§ Motion made, and Question put, "That the Proceedings of the Committee of Ways and Means, if under consideration at Twelve o'clock this night, be not interrupted under the Standing Order (Sittings of the House.")—(Mr. A. J. Balfour.)
§ The House divided:—Ayes, 292; Noes, 123. (Division List No. 83.)
543| AYES. | ||
| Agnew, Sir Andrew Noel | Collings, Rt. Hon. Jesse | Goulding, Edward Alfred |
| Aird, Sir John | Colomb, Rt. Hn. Sir John C.R. | Gray, Ernest (West Ham) |
| Anson, Sir William Reynell | Compton, Lord Alwyne | Greene, Henry D.(Shrewsbury) |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Corbett, T, L. (Down, North) | Greene, W. Raymond (Cambs.) |
| Arnold-Forster, Rt. Hn. Hugh O | Craig, Chas. Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Grenfell, William, Henry |
| Arrol, Sir William | Craig, Robert Hunter (Lanark) | Gunter, Sir Robert |
| Asquith, Rt. Hn. Herb. Henry | Cross, Alexander (Glasgow) | Halsey, Rt. Hon. Thomas' F. |
| Atkinson, Rt. Hon. John | Cross, Herb. Shepherd (Bolton) | Hamilton, Rt Hn. Lord G (Middx |
| Aubrey-Fletcher, Rt. Hn. Sir H. | Crossley, Rt. Hon. Sir Savile | Hamilton, Marq of (L'ndonderry |
| Bailey, James (Walworth) | Cust, Henry John C. | Harcourt, Rt Hn. Sir W (Monm't |
| Bain, Colonel James Robert | Dalrymple, Sir Charles | Hardy, L. (Kent, Ashford) |
| Baird, John George Alexander | Davenport, William Bromley | Hare, Thomas Leigh |
| Balcarres, Lord | Davies, Sir H. D. (Chatham) | Harris, F. Leverton (Tynem'th |
| Baldwin, Alfred | Denny, Colonel | Harris, Dr. Fredk. R. (Dulwich |
| Balfour, Rt, Hn. A. J. (Manch'r | Dewar, John A. (Inverness-sh. | Haslam, Sir Alfred S. |
| Balfour, Capt. C. B. (Hornsey) | Dewar, Sir T. R. (Tower Hamlets | Haslett, Sir James Horner |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. G. W. (Leeds | Dickson, Charles Scott | Hay, Hon. Claude George |
| Balfour, Kenneth R. (Christch. | Dickson-Poynder, Sir John P. | Hayter, Rt. Hn. Sir Arthur D. |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Digby, John K. D. Wingfield- | Heath, A. Howard (Hanley) |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst | Disraeli, Coningsby Ralph | Heath, James (Staffords., N.W. |
| Hartley, Sir George C. T. | Dorington, Rt. Hon. Sir John E | Heaton, John Henniker |
| Bathurst, Hon. Allen Benjamin | Doughty, George | Helder, Augustus |
| Beach, Rt, Hn. Sir Mich. Hicks | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers | Hemphill, Rt. Hon. Charles H. |
| Beckett, Ernest William | Douglas, Charles M. (Lanark) | Henderson, Sir A. (Stafford, W. |
| Bhownaggree, Sir M. M. | Doxford, Sir William Theodore | Hickman, Sir Alfred |
| Bignold, Arthur | Duke, Henry Edward | Hobhouse, Rt Hn H (Somers't,E |
| Bigwood, James | Dunn, Sir William | Hogg, Lindsay |
| Black, Alexander William | Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin | Holland, Sir William Henry |
| Blundell, Colonel Henry | Dyke, Rt. Hn. Sir William Hart | Hope, J.F. (Sheffield, Brightside |
| Bond, Edward | Egerton, Hon. A. de Tatton | Hornby, Sir William Henry |
| Boscawen, Arthur Griffith | Elliot, Hon. A. Ralph Douglas | Horner, Frederick William |
| Boulnois, Edmund | Ellis, John Edward (Notts.) | Houston, Robert Paterson |
| Bowles, T. Gibson (King's Lynn | Faber, George Denison (York) | Howard, J. (Midd., Tottenham) |
| Brodrick, Rt. Hon. St. John | Fardell, Sir T. George | Hozier, Hn. James Henry Cecil |
| Brotherton, Edward Allen | Farquharson, Dr. Robert | Jameson, Major J. Eustace |
| Burdett-Coutts, W. | Ferguson, R, C. Munro (Leith) | Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse |
| Burt, Thomas | Fergusson, Rt. Hn. Sir J. (Manc'r | Kennaway, Rt. Hn. Sir John H. |
| Butcher, John George | Fielden, Edward Brocklehurst | King, Sir Henry Seymour |
| Buxton, Sydney Charles | Finch, Rt. Hon. George H. | Kitson, Sir James |
| Campbell, Rt. Hn. J. A. (Glasgow | Finlay, Sir Robert Bannatyne | Lambton, Hon. Frederick Wm. |
| Campbell, J.H.M.(Dublin Univ | Fisher, William Hayes | Laurie, Lieut.-General |
| Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H. | Fison, Frederick William | Law, Andrew Bonar (Glasgow) |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edw. H. | FitzGerald, Sir Robert Penrose | Lawrence, Sir Jos. (Monmouth) |
| Causton, Richard Knight | Fitzroy, Hn. Edward Algernon | Lawrence, Wm. F. (Liverpool) |
| Cautley, Henry Strother | Flannery, Sir Fortescue | Lawson, Jn. G. (Yorks., N. R.) |
| Cavendish, V.C.W. (Derbyshire | Forster, Henry William | Lee, A. H. (Hants., Fareham) |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J.(Birm. | Foster, Sir Walter (Derby Co.) | Lees, Sir Elliott (Birkenhead) |
| Chamberlain, Rt Hn. J. A (Worc. | Fowler, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry | Leese, Sir Jos. F. (Acerington) |
| Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry | Galloway, William Johnson | Legge, Col. Hon. Heneage |
| Chapman, Edward | Gardner, Ernest | Leveson-Gower, Frederick N.S. |
| Charrington, Spencer | Garfit, William | Llewellyn, Evan Henry |
| Churchill, Winston Spencer | Gordon, Hn. J. E. (Elgin & Nairn) | Lockwood, Lieut.-Col. A. R. |
| Clive, Captain Percy A. | Gordon, Maj. E. (T'r Hamlets) | |
| Coates, Edward Feetham | Gore, Hn G.R.C. Ormsby-(Salop | Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine |
| Coddington, Sir William | Gore, Hon. S. F. Ormsby-(Linc. | Long, Col. Chas. W. (Evesham) |
| Cohen, Benjamin Louis | Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir John Eldon | Long, Rt. Hon. W. (Bristol, S.) |
| Lonsdale, John Brownlee | Pierpoint, Robert | Smith, Hon. W. F. D. (Strand) |
| Lowe, Francis William | Pilkington, Colonel Richard | Spear, John Ward |
| Lowther, C. (Cumb., Eskdale) | Platt-Biggins, Frederick | Spencer, Rt. Hn. C. R (Northants |
| Loyd, Archie Kirkman | Plummer, Walter R. | Spencer, Sir E. (W. Bromwich) |
| Lucas, Reginald J. (Portsmouth | Powell, Sir Francis Sharp | Stanley, Edward Jas. (Somerset |
| Lyttelton, Rt. Hon. Alfred | Pretyman, Ernest George | Stanley, Rt. Hon. Lord (Lancs) |
| Macdona, John Cumming | Pryce-Jones, Lt.-Col. Edward | Stewart, Sir Mark J. M 'Taggart |
| MacIver, David (Liverpool) | Pym, C. Guy | Stroyan, John |
| Maconochie, A. W. | Randles, John S. | Strutt, Hon. Charles Hedley |
| M'Arthur, Charles (Liverpool) | Rasch, Sir Frederic Came | Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester) |
| M'Crae, George | Ratcliff, R. F. | Talbot, Rt. Hn. J. G. (Oxf'd Univ |
| M'Killop, James (Stirlingshire) | Rea, Russell | Taylor, Austin (East Toxteth) |
| Malcolm, Ian | Renwick, George | Thomas, Sir A. (Glamorgan, E. |
| Middlemore, Jn. Throgmorton | Rickett, J. Compton | Thomas, D. Alfred (Merthyr) |
| Mildmay, Francis Bingham | Ridley, Hon. M. W. (Stalybridge | Thorburn, Sir Walter |
| Milner, Rt. Hn. Sir Frederick G. | Ridley, S. Forde (Bethnal Green | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Milvain, Thomas | Rigg, Richard | Tuff, Charles |
| Mitchell, Edw. (Fermanagh, N.) | Ritchie, Rt. Hn. Chas. Thomson | Tuke, Sir John Batty |
| Mitchell, William (Burnley) | Roberts, Samuel (Sheffield) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Molesworth, Sir Lewis | Robertson, Herbert (Hackney) | Vincent, Sir Edgar (Exeter) |
| Montagu, G. (Huntingdon) | Rolleston, Sir John F. L. | Walrond, Rt. Hn. Sir William H. |
| Montagu, Hn. J. Scott (Hants.) | Ropner, Colonel Sir Robert | Warde, Colonel C. E. |
| Moon, Edward Robert Pacy | Rose, Charles Day | Wharton, Rt. Hon. John Lloyd |
| Morley, Rt. Hn. John (Montrose | Rothschild, Hn. Lionel Walter | Whiteley, H. (Ashton und. Lyne |
| Morpeth, Viscount | Royds, Clement Molyneux | Whitmore, Charles Algernon |
| Morton, Arthur H. Aylmer | Runciman, Walter | Williams, Colonel R. (Dorset) |
| Mount, William Arthur | Russell, T. W. | Wills, Sir Frederick |
| Mowbray, Sir Robert Gray C. | Rutherford, John (Lancashire) | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E. R. |
| Muntz. Sir Philip A. | Sackville, Col. S. G. Stopford | Wilson, John (Falkirk) |
| Murray, Rt. Hon. A. G. (Bute) | Samuel, Sir H. S. (Limehouse) | Wilson, J. W. (Worcestersh., N.) |
| Murray, Charles J. (Coventry) | Samuel, Herbert L. (Cleveland) | Wilson-Todd, Sir W. H. (Yorks.) |
| Murray, Col. Wyndham (Bath) | Sassoon, Sir Edward Albert | Wodehouse, Rt. Hn. E. R. (Bath |
| Myers, William Henry | Seely, Charles Hilton (Lincoln) | Wolff. Gustav Wilhelm |
| Newdegate, Francis A. N. | Seely, Maj. J. E. B. (Isle of Wight | Worsley-Taylor, Henry Wilson |
| Norman, Henry | Seton-Karr. Sir Henry | Wrightson, Sir Thomas |
| O'Neill, Hon. Robert Torrens | Sharps, William Edward T. | Wylie, Alexander |
| Palmer, Walter (Salisbury) | Shaw, Thomas (Hawick B.) | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Parker, Sir Gilbert | Sinclair, John (Forfarshire) | Wyndham-Quin, Col. W. H. |
| Parkes, Ebenezer | Sinclair, Louis (Romford) | |
| Pease, Herb. Pike (Darlington) | Skewes-Cox, Thomas | TELLERS FOR THE AYES—Sir Alexander Acland-Hood and Mr. Ailwyn Fellowes. |
| Peel, Hn. Wm. Robert Wellesley | Sloan, Thomas Henry | |
| Pemberton, John S. G. | Smith, H. C (North'mb. Tyneside | |
| Percy, Earl | Smith, Jas. Parker (Lanarks.) | |
| NOES. | ||
| Abraham, William (Cork, N.E.) | Devlin, Chas. Ramsay (Galway | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire |
| Ainsworth. John Stirling | Devlin, Joseph (Kilkenny, N.) | Jordan, Jeremiah |
| Allen, Charles P. | Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles | Joyce, Michael |
| Ashton, Thomas Gair | Dobbie, Joseph | Kearley, Hudson E. |
| Atherley-Jones, L. | Donelan, Captain A. | Kilbride, Denis |
| Austin, Sir John | Doogan, P. C. | Lambert, George |
| Bayley, Thomas (Derbyshire) | Duncan, J. Hastings | Langley, Batty |
| Blake, Edward | Esmonde, Sir Thomas | Lawson, Sir Wilfrid (Cornwall) |
| Boland, John | Fenwick, Charles | Layland-Barratt, Francis |
| Brigg, John | Field, William | Leng, Sir John |
| Broadhurst, Henry | Flavin, Michael Joseph | Levy, Maurice |
| Brown, George M. (Edinburgh | Fuller, J. M. F. | Lewis, John Herbert |
| Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn | Furness, Sir Christopher | Lough, Thomas |
| Burns, John | Goddard, Daniel Ford | Lundon, W. |
| Caldwell, James | Grant, Corrie | Lyell, Charles Henry |
| Cameron, Robert | Gurdon, Sir W. Brampton | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift |
| Campbell, John (Armagh, S.) | Haldane, Rt. Hon. Richard B. | MacVeagh, Jeremiah |
| Cawley, Frederick | Hammond, John | M'Hugh, Patrick A. |
| Channing Francis Allston | Hayden, John Patrick | M'Kean, John |
| Clancy, John Joseph | Helme, Norval Watson | M'Killop, W. (Sligo, North) |
| Cremer, William Randal | Henderson. Arthur (Durham) | Mansfield, Horace Rendall |
| Crombie, John William | Hobhouse, C. E. H. (Bristol, E.) | Markham, Arthur Basil |
| Dalziel, James Henry | Hope, John Deans (Fife, West) | Mooney, John J. |
| Davies, Alfred (Carmarthen) | Horniman, Frederick John | Murphy, John |
| Davies, M. Vaughan (Cardigan | Hutchinson, Dr. Charles Fredk. | Nannetti, Joseph P. |
| Delany, William | Jones, D. Brynmor (Swansea) | Nolan, Joseph (Louth, South) |
| O'Brien, James F. X. (Cork) | Robertson, Edmund (Dundee) | Waldron, Laurence Ambrose |
| O'Brien, K. (Tipperary, Mid.) | Robson, William Snowdon | Wallace, Robert |
| O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Schwann, Charles E. | Walton, Joseph (Barnsley) |
| O'Brien, P. J. (Tipperary, N.) | Shackleton, David James | Wason, Eugene (Clackmannan) |
| O'Connor. James (Wicklow, W. | Shaw, Charles Edw. (Stafford | Wason, Jn. Cathcart (Orkney) |
| O'Donnell, T. (Kerry. W.) | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel | Weir, James Galloway |
| O'Kelly, Jas. (Roscommon, N.) | Slack, John Bamford | White, George (Norfolk) |
| O'Malley, William | Soares, Ernest J. | White, Luke (York, E. R.) |
| O'Mara, James | Strachey, Sir Edward | Whitley, J. H. (Halifax) |
| Partington, Oswald | Sullivan, Donal | Williams, Osmond (Merioneth) |
| Pirie, Duncan V. | Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe) | Wilson, Henry J. (York, W.R.) |
| Reckitt, Harold James | Tennant, Harold John | Woodhouse, Sir J. T (Huddersf'd |
| Reddy, M. | Thomson, F. W. (York, W. R.) | Young, Samuel |
| Redmond, John E. (Waterford) | Tomkinson, James | |
| Redmond, William (Clare) | Toulmin, George | TELLERS FOR THE NOES—Captain Norton and Mr. Jacoby. |
| Reid, Sir R. Threshie (Dumfries | Ure, Alexander |