HC Deb 24 May 1909 vol 5 cc911-5

"That in addition to the duty of Excise now payable for every gallon computed at proof of spirits distilled in the United Kingdom there shall, on and after the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and nine, be charged the following duty (that is to say):—

s. d.
For every gallon of spirits computed at proof 3 9
and so on in proportion for any less quantity."—[Mr. Lloyd-George.]

Resolution read a second time.

Motion made and Question proposed: "That the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution."

The House divided: Ayes, 243 Noes, 123.

Division No. 128.] AYES [8.13 p.m.
Acland, Francis Dyke Fenwick Charles Morgan, G. Hay (Cornwall)
Agnew, George William Ferens, T. R. Morgan, J. Lloyd (Carmarthen)
Alden, Percy Findlay, Alexander Morse, L. L.
Allen, A. Acland (Christchurch) Gibb, James (Harrow) Murray, Capt. Hon. A. C. (Kincard.)
Allen, Charles P. (Stroud) Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbert John Myer, Horatio
Ashton, Thomas Gair Glen-Coates, Sir T. (Renfrew, W.) Napier, T. B.
Asquith, Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Glover, Thomas Newnes, F. (Notts, Bassetlaw)
Astbury, John Meir Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford Nicholson, Charles N. (Doncaster)
Balfour, Robert (Lanark) Gooch, George Peabody (Bath) Norman, Sir Henry
Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight) Greenwood, G. (Peterborough) Norton, Capt. Cecil William
Barker, Sir John Harcourt, Rt. Hon. L. (Rossendale) Nussey, Thomas Willans
Barlow, Sir John E. (Somerset) Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) Nuttall, Harry
Barlow, Percy (Bedford) Harmsworth, Cecil B. (Worcester) O'Donnell, C. J. (Walworth)
Barnes, G. N. Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) Parker, James (Halifax)
Barran, Rowland Hirst Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) Partington, Oswald
Barry, Redmond J. (Tyrone, N.) Haslam, James (Derbyshire) Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek)
Beale, W. P Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) Pearce, William (Limehouse)
Beauchamp, E. Haworth, Arthur A. Pointer, J.
Beaumont, Hon. Hubert Hedges, A. Paget Pollard, Dr. G. H.
Beck, A. Cecil Henderson, Arthur (Durham) Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H.
Bell, Richard Henry, Charles S. Price, Sir Robert J. (Norfolk, E.)
Benn, Sir J. Williams (Devonport) Herbert, T. Arnold (Wycombe) Priestley, Arthur (Grantham)
Benn, W. (Tower Hamlets, St. Geo.) Higham, John Sharp Radford, G. H.
Bennett, E. N. Hobart, Sir Robert Raphael, Herbert H.
Bethell, Sir J. H. (Essex, Romford) Hobhouse, Charles E. H. Rea, Russell (Gloucester)
Bethell, T. R. (Essex, Maldon) Hodge, John Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough)
Black, Arthur W. Holt, Richard Durning Rendall, Athelstan
Bramsdon, T. A. Hope, W. H. B. (Somerset, N.) Richards, Thomas (W. Monmouth)
Branch, James Horniman, Emslie John Richards, T. F. (Wolverhampton, W.)
Brodie, H. C. Horridge, Thomas Gardner Ridsdale, E. A.
Brooke, Stopford Howard, Han. Geoffrey Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln)
Brunner, J. F. L. (Lancs., Leigh) Hudson, Walter Roberts, G. H. (Norwich)
Brunner, Rt. Non. Sir J. T. (Cheshire) Hyde, Clarendon G. Roberts, Sir J. H. (Denbighs)
Bryce, J. Annan Illingworth, Percy H. Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford)
Buckmaster, Stanley O. Isaacs, Rufus Daniel Robertson, J. M. (Tyneside)
Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas Jardine, Sir J. Robinson, S.
Byles, William Pollard Jenkins, J. Robson, Sir William Snowdon
Cameron, Robert Johnson, John (Gateshead) Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke)
Carr-Gomm, H. W. Johnson, W. (Nuneaton) Rogers, F. E. Newman
Cawley, Sir Frederick Jowett, F. W. Rose, Charles Day
Chance, Frederick William Kearley, Sir Hudson E. Rowlands, J.
Channing, Sir Francis Ailston Kekewich, Sir George Russell, Rt. Hon. T. W.
Cheetham, John Frederick King, Alfred John (Knutsford) Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland)
Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R Laldlaw, Robert Scarisbrick, T. T. L.
Cleland, J. W. Lamb, Edmund G. (Leominster) Schwann, C. Duncan (Hyde)
Clough, William Lamb, Ernest H. (Rochester) Sears, J. E.
Cabbold, Felix Thornley Lambert, George Seaverns, J. H.
Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) Layland-Barrett, Sir Francis Seddon, J.
Corbett. C. H. (Sussex, E. Grinstead) Leese, Sir Joseph F. (Accrington) Shackleton, David James
Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. Lehmann, R. C. Shaw, Sir Charles E. (Stafford)
Cotton, Sir H. J. S. Levy, Sir Maurice Sherwell, Arthur James
Cowan, W. H. Lewis, John Herbert Shipman, Dr. John G.
Cox, Harold Lloyd-George, Rt. Hon. David Simon, John Allsebrook
Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas Smeaton, Donald Mackenzie
Crooks, William Luttrell, Hugh Fownes Snowden, P.
Dalziel, Sir James Henry Lyell, Charles Henry Soares, Ernest J.
Davies, David (Montgomery Co.) Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) Stanger, H. Y.
Davies, Ellis William (Eifion) Macdonald. J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) Stanley, Hon. A. Lyulph (Cheshire)
Davies, Timothy (Fulham) Mackarness, Frederic C. Steadman, W. C.
Davies. Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) Maclean, Donald Stewart-Smith, D. (Kendal)
Dewar, Arthur (Edinburgh, S.) Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. Strachey, Sir Edward
Dickson-Poynder, Sir John P. McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald Straus, B. S. (Mlle End)
Dobson, Thomas W. M'Laren, H. D. (Stafford, W.) Summerbell, T.
Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) Maddison, Frederick Taylor, John W. (Durham)
Dunn, A. Edward (Cambarne) Mallet, Charles E. Tennant, H. J. (Berwickshire)
Dunne, Major E. Martin (Walsall) Marks, G. Croydon (Launceston) Thomas, Abel (Carmarthen, E.)
Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) Marnham, F. J. Thomas, Sir A. (Glamorgan, E.)
Erskine, David C. Massie, J. Thomasson, Franklin
Essex, R. W. Masterman, C. F. G. Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton)
Esslemont, George Birnle Menzies, Walter Tomkinson, James
Everett, R. Lacey Micklem, Nathaniel Trevelyan, Charles Philips
Faber, G. H. (Boston) Molteno, Percy Alport Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander
Falconer, J. Mond, A. Villiers, Ernest Amherst
Vivian, Henry White, J. Dundas (Dumbartonshire) Wilson, P. W. (St. Pancras, S.)
Walton, Joseph White, Sir Luke (York, E.R.) Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton)
Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) Whitehead, Rowland Winfrey, R.
Wardle, George J. Whitley, John Henry (Halifax) Wood, T. M'Kinnon
Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P.
Wason, Rt Hon. E. (Clackmannan) Wiles, Thomas
Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) Wilkie, Alexander TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr.
Waterlow, D. S. Wills, Arthur Walters Joseph Pease and the Master of
Watt, Henry A. Wilson. Henry J. (York, W.R.) Elibank.
White, Sir George (Norfolk) Wilson, John (Durham, Mid)
NOES.
Abraham, W. (Cork, N.E.) Gretton, John Newdegate, F. A.
Acland-Hood, Rt. Hon. Sir Alex. F. Guinness, Hon. R. (Haggerston) Nicholson, Wm. G. (Petersfield)
Anson, Sir William Reynell Gwynn, Stephen Lucius O'Brien, K. (Tipperary, Mid)
Arkwright, John Stanhope Haddock, George B. O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny)
Ashley, W. W. Hamilton, Marquess of O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.)
Baldwin, Stanley Harrison-Broadley, H. B. O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool)
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A J. (City, Lond.) Hay, Hon. Claude George Oddy, John James
Banbury, Sir Frederick George Hayden, John Patrick O'Shaughnessy, P. J.
Baring, Capt. Hon. G. (Winchester) Hazleton, Richard Parker, Sir Gilbert (Gravesend)
Beckett, Hon. Gervase Healy, Timothy Michael Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington)
Bignold, Sir Arthur Helmsley, Viscount Peel, Hon. W. R. W.
Boland, John Hill, Sir Clement Powell, Sir Francis Sharp
Bowles, G. Stewart Hogan, Michael Pretyman, E. G.
Bull, Sir William James Hope, John Fitzalan (Sheffield) Randles, Sir Jahn Scurrah
Burdett-Coutts, W. Houston, Robert Paterson Ratcliff, Major. R. F.
Burke, E. Haviland Hunt, Rowland Redmond, William (Clare)
Butcher, Samuel Henry Joyce, Michael Renwick, George
Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. H. M. Joynson-Hicks, William Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall)
Carlile, E. Hildred Kavanagh, Walter M. Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall)
Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. Kennedy, Vincent Paul Ropner, Colonel Sir Robert
Cave, George Kerry, Earl of Rutherford, W. W. (Liverpool)
Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) King, Sir Henry Seymour (Hull) Salter, Arthur Clavll
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. (Worc'r.) Lardner, James Carrige Rusk. Sandys, Col. Thos. Myles
Clyde, J. Avon Lee, Arthur H. (Hants, Fareham) Sassoon, Sir Edward Albert
Cochrane, Hon. Thomas H. A. E. Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. Sheffield, Sir Berkeley George D.
Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) Long, Col. Charles W. (Evesham) Smith, Abel H. (Hertford, East)
Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) Lonsdale, John Brownlee Starkey, John R.
Craik, Sir Henry MacNeill, John Gordon Swift Staveley-Hill, Henry (Staffordshire)
Dalrymple, Viscount MacVeagh, Jeremiah (Down, S.) Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester)
Dickson, Rt. Hon. Charles Scott MacVeigh, Charles (Donegal, E.) Talbot, Rt. Hon. J. G. (Oxford Univ.)
Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers M'Arthur, Charles Thornton, Percy M.
Do Cros, Arrthur M'Calmont, Colonel James Tuke, Sir John Batty
Faber, George Denison (York) Magnus, Sir Philip Valentia, Viscount
Faber, Capt. W. V. (Hants, W.) Mason, James F. (Windsor) walker, Col. W. H. (Lancashire)
Fell, Arthur Meysey-Thompson, E. C. Wzirond, Hon Lionel
Ffrench, Peter Middlemore, John Throgmorton White, Patrick (Meath, North)
Fletcher, J. S. Mildmay, Francis Bingham Willoughby de Eresby, Lord
Foster, P. S. Morpeth, Viscount Wilson, A. Stanley (York E. R.)
Gardner, Ernest Morrison-Bell, Captain Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart
Ginnell, L. Muldoon, John
Gooch, Henry Cubitt (Peckham) Murphy, John (Kerry, East TELLERS FOR THE NOES—Mr.
Goulding, Edward Alfred Nannetti, Joseph P. H. W. Forster and Lord Balcarres.