§ (1.) There shall be a Session of the Irish Parliament once at least in every year, so that twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Parliament in one Session and their first sitting in the next Session.
192§ (2.) The Lord Lieutenant shall, in His Majesty's name, summon, prorogue, and dissolve the Irish Parliament.
§ Question put, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 305; Noes, 208.
195| Division No. 278.] | AYES. | [10.55 p.m. |
| Abraham, William (Dublin, Harbour) | Clancy, John Joseph | George, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Clough, William | Gilhooly, James |
| Adamson, william | Clynes, John R. | Gill, A. H. |
| Addison, Dr. Christopher | Collins, G. P. (Greenock) | Ginnell, L. |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) | Gladstone, W. G. C. |
| Allen, Arthur A. (Dumbarton) | Compton-Rickett, Rt. Hon. Sir J. | Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford |
| Allen, Rt. Hon. Charles P. (Stroud) | Condon, Thomas Joseph | Greenwood, Granville G. (Peterborough) |
| Arnold, Sydney | Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Greenwood, Hamar (Sunderland) |
| Baker, H. T. (Accrington) | Cotton, William Francis | Greig, Colonel J. W. |
| Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) | Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) | Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward |
| Baring, Sir Godfrey (Barnstaple) | Crawshay-Williams, Eliot | Griffith, Ellis J. |
| Barlow, Sir John Emmott (Somerset) | Crean, Eugene | Guest, Major Hon. C. H. C. (Pembroke) |
| Barnes, G. N. | Crooks, William | Guiney, P. |
| Barran, Sir J. (Hawick Burghs) | Crumley, Patrick | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) |
| Barton, W. | Cullinan, J. | Hackett, J. |
| Beale, Sir William Phlpson | Davies, E. William (Eifion) | Hall, F. (Yorks, Normanton) |
| Beauchamp, Sir Edward | Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) | Harcourt, Rt. Hon. L. (Rossendale) |
| Beck, Arthur Cecil | Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) |
| Benn, W. W. (T. Hamlets, St. Geo.) | Davies, M. Vaughan- (Cardiganshire) | Harmsworth, Cecil (Luton, Beds.) |
| Bentham, G. J. | Dawes, James Arthur | Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) |
| Bethell, Sir J. H. | Delany, William | Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) |
| Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Denman, Hon. R. D. | Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, West) |
| Black, Arthur W | Dickinson, W. H. | Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) |
| Boland, John Pius | Donelan, Captain A. | Haslam, James (Derbyshire) |
| Booth, Frederick Handel | Doris, William | Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) |
| Bowerman, C. W. | Duffy, William J. | Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry |
| Boyle, D (Mayo, N.) | Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Hayden, John Patrick |
| Brace, William | Duncan, J. Hastings (York, Otley) | Hayward, Evan |
| Brady, P. J. | Edwards, Clement (Glamorgan, E.) | Hazleton, Richard (Galway, N.) |
| Brocklehurst, W. B. | Edwards, John Hugh (Glamorgan, Mid) | Helme, Sir Norval Watson |
| Brunner, John F. L. | Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) | Hemmerde, Edward George |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Esmonde, Sir Thomas (Wexford, N.) | Henry, Sir Charles |
| Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Essex, Richard Walter | Herbert, Col. Sir Ivor (Mon., S.) |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Esslemont, George Birnie | Higham, John Sharp |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Falconer, J. | Hinds, John |
| Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Farrell, James Patrick | Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles E. H. |
| Buxton, Noel (Norfolk, North) | Fenwick, Rt. Hon. Charles | Holt, Richard Durning |
| Buxton, Rt. Hon. Sydney C. (Poplar) | Ferens, Rt. Hon. Thomas Robinson | Howard, Hon. Geoffrey |
| Byles, Sir William Pollard | Ffrench, Peter | Hudson, Walter |
| Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Field, William | Hughes, S. L. |
| Cawley, Sir Frederick (Prestwich) | Fiennes, Hon. Eustace Edward | Isaacs, Rt. Hon. Sir Rufus |
| Cawley, H. T. (Lancs., Heywood) | Fitzgibbon, John | John, Edward Thomas |
| Chancellor, H. G. | Flavin, Michael Joseph | Jones, Rt.Hon.Sir D.Brynmor (Swansea) |
| Chapple, Dr. William Allen | France, G. A | Jones, Edgar (Merthyr Tydvil) |
| Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Gelder, Sir W. A. | Jones, H. Haydn (Merioneth) |
| Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Rowntree, Arnold |
| Jones, Leif Straiten (Rushcliffe) | Muldoon, John | Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter |
| Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | Munro-Ferguson, Rt. Hon. R. C. | Russell, Rt. Hon. Thomas W. |
| Jones, W. S. Glyn- (T. H'mts, Stepney) | Murray, Capt. Hon. A. C. | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Jowett, Frederick William | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Joyce, Michael | Neilson, Francis | Samuel, Sir Stuart M. (Whitechapel) |
| Keating, Matthew | Nicholson, Sir Charles N. (Doncaster) | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Kellaway, Frederick George | Nolan, Joseph | Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton) |
| Kelly, Edward | Norman, Sir Henry | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Norton, Captain Cecil W. | Shortt, Edward |
| Kilbride, Denis | Nuttall, Harry | Simon, Sir John Alisebrook |
| King, J. | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) |
| Lamb, Ernest Henry | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Smith, H B. L. (Northampton) |
| Lambert, Rt. Hon. G. (Devon, S.Molton) | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Snowden, Philip |
| Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) | O'Doherty, Philip | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Lansbury, George | O'Dowd, John | Spicer, Rt. Hon. Sir Albert |
| Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Ogden, Fred | Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West) |
| Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, West) | O'Grady, James | Sutherland, J. E. |
| Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rld, Cockerm'th) | O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklow, W.) | Sutton, John E. |
| Leach, Charles | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | Taylor John W. (Durham) |
| Levy, Sir Maurice | O'Malley, William | Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe) |
| Lewis, John Herbert | O'Neill, Dr. Charles (Armagh, S.) | Tennant, Harold John |
| Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Thomas, J H. |
| Low, Sir Frederick (Norwich) | O'Shee, James John | Thorne, William (West Ham) |
| Lundon, Thomas | Palmer, Godfrey Mark | Toulmin, Sir George |
| Lyell, Charles Henry | Parker, James (Halifax) | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| Lynch, A. A. | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) | Verney, Sir Harry |
| Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Pearce, William (Limehouse) | Wadsworth, J. |
| Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Philipps, Col. Ivor (Southampton) | Walters, Sir John Tudor |
| McGhee, Richard | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) | Walton, Sir Joseph |
| Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. | Pointer, Joseph | Ward, W. Dudley (Southampton) |
| MacNeill, J. G. Swift (Donegal, South) | Pollard, Sir George H. | Wardle, George J. |
| Macpherson, James Ian | Power, Patrick Joseph | Waring, Walter |
| MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Price, Sir Robert J. (Norfolk, E.) | Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay |
| M'Callum, Sir John M. | Priestley, Sir Arthur (Grantham) | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| M'Curdy, Charles Albert | Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| M'Kean, John | Primrose, Hon. Neil James | Watt, Henry A. |
| McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald | Pringle, William M. R. | Webb, H. |
| M'Laren, Hon. H. D. (Leics.) | Radford, G. H. | Wedgwood, Josiah C. |
| M'Laren, Hon. F.W.S. (Lincs.,Spalding) | Raphael, Sir Herbert H. | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) |
| M'Micking, Major Gilbert | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields) | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Manfield, Harry | Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) | Whitehouse, John Howard |
| Marks, Sir George Croydon | Reddy, M. | Whyte, A. F. (Perth) |
| Marshall, Arthur Harold | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) | Williams, J. (Glamorgan) |
| Martin, Joseph | Redmond, William (Clare, E.) | Williams, Llewelyn (Carmarthen) |
| Mason, David M. (Coventry) | Redmond, William Archer (Tyrone, E.) | Williams, Penry (Middlesbrough) |
| Masterman, Rt. Hon. C. F. G. | Richards, Thomas | Williamson, Sir Archibald |
| Meagher, Michael | Richardson, Albion (Peckham) | Wilson, John (Durham, Mid) |
| Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) | Wilson, Rt. Hon. J. W. (Worcs., N.) |
| Menzies, Sir Walter | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Millar, James Duncan | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) | Winfrey, Richard |
| Molloy, M. | Robertson, John M. (Tyneside) | Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glas.) |
| Molteno, Percy Alport | Robinson, Sidney | Young, Samuel (Cavan, East) |
| Mond, Sir Alfred Moritz | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) | Young, William (Perth, East) |
| Money, L. G. Chiozza | Roche, Augustine (Louth) | |
| Mooney, J. J. | Roe, Sir Thomas | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. |
| Morgan, George Hay | Rose, Sir Charles Day | Illingworth and Mr. Gulland. |
| Morison, Hector | Rowlands, James | |
| NOES. | ||
| Agg-Gardner, James Tynte | Bigland, Alfred | Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry |
| Amery, L. C. M. S. | Boscawen, Sir Arthur S. T. Griffith- | Clay, Capt. H. H. Spender |
| Archer-Shee, Major M. | Boyle, W. Lewis (Norfolk, Mid) | Clyde, J. Avon |
| Ashley, W. W. | Boyton, James | Coates, Major Sir Edward Feetham |
| Astor, Waldorf | Brassey, H. Leonard Campbell | Courthope, G. Loyd |
| Bagot, Lieut.-Colonel J. | Bull, Sir William James | Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) |
| Baird, J. L. | Burdett-Coutts, W. | Craig, Ernest (Cheshire, Crewe) |
| Baker, Sir Randolf L. (Dorset, N.) | Burn, Colonel C. R. | Craig, Captain James (Down. E.) |
| Balcarres, Lord | Butcher, J. G. | Craig, Norman (Kent, Thanet) |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. (Dublin Univ.) | Craik, Sir Henry |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J. (City, Lond.) | Campion, W. R. | Crichton-Stuart, Lord Ninian |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred | Croft, H. P. |
| Banner, John S. Harmood- | Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Denniss, E. R. B. |
| Baring, Maj. Hon. Guy V. (Winchester) | Cassel, Felix | Dixon, C. H. |
| Barlow, Montague (Salford, South) | Castlereagh, Viscount | Doughty, Sir George |
| Barrie, H. T. | Cator, John | Duke, Henry Edward |
| Bathurst, Hon. A. B. (Glouc, E.) | Cautley, H. S. | Eyres-Monsell, B. M. |
| Bathurst, Charles (Wilts, Wilton) | Cave, George | Faber, George Denison (Clapham) |
| Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Faber, Capt. W. V. (Hants, W.) |
| Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) | Cecil, Lord R. (Herts, Hitchin) | Falle, Bertram Godfray |
| Benn, Ion Hamilton (Greenwich) | Chaloner, Col. R. G. W. | Fell, Arthur |
| Bentinck, Lord H. Cavendish | Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. (Worc'r.) | Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey |
| Beresford, Lord C. | Chambers, J. | Finlay, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert |
| Flannery, Sir J. Fortescue | Keswick, Henry | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Fleming, Valentine | Kimber, Sir Henry | Rolleston, Sir John |
| Forster, Henry William | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Royds, Edmund |
| Foster, Philip Staveley | Knight, Captain E. A. | Rutherford, John (Lancs., Darwen) |
| Gardner, Ernest | Lane-Fox, G. R. | Rutherford, Watson (L'pool, W. Derby) |
| Gastrell, Major W. H. | Larmor, Sir J. | Salter, Arthur Clavell |
| Gilmour, Captain John | Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar (Bootle) | Samuel, Sir Harry (Norwood) |
| Glazebrook, Capt. Philip K. | Lawson, Hon. H. (T. H'mts., Mile End) | Sanders, Robert A. |
| Goldsmith, Frank | Lee, Arthur H. | Sanderson, Lancelot |
| Gordon, John (Londonderry, South) | Lewisham, Viscount | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Gordon, Hon. John Edward (Brighton) | Lloyd, G. A. | Smith, Rt. Hon. F. E. (L'p'l, Walton) |
| Goulding, Edward Alfred | Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) | Smith, Harold (Warrington) |
| Grant, J. A. | Locker-Lampson, O. (Ramsey) | Stanler, Seville |
| Greene, W. R. | Lockwood, Rt. Hon Lt.-Col. A. R. | Stanley, Hon. Arthur (Ormskirk) |
| Gretton, John | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter | Staveley-Hill, Henry (Staffordshire) |
| Guinness, Hon. Rupert (Essex, S.E.) | Lonsdale, Sir John Brownlee | Stanley, Hon. G. F. (Preston) |
| Guinness, Hon.W.E. (Bury S.Edmunds) | Lyttelton, Rt.Hon. A. (Hanover Sq.) | Starkey, John R. |
| Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) | Lyttelton, Hon. J. C. (Droitwich) | Steel-Maitland, A. D. |
| Haddock, George Bahr | MacCaw, Wm. J. MacGeagh | Stewart, Gershom |
| Hall, D. B. (Isle of Wight) | Mackinder, H. J. | Strauss, Arthur (Paddington, North) |
| Hall, Marshall (E. Toxteth) | Macmaster, Donald | Sykes, Alan John (Ches., Knutsford) |
| Hambro Angus Valdemar | M'Mordie, Robert James | Sykes, Mark (Hull, Central) |
| Hamersley, Alfred St. George | Malcolm, Ian | Talbot, Lord E. |
| Hamilton, Lord C. J. (Kensington, S.) | Mildmay, Francis Bingham | Terrell, H. (Gloucester) |
| Hamilton, Marquess of (Londonderry) | Mills, Hon. Charles Thomas | Thompson, Robert (Belafst, N.) |
| Hardy, Rt. Hon. Laurence | Moore, William | Thomson, W. Mitchell- (Down, N.). |
| Harris, Henry Percy | Morrison-Bell, Capt. E. F. (Ashburton) | Thynne, Lord Alexander |
| Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Morrison-Bell, Major A. C. (Honiton) | Touche, George Alexander |
| Henderson, Major H. (Berks, Abingdon) | Neville, Reginald J. N. | Tullibardine, Marquess of |
| Herbert, Hon. A. (Somerset, S.) | Newman, John R. P. | Valentia, Viscount |
| Hewins, William Albert Samuel | Newton, Harry Kottingham | Walrond, Hon. Lionel |
| Hickman, Colonel T. E. | Nield, Herbert | Warde, Col. C. E. (Kent, Mid) |
| Hill, Sir Clement L. | O'Neill, Hon. A. E. B. (Antrim, Mid) | Wheler, Granville C. H. |
| Hills, John Waller | Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William | White, Major G. D. (Lancs., Southport) |
| Hoare, Samuel John Gurney | Paget, Almeric Hugh | Williams, Col. R. (Dorset, W.) |
| Hohler, Gerald Fitzroy | Parker, Sir Gilbert (Gravesend) | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E.R.) |
| Hope, James Fitzalan (Sheffield) | Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington) | Winterton, Earl |
| Hope, Major J. A. (Midlothian) | Peel, Captain R. F. (Woodbridge) | Wolmer, Viscount |
| Horne, W. E. (Surrey, Guildford) | Perkins, Walter F. | Wood, Hon. E. F. L. (Ripon) |
| Houston, Robert Paterson | Peto, Basil Edward | Worthington-Evans, L. |
| Hume-Williams, William Ellis | Pole-Carew, Sir R. | Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart- |
| Hunter, Sir C. R. (Bath) | Pollock, Ernest Murray | Yate, Col. Charles Edward |
| Ingleby, Holcombe | Pretyman, Ernest George | Yerburgh, Robert A. |
| Jardine, Ernest (Somerset, East) | Pryce-Jones, Col. E. | Younger, Sir George |
| Jessel, Captain H. M. | Quilter, Sir William Eley C. | |
| Kebty-Fletcher, J. R. | Rawson, Col. R. H. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. |
| Kerr-Smiley, Peter Kerr | Rees, Sir J. D. | R. McNeill and Mr. Hamersley. |
| Kerry, Earl of | Remnant, James Farquharson |
§ Committee report Progress; to sit again to-morrow (Tuesday).