§ " 3. That it is expedient to limit the duration of Parliament to five years."
§ Question put, "That this House doth
1542§ agree with the Committee in the said Resolution."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 347; Noes, 244.
1547| Division No. 35.] | AYES. | [10.40 p.m. |
| Abraham, William | Beale, W. P. | Cawley, Harold T. (Heywood) |
| Addlson, Dr. C. | Belloc, Hilaire Joseph Peter R. | Chancellor, H. G. |
| Adkins, W. Ryland D. | Benn, W. (Tower Hamlets, St. Geo.) | Channing, Sir Francis Aliston |
| Agar-Robartes, Hon. T. C. R. | Bentham, G. J. | Chapple, W. A. |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Bethell, Sir J. H. | Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. |
| Alden, Percy | Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Clancy, John Joseph |
| Allen, Charles P. | Black, Arthur W. | Clough, William |
| Anderson, A. | Boland, John Pius | Clynes, J. R. |
| Armitage, R. | Bowerman, C. W. | Collins, G. P. (Greenock) |
| Ashton, Thomas Gair | Boyle, D. (Mayo, N.) | Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) |
| Asquith, Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry | Brady, P. J. | Collins, Sir Wm. J. (St. Pancras, W.) |
| Atherley-Jones, Llewellyn A. | Brigg, Sir John | Compton-Rickett, Sir J. |
| Baker, H. T. (Accrington) | Brocklehurst, W. B. | Condon, Thomas Joseph |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury E.) | Burke, E. Haviland- | Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow) |
| Balfour, Robert (Lanark) | Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. |
| Barclay, Sir T. | Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Cowan, W. H. |
| Barlow, Sir John E. | Buxton, C. R. (Devon, Mid) | Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) |
| Barnes, G. N. | Buxton, Noel (Norfolk, N.) | Crawshay-Williams, Eliot |
| Barran, Sir J. (Hawick) | Buxton, Rt. Hon. Sydney C. (Poplar) | Crosfield, A. H. |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst (Leeds, N.) | Byles, William Pollard | Crossley, Sir W. J. |
| Barry, E. (Cork, S.) | Cameron, Robert | Cullinan, J. |
| Barry, Redmond J. (Tyrone, N.) | Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Dalziel, Sir James H. (Kirkcaldy) |
| Barton, A. W. | Cawley, Sir Frederick (Prestwich) | Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) |
| Dawes, J. A. | Kemp, Sir G. | Pointer, Joseph |
| Delany, William | Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Pollard, Sir George H. |
| Denman, Hon. R. O. | Kettle, Thomas Michael | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Devlin, Joseph | Kilbride, Denis | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Dewar, Sir J. A. (Inverness) | King, J. (Somerset, N.) | Price, C. E (Edinburgh, Central) |
| Dickinson, W. H. (St. Pancras, N.) | Lambert, George | Price, Sir Robert J. (Norfolk, E.) |
| Donelan, Captain A. | Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Priestley, Arthur (Grantham) |
| Doris, W. | Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) | Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) |
| Duffy, William J. | Layland-Barratt, Sir Francis | Primrose, Hon. Neil James |
| Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Leach, Charles | Pringle, William M. R. |
| Duncan, J. Hastings (York, Otley) | Lehmann, R C. | Radford, G. H. |
| Dunn, A. Edward (Camborne) | Levy, Sir Maurice | Raffan, Peter Wilson |
| Edwards, Enoch | Lewis, John Herbert | Rainy, A. Rolland |
| Elverston, H. | Lincoln, Ignatius T. T. | Raphael, Herbert H. |
| Esmonde, Sir Thomas | Lloyd-George, Rt. Hon David | Rea, Walter Russell |
| Falconer, J. | Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Reddy, M. |
| Ferens, T. R. | Low, Sir F. A. (Norwich) | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Ferguson, R. C. Munro | Lundon, T. | Redmond, William (Clare) |
| Ffrench, Peter | Luttrell, Hugh Fownes | Rees, J. D. |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | Lynch, A. A. | Rendall, Athelstan |
| France, G. A. | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Richards, Thomas |
| Furress, Sir Christopher | Macdonald, J M (Falkirk Burghs) | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Gelder, Sir W. A. | Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. | Roberts, G. H. (Norwich) |
| Gibbins, F. W. | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Roberts, Sir J. H. (Denbighs) |
| Gibson, James P. | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) |
| Gill, A. H. | M'Callum, John M. | Robertson, J. M. (Tyneside) |
| Glanville, H. J. | M'Curdy, C. A. | Robinson, S. |
| Glover, Thomas | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald | Robson, Sir William Snowdon |
| Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford | M'Laren, Rt. Hon. Sir C. B. (Leices.) | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) |
| Greenwood, G. G. | Mallet, Charles E. | Roche, Augustine (Cork) |
| Greig, Colonel J. W. | Manfield, Harry | Roche, John (Galway, East) |
| Grenfell, Cecil Alfred | Markham, Arthur Basil | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward | Marks, G. Croydon | Rowntree, Arnold |
| Griffith, Ellis J. (Anglesey) | Masterman, C. F. G. | Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter |
| Gulland, John William | Meagher, Michael | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Samuel, J. (Stockton) |
| Hackett, J. | Meehan, Patrick A. (Queen's Co.) | Samuel, S. M. (Whitechapel) |
| Haldane, Rt. Hon. Richard B. | Menzies, Sir Walter | Scanian, Thomas |
| Hall, Frederick (Normanton) | Middlebrook, William | Schwann, Sir C. E. |
| Hancock, J. G. | Millar, J. D. | Scott, A. H. (Ashton-under-Lyne) |
| Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis (Rossendale) | Molloy, M. | Seddon, J. |
| Hardie, J. Keir (Merthyr Tydvil) | Molteno, Percy Alport | Seely, Col., Right Hon. J. E. B. |
| Harmsworth, R. L. | Mond, Alfred Moritz | Shackleton, David James |
| Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) | Montagu, Hon. E. S. | Shaw, Sir C. E. |
| Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, W.) | Mooney, J. J. | Sheehy, David |
| Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) | Morgan, G. Hay (Cornwall) | Sherwell, Arthur James |
| Harwood, George | Morgan, J. Lloyd (Carmarthen) | Shortt, Edward |
| Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Simon, John Ailsebrook |
| Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry | Muldoon, John | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Haworth Arthur A. | Munro, R. | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Hayden, John Patrick | Murray, Captain Hon. A. C. | Soares, Ernest J. |
| Hayward, Evan | Muspratt, M. | Spicer, Sir Albert |
| Hazleton, Richard | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Stanley, Albert (Staffs, N.W.) |
| Healy, Maurice (Cork, N.E.) | Neilson, Francis | Strachey, Sir Edward |
| Healy, Timothy Michael | Nicholson, Charles N. (Doncaster) | Summers, James Woolley |
| Helme, Norval Watson | Nolan. Joseph | Sutherland, J. E. |
| Henderson, Arthur (Durham) | Norton, Capt. Cecil W. | Sutton, John E. |
| Henderson, J. McD. (Aberdeen, W.) | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| Henry, Charles S. | Nussey, Sir Wilians | Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe) |
| Herbert, Col. Sir Ivor | Nuttall, Harry | Tennant, Harold John |
| Higham, John Sharp | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Thomas, Abel (Carmarthen, E.). |
| Hindle, F. G. | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Thomas, Sir A. (Glamorgan, E.) |
| Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles C. H. | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Thomas, D. A. (Cardiff) |
| Hodge, John | O'Doherty, Philip | Thomas, J. H. (Derby) |
| Hogan, Michael | O'Donnell, John (Mayo, S.) | Thorne, G. R. (Wolvarhampton) |
| Hooper, A. S. | O'Donnell, T. (Kerry, W.) | Thorne, William (West Ham) |
| Hope, John Deans (File, West) | O'Dowd, John | Toulmin, George |
| Home, C. Silvester (Ipswich) | Ogden, Fred | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklow, W.) | Twist, Henry |
| Hudson, Walter | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander |
| Hughes, S. L. | O'Malley, William | Verney, F. W. |
| Hunter, W. (Govan) | O'Neill, Charles (Armagh, S.) | Vivian, Henry |
| Illingworth, Percy H. | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Wadsworth, J. |
| Isaacs, Sir Rufus Daniel | O'Shee, James John | Walker, H. De R. (Leicester) |
| Jardine, Sir J. (Roxburgh) | O'Sullivan, Eugene | Walsh, Stephen |
| Johnson, W. | Parker, James (Halifax) | Walters, John Tudor |
| Jones, Sir D. Prynmor (Swansea) | Pearce, William | Walton, Joseph |
| Jones, Edgar (Merthyr Tydvil) | Pearson, Weetman H. M. | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) |
| Jones, H. Haydn (Merioneth) | Pease, Rt. Hon. Joseph A. | Ward, W. Dudley (Southampton) |
| Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | Philipps, Col. Ivor (Southampton) | Wardle, George J. |
| Jowett, F. W. | Philipps, Sir Owen C. (Pembroke) | Waring, Walter |
| Joyce, Michael | Phillips. John (Longford, S.) | Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. |
| Keating, M. | Pickersgill, Edward Hare | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Kelly, Edward | Pirie, Duncan V. | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Waterlow, D. S. | Wiles, Thomas | Winfrey, Richard |
| Wedgwood, Josiah C. | Williams, A. N. (Plymouth) | Wing, Thomas |
| Weir, James Galloway | Williams, J. (Glamorgan) | Wood, T. M'Kinnon (Glasgow) |
| White, Sir George (Norfolk) | Williams, P. (Middlesbrough) | Young, Samuel (Cavan, E.) |
| White, J. Dundas (Dumbartonshire) | Wilson, Hon. G. G. (Hull, W.) | Younger, W. (Peebles and Selkirk) |
| White, Sir Luke (York, E.R.) | Wilson, Henry J. (York, W.R.) | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| White, Patrick (Meath, North) | Wilson, John (Durham, Mid) | |
| Whitehouse, John Howard | Wilson, J. W. (Worcestershire, N.) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Matter |
| Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P. | Wilson, T. F. (Lanark, N. E.) | of Elibank and Mr. Fuller. |
| Whyte, Alexander F. (Perth) | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) | |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Rt. Hon. Sir Alex. F. | Dunn, Sir W. H. (Southwark) | Law, Andrew Bonar (Dulwich) |
| Adam, Major W. A. | Eyres-Monsell, B. M. | Lawson, Hon. Harry |
| Arson, Sir William Reynell | Faber, George Denison (Clapham) | Lee, Arthur H. |
| Archer-Shee, Major M. | Faber, Capt. W. V. (Hants, W.) | Lewlsham, Viscount |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Falle, B. G. | Llewelyn, Major Venables |
| Bagot, Captain J. | Fell, Arthur | Lloyd, G. A. |
| Baird, J. L. | Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey | Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) |
| Baker, Sir R. L. (Dorset, N.) | Finlay, Sir Robert | Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. |
| Balcarres, Lord | Fisher, W. Hayes | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Fitzroy, Hon. E. A. | Lonsdale, John Brownlee |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J. (City, Lond.) | Flannery, Sir J. Fortescue | Lowe, Sir F. W. (Birm, Edgbaston) |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Fleming, Valentine | Lyttelton, Rt. Hon. A. (Hanover Sq.) |
| Banner, John S. Harmood- | Fletcher, J. S. | Lyttelton, Hon. J. C. (Droftwich) |
| Barnston, H. | Foster, H. S. (Suffolk, N.) | MacCaw, Wm. J. MacGeagh |
| Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N.) | Foster, J. K. (Coventry) | Mackinder, H. J. |
| Bathurst, Hon. A. B. (Glouc, E.) | Foster, P. S. (Warwick, S.W.) | Macmaster, Donald |
| Bathurst, Charles (Wilts, Wilton) | Gardner, Ernest | M'Arthur, Charles |
| Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Gastrell, Major W. H. | M'Calmont, Colonel James |
| Beckett, Hon. W. Gervase | Gibbs, G. A. | Magnus, Sir Philip |
| Benn, I. H. (Greenwich) | Gilmour, Captain J. | Mallaby-Deeley, Harry |
| Bentinck, Lord H. Cavendish | Goldman, C. S. | Mason, James F. |
| Bird, A. | Goldsmith, Frank | Middlemore, John Throgmorton |
| Boyle, W. L. (Norfolk, Mid) | Gooch, Henry Cubitt | Mildmay, Francis Bingham |
| Boyton, J. | Gordon, J. | Mills, Hon. Charles Thomas |
| Brackenbury, H. L. | Goulding, Edward Alfred | Mitchell, William Foot |
| Brassey, Capt. R. (Banbury) | Grant, J. A. | Moore, William |
| Brassey, H L. C. (N'thamptonshire, N.) | Greene, W. R. | Morpeth, Viscount |
| Bridgeman, W. Clive | Guinness, Hon. Walter E. | Morrison, Captain J. A. |
| Brotherton, E. A. | Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) | Morrison-Bell, Major A. C. |
| Brunskill, G. F. | Haddock, George B. | Mount, William Arthur |
| Bull, Sir William James | Hall, D. B. (Isle of Wight) | Newdegate, F. A. |
| Burdett-Coutts, W. | Hall, E. Marshall (Toxteth) | Newman, John R. P. |
| Butcher, J. G. (York) | Hambro, Angus Valdemar | Newton, Harry Kottingham |
| Butcher, S. Henry (Cambridge Univ.) | Hamersley, A. St. George | Nicholson, Wm. G. (Petersfield) |
| Calley, Colonel T. C. P. | Hamilton, Marquess of (Londonderry) | Nield, Herbert |
| Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. H. M. | Hardy, Laurence (Kent, Ashford) | Norton-Griffiths, J. (Wednesbury) |
| Carlile, E. Hildred | Harris, F. L. (Stepney) | O'Neill, Hon. A. E. B. (Antrim, Mid) |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Harris, H. P. (Paddington, S.) | Orde-Powlett, Hon. W. G. A. |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William |
| Cator, John | Heath, Col. A. H. | Paget, Almeric Hugh |
| Cautley, H. G. | Heaton, John Henniker | Parker, Sir Gilbert (Gravesend) |
| Cave, George | Helmsley, Viscount | Peel, Hon. W. R. W. (Taunton) |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Henderson, H. (Berks, Abingdon) | Peel, Capt. R. F. (Woodbridge) |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Oxford University) | Hermon-Hodge, Sir Robert | Perkins, Walter F. |
| Chaloner, Colonel R. G. W. | Hickman, Col. T. | Peto, Basil Edward |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. (Worc'r.) | Hill, Sir Clement | Pollock, Ernest Murray |
| Chambers, J. | Hillier, Dr. A. P. | Pretyman, E. G. |
| Clay, Captain H. H. Spender | Hills, J. W. | Proby, Col. Douglas James |
| Clive, Percy Archer | Hoare, S. J. G. | Quilter, William Eley C. |
| Coates, Major E. F. | Hohler, G. F. | Randles, Sir John Scurrah |
| Colefax, H. A. | Hope, Harry (Bute) | Rankin, Sir James |
| Compton, Lord A. (Brentford) | Hope, James Fitzalan (Sheffield) | Ratcliff, Major R. F. |
| Cooper, Capt. Bryan (Dublin, S.) | Home, W. E. (Surrey, Guildford) | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Cooper, R. A. (Walsall) | Horner, A. L. | Rawson, Colonel R. H. |
| Courthope, G. Loyd | Houston, Robert Paterson | Remnant, James Farquharson |
| Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Hume-Williams, W. E. | Rice, Hon Walter F. |
| Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) | Hunt, Rowland | Ridley, Samuel Forde |
| Craig, Norman (Kent) | Hunter, Sir C. R. (Bath) | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Craik, Sir Henry | Jackson, Sir J. (Devonport) | Rolleston, Sir John |
| Cripps, Sir C. A. | Jackson, John A. (Whitehaven) | Ronaldshay, Earl of |
| Croft, H. P. | Jardine, E. Somerset, E.) | Rothschild, Lionel de |
| Dairymple, Viscount | Jessel, Captain H. M. | Rutherford, Watson |
| Dalziel, D. (Brixton) | Kerr-Smiley, Peter | Salter, Arthur Clavell |
| Dickson, Rt. Hon. C. Scott | Kerry, Earl of | Samuel, Sir Harry (Norwood) |
| Dixon, C. H. | Keswick, William | Sanders, Robert A. |
| Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Kimber, Sir Henry | Sanderson, Lancelot |
| Du Cros, Alfred (Tower Hamlets, Bow) | King, Sir Henry Seymour (Hull) | Sandys, G. J. (Somerset, Wells) |
| Du Cros, Arthur P. (Hastings) | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Sandys, Lieut.-Col. T. M. (Bootie) |
| Duke, H. E. | Knight, Capt. E. A. | Sassoon, Sir Edward Albert |
| Duncannon, Viscount | Lane-Fox, G. R. | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Stanier, Beville | Thompson, Robert | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E.R.) |
| Stanley, Hon. Arthur (Ormskirk) | Thynne, Lord A. | Winterton, Earl |
| Stanley, Hon. G. F. (Preston) | Tobin, Alfred Aspinall | Wolff, Gustav Wilhelm |
| Starkey, John R. | Tryon, Capt. George Clement | Wood, John (Stalybridge) |
| Staveley-Hill, Henry (Staffordshire) | Verrall, George Henry | Worthington-Evans, L. (Colchester) |
| Steel-Maitland, A. D. | Walrond, Hon. Lionel | Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart- |
| Stewart, Gershom (Ches. Wirral) | Ward, Arnold (Herts, Watford) | Yerburgh, Robert |
| Stewart, Sir M'T. (Kirkcudbright) | Warde, Col. C. E. (Kent, Mid) | Younger, George (Ayr Burghs) |
| Storey, Samuel | Wheler, Granville C. H. | |
| Strauss, A. | White, Major G. D. (Lines., Southport) | |
| Sykes, Alan John | Williams, Col. R. (Dorset, W.) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Viscount |
| Terrell, G. (Wilts, N.W.) | Willoughby, Major Hon. Claude | Valentia and Lord E. Talbot. |
| Terrell, H. (Gloucester) | Willoughby de Eresby, Lord |