J. E. (Waterford) |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Lough, Thomas | Rickett, J. Compton |
| Burns, John | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Roberts, John Bryn (Eifion) |
| Caldwell, James | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Scott, Chas. Prestwich (Leigh |
| Campbell, John (Armagh, S.) | M'Govern, T. | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Cawley, Frederick | M'Hugh, Patrick A. | Sinclair, John (Forfarshire) |
| Clancy, John Joseph | M'Kean, John | Spencer, Rt. Hn. C. R. (N'thants |
| Crean, Eugene | M'Killop, W. (Sligo, North) | Sullivan, Donal |
| Delany, William | Mooney, John J. | Tomkinson, James |
| Dewar, John A. (Inverness-sh | Morton, Edw. J. C. (Dev'np't | Weir, James Galloway |
| Dillon, John | Nannetti, Joseph P. | White, Luke (York, E. R. |
| Doogan, P. C. | Nolan, Joseph (Louth, South) | Whitley, J. H. (Halifax) |
| Fenwick, Charles | O'Brien, James F. X. (Cork) | Young, Samuel |
| Ffrench, Peter | O'Brien, K. (Tipperary, Mid.) | |
| Flynn, James Christopher | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | |
| Furness, Sir Christopher | O'Brien, P. J. (Tipperary, N.) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES— |
| Gilhooly, James | O'Connor, James (Wicklow, W | Sir Thomas Esmonde and Captain Donelan. |
| Goddard, Daniel Ford | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | |
| Hayne, Rt. Hon. Charles Seale- | O'Kelly, J. (Roscommon, N.) | |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Capt. Sir A. F. | Cautley, Henry Strother | Fellowes, Hon. Ailwyn Edward |
| Allhusen, Augustus H. E. | Cavendish, V. C. W. (Derbyshire | Fergusson, Rt. Hn. Sir J. (Manc'r |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Cayzer, Sir Charles William | Fielden, Edward Brocklehurst |
| Arnold-Forster, Hugh O. | Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Finch, George H. |
| Arrol, Sir William | Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | Finlay, Sir Robert Bannatyne |
| Atkinson, Rt. Hon. John | Chamberlain, J. Austen (Worc'r | Fisher, William Hayes |
| Baget, Capt. J. Fitz Roy | Charrington, Spencer | Fitzroy, Hon. Edward Algernon |
| Bain, Colonel James Robert | Churchill, Winston Spencer | Flannery, Sir Fortescue |
| Baird, John George Alexander | Clare, Octavius Leigh | Fletcher, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry |
| Balcarres, Lord | Cochrane, Hon. Thos. H A. E. | Flower, Ernest |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J. (Manch'r | Coghill, Douglas Harry | Forster, Henry William |
| Balfour, Capt. C. B. (Hornsey | Cohen, Benjamin Louis | Foster, Philip S. (Warw'k, S. W. |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. G. W. (Leeds | Collings, Right Hon. Jesse | Fuller, J. M. F. |
| Balfour, Kenneth R. (Christch. | Colomb, Sir John Charles Ready | Galloway, William Johnson |
| Banbury, Frederick George | Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow | Gardner, Ernest |
| Bathurst, Hon. Allen Benjn. | Corbett, T. L. (Down, North) | Garfit, William |
| Beach, Rt. Hon. Sir M. Hicks | Cranborne, Viscount | God son, Sir Augustus Frederick |
| Beresford, Lord Charles Wm. | Dalkeith, Earl of | Gordon, Hn. J. E. (Elgin&Nairn |
| Bignold Arthur | Davies, M. Vaughan-(Cardigan | Gordon, J. (Londonderry, S. |
| Bill, Charles | Denny, Colonel | Gordon, Maj Evans-(T'rH'ml'ts |
| Blundell, Colonel Henry | Dickson-Poynder, Sir John P. | Gore, Hn G. B. C. Ormsby-(Salop |
| Bond, Edward | Dorington, Sir John Edward | Gore, Hon. S. F. Ormsby-(Linc.). |
| Brassey, Albert | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir John Eldon |
| Brodrick, Rt. Hon. St. John | Doxford, Sir William Theodore | Gray, Ernest (West Ham) |
| Brookfield, Colonel Montagu | Duke, Henry Edward | Green, Walford D. (Wednesb'ry |
| Brymer, William Ernest | Dyke, Rt. Hn. Sir William Hart | Greene, Sir E W (B'ry S Edm'nds |
| Bull, William James | Egerton, Hon. A. de Tatton | Greene, Henry D. (Shrewsbury |
| Butcher, John George | Elliot, Hon. A. Ralph Douglas | Gretton, John |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edw. H. | Fardell, Sir T. George | Greville, Hon. Ronald |
| Groves, James Grimble | M'Calmont, Col. J. (Antrim, E) | Rolleston, Sir John F. L. |
| Halsey, Rt. Hon. Thomas F. | Majendie, James A. H. | Ropner, Colonel Robert |
| Hamilton, Rt Hn Lord G (Midd'x | Malcolm, Ian | Round, James |
| Hare, Thomas Leigh | Markham, Arthur Basil | Royds, Clement Molyneux |
| Hay, Hon. Claude George | Martin, Richard Biddulph | Rutherford, John |
| Heath, Fames (Staffords, N. W. | Maxwell, Rt Hn Sir H. K (Wigt'n | Sackville, Col. S. G. Stopford- |
| Helder, Augustus | Maxwell, W. J. H. (Dumfriessh. | Saunderson, Rt. Hn. Col. Edw. J. |
| Henderson, Alexander | Mitchell, William | Seely, Charles Hilton (Lincoln) |
| Hoare, Sir Samuel | Molesworth, Sir Lewis | Seton-Karr, Henry |
| Hope, J. F. (Sheffield, Brightside | Montagu, G. (Huntingdon) | Sinclair, Louis (Romford) |
| Horner, Frederick William | Moon, Edward Robert Pacy | Spear, John Ward |
| Hoult, Joseph | Morgan, David J (Walthamst'w | Stanley, Hn. Arthur (Ormskirk |
| Houston, Robert Paterson | Morrell, George Herbert | Stanley, Lord (Lancs.) |
| Jackson, Rt. Hon. Wm. Lawics | Morrison, James Archibald | Stirling-Maxwell, Sir John M. |
| Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse | Morton, Arthuh H. A (Deptford | Stroyan, John |
| Jeffreys, Arthur Frederick | Mount, William Arthur | Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester) |
| Jessel, Captain Herbert Merton | Muntz, Philip A. | Talbot, Rt. Hn. J. G. (Oxf'd Univ |
| Johnston, William (Belfast | Murray, Charles J. (Coventry) | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Johnstone, Heywood (Sussex) | Nicol, Donald Ninian | Tomlinson, Wm. Edw. Murray |
| Kenyon-Slaney, Col. W. (Salop | Orr-Ewing, Charles Lindsay | Tuke, Sir John Batty |
| King, Sir Henry Seymour | Pease, Herbt. Pike (Darlington) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Lambton, Hon Frederick Wm. | Penn, John | Vincent, Col. Sir C. E. H (Sheffield) |
| Law, Andrew Bonar (Glasgow) | Percy, Earl | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney |
| Lawrence, Wm. F. (Liverpool) | Pierpoint, Robert | Webb, Colonel William George |
| Lawson, John Grant | Pilkington, Lieut.-Col Richard | Welby, Sir Charles G. E. (Notts. |
| Lee, Arthur H (Hants., Fareham | Platt-Higgins, Frederick | Wentworth, Bruce C. Vernon- |
| Legge, Col. Hon. Heneage | Plummer, Walte, R. | Whitmore, Charles Algernon |
| Leveson-Gower, Frederick N. S. | Powell, Sir Francis Sharp | Williams, Colonel R. (Dorset) |
| Lockwood, Lt.-Col. A. R. | Pretyman, Ernest George | Williams, Osmond (Merioneth) |
| Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine | Rasch, Major Frederic Carne | Williams, Rt Hn J. Powell-(Birrm |
| Long, Rt. Hn. Walter (Bristol, S | Rattigan, Sir William Henry | Willox, Sir John Archibald |
| Lonsdale, John Brownlee | Reid, James (Greenock) | Wills, Sir Frederick |
| Lowe, Francis William | Remnant, James Farquharson | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E. R.) |
| Lowther, C. (Cumb., Eskdale) | Renshaw, Charles Bine | Wilson, J. W. (Worcestersh, N.) |
| Lowther, Rt Hn J W (Cum, Penr.) | Renwick, George | Wolff, Gustay Wilhelm |
| Loyd, Archie Kirkman | Ridley, Hon. H. W. (Stalybridge | Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart- |
| Lucas, Reginald J. (Portsmouth | Rigg, Richard | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Macartney, Rt. Hn W G. Ellison | Ritchie, Rt. Hn. Chas. Thomson | |
| Macdona, John Cumming | Roberts, Samuel (Sheffield) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES— |
| MacIver, David (Liverpool) | Robertson, Herbert (Hackney) | Sir William Walroud and Mr. Anstruther. |
| M'Arthur, Charles (Liverpool) | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| AYES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Capt. Sir Alex. F. | Foster, Philip S (Warwick, S. W. | Morgan, David J (Walthamst'w |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Galloway, William Johnson | Morrell, George Herbert |
| Arnold-Forster, Hugh O. | Gardner, Ernest | Morrison, James Archibald |
| Arrol, Sir William | Garfit, William | Morton, Arthur H. A. (Deptford) |
| Atkinson, Rt. Hon. John | Godson, Sir Augustus Frederick | Mount, William Arthur |
| Bagot, Capt. Josceline Fitz Roy | Gordon, Hn. J. E. (Elgin&Nairn | Muntz, Philip A. |
| Bain, Colonel James Robert | Cordon, J. (Londonderry, S.) | Murray, Charles J. (Coventry) |
| Balcarres, Lord | Gordon, Maj Evans-(T'rH'ml'ts | Nicol, Donald Ninian |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J. (Manch'r | Gore, Hn G. R. C. Ormsby-(Salop | Orr-Ewing, Charles Lindsay |
| Balfour, Capt. C. B. (Hornsey) | Gore, Hon. S. F. Ormsby-(Linc.) | Pease, Herbt. Pike (Darlington) |
| Balfour, Rt Hn Gerald W. (Leeds | Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir John Eldon | Pease, J. A. (Saffron Walden) |
| Balfour, Kenneth R. (Christch. | Green, Walford D (Wednesbury | Penn, John |
| Banbury, Frederick George | Greene, Sir E W (B'ry S Edm'nds | Pilkington, Lieut.-Col. Richard |
| Beach, Rt. Hn Sir Michael Hicks | Greene, Henry D. (Shrewsbury | Platt-Higgins, Frederick |
| Beaumont, Wentworth C. B. | Gretton, John | Plummer, Walter R. |
| Beresford, Lord Charles Wm. | Greville, Hon. Ronald | Pretyman, Ernest George |
| Bignold, Arthur | Groves, James Grimble | Rasch, Major Frederic Carne |
| Blundell, Colonel Henry | Haldane, Richard Burdon | Reid, James (Greenock) |
| Bond, Edward | Halsey, Rt. Hon. Thomas F. | Remnant, James Farquharson |
| Brassey, Albert | Hamilton, Rt Hn Lord G (Midd'x | Renshaw, Charles Bine |
| Brodrick, Kt. Hon. St. John | Hare, Thomas Leigh | Renwick, George |
| Brookfield, Colonel Montagu | Heath, James (Staffords, N. W. | Ridley, Hon. M. W. (Stalybridge |
| Butcher, John George | Helder, Augustus | Ritchie, Rt. Hon. Chas. Thomson |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edw. H. | Henderson, Alexander | Roberts, Samuel (Sheffield) |
| Cavendish, Y. C. W (Derbyshire | Hope, J. F. (Sheffield, Brightside | Robertson, Herbert (Hackney) |
| Cayzer, Sir Charles William | Hoult, Joseph | Ropner, Colonel Robert |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Houston, Robert Paterson | Round, James |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | Johnston, William (Belfast) | Royds, Clement Molyneux |
| Chamberlain, J. Austen (Worc'r | Johnstone, Heywood (Sussex) | Rutherford, John |
| Charrington, Spencer | Kenyon-Slaney, Col. W. (Salop. | Sackville, Col. S. C. Stopford- |
| Churchill, Winston Spencer | King, Sir Henry Seymour | Sinclair, Louis (Romford) |
| Clare, Octavius Leigh | Lambton, Hon. Frederick Wm. | Spear, John Ward |
| Cochrane, Hon. Thos. H. A. E. | Law, Andrew Bonar (Glasgow) | Stanley, Hon. Arthur (Ormskirk |
| Coghill, Douglas Harry | Lawrence, Wm. F. (Liverpool) | Stanley, Lord (Lancs.) |
| Cohen, Benjamin Louts | Lawson, John Grant | Stirling-Maxwell, Sir John M. |
| Collings, Rt. Hon. Jesse | Lee, Arthur H (Hants, Fareham | Stroyan, John |
| Colomb, Sir John Chas. Ready | Legge, Col. Hon. Heneage | Talbet, Lord E. (Chichester) |
| Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow | Leveson-Gower, Frederick N. S. | Talbot, Rt. Hn. J. G (Oxf'd Univ. |
| Corbett, T. L. (Down, North) | Lock wood, Lt.-Col. A. R. | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Cranborne, Viscount | Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine | Tomlinson, Wm. Edw. Murray |
| Dalkeith, Earl of | Long, Rt. Hn. Walter (Bristol, S) | Tuke, Sir John Batty |
| Dalrymple, Sir Charles | Lonsdale, John Brownlee | Valentia, Viscount |
| Denny, Colonel | Lowe, Francis William | Vincent, Col. Sir C E H. (Sheffield |
| Dorington, Sir John Edward | Lowther, C. (Curnb., Eskdale) | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Loyd, Archie Kirkman | Webb, Colonel William George |
| Doxford, Sir William Theodore | Lucas, Reginald J. (Portsmouth | Welby, Lt. Col. A. C. E. (Taunton |
| Duke, Henry Edward | Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred | Wentworth, Bruce C. Vernon- |
| Dyke, Rt. Hn. Sir Wm. Hart | Macartney, Rt Hn. W. G. Ellison | Whitmore, Charles Algernon |
| Egerton, Hon. A. de Tatton | Macdona, John Cumming | Williams, Colonel R. (Dorset) |
| Fardell, Sir T. George | Maclver, David (Liverpool) | Williams, Osmond (Merioneth) |
| Fellowes, Hon. Ailwyn Edward | M'sArthur, Charles (Liverpool) | Willox, Sir John Archibald |
| Fergusson, Rt. Hn Sir J (Manc'r. | M'Calmont, Col. J. (Antrim, E.) | Wills, Sir Frederick |
| Fielden, Edward Brocklehurst | Majendie, James A. H. | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, K. R.) |
| Finch, George H. | Martin, Richard Biddulph | Wilson, J. W. (Worcestersh, N.) |
| Finlay, Sir Robert Bannatyne | Maxwell, Rt Hn Sir H. E (Wigt'n | Wolff, Gustay Wilhelm |
| Fisher, William Hayes | Maxwell, W. J. H. (Dumfriessh. | Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart. |
| Fitzroy, Hon. Edward Algernon | Mitchell, William | |
| Flannery, Sir Fortescue | Molesworth, Sir Lewis | TELLERS FOR THE AYES— |
| Fletcher, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry | Montagu, G. (Huntingdon) | Sir William Walrond and Mr. Anstruther. |
| Flower, Ernest | Montagu, Hon. J. Scott (Hants.) | |
| Forster, Henry William | Moon, Edward Robert Pacy |
| NOES. | ||
| Abraham, Willliam (Cork, N. E.) | Delany, William | Hayae, Rt. Hon. Charles Seale- |
| Allen, Charles P (Glouc., Stroud | Dewar, John A. (Inverness-sh. | Hope, John Deans (Fife, West |
| Blake, Edward | Dillon, John | Horniman, Frederick John |
| Boland, John | Doogan, P. C. | Jones, William (C'rnarvonshire |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Ffrench, Peter | Joyce, Michael |
| Caldwell, James | Flynn, James Christopher | Layland-Barratt, Francis |
| Campbell, John (Armagh, S.) | Fuller, J. M. F. | Loamy, Edmund |
| Cawdey, Frederick | Furness, Sir Christopher | Lough, Thomas |
| Channing, Francis Allston | Gilhooly, James | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift |
| Clancy, John Joseph | Goddard, Daniel Ford | MacVeagh, Jeremiah |
| Crean, Eugene | Hay, Hon. Claude George | M'Govern, T. |
| M'Hugh, Patrick A. | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N. | Tomkinson, James |
| M'Kean, John | O'Malley, William | Warner, Thomas Courcenay T. |
| M'Killop, W. (Sligo, North) | O'Mara, James | Weir, James Galloway |
| Markham, Arthur Basil | Pearson, Sir Weetman D. | White, Luke (York, E. R.) |
| Mooney, John J. | Power, Patrick Joseph | Whitley, J. H. (Halifax) |
| Nannetti, Joseph P. | Rea, Russell | Young, Samuel |
| Nolan, Joseph (Louth, South) | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) | |
| O'Brien, Kendal (Tip'erary Mid | Rickett, J. Compton | |
| O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Rigg, Richard | TELLERS FOR THE NOES— |
| O'Brien, P. J. (Tipperary, N.) | Roberts, John Bryn (Eifion) | Sir Thomas Esmonde and |
| O'Counor, James (Wicklow, W. | Roe, Sir Thomas | Captain Donelan. |
| O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Sullivan, Donal |