§ 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 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 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.)
*MR. JAMES LOWTHER (Kent, Thanet)moved to omit all words after the word "Kingdom "in line 2, down to "for "in line 8, the effect of which, he explained, was to restrict the application of the Sessional Order to Lords Lieutenant, as distinct from Peers.
§ MR. GALLOWAY (Manchester, S. W.)seconded.
§ Amendment proposed—
§ "To leave out from the word 'Kingdom,' in line 2, to the word 'for' in line 8."—(Mr.James Lowther.)
§ Question put, "That the words pro
46§ posed to be left out stand part of the Question."
§ The House devided:—Ayes, 270; Noes, 68. (Division List No. 1.)
47| Price, Robert John | Sharpe, William Edward T. | Tuke, Sir John Batty |
| Purvis, Robert | Shaw-Stewart, M. H. (Renfrew) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Quilter, Sir Cuthbert | Shipman, Dr. John G. | Walker, Col. William Hall |
| Randles, John S. | Sinclair, Louis (Romford) | Wallace, Robert |
| Ratcliff, R. F. | Skewes-Cox, Thomas | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Rea, Russell | Sloan, Thomas Henry | Weir, James Galloway |
| Reddy, M. | Smith, HC(North'mb.Tyneside) | White, Luke (York, E.R.) |
| Redmond, John E. (Waterford) | Spear, John Ward | Whitley, J. H. (Halifax) |
| Redmond, William (Clare) | Spencer, RtHnC.R.(Northants) | Whitmore, Charles Algernon |
| Reid, James (Greenock) | Stanley, Hn. Arthur(Ormskirk) | Whittaker, Thomas Palmer |
| Remnant, James Farquharson | Stanley, Lord (Lancs.) | Williams, Osmond (Merioneth) |
| Ridley, S.Forde(Bethnal Green) | Stevenson, Francis S. | Williams, Colonel R. (Dorset) |
| Rigg. Richard | Stone, Sir Benjamin | Willox, Sir John Archibald |
| Ritchie, Rt.Hn.Chas.Thomson | Strachey, Sir Edward | Wilson, Fred. W.(Norfolk, Mid) |
| Roberts, John Bryn (Eifion) | Strutt, Hon. Charles Hedley | Wilson, John (Falkirk) |
| Robert, John H. (Denbighs.) | Sturt, Hon. Humphry Napier | Wilson, John (Glasgow) |
| Roberts, Samuel (Sheffield) | Sullivan, Donal | Wilson, J.W. (Worcestersh, N.) |
| Robertson, Herbert (Hackney) | Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester) | Wilson-Todd, Wm. H.(Yorks.) |
| Ropner, Colonel Sir Robert | Tennant, Harold John | Wodehouse, RtHn.E.R.(Bath) |
| Rose, Charles Day | Thomas, Sir A. (Glamorgan, E.) | Woodhouse, SirJT(Huddersf'd) |
| Rothschild, Hon.Lionel Walter | Thomas, David Alfred(Merthyr) | Wortley, Rt.Hon.C.B.(Stuart- |
| Royds, Clement Molyneux | Thomas, F.Freeman-(Hastings) | Wylie, Alexander |
| Rutherford, W. W. (Liverpool) | Thornton, Percy M. | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Sadler, Col. Samuel Alexander | Tomkinson, James | Yoxall, James Henry |
| Samuel, Harry S. (Limehouse) | Tomlinson, Sir Wm. Edw. M. | |
| Samuel, Herbert L.(Cleveland) | Toulmin, George | |
| Sandys, Lieut.-Col.Thos.Myles | Trevelyan, Charles Philips | TELLERS FOR THE AYES—Sir Alexander Acland Hood and Mr. Anstruther. |
| Seely, Maj, J.E.B.(Isleofwight) | Tritton, Charles Ernest | |
| Seton-Karr, Sir Henry | Tufnell, Lieut-Col. Edward |
| AYES. | ||
| Abraham, W. (Cork, N.E.) | Delany, William | Johnstone, Heywood |
| Abraham, William (Rhondda) | Denny, Colonel | Jones, David B. (Swansea) |
| Aird, Sir John | Dickinson, Robert Edmond | Joyce, Michael |
| Allan, Sir William (Gateshead) | Dickson, Charles Scott | Kemp, George |
| Allsopp, Hon George | Dickson-Poynder, Sir John P. | Kennaway, Rt. Hon. Sir J. H. |
| Ambrose, Robert | Dixon-Hartland, Sir F. Dixon | Kenyon-Slaney, Col. W.(Salop) |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Donelan, Captain A. | Kimber, Henry |
| Arnold-Forster, Hugh O. | Doogan, P. C. | Knowles, Lees |
| Arrol, Sir William | Doughty, George | Lambert, George |
| Atkinson, Right Hon. John | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers | Law, Andrew Bonar (Glasgow) |
| Bailey, James (Walworth) | Douglas, Charles M. (Lanark) | Lawrence, Sir Joseph (Monm'th) |
| Bain. Colonel James Robert | Doxford, Sir Wm. Theodore | Lawson, John Grant |
| Baird, John George Alexander | Duffy, William J. | Layland-Barratt, Francis |
| Balfour, Rt. Hn. A. J. (Man r) | Duncan, J. Hastings | Lee, A. H. (Hants, Fareham) |
| Balfour, Rt. Hn. G. W. (Leeds) | Dunn, Sir William | Leese, Sir Jos. F. (Accrington) |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin | Legge, Col. Hon. Heneage |
| Barlow, John Emmott | Edwards, Frank | Levy, Maurice |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst | Emmott, Alfred | Lewis, John Herbert |
| Barry, E. (Cork, S.) | Faber, George Denison (York) | Lloyd-George, David |
| Bayley, Thomas (Derbyshire) | Fardell, Sir T. George | Lockie, John |
| Beckett, Ernest William | Farquharson, Dr. Robert | Lockwood, Lieut.-Col. A. R. |
| Bell, Richard | Fellowes, Hon. Ailwyn Ed. | Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine |
| Bigwood, James | Finlay, Sir Robert Bannatyne | Long, Col. Chas. W.(Evesham) |
| Blundell, Colonel Henry | Fisher, William Hayes | Long, Rt. Hn. W. (Bristol, S.) |
| Boland, John | Fison, Frederick William | Lonsdale, John Brownlee |
| Brigg, John | Flannery, Sir Fortescue | Lough, Thomas |
| Broadhurst, Henry | Flavin, Michael Joseph | Lucas, Col. Francis (Lowestoft |
| Brodrick, Rt. Hon. St. John | Flower, Ernest | Lucas, Reg'ld J. (Portsmouth) |
| Brunner, Sir John Tomlinson | Forster, Henry William | Lundon, W. |
| Bryce, Right Hon. James | Foster, Sir Walter (Derby Co.) | Macdona, John Cumming |
| Bull, William James | Gardner, Ernest | MacDonnell, Dr. Mark A. |
| Buxton, Sydney Charles | Gordon, Hn.J.E.(Elgin & Nrn) | Maclver, David (Liverpool) |
| Caldwell, James | Gore, Hon. G. R. C. Ormsby- | M 'Arthur, Charles (Liverpool) |
| Cameron, Robert | (Salop). | M'Govern, T. |
| Campbell, Rt Hn J A (Glasg.) | Gore, Hn. S. F. Ormsby-(Linc) | M'Killop, James(Stirlingshire |
| Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H. | Gray, Ernest (West Ham) | Martin, Richard Biddulph |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edw. H. | Greene, Sir E.W.(Bury St. Ed.) | Milvain, Thomas |
| Causton, Richard Knight | Grenfell, William Henry | Mitchell, William |
| Cavendish, R. F. (N. Lancs.) | Griffith, Ellis J. | Montagu, G. (Huntingdon) |
| Cavendish, V C W (Derbush.) | Groves, James Grimble | Morgan, DavidJ.(Walth'mstow |
| Cayzer, Sir Charles William | Gurdon, Sir W. Brampton | Morrison, James Archibald |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Hain, Edward | Mowbray, Sir Robert Gray C. |
| Chamberlain, Rt.Hn.J A (Worc) | Halsey, Rt. Hon. Thomas F. | Murray, RtHn.AGraham(Bute) |
| Channing, Francis Allston | Hambro, Charles Eric | Murray, Col. Wyndham (Bath) |
| Chaplin, Right Hon. Henry | Hamilton, Rt Hn Ld.G.(Midx) | Myers, William Henry |
| Chapman, Edward | Hanbury, Rt. Hn. Robt. Wm. | Newnes, Sir George |
| Charrington, Spencer | Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir Wm. | Nicol, Donald Ninian |
| Clive, Captain Percy A. | Hare, Thomas Leigh | Nolan, Joseph (Louth, south) |
| Cohen, Benjamin Louis | Harris, Frederick Leverton | Norman, Henry |
| Colomb, Sir John Chas. Ready | Hay, Hon. Claude George | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) |
| Cook, Sir Frederick Lucas | Hayden, John Patrick | O'Brien, William (Cork) |
| Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasg.) | Hayne, Rt. Hon. Chas. Seale- | O'Connor, James(Wicklow, W.) |
| Corbett, T. L. (Down, North) | Helme, Norval Watson | O'Kelly, James(Roscommon, N) |
| Cox, Irwin Edwd. Bainbridge | Hemphill, Rt. Hon. Chas. H. | O'Malley, William |
| Craig, Robert Hunter(Lanark) | Hermon-Hodge. Sir Robert T. | O'Mara, James |
| Cranborne, Viscount | Holland, Sir William Henry | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. |
| Cripps, Charles Alfred | Hope John Deans (Fife, West) | Palmer, SirCharlesM.(Durham) |
| Crombie, John William | Horniman, Frederick John | Palmer, Walter (Salisbury) |
| Cross, H. Shepherd (Bolton) | Houldsworth, Sir Wm. Henry | Parker, Sir Gilbert |
| Crossley, Sir Savile | Houston, Robert Paterson | Paulton, James Mellor |
| Cullinan, J. | Howard, J. (Midd., Tott'ham) | Pemberton, John S. G. |
| Davies, Alfred (Carmarthen) | Hutton, Alfred E. (Morley) | Percy, Earl |
| Davies, M.Vaughan-(Cardign) | Jeffreys, Rt. Hn. Arthur Fr | Pretyman, Ernest George |
| NOES. | ||
| Allhusen, Aug. Henry Eden | Laurie, Lieut.-General | Pryce-Jones, Lt.-Col. Edward |
| Atherley-Jones, L. | Llewellyn, Evan Henry | Reid, Sir R. Threshie(Dumfries) |
| Baldwin, Alfred | Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. | Renwick, George |
| Bartley, Sir George C. T. | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Ridley, Hon. M.W.(Stalybridge) |
| Bignold, Arthur | Maconochie, A. W. | Roche, John |
| Boulnois, Edmund | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Rollit, Sir Albert Kaye |
| Campbell, John (Armagh, S.) | M'Kean, John | Runciman, Walter |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | M'Killop, W. (Sligo, North) | Russell, T. W. |
| Churchill, Winston Spencer | Maple, Sir John Blundell | Sackville, Col. S. G. Stopford- |
| Condon, Thomas Joseph | Markham, Arthur Basil | Shaw, Charles Edw. (Stafford) |
| Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles | Mooney, John J. | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Dillon, John | Morgan, J. Lloyd(Carmarthen) | Spencer, Sir E. (W. Bromwich) |
| Dyke, Rt. Hon. Sir Wm. Hart | Murnaghan, George | Stock, James Henry |
| Ellis, John Edward | Murphy, John | Tollemache, Henry James |
| Gordon, Maj Evans-(Tr. Hmlts) | Nolan, Col. John P.(Galway, N.) | Tully, Jasper |
| Guest, Hon. Ivor Churchill | Norton, Capt. Cecil William | Vincent, Col. Sir C.E.H. (Sheffield) |
| Guthrie, Walter Murray | O'Brien, James F. X. (Cork) | Walton, Joseph (Barnsley) |
| Hardie, J. Keir (Merthyr Tyd) | O'Brien, Kendal(TipperaryMid) | Welby, Lt.-Col A.C.E.(Taunt'n) |
| Hobhouse, C. E. H. (Bristl. E) | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Welby, Sir Charles G.E.(Notts) |
| Hope, J. F. (Sheff., B'tside) | O'Dowd, John | White, George (Norfolk) |
| Hudson, George Bickersteth | O'Kelly, Conor (Mayo, N.) | Wrightson, Sir Thomas |
| Jacoby, James Alfred | Pease, Herbert Pike(Darlingt'n) | |
| Jones, Wm. (Carnarvonshire) | Pickard, Benjamin | TELLERS FOR THE NOES—Mr. James Lowther and Mr. Galloway. |
| Kearley, Hudson E. | Power, Patrick Joseph |
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 in Ireland, at such Elections in Great
48§ 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.
§ 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 49 practices, this House will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as shall have been wilfully concerned in such bribery or other corrupt practices.