§ (1) All sums paid into the Irish Exchequer shall form a Consolidated Fund, and be appropriated to the public service of Ireland by Irish Act, and shall not be applied for any purpose for which they are not so appropriated.
1222§ (2) Save as may be otherwise provided by Irish Act, the existing law relating to the Exchequer and Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom shall apply with the necessary modifications to the Irish Exchequer and the Irish Consolidated Fund, and an officer shall be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to be the Irish Comptroller and Auditor-General.
1223§ (3) Save as may be otherwise provided by Irish Act, the accounts of the Irish Consolidated Fund shall be audited as Appropriation Accounts, in manner provided by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1866, and any Act amending the same,
1224§ by or under the direction of the Irish Comptroller and Auditor-General.
§ Question put, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 283; Noes, 172.
1227| Division No. 349.] | AYES. | [12.30 a.m. |
| Abraham, William (Dublin, Harbour) | Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) | Leach, Charles |
| Abraham, Rt. Hon. William (Rhondda) | Esmonde, Sir Thomas (Wexford, N.) | Levy, Sir Maurice |
| Acland, Franics Dyke | Essex, Richard Walter | Lewis, John Herbert |
| Adamson, William | Esslemont, George Birnie | Low, Sir Frederick (Norwich) |
| Addison, Dr. C. | Falconer, James | Lundon, Thomas |
| Adkins, Sir W. Ryland D. | Farrell, James Patrick | Lyell, Charles Henry |
| Agnew, Sir George William | Fenwick, Rt. Hon. Charles | Lynch, A. A. |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Ffrench, Peter | Macdonald, J. Ramsay (Leicester) |
| Allen, Arthur A. (Dumbarton) | Field, William | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) |
| Allen, Rt. Hon. Charles P. (Stroud) | Fiennes, Hon. Eustace Edward | McGhee, Richard |
| Arnold, Sydney | Fitzgibbon, John | Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. |
| Baker, Harold T. (Accrington) | Flavin, Michael Joseph | Macneill, J. G. Swift (Donegal, South) |
| Baker, Joseph Allen (Finsbury, E.) | Gill, Alfred Henry | Macpherson, James Ian |
| Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) | Ginnell, Laurence | MacVeagh, Jeremiah |
| Baring, Sir Godfrey (Barnstaple) | Gladstone, W. G. C. | MCallum, Sir John M. |
| Barlow, Sir John Emmott (Somerset) | Glanville, H. J. | M'Curdy, Charles Albert |
| Barnes, George N. | Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford | M'Kean, John |
| Barran, Sir John N. (Hawick) | Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald |
| Barran, Rowland Hurst (Leeds, N.) | Griffith, Ellis J. | M'Laren, Hon. H. D. (Leics.) |
| Barton, William | Guest, Major Hon. C. H. C. (Pembroke) | M'Laren, Hon. H. D. (Leics., Spalding) |
| Beauchamp, Sir Edward | Gulland, John W. | Manfield, Harry |
| Beck, Arthur Cecil | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) | Martin, Joseph |
| Benn, W. W. (T. H'mts., St. George) | Hackett, J. | Meagher, Michael |
| Bentham, George Jackson | Hall, Frederick (Normanton) | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) |
| Bethell, Sir John Henry | Hancock, John George | Menzies, Sir Walter |
| Black, Arthur W. | Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis (Rossendale) | Millar, James Duncan |
| Boland, John Pius | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Molloy, Michael |
| Booth, Frederick Handel | Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) | Money, L. G. Chiozza |
| Bowerman, Charles W. | Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) | Mooney, John J. |
| Boyle, Daniel (Mayo, North) | Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, W.) | Morgan, George Hay |
| Brace, William | Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) | Morrell, Philip |
| Brady, Patrick Joseph | Haslam, James (Derbyshire) | Morison, Hector |
| Brocklehurst, William B. | Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas |
| Bryce, John Annan | Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry | Munro-Ferguson, Rt. Hon. R. C. |
| Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Hayden, John Patrick | Muldoon, John |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Hazleton, Richard | Murray, Captain Hon. Arthur C. |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Helme, Sir Norval Watson | Nannetti, Joseph P. |
| Buxton, Rt. Hon. S. C. (Poplar) | Henderson, Arthur (Durham) | Needham, Christopher T. |
| Byles, Sir William Pollard | Henry, Sir Charles | Neilson, Francis |
| Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Higham, John Sharp | Nolan, Joseph |
| Cawley, Sir Frederick (Prestwich) | Hinds, John | Norton, Captain Cecil William |
| Cawley, H. T. (Lancs., Heywood) | Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles E. H. | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard |
| Chancellor, H. G. | Hodge, John | Nuttall, Harry |
| Chapple, Dr. William Allen | Hogge, James Myles | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) |
| Clancy, John Joseph | Holmes, Daniel Turner | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) |
| Clough, William | Holt, Richard Durning | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) |
| Clynes, John R. | Hope, John Deans (Haddington) | O'Doherty, Philip |
| Collins, Godfrey P. (Greenock) | Horne, C. Silvester (Ipswich) | O'Donnell, Thomas |
| Condon, Thomas Joseph | Hudson, Walter | Ogden, Fred |
| Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Hughes, Spencer Leigh | O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklow, W.) |
| Cotton, William Francis | Illingworth, Percy H. | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) |
| Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) | Isaacs, Rt. Hon. Sir Rufus | O'Malley, William |
| Crawshay-Williams, Eliot | John, Edward Thomas | O'Neill, Dr. Charles (Armagh, S.) |
| Crooks, William | Jones, Edgar R. (Merthyr Tydvil) | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. |
| Crumley, Patrick | Jones, H. Haydn (Merioneth) | O'Shee, James John |
| Cullinan, J. | Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) | O'Sullivan, Timothy |
| Dalziel, Rt. Hon. Sir J. H. (Kirkcaldy) | Jones, Leif Stratten (Notts, Rushcliffe) | Palmer, Godfrey Mark |
| Davies, Ellis William (Eifion) | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | Parker, James (Halifax) |
| Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) | Jones, W. S. Glyn- (Stepney) | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) |
| Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) | Jowett, Frederick William | Pease, Rt. Hon. Joseph A. (Rotherham) |
| Dawes, James Arthur | Joyce, Michael | Philipps, Col. Ivor (Southampton) |
| De Forest, Baron | Keating, Matthew | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) |
| Delany, William | Kellaway, Frederick George | Pirie, Duncan V. |
| Denman, Hon. R. D. | Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Pointer, Joseph |
| Devlin, Joseph | Kilbride, Denis | Pollard, Sir George H. |
| Donelan, Captain A. | King, Joseph | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Doris, William | Lambert, Rt. Hon. G. (Devon, S. Molton) | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Duffy, William J. | Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) | Price, C. E. (Edinburgh, Central) |
| Duncan, J. Hastings (Yorks, Otley) | Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Price, Sir Robert J. (Norfolk, E.) |
| Edwards, Clement (Glamorgan, E.) | Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) | Priestley, Sir Arthur (Grantham) |
| Elverston, Sir Harold | Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rld, Cockerm'th) | Primrose, Hon. Neil James |
| Pringle, William M. R. | Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton) | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Radford, George Heynes | Seely, Colonel Rt. Hon. J. E. B. | Webb, H. |
| Raffan, Peter Wilson | Sheehy, David | Wedgwood, Josiah C. |
| Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields) | Shortt, Edward | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) |
| Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) | Simon, Sir John Allsebrook | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Reddy, M. | Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) | Whitehouse, John Howard |
| Redmond, John E. (Waterford) | Smith, H. B. L. (Northampton) | Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P. |
| Redmond, William (Clare, E.) | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) | Whyte, Alexander F. |
| Redmond, William Archer (Tyrone, E.) | Soames, Arthur Wellesley | Wiles, Thomas |
| Rendall, Athelstan | Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West) | Wilkie, Alexander |
| Richardson, Albion (Peckham) | Sutherland, John E. | Williams, Llewelyn (Carmarthen) |
| Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) | Sutton, John E. | Williams, Penry (Middlesbrough) |
| Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) | Taylor, John W. (Durham) | Wilson, Hon. G. G. (Hull, W.) |
| Roberts, Sir J. H. (Denbighs) | Taylor, T. C. (Radcliffe) | Wilson, Rt. Hon. J. W. (Worcs., N.) |
| Robertson, John M. (Tyneside) | Tennant, Harold John | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Robinson, Sidney | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton) | Winfrey, Richard |
| Roch, Walter F. | Trevelyan, Charles Philips | Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glas.) |
| Roche, Augustine (Louth) | Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander | Young, Samuel (Cavan, East) |
| Roe, Sir Thomas | Verney, Sir H. | Young, William (Perth, East) |
| Rowlands, James | Wadsworth, John | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Rowntree, Arnold | Walsh, Stephen (Lancs., Ince) | |
| Russell, Rt. Hon. Thomas W. | Walton, Sir Joseph | |
| Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. |
| Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) | Waring, Walter | Geoffrey Howard and Capt. Guest. |
| Scanlan, Thomas | Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay | |
| NOES. | ||
| Agg-Gardner, James Tynte | Gordon, John (Londonderry, South) | Mildmay, Francis Bingham |
| Aitken, Sir William Max | Gordon, Hon. John Edward (Brighton) | Mills, Hon. Charles Thomas |
| Amery, L. C. M. S. | Greene, Walter Raymond | Moore, William |
| Anson, Rt. Hon. Sir William R. | Gretton, John | Morrison-Bell, Capt. E. F. (Ashburton) |
| Archer-Shee, Major Martin | Guinness, Hon. Rupert (Essex, S. E.) | Mount, William Arthur |
| Ashley, W. W. | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (Bury S. Edmunds) | Neville, Reginald J. N. |
| Astor, Waldorf | Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) | Newdegate, F. A. |
| Baird, John Lawrence | Hall, D. B. (Isle of Wight) | Newton, Harry Kottingham |
| Balcarres, Lord | Hall, Fred (Dulwich) | Nicholson, Wm. G. (Petersfield) |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Hamersley, Alfred St. George | Nield, Herbert |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Hamilton, Marquess of (Londonderry) | O'Neill, Hon. A. E. B. (Antrim, Mid) |
| Barnston, Harry | Hardy, Rt. Hon. Laurence | Orde-Powlett, Hon. W. G. A. |
| Barrie, H. T. | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William |
| Bathurst, Charles (Wilts, Wilton) | Helmsley, Viscount | Parkes, Ebenezer |
| Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Henderson, Major H. (Berks, Abingdon) | Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington) |
| Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) | Hewins, William Albert Samuel | Peto, Basil Edward |
| Bentinck, Lord H. Cavendish- | Hickman, Colonel Thomas | Pole-Carew, Sir R. |
| Bird, Alfred | Hill, Sir Clement L. | Pollock, Ernest Murray |
| Boles, Lieut.-Col. Dennis Fortescue | Hills, John Waller | Pryce-Jones, Colonel E. |
| Boscawen, Sir Arthur S. T. Griffith- | Hill-Wood, Samuel | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Boyle, William (Norfolk, Mid.) | Hoare, Samuel John Gurney | Rolleston, Sir John |
| Boyton, James | Hohler, G. F. | Ronaldshay, Earl of |
| Bridgeman, William Clive | Hope, Harry (Bute) | Rothschild, Lionel de |
| Bull, Sir William James | Hope, James Fitzalan (Sheffield) | Rutherford, John (Lancs., Darwen) |
| Burn, Colonel C. R. | Hope, Major J. A. (Midlothian) | Rutherford, Watson (L'pool, W. Derby) |
| Butcher, John George | Horne, Edgar (Surrey, Guildford) | Sanders, Robert Arthur |
| Campbell, Capt. Duncan F. (Ayr, N.) | Horner, A. L. | Sassoon, Sir Philip |
| Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. (Dublin Univ.) | Houston, Robert Paterson | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, West) |
| Campion, W. R. | Hunt, Rowland | Smith, Harold (Warrington) |
| Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred | Ingleby, Holcombe | Spear, Sir John Ward |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Jackson, Sir John | Stanier, Beville |
| Cassel, Felix | Jardine, Ernest (Somerset, East) | Stanley, Hon. G. F. (Preston) |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Jessel, Captain Herbert M. | Starkey, John Ralph |
| Cave, George | Joynson-Hicks, William | Staveley-Hill, Henry |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Kebty-Fletcher, J. R. | Steel-Maitland, A. D. |
| Chaloner, Col. R. G. W. | Kerr-Smiley, Peter Kerr | Stewart, Gershom |
| Clay, Captain H. H. Spender | Kerry, Earl of | Swift, Rigby |
| Clive, Captain Percy Archer | Kimber, Sir Henry | Sykes, Alan John (Ches., Knutsford) |
| Clyde, James Avon | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Talbot, Lord Edmund |
| Coates, Major Sir Edward Feetham | Lane-Fox, G. R. | Terrell, George (Wilts, N.W.) |
| Cooper, Richard Ashmole | Larmor, Sir J. | Terrell, Henry (Gloucester) |
| Courthope, George Loyd | Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar (Bootle) | Thomson, W. Mitchell- (Down, North) |
| Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Lawson, Hon. H. (T. H'mts, Mile End) | Thynne, Lord Alexander |
| Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) | Lewisham, Vosccunt | Tobin, Alfred Aspinall |
| Craig, Norman (Kent, Thanet) | Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) | Touche, George Alexander |
| Crichton-Stuart, Lord Ninian | Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. | Tryon, Captain George Clement |
| Dickson, Rt. Hon. C. Scott | Lonsdale, Sir John Brownlee | Tullibardine, Marquess of |
| Doughty, Sir George | Lyttelton, Hon. J. C. (Droitwich) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Duke, Henry Edward | MacCaw, William J. MacGeagh | Ward, Arnold (Herts, Watford) |
| Eyres-Monsell, B. M. | Mackinder, Halford J. | Warde, Col. C. E. (Kent, Mid) |
| Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey | Macmaster, Donald | Wheler, Granville C. H. |
| Fisher, Rt. Hon. W. Hayes | McNeill, Ronald (Kent, St. Augustine's) | White, Major G. D. (Lancs., Southport) |
| Forster, Henry William | Malcolm, Ian | Wills, Sir Gilbert |
| Gibbs, G. A. | Meysey-Thompson, E. C. | Wood, Hon. E. F. L. (Yorks, Ripon) |
| Goldman, Charles Sydney | Middlemore, John Throgmorton | Wood, John (Stalybridge) |
| Worthington-Evans, L. | Yate, Colonel C. E. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. |
| Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart- | Yerburgh, Robert A. | Goldsmith and Mr. O. Locker Lampson. |
| Wright, Henry Fitzherbert | Younger, Sir George |
Question put and agreed to.
§ Committee report Progress; to sit again to-morrow (Wednesday).