§ All marriages (both or one of the parties thereto being subjects or a subject of this realm) solemnised before the passing of this Act in the Empire of Japan, which would have been valid if solemnised immediately before the said sixteenth of July eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall be and shall be deemed always to have been as valid in law as if they had been solemnised within His Majesty's dominions with the due observance of all forms required by law:
§ Provided that this Act shall not render valid any marriage which before the pass- 196 ing of this Act has been declared invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or affect any right dependent on the validity or invalidity thereof, or render valid any marriage either of the parties to which has subsequently during the life of the other lawfully intermarried with any other person.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
§ Sir E. CARSONI beg to move, "That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again." I know that the Noble Lord the Member for Maidstone (Viscount Castlereagh) is anxious to bring on a Motion to discuss a very extraordinary speech by a Cabinet Minister. Still, with reference to this Bill, I desire to ask leave to move that you report Progress and ask leave to sit again. I do it for this reason: The House has already by its Vote determined that thirty-seven lines of another Bill is not to be discussed at all. The view which I wish to put 197 before the Committee is this: that if we are not in a position to discuss at this time of the evening an important measure like the Home Rule Bill, the House cannot be in a position to discuss the Marriages Solemnised in the Empire of Japan Bill.
§ The CHAIRMANI would point out that the right hon. Gentleman is not in order in discussing in Committee the action of the House. I understand that the proceedings to which the right hon. Gentleman is referring are governed by a Resolution of the House, and it is a well-known rule that in Committee we are not permitted to discuss the action of the House.
§ Sir E. CARSONI think you misunderstand, Sir. I am not challenging in the least what either the House or the Committee has done. To that we have submitted, and of course the House has pronounced a vote upon it. My point is that if the House does accept most cordially and loyally what the House has done, if the House has thought that it was
§ sufficient to stop proceedings on the Government of Ireland Bill, leaving thirty-seven lines of a Clause absolutely undiscussed, then the House and the Committee have done quite enough work, according to their own declaration, for to-day. Having passed without discussion thirty-seven lines, including one whole Clause, which we never got to at all, I submit to the Committee that those are not the conditions under which we ought to approach the question of the Solemnisation of Marriages in the Empire of Japan. If the House is in a position to discuss these matters, surely we might have relegated to us a little more time for the discussion of matters under the Government of Ireland Bill. I therefore, as regards this Bill, upon the grounds I have stated, beg to move that the Chairman report Progress.
§ Question put, "That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again."
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 154; Noes, 240.
201| Division No. 279.] | AYES. | [11.10 p.m. |
| Agg-Gardner, James Tynte | Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) | Knight, Captain E. A. |
| Amery, L. C. M. S. | Craig, Norman (Kent, Thanet) | Larmor, Sir J. |
| Archer-Shee, Major M. | Craik, Sir Henry | Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar (Bootle) |
| Ashley, Wilfrid W. | Crichton-Stuart, Lord Ninian | Lewisham, Viscount |
| Baird, J. L. | Croft, H. P. | Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) |
| Baker, Sir Randolf L. (Dorset, N.) | Dixon, C. H. | Locker-Lampson, O. (Ramsey) |
| Balcarres, Lord | Eyres-Monsell, B. M. | LockWood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Falle, B. G. | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter |
| Balfour Rt. Hon. A. J. (City, Lond.) | Fell, Arthur | Lonsdale, Sir John Brownlee |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey | Lyttelton, Rt. Hon. A. (S. Geo. Han. S.) |
| Banner, John S. Harmood- | Fleming, Valentine | Lyttelton, Hon. J. C. (Droitwich) |
| Baring, Maj. Hon. Guy V. (Winchester) | Forster, Henry William | Macaw, William J MacGeagh |
| Barlow, Montague (Salford, South) | Foster, Philip Staveley | Mackinder, H. J. |
| Barrie, H. T. | Gardner, Ernest | M'Mordie, Robert James |
| Bathurst, Hon. A. B. (Glouc, E.) | Gastrell, Major W. H. | M'Neill, Ronald (Kent, St. Augustine's) |
| Bathurst, Charles (Wilts, Wilton) | Gilmour, Captain John | Malcolm, Ian |
| Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Glazebrook, Captain Philip K. | Mills, Hon. Charles Thomas |
| Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) | Gordon, John (Londonderry, South) | Moore, William |
| Benn, Ion Hamilton (Greenwich) | Goulding, Edward Alfred | Morrison-Bell, Capt. E. F. (Ashburton) |
| Beresford, Lord C. | Grant, J. A. | Morrison-Bell, Major A. C. (Honiton) |
| Bigland, Alfred | Gretton, John | Neville, Reginald J. N. |
| Boscawen, Sir Arthur S. T. Griffith- | Guinness, Hon. W.E. (Bury S.Edmunds) | Nield, Herbert |
| Boyle, W. Lewis (Norfolk, Mid) | Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) | O'Neill, Hon. A. E. B. (Antrim, Mid) |
| Boyton, James | Hall, D B. (Isle of Wight) | Paget, Almeric Hugh |
| Brassey, H. Leonard Campbell | Hamersley, Alfred St. George | Parker, Sir Gilbert (Gravesend) |
| Burdett-Coutts, William | Hamilton, Lord C. J. (Kensington) | Peel, Captain R. F. (Woodbridge) |
| Butcher, John George | Hamilton, Marquess of (Londonderry) | Perkins, Walter F. |
| Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. (Dublin Univ.) | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Peto, Basil Edward |
| Campion, W. R. | Henderson, Major H. (Berks, Abingdon) | Pole-Carew, Sir R. |
| Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred | Herbert, Hon. A. (Somerset, S.) | Pollock, Ernest Murray |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Hewins, William Albert Samuel | Pretyman, Ernest George |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Hill, Sir Clement L. | Pryce-Jones, Col. E. |
| Cator, John | Hohler, Gerald Fitzroy | Quilter, Sir William Eley C. |
| Cave, George | Hope, James (Fitzalan, Sheffield) | Rees, Sir J. D. |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Hope, Major J. A. (Midlothian) | Remnant, James Farquharson |
| Cecil, Lord R. (Herts, Hitchin) | Horne, W. E. (Surrey, Guildford) | Rolleston, Sir John |
| Chaloner, Col. R. G. W. | Hunter, Sir C. R. | Royds, Edmund |
| Chambers, J. | Ingleby, Holcombe | Rutherford, John (Lancs., Darwen) |
| Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry | Jardine, Ernest (Somerset, East) | Rutherford, Watson (L'pool, W. Derby) |
| Coates, Major Sir Edward Feetham | Jessel, Captain H. M. | Sanders, Robert A. |
| Courthope, G. Loyd | Kerr-Smiley, Peter Kerr | Sanderson, Lancelpt |
| Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Kerry, Earl of | Smith, Rt. Hon. F. E. (L'p'l, Walton) |
| Craig, Ernest (Cheshire, Crewe) | Keswick, Henry | Smith, Harold (Warrington) |
| Stanier, Beville | Thomson, W. Mitchell-(Down, North) | Wolmer, Viscount |
| Stanley, Hon. G. F. (Preston) | Thynne, Lord Alexander | Worthington-Evans, L. |
| Starkey, John R. | Touche, George Alexander | Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart- |
| Staveley-Hill, Henry | Tullibardine, Marquess of | Yate, Col. C. E. |
| Steel-Maitland, A. D. | Walrond, Hon. Lionel | Younger, Sir George |
| Stewart, Gershom | Warde, Colonel C. E. (Kent, Mid) | |
| Sykes, Alan John (Ches., Knutsford) | Wheler, Granville C. H. | |
| Sykes, Mark (Hull, Central) | White, Major G. D. (Lancs., Southport) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Sir |
| Talbot, Lord E. | Williams, Col. R. (Dorset, W.) | F. Flannery and Mr. Hills. |
| Thompson, Robert (Belfast, N.) | Winterton, Earl | |
| NOES. | ||
| Abraham, William (Dublin, Harbour) | Fitzgibbon John | Manfield, Harry |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Flavin, Michael Joseph | Marshall, Arthur Harold |
| Adamson, William | France, G. A. | Martin, J. |
| Addison, Dr. Christopher | George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd | Masterman, Rt. Hon. C. F. G. |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Gilt, Alfred Henry | Meagher, Michael |
| Allen, Arthur A. (Dumbarton) | Gladstone, W. G. C. | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) |
| Allen, Rt. Hon. Charles P. (Stroud) | Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford | Millar, James Duncan |
| Baker, H. T. (Accrington) | Greenwood, Granville G. (Peterborough) | Molloy, M. |
| Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) | Greig, Colonel J. W. | Mond, Sir Alfred M. |
| Barran, Sir J. (Hawick Burghs) | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) | Money, L. G. Chiozza |
| Beauchamp, Sir Edward | Hackett, J. | Mooney, John J. |
| Beck, Arthur Cecil | Hall, F. (Yorks, Normanton) | Morison, Hector |
| Benn, W. W. (Tower Hamlets, S. Geo.) | Harcourt, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Rossendale) | Muldoon, John |
| Bentham, G. J. | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Munro-Ferguson, Rt. Hon. R. C. |
| Bethell, Sir John Henry | Harmsworth, Cecil (Luton, Beds) | Murray, Captain Hon. Arthur C. |
| Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) | Nannetti, Joseph P. |
| Black, Arthur W. | Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, W.) | Neilson, Francis |
| Boland, John Plus | Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) | Nicholson, Sir Charles N. (Doncaster) |
| Booth, Frederick Handel | Haslam, James (Derbyshire) | Nolan, Joseph |
| Bowerman, C. W. | Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) | Norman, Sir Henry |
| Boyle, D. (Mayo, N.) | Havelock-Alan, Sir Henry | Nuttall, Harry |
| Brace, William | Hayden, John Patrick | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) |
| Brady, P. J. | Hayward, Evan | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) |
| Brocklehurst, W. B. | Hazleton, Richard | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) |
| Brunner, J. F. L. | Helme, Sir Norval Watson | O'Doherty, Philip |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Hemmerde, Edward George | O'Dowd, John |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Henry, Sir Charles | Ogden, Fred |
| Byles, Sir William Pollard | Herbert, Col. Sir Ivor (Mon., S) | O'Grady, James |
| Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Higham, John Sharp | O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklow, W.) |
| Cawley, Harold T. (Lancs., Heywood) | Hinds, John | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) |
| Chancellor, H. G. | Holt, Richard Durning | O'Malley, William |
| Chapple, Dr. William Allen | Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | O'Neill, Dr. Charles (Armagh, S.) |
| Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Hudson, Walter | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. |
| Clancy, John Joseph | Hughes, Spencer Leigh | O'Shee, James John |
| Clough, William | Isaacs, Rt. Hon. Sir Rufus | Palmer, Godfrey Mark |
| Collins, G. P. (Greenock) | John, Edward Thomas | Parker, James (Halifax) |
| Condon, Thomas Joseph | Jones, Edgar R. (Merthyr Tydvil) | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) |
| Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Jones, Henry Haydn (Merioneth) | Philipps, Col. Ivor (Southampton) |
| Cotton, William Francis | Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) |
| Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) | Jones, Leif Stratten (Rushcliffe) | Pointer, Joseph |
| Crawshay-Williams, Eliot | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | Pollard, Sir George H. |
| Crean, Eugene | Jones, W. S. Glyn- (T. H'mts, Stepney) | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Crooks, William | Jowett, Frederick William | Priestley, Sir Arthur (Grantham) |
| Crumley, Patrick | Joyce, Michael | Pringle, William M. R. |
| Cullinan, J. | Keating, Matthew | Radford, George Heynes |
| Davies, Ellis William (Eifion) | Kelly, Edward | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields) |
| Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) | Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) |
| Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) | Kilbride, Denis | Reddy, Michael |
| Dawes, James Arthur | King, J. | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Delany, William | Lamb, Ernest Henry | Redmond, William (Clare, E.) |
| Denman, Hon. R. D. | Lambert, Rt. Hon. G. (Devon.s.Molton) [...] | Redmond, William Archer (Tyrone, E.) |
| Dickinson, W. H. | Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) | Richards, Thomas |
| Donelan, Captain A. | Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) |
| Doris, W. | Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, West) | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Duffy, William J. | Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rid, Cockerm'th) | Robertson, John M. (Tyneside) |
| Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Levy, Sir Maurice | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) |
| Duncan, J. Hastings (Yorks, Otley) | Lewis, John Herbert | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Edwards, Clement (Glamorgan, E.) | Low, Sir Frederick (Norwich) | Rose, Sir Charles Day |
| Edwards, John Hugh (Glamorgan, Mid) | Lundon, Thomas | Rowlands, James |
| Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) | Lyell, Charles Henry | Rowntree, Arnold |
| Esmonde, Sir Thomas (Wexford, N.) | Lynch, A. A. | Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter |
| Essex, Richard Walter | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Russell, Rt. Hon. Thomas W. |
| Esslemont, George Birnie | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Falconer, James | McGhee, Richard | Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Farrell, James Patrick | Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. | Samuel, Sir Stuart M. (Whitechapel) |
| Fenwick, Rt. Hon. Charles | MacNeill, J. G. Swift (Donegal, South) | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Ferens, Rt. Hon. Thomas Robinson | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Scott, A. MacCallum (Bridgeton) |
| Ffrench, Peter | M'Callum, Sir John M. | Shortt, Edward |
| Field, William | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald | Simon, Sir John Allsebrook |
| Fiennes, Hon. Eustace Edward | M'Laren, Hon. F.W.S. (Lincs.,Spalding) | Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) |
| Smith, H. B. L. (Northampton) | Walters, Sir John Tudor | Whyte, A. F. (Perth) |
| Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West) | Walton, Sir Joseph | Williams, Penry (Middlesbrough) |
| Sutherland, J. E. | Ward, W. Dudley (Southampton) | Wilson, Rt. Hon. J. W. (Worcs, N.) |
| Sutton, John E. | Waring, Walter | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Taylor, John W. (Durham) | Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay | Winfrey, Richard |
| Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe) | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) | Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glas.) |
| Tennant, Harold John | Watt, Henry A. | Young, W. (Perthshire, E.) |
| Toulmin, Sir George | Webb, H. | |
| Trevelyan, Charles Philips | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. |
| Verney, Sir Harry | White, Patrick (Meath, North) | Illingworth and Mr. Gulland. |
| Wadsworth, J. | Whitehouse, John Howard |
Question put, and agreed to.