§ Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINMay I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can make any statement as to the course of business during the present week?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGETo-morrow is the concluding day in Supply, and the reports of all the remaining Votes will be taken at 10 o'clock. Treasury, Inland Revenue and Office of Works Votes will be placed on the Paper to enable the House to discuss the Road Board, Stamps and Royal Parks.
On Wednesday we propose to take the Second Reading of the Appropriation Bill and Public Works Loans Bill.
On Thursday we shall take the Committee stage of those two Bills and of the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill.
On Friday, the Appropriation Bill, Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, and Public Works Loans Bill, Third Readings, to be followed by the Adjournment Motion.
We also hope in the course of the week to proceed with some of the smaller Bills on the Paper, after consultation with the Noble Lord and the various parties in the; House.
The Committee stage of the Finance Bill will not be taken this week.
It will be a convenience to Members to know that the House will reassemble for the Winter Session on Tuesday, 24th October.
§ Mr. MORRELLWill the right hon. Gentleman press forward the Cotton Cloth Factories Bill, which affects hundreds of thousands of people in Lancashire?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEWe will consider that.
§ Lord HUGH CECILBefore the House separates for the Adjournment, will the right hon. Gentleman state what business it is intended to pass during the autumn,, and what Bills are to be dropped?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI think there is some consultation going on as to that subject, and probably a statement will be made before the Adjournment.
§ Mr. T. P. O'CONNORMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he can spare a couple of hours for the small remnant of the Copyright Bill?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI have left a loophole for what are considered small Bills. I hope it may squeeze through.
§ Mr. BRADYMay I ask whether it is proposed to take the Telephone Transfer Bill?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI think I had better not give any answer about any special Bills. I have referred to the small Bills, and I hope a good many of them may squeeze through.
§ Mr. BOOTHMay I ask whether the National Insurance Bill will be taken on the first day of the Autumn sitting?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEPerhaps I had better not say anything now until we come to the Motion for Adjournment.
§ Mr. C. E. PRICEMay I ask whether it is the intention to devote portion of the time to the consideration of the Scottish Estimates, because when the Vote was taken last time the various reports were not published, and a large portion of the time was taken up by a private Bill.
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEAs my hon. Friend knows very well, the Government have no control or responsibility with regard to private Bills. It is no fault of the Government that time was taken up with the discussion of a private Bill.
§ Mr. C. E. PRICEAs the Scottish Estimates were taken before the various reports were published, and as we were unable to consider various items arising out of the Estimate at the time, will the Government see their way to put the Scottish Estimates down?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThere is the opportunity of raising any subject on the Second and Third Reading of the Appropriation Bill.
§ Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINMay I press the Chancellor of the Exchequer either himself to make or to ask the Prime Minister to make a statement about the business of the Autumn Session before we come to the Motion for Adjournment? The right hon. Gentleman will, of course, remember that it is very unusual for the House to have arrived at this period without a full statement having been already made. It is only in consequence of the usual Motion not having been made by the Government taking the time of the House.
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI will call the attention of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the request, which seems to me very reasonable.
§ Ordered, "That, on this day, notwithstanding anything in Standing Order No. 15, Business other than Business of Supply may be taken before Eleven of the clock." —[The Prime Minister.]
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI beg to move, "That the Proceedings in Committee on Navy and Army Expenditure, 1909–10, and in Committee of Ways and Means, be not interrupted this evening under the Standing Order (Sittings of the House), and may be entered upon and proceeded with at any hour, although opposed."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 108; Noes. 101.
1577| Division No. 321.] | AYES. | [4.5 p.m. |
| Abraham, William (Dublin Harbour) | Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Greenwood. Granville G. (Peterborough) |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Clancy, John Joseph | Greenwood, Hamar (Sunderland) |
| Adamson, William | Clough, William | Guest, Major Hon. C. H. C. (Pembroke) |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Clynes, John R. | Guest, Hon. Frederick E. (Dorset, E.) |
| Baker, H. T. (Accrington) | Collins, Godfrey P. (Greenock) | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) |
| Baker, Joseph Allen (Finsbury, E.) | Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) | Hackett, John |
| Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) | Compton-Rickett, Rt. Hon. Sir J. | Hancock, J. G. |
| Barnes, George N. | Condon, Thomas Joseph | Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis (Rossendale) |
| Barry, Redmond John (Tyrone, N.) | Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) |
| Beale, W. P. | Cotton, William Francis | Hardie, J. Keir (Merthyr Tydvil) |
| Beauchamp, Sir Edward | Crumley, Patrick | Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, W.) |
| Beck, Arthur Cecil | Cullinan, J. | Harvy, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) |
| Benn, W. (T. Hamlets, St. Geo.) | Davies, Ellis William (Eifion) | Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry |
| Bethell, Sir John Henry | Davies, Timothy (Lincs., South) | Hayden, John Patrick |
| Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | De Forest, Baron | Henderson, Arthur (Durham) |
| Boland, John Pius | Delany, William | Henry, Sir Charles |
| Booth, Frederick Handel | Denman, Hon. Richard Douglas | Higham, John Sharp |
| Bowerman, Charles W. | Donelan, Captain A. | Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles E. H. |
| Brady, P. J. | Duffy, William J. | Howard, Hon. Geoffrey |
| Brocklehurst, William B. | Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Hudson, Walter |
| Brunner, John F. L. | Elibank, Rt. Hon. Master of | Hughes, Spencer Leigh |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Essex, Richard Walter | Isaacs, Rt. Hon. Sir Rufus |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Falconer, James | Johnson, W. |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Fenwick, Rt. Hon. Charles | Jones, Sir D. Brynmor (Swansea) |
| Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Ferens, Thomas Robinson | Jones, Edgar B. (Merthyr Tydvil) |
| Buxton, Rt. Hon. Sydney C. (Poplar) | Ffrench, Peter | Jones, H. Hadyn (Merioneth) |
| Byles, Sir William Pollard | Flavin, Michael Joseph | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) |
| Carr-Gomm, H. W. | George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd | Jones, W. S. Glyn- (T. H'mts., Stepney) |
| Cawley, H. T. (Lancs., Heywood) | Gill, A. H. | Jowett, Frederick William |
| Chancellor, Henry George | Glanville, H. J. | Joyce, Michael |
| Chapple, Dr. William Allen | Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford | Keating, Matthew |
| Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Nolan, Joseph | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Kilbride, Denis | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Samuel, J. (Stockton) |
| King, Joseph (Somerset, North) | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Lambert, George (Devon, S. Molton) | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton) |
| Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Crickdale) | O'Doherty, Philip | Seely, Colonel Rt. Hon. J. E. S. |
| Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, West) | O'Donnell, Thomas | Sheehy, David |
| Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rld, Cockerm'th) | O'Dowd, John | Shortt, Edward |
| Leach, Charles | Ogden, Fred | Simon, Sir John Allsebrook |
| Lewis, John Herbert | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) |
| Logan, John William | O'Malley, William | Smith, H. B. (Northampton) |
| Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Lundon, Thomas | Parker, James (Halifax) | Snowden, P. |
| Lyell, Charles Henry | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Lynch, Arthur Alfred | Pearce, William (Limehouse) | Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West) |
| Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Pointer, Joseph | Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe) |
| Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. | Power, Patrick Joseph | Tennant, Harold John |
| Macpherson, James Ian | Price, C. E. (Edinburgh, Central) | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton) |
| MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| M'Callum, John M. | Pringle, William M. R. | Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander |
| M'Curdy, C. A. | Radford, G. H. | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) |
| Manfield, Harry | Rainy, Adam Rolland | Wardle, George J. |
| Meagher, Michael | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields) | Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay |
| Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Reddy, Michael | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Molteno, Percy Alport | Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) | Webb, H. |
| Mond, Sir Alfred | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) | Wedgwood, Josiah C. |
| Montagu, Hon. E. S. | Roberts, George H. (Norwich) | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) |
| Mooney, John J. | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) | White Sir Luke (York, E. R.) |
| Morrell, Philip | Robertson, John M. (Tyneside) | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Robinson, Sidney | Whyte, A. F. (Perth) |
| Muldoon, John | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Munro, Robert | Roche, Augustine (Louth) | Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glas.) |
| Munro-Ferguson, Rt. Hon. R. C. | Roche, John (Galway, E.) | |
| Murray, Captain Hon. Arthur C. | Rose, Sir Charles Day | |
| Nannetti, Joseph P. | Rowlands, James | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. Gulland and Mr. Dudley Ward. |
| Neilson, Francis | Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter | |
| NOES. | ||
| Amery, L. C. M. S. | Gardner, Ernest | Peto, Basil Edward |
| Archer-Shee, Major Martin | Gibbs, George Abraham | Pollock, Ernest Murray |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Gilmour, Captain J. | Pryce-Jones, Col. E. (M'tgom'y B'ghs.) |
| Ashley, Wilfrid W. | Goldsmith, Frank | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peal |
| Bagot, Lieut.-Colonel J. | Gordon, Hon. John Edward (Brighton) | Rothschild, Lionel de |
| Baird, John Lawrence | Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) | Sanders, Robert Arthur |
| Baker, Sir Randolf L. (Dorset, N.) | Hall, Fred (Dulwich) | Sanderson, Lancelot |
| Balcarres, Lord | Hamersley, Alfred St. George | Smith, Rt. Hon. F. E. (L'p'l, Walton). |
| Bathurst, Charles (Wilts, Wilton) | Hamilton, Lord C. J. (Kensington) | Smith, Harold (Warrington) |
| Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) | Hamilton, Marquess of (Londonderry) | Spear, Sir John Ward |
| Benn, Ion Hamilton (Greenwich) | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Staveley-Hill, Henry (Staffordshire) |
| Bird, Alfred | Henderson, Major H. (Berkshire) | Steel-Maitland, A. D. |
| Boyle, W. Lewis (Norfolk, Mid) | Hill-Wood, Samuel | Stewart, Gershom |
| Brassey, H. Leonard Campbell | Homer, Andrew Long | Sykes, Alan John (Ches., Knutsford) |
| Bridgeman, W. Clive | Houston, Robert Paterson | Sykes, Mark (Hull, Central) |
| Burgoyne, Alan Hughes | Jardine, Ernest (Somerset, E.) | Talbot, Lord Edmund |
| Burn, Colonel C. R. | Jessel, Captain H. M. | Terrell, George (Wilts, N. W.) |
| Campion, W. R. | Kimber, Sir Henry | Thorne, William (West Ham) |
| Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Thynne, Lord A. |
| Cassel, Felix | Lawson, Hon. H. (T. H'mts., Mile End) | Tobin, Alfred Aspinall |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Lee, Arthur Hamilton | Touche, George Alexander |
| Cautley, H. S. | Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) | Tryon, Captain George Clement |
| Cave, George | Locker-Lampson, O. (Ramsey) | Tullibardine, Marquess of |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Oxford Univ.) | Lyttelton, Hon. J. C. (Droitwich) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Chaloner, Col. R. G. W. | Macmaster, Donald | Ward, A. S. (Herts, Watford) |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. (Worc'r.) | McNeill, Ronald (Kent, St. Augustine) | Willoughby, Major Hon. Claude |
| Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry | Magnus, Sir Philip | Wolmer, Viscount |
| Craik, Sir Henry | Morrison-Bell, Capt. E. F. (Ashburton) | Wood, John (Stalybridge) |
| Cripps, Sir Charles Alfred | Morrison-Bell, Major A. C. (Honiton) | Worthington-Evans, L. |
| Croft, Henry Page | Mount, William Arthur | Yate, Colonel C. E. |
| Dickson, Rt. Hon. C. Scott | Newdegate, F. A. | Younger, Sir George |
| Fell, Arthur | Newton, Harry Kottingham | |
| Fisher, Rt. Hon. W. Hayes | Nicholson, Wm. G. (Petersfield) | |
| Fletcher, John Samuel (Hampstead) | Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. Perkins and Mr. Grant. |
| Forster, Henry William | Peel, Hon. W. R. W. (Taunton) |