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Ordered, "That the proceedings on the Resolution relating to Prosecution of Offences (Amendment) [Expenses] have precedence this day of the Business of Supply."—(Mr. Asquith.)

Motion made, and Question put, "That the Proceedings on the Business of Supply, if under discussion at Eleven o'clock this night, be not interrupted under the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—(Mr. Asquith.)

The House divided:—Ayes, 281; Noes, 62. (Division List No. 54.)

AYES.
Abraham, William (Cork, N. E.) Barnes, G. N. Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn
Abraham, William (Rhondda) Barry, E. (Cork, S.) Burke, E. Haviland.
Acland, Francis Dyke Beauchamp, E. Burns, Rt. Hon. John
Ainsworth, John Stirling Bellairs, Carlyon Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas
Allen, A. Acland (Christchurch) Benn, W. (T'w'r Hamlets, S. Geo. Buxton, Rt. Hn. Sydney Charles
Allen, Charles P. (Stroud) Bethell, T. R. (Essex, Maldon) Byles, William Pollard
Ambrose, Robert Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine Carr-Gomm, H. W.
Asquith, Rt. Hn. Herbert Henry Black, Arthur W. Causton, Rt Hn. Richard Knight
Astbury, John Meir Boland, John Cawley, Sir Frederick
Atherley-Jones, L. Bottomley, Horatio Chance, Frederick William
Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E. Boulton, A. C. F. Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R.
Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight) Bowerman, C. W. Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S.
Barker, John Brace, William Clancy, John Joseph
Barlow, Sir John E. (Somerset) Bramsdon, T. A. Clynes, J. R.
Barnard, E. B. Bryce, J. Annan Cobbold, Felix Thornley
Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) Idris, T. H. W. Nussey, Thomas Willans
Compton-Rickett, Sir J. Illingworth, Percy H. Nuttall, Harry
Condon, Thomas Joseph Jackson, R. S. O'Brien, Kendal (Tipperary Mid
Cooper, G. J. Jacoby, Sir James Alfred O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny)
Corbett, C H (Sussex, E. Grinst'd Jardine, Sir J. O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.)
Cotton, Sir H. J. S. Jenkins, J. O'Doherty, Philip
Cowan, W. H. Johnson, W. (Nuneaton) O'Dowd, John
Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) Jones, Sir D. Brynmor (Swansea O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N
Crean, Eugene Jones, William (Carnarvonshire O'Malley, William
Cullinan, J. Jowett, F. W. O'Shaughnessy, P. J.
Curran, Peter Francis Joyce, Michael Parker, James (Halifax)
Dalziel, James Henry Kearley, Hudson E. Partington, Oswald
Davies, M. Vaughan-(Cardigan) Kekewich, Sir George Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek)
Delany, William Kennedy, Vincent Paul Pearce, William (Limehouse)
Devlin, Joseph Kettle, Thomas Michael Pickersgill, Edward Hare
Dewar, Arthur (Edinburgh, S.) Kilbride, Denis Pirie, Duncan V.
Dickinson, W. H. (St. Pancras, N King, Alfred John (Knutsford Power, Patrick Joseph
Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Laidlaw, Robert Price, C. E. (Edinb'gh, Central)
Dillon, John Lamb, Edmund G. (Leominster Priestley, Arthur (Grantham)
Donelan, Captain A. Lambert, George Priestley, W. E. B. (Bradford, E.
Duckworth, James Lamont, Norman Pullar, Sir Robert
Edwards, Clement (Denbigh) Lardner, James Carrige Rushe Raphael, Herbert H.
Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) Rea, Walter Russell (Scarboro)
Elibank, Master of Layland-Barratt, Francis Redmond, John E. (Waterford)
Erskine, David C. Lea, Hugh Cecil (St. Pancras, E Redmond, William (Clare)
Esmoude, Sir Thomas Lehmann, R. C. Rees, J. D.
Essex, R. W. Lever, A. Levy (Essex, Harwich Ridsdale, E. A.
Esslemont, George Birnie Levy, Sir Maurice Roberts, G. H. (Norwich)
Evans, Sir Samuel T. Lewis, John Herbert Robertson, Rt. Hn. E. (Dundee
Everett, R. Lacey Lough, Thomas Robertson, Sir G Scott (Bradf'rd
Fenwick, Charles Lundon, W. Robertson, J. M. (Tyneside)
Ferens, T. R. Lupton, Arnold Robson, Sir William Snowdon
Ferguson, R. C. Munro Lyell, Charles Henry Roche, Augustine (Cork)
Ffrench, Peter Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) Roche, John (Galway, East)
Findlay, Alexander Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk B'ghs Roe, Sir Thomas
Flynn, James Christopher Mackarness, Frederic C. Rogers, F. E. Newman
Foster, Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. Rowlands, J.
Freeman-Thomas, Freeman Macpherson, J. T. Runciman, Walter
Furness, Sir Christopher MacVeagh, Jeremiah (Down, S. Russell, T. W.
Gill, James (Harrow) MacVeigh, Charles (Donegal, E) Samuel, Herbert L. (Cleveland)
Gladstone, Rt. Hn. Herbert John M'Callum, John M. Scarisbrick, T. T. L.
Glen-Coats, Sir T. (Renfrew, W.) M'Crae, George Scott, A. H (Ashton under Lyne
Glendinning, R. G. M'Kean, John Sears, J. E.
Grant, Corrie M'Kenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald Seely, Colonel
Grayson, Albert Victor M'Killop, W. Shaw, Charles Edw. (Stafford)
Greenwood, G. (Peterborough) M'Laren, Sir C. B. (Leicester) Shaw, Rt. Hon. T. (Hawick B.)
Gulland, John W. M'Laren, H. D. (Stafford, W.) Sheehan, Daniel Daniel
Gwyun, Stephen Lucius M'Micking, Major G. Sheehy, David
Haldane, Rt. Hon. Richard B. Maddison, Frederick Shipman, Dr. John G.
Hall, Frederick Mallet, Charles E. Silcock, Thomas Ball
Halpin, J. Markham, Arthur Basil Sinclair, Rt. Hon. John
Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis Marnham, F. J. Smeaton, Donald Mackenzie
Hardy, George A. (Suffolk) Mason, A. E. W. (Coventry) Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.)
Hart Davies, T. Massie, J. Stanley, Hn. A. Lyulph (Chesh.)
Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) Masterman, C. F. G. Stewart, Halley (Greenock)
Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N. E. Meagher, Michael Straus, B. S. (Mile End)
Haworth, Arthur A. Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N. Strauss, E. A. (Abingdon)
Hayden, John Patrick Meehan, Patrick A.(Queen's Co Summerbell, T.
Hazel, Dr. A. E. Menzies, Walter Tonnant, H. J. (Berwickshire)
Hazleton, Richard Micklem, Nathaniel Thomasson, Franklin
Healy, Timothy Michael Montagu, E. S. Thompson, J. W. H. (Somerset, E.
Helme, Norval Watson Mooney, J. J. Torrance, Sir A. M.
Henry, Charles S. Morgan, G. Hay (Cornwall) Toulmin, George
Herbert T. Arnold (Wycombe) Murnaghan, George Verney, F. W.
Higham, John Sharp Murphy, John (Kerry, East) Villiers, Ernest Amherst
Hobart, Sir Robert Murray, James Vivian, Henry
Hodge, John Myer, Horatio Wadsworth, J.
Hogan, Michael Nannetti, Joseph P. Walsh, Stephen
Hooper, A. G. Napier, T. B. Walters, John Tudor
Horridge, Thomas Gardner Nicholls, George Walton, Joseph
Hudson, Walter Nolan, Joseph Ward, John (Stoke upon Trent
Hyde, Clarendon Norton, Capt. Cecil William Wardle, George J.
Waring, Walter White, Patrick (Meath, North) Wilson, J. W. (Worcestersh, N.)
Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. Whitehead, Rowland Wilson, P. W. (St. Pancras, S.)
Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) Whitley, John Henry (Halifax) Winfrey, R.
Watt, Henry A. Wiles, Thomas Wood, T. M'Kinnon
Wedgwood, Josiah C. Williams, J. (Glamorgan)
Weir, James Galloway Williams, Osmond (Merioneth) TELLERS FOR THE AYES—Mr. Whiteley and Mr. J. A. Pease.
Whitbread, Howard Williamson, A.
White, Luke (York, E. R.) Wilson, Hon. G. G. (Hull, W.)
NOES.
Anson, Sir William Reynell Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S Lyttelton, Rt. Hon. Alfred
Anstruther-Gray, Major Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) Mason, James F. (Windsor)
Arnold-Forster, Rt. Hn. Hugh O Craik, Sir Henry Morpeth, Viscount
Ashley, W. W. Cross, Alexander Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington
Balcarres, Lord Doughty, Sir George Powell, Sir Francis Sharp
Banbury, Sir Frederick George Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers. Ratcliff, Major R. F.
Banner, John S. Harmood- Du Cros, Arthur Philip Remnant, James Farquharson
Baring, Capt. Hn. G (Winchester Duncan, Robert (Lanark, Govan Ronaldshay, Earl of
Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N. Faldell, Sir T. George Sassoon, Sir Edward Albert
Beckett, Hon. Gervase Fell, Arthur Sloan, Thomas Henry
Bignold, Sir Arthur Forster, Henry William Starkey, John R.
Brotherton, Edward Allen Gardner, Ernest Stone, Sir Benjamin
Carlile, E. Hildred Gibbs, G. A. (Bristol, West) Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester)
Castlereagh, Viscount Glover, Thomas Talbot, Rt. Hn. J. G. (Oxf'd Univ
Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) Goulding, Edward Alfred Thomson, W. Mitchell (Lanark
Cecil, Lord R. (Marylebone, E.) Harrison-Broadley, H. B. Thornton, Percy M.
Chamberlain, Rt. Hn J. A.(Worc Hay, Hon. Claude George Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E. R)
Coates, E. Feetham (Lewisham Helmsley, Viscount Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton)
Cochrane, Hon. Taos. H. A. E. Kimber, Sir Henry
Collings, Rt. Hn. J. (Birmingh'm Lambton, Hon. Frederick Wm. TELLERS FOR THE NOES—Sir Alexander Acland-Hood and Viscount Valentia.
Corbett, T. L. (Down, North) Lockwood, Rt. Hn. Lt.-Col. A. R.
Courthope, G. Loyd Lonsdale, John Brownlee