- (1) The district of the School Board of Glasgow (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") shall, for the purpose of every election of the Board taking place after the passing of this Act, be divided into three electoral divisions, viz., a north-east division as defined in the First Schedule to this Act, for which division eight members shall be elected; a north-west division as defined in the Second Schedule to this Act, for which division nine members shall be elected; and a south division as defined in the Third Schedule to this Act, for which division eight members shall be elected.
- (2) The election in each division shall be carried out as if the members to be elected for that division were themselves, alone to constitute the Board.
- (3) Every elector shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of members to be elected for the division in which he votes, and may give all such votes to one candidate for that division, or may distribute them among the candidates for that division, as he sees fit.
- (4) An elector shall not at any election vote in more than one division.
- (5) The election shall take place on the same day in each of the three divisions.
- (6) The same person shall act as returning officer for each of the three divisions, and the total expenses incident to the election for the three divisions shall be deemed to be the expenses incident to the election of the Board.
- (7) The members returned for the three divisions shall together constitute the Board as if those members had been returned in and for an undivided district.
§ Mr. MITCHELL-THOMSONI beg to Move to leave out Sub-section (3) which sets up in each of the three divisions the existing system of the cumulative vote. There is in the whole of Glasgow at the present moment one cumulative vote spread over the whole city. Under this Bill there will be three separate divisions each with its own cumulative vote. I am not going to argue the merits of the question at all; the merits are well known to every Member 1211 who is interested in electoral questions. May I say that as regards the representation of the minority, I feel very strongly the taunt and the temper of the speech of the right hon. Gentleman. He taunted me with interfering in Scottish measures. I might remind him I have lived a great deal longer in Scotland than he has, that I was not imported there for office, and that my qualifications and temper are at least as good as those of the right hon. Gentleman. So far as the minority are concerned there is very little difference between those two different methods of representation. I am personally one of those who think that the method of proportional representation is a fairer method altogether than the existing method. I may be quite wrong,
§ but if I am wrong that is no reason why I should be called a bigot. A man may be a supporter of proportional representation without being justly accused, I hope, of bigotry or intolerance. Anything which appears to me less connected with the subject than the suggestion of the hon. Member for the Blackfriars Division (Mr. Barnes) cannot well be imagined. I should like to take the opinion of the House on this question.
§ Mr. WALTER GUINNESSI beg leave to second the Amendment.
§ Question put, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 195; Noes, 33.
1213| Division No. 256.] | AYES. | [11.58 p.m. |
| Abraham, William (Dublin, Harbour) | Glanville, Harold James | Marks, Sir George Croydon |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Goldstone, Frank | Masterman, Rt. Hon. C. F. G. |
| Adkins, Sir W. Ryland D. | Greig, Colonel James William | Meagher, Michael |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Griffith, Ellis Jones | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) |
| Baker, Harold T. (Accrington) | Guest, Major Hon. C. H. C. (Pembroke) | Meehan, Patrick J. (Queen's Co., Leix) |
| Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) | Gulland, John William | Millar, James Duncan |
| Barnes, George N. | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) | Molloy, Michael |
| Beale, Sir William Phipson | Hackett, John | Mooney, John J. |
| Benn, W. W. (T. Hamlets, St. George) | Hall, Frederick (Yorks, Normanton) | Morgan, George Hay |
| Bentham, George Jackson | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Muldoon, John |
| Boland, John Pius | Harmsworth, Cecil B. (Luton, Beds) | Munro, Robert |
| Booth, Frederick Handel | Hayden, John Patrick | Murray, Captain Hon. Arthur C. |
| Bowerman, Charles W. | Hazleton, Richard | Neilson, Francis |
| Boyle, Daniel (Mayo, North) | Henry, Sir Charles | Nolan, Joseph |
| Brace, William | Higham, John Sharp | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard |
| Brady, Patrick Joseph | Hinds, John | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) |
| Brocklehurst, William B. | Hodge, John | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) |
| Brunner, John F. L. | Hogue, James Myles | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) |
| Bryce, John Annan | Holmes, Daniel Turner | O'Doherty. Philip |
| Buxton, Rt. Hon. Sydney C. (Poplar) | Holt, Richard Durning | O'Donnell, Thomas |
| Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Hudson, Walter | O'Dowd, John |
| Cawley, Harold T. (Lancs., Heywood) | Hughes, Spencer Leigh | O'Grady, James |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Illingworth, Percy H. | O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklow, W.) |
| Chancellor, Henry George | Isaacs, Rt. Hon. Sir Rufus | O'Malley, William |
| Chapple, Dr. William Allen | Jones, Henry Haydn (Merioneth) | O'Neill, Dr. Charles (Armagh, S.) |
| Clancy, John Joseph | Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. |
| Clough, William | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | O'Shee, James John |
| Clynes, John R. | Jones, William S. Glyn- (Stepney) | O'Sullivan, Timothy |
| Collins, Godfrey P. (Greenock) | Joyce, Michael | Parker, James (Halifax) |
| Condon, Thomas Joseph | Keating, Matthew | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) |
| Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Kelly, Edward | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) |
| Cotton, William Francis | Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Pointer, Joseph |
| Crumley, Patrick | Kilbride, Denis | Pollard, Sir George H. |
| Cullinan, John | King, Joseph | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Davies, David (Montgomery Co.) | Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) | Price, C. E. (Edinburgh, Central) |
| Davies, Ellis William (Eifion) | Lardner, James C. R. | Pringle, William M. R. |
| Dawes, James Arthur | Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rid, Cockerm'th) | Radford, George Heynes |
| Delany, William | Leach, Charles | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields) |
| Devlin, Joseph | Levy, Sir Maurice | Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) |
| Dickson, Rt. Hon. C. Scott | Lewis, Rt. Hon. John Herbert | Reddy, Michael |
| Dillon, John | Low, Sir Frederick (Norwich) | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Doris, William | Lundon, Thomas | Redmond, William (Clare, E.) |
| Duffy, William J. | Lyell, Charles Henry | Redmond, William Archer (Tyrone, E.) |
| Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Lynch, Arthur Alfred | Richardson, Albion (Peckham) |
| Edwards, John Hugh (Glamorgan, Mid) | McGhee, Richard | Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) |
| Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) | Mackinder, Halford J. | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Ferens, Rt. Hon. Thomas Robinson | Maclean, Donald | Roberts, Sir J. H. (Denbighs) |
| Ffrench, Peter | Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. | Robertson, John M. (Tyneside) |
| Field, William | MacNeill, J. G. Swift (Donegal, South) | Roche, Augustine (Louth, N.) |
| Fitzgibbon, John | Macpherson, James Ian | Rowlands, James |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| France, Gerald Ashburner | M'Callum, Sir John M. | Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Gill, Alfred Henry | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Gladstone, W. G. C. | Manfield, Harry | Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton) |
| Sheehy, David | Toulmin, Sir George | Williams, John (Glamorgan) |
| Shortt, Edward | Trevelyan, Cahries Philips | Williamson, Sir Archibald |
| Simon, Rt. Hon. Sir John A. | Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander | Wilson, Rt. Hon. J. W. (Worcs., N.) |
| Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) | Verney, Sir Harry | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) | Wadsworth, John | Wing, Thomas Edward |
| Stanley, Albert (Staffs, N.W.) | Walters, Sir John Tudor | Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glasgow) |
| Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West) | Waring, Walter | Young, William (Perth, East) |
| Talbot, Lord Edmund | Webb, H. | Younger, Sir George |
| Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe) | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Taylor, Thomas (Bolton) | White, Patrick (Meath, North) | |
| Tennant, Harold John | Whitehouse, John Howard | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr.Geoffrey Howard and Captain Guest. |
| Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton) | Whyte, Alexander F. (Perth) | |
| NOES. | ||
| Baird, John Lawrence | Henderson, Sir A. (St. Geo., Han. Sq.) | Stanley, Major Hon. G. F. (Preston) |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Hills, John Waller | Steel-Maitland, A. D. |
| Barlow, Montague (Salford, South) | Hill-Wood, Samuel | Terrell, Henry (Gloucester) |
| Barnston, Harry | Hope, Major J. A. (Midlothian) | Thynne, Lord Alexander |
| Benn, Ion Hamilton (Greenwich) | Hunt, Rowland | Tobin, Alfred Aspinall |
| Bridgernan, William Clive | M'Neill, Ronald (Kent, St. Augustine's) | Wheler, Granville C. H. |
| Cassel, Felix | Malcolm, Ian | White, Major G. D. (Lancs., Southport) |
| Cautley, Henry Strother | O'Neill, Hon. A. E. B. (Antrim, Mid) | Wood, John (Stalybridge) |
| Dalrymple, Viscount | Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington) | |
| Duke, Henry Edward | Pollock, Ernest Murray | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. Mitchell-Thomson and Mr. Walter Guinness. |
| Eyres-Monsell, Bolton M. | Pryce-Jones. Colonel E. | |
| Gibbs, George Abraham | Sanders, Robert Arthur | |
| Henderson, Major H. (Berks, Abingdon) |
Question put, and agreed to.