HC Deb 26 March 1913 vol 50 cc1673-87

The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and fourteen the sum of forty-one million twenty-seven thousand pounds.

Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."

Mr. BOOTH

I beg to call your attention to the fact that I rose.

The CHAIRMAN

I did not hear the hon. Member's voice.

Mr. BOOTH

I did rise, but I was unable, owing to the shouts coming from the other side, to make my voice heard. I certainly rose.

The CHAIRMAN

If the hon. Member had spoken I should have noticed him. I was not anticipating a Division.

Mr. BOOTH

I did speak, Sir.

The CHAIRMAN

The hon. Member's voice did not reach me. I am afraid that, having collected the voices, I cannot go back on that.

Mr. BECK

On a point of Order. I beg to assure you, Sir, that I did see my hon. Friend rise.

Sir W. BYLES

Will you allow me to say, Sir, that I was rising myself. [Interruption.] We shall regard it as most unfair unless we are allowed to speak.

The CHAIRMAN

I think the hon. Member should have taken more active steps if he wished to make any observations. Having twice collected the voices, it is not in my power to go back.

Mr. BOOTH

I should like to appeal to you, Sir, to know what I am to do. I rose in order to catch your eye; then as you were proceeding to put the Question to the Committee, I said, "Mr. Whitley."

The CHAIRMAN

It has been pointed out to me that although I had called for the Ayes and the Noes, I had not declared which of the two had it. Therefore, I have not completely put the Question, and the hon. Member is entitled to address me on the Question, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."

Sir F. BANBURY

On a point of Order. May I ask you whether it is not the invariable practice that when the voices are collected, that is to say, when both the Ayes and the Noes have responded to your request, no further Debate can take place; whether that has not been the invariable custom of the House for the last 200 years; and whether, as a matter of fact, you having said in response to me when I challenged your statement that the Ayes had it, I did not again repeat "The Noes have it."

Mr. LEIF JONES

May I say that although you, Sir, had to some extent collected the voices, and had indeed asked for the Ayes or Noes, there was scarcely anyone in the Committee who said "Aye," and you turned to the other side, and while you were turning, my hon. Friend rose to my certain knowledge, and, before you had collected the "Noes," he certainly called your name. I therefore submit in that case he was in time, seeing that although you had collected the "Ayes" you certainly had not collected the "Noes" before he rose.

Sir F. BANBURY

The hon. Member is under a misapprehension. The question you put was, "I think the Ayes have it," and I said, "The Noes have it." You then said, "I think the Ayes have it," and I repeated, "The Noes have it." It was not until after that that the hon. Member for Pontefract (Mr. Booth), who had not risen before, rose.

The CHAIRMAN

The challenge was so unexpected that I have thought it my duty to consult my advisers at my side. Their opinion was that I had not completed putting the question.

Mr. LEIF JONES

On a point of Order. I venture to point out that the hon. Baronet (Sir F. Banbury) has misstated—

The CHAIRMAN

The hon. Member cannot address me on that point of Order. I have given my decision on that question and I have called on Mr. Booth.

Mr. BOOTH

I must ask the indulgence of the House, and particularly of great financial critics like the hon. Baronet (Sir F. Banbury), who is not so closely associated with me to-day as he sometimes is, if I raise a point which has troubled me for a very long time. I spent the first two years in this House listening to financial business and carefully following it. There are two matters in this Clause on which I should like some enlightenment. The Clause reads:—

"The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and apply towards making good the Supply granted to His Majesty for the service for the year ending on 31st day of March."

I should like to know why 31st March has always been regarded, without variation, as the suitable time for the finances to be made up? The ordinary calendar year ends on 31st December, but the finances of the year, as settled by this Clause, are made to terminate on 31st March. The Opposition will agree with me that this is a time to go to the foundation of the matter and ask ourselves whether 31st March is really an ideal date. I am not prepared, with the limited information, which back benchers have, to move a direct Amendment on this point, but if I have a satisfactory answer I may be able to withdraw my opposition to this Clause. The 31st March is the date which seems to have been adopted by the House from time immemorial as the date for the termination of the finances, and the local authorities have followed the example set by the House. That has sometimes resulted in inconvenience. Local authorities have always been able to look to this House for guidance. If the finances of the nation are carried from one 31st March to 31st March in the subsequent year, it is a natural thing that local authorities should likewise bring their finances up to the same period. [HON. MEMBERS: "Why?"] I would submit that the burden of justification does not fall upon a new Member. I prefer to leave it to an expert like the hon. Baronet (Sir F. Banbury).

4.0 P.M.

The CHAIRMAN

I must point out that the date has already been fixed in Committee of Supply, and it will not be competent to move an Amendment to alter the date.

Mr. BOOTH

I was not intending to move an Amendment. What the Clause does is to set the seal of the House upon these Votes in Supply by appropriating them, and I want to raise a point on that.

Mr. HOPE

I submit, as a point of Order, that as this is not an Appropriation Bill the hon. Member is not entitled to discuss it as if it were?

The CHAIRMAN

That is quite true. It is not an Appropriation Bill. It is simply authorising the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of sums already voted in Committee of Supply.

Mr. R. HARCOURT

Do I understand you, Sir, to rule that my hon. Friend is entirely precluded from discussing the date in question? Is it not competent for him to discuss 1st April as distinct from 31st March?

The CHAIRMAN

No. If it cannot be followed up by an Amendment it is clearly not open to debate. It is a point that has been settled in Supply.

Sir J. H. DALZIEL

Will it be possible for the hon. Member to argue that the amount £41,000,000 is too high?

Mr. CHAIRMAN

No, it has often been ruled that it is impossible to propose a variation or reduction of the amount on the Consolidated Fund Bill. It must correspond with the amount voted in Committee of Supply and Ways and Means and approved by the House.

Sir J. H. DALZIEL

May I submit that, following precedent, it would be competent for the hon. Member to make an appeal to the Government to endeavour to reduce this amount when they next bring a Consolidated Fund Bill forward?

The CHAIRMAN

No. I think that would be asking the House to go back on previous decisions. I think it has often been ruled that that cannot be done.

Mr. LEIF JONES

Would it not be in order to argue that the Government in taking this £41,000,000 have taken Supply for too long or too short a period as the case may be? This is about four or five months' Supply, and a year or two ago the Government took six months' Supply. In the present Bill they have reverted to an old practice, of taking four or five months' Supply. Is it not in order for any Member of the House to protest against the action of the Government in taking four months instead of six months' Supply?

The CHAIRMAN

No, that point ought to have been raised on the Vote in Committee. It certainly cannot be raised at this stage.

Mr. BOOTH

There are certain considerations which will affect my vote on this Clause and I submit that I am entitled to put the considerations which will affect my vote without justifying a particular Amendment, which you might say would be out of order. I am anxious to thoroughly understand, when I vote, what I am doing. While hon. Members come here to vote blind those of us who do not hesitate to differ from our own friends when we think it necessary are entitled to thoroughly analyse the Clause so that we may give a conscientious vote. I gather there are many hon. Members opposite, loyal, constitutional Members, who wish to vote Supplies to the Crown who are in the same difficulty. They are not able to vote for the Clause without further explanation. There are several of these points which to my mind make the matter to some extent obscure. One of these points is the date, and while I am not suggesting any other date, we are entitled to ask why this date continually recurs.

The CHAIRMAN

It has been ruled frequently that that point cannot be raised at this stage of the Bill. The date must correspond with the date in Committee.

Mr. BECK

Is it not possible to ask for a little information on constitutional practice? Are we not entitled to know why the Consolidated Fund Bill is in this particular form?

Mr. BOOTH

I am much obliged to you, Sir, for giving an explanation for the date which I was seeking. Having got it from you, I think it comes with more power than even I should take it from my own leader, and I accept it without question. But I want to ask, as a new Member seeking information, exactly the meaning of this phrase "issued out of the Consolidated Fund." They are technical words, and no doubt their meaning to the hon. Baronet (Sir F. Banbury) and the late Chancellor of the Exchequer is clear. But the House is entitled to have occasionally put before it, after a long lapse of years, some definite statement from our Front Bench as to how they will carry out this Clause.

Viscount HELMSLEY

rose in his place, and claimed to move, "That the Question be now put;" but the Chairman withheld his consent, and declined then to put that Question. Debate resumed.

Mr. BOOTH

I cannot find it on the records of the House. I have been looking for several years back over these debates. I hope the older Members will be patient while the younger Members have an explanation from the Government as to the procedure which will be taken under this authorisation in Clause 1, namely, that the Treasury may "issue out of the Consolidated Fund." I will call attention to the words which follow:— The Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. We are continuing this form of words, and I should like to ask whether I should be in order in asking for a statement from the Government as to whether that will need to be varied in case the Local Government Bill for Ireland becomes law.

The CHAIRMAN

It is really not permissible. This Clause embodies simply the formal method of carrying out the decisions of the House in Committee of Supply and Ways and Means. The question the hon. Member is raising is really not in order.

Mr. BOOTH

Under those circumstances— [HON. MEMBERS: "Your majority is safe."] One would think there was a Tariff Reformer returned for Kendal.

The CHAIRMAN

rose—

Mr. KING

rose.

The CHAIRMAN

The hon. Member (Mr. King) should remember to keep seated when the Chairman is on his feet. The hon. Member (Mr. Booth) has not been able to discover anything properly relevant to the discussion of the Clause. I think I have heard the hon. Member patiently.

Mr. PRINGLE

Is it the ruling of the Chair that because an Amendment to this Clause is impossible it is impossible to discuss questions which might have been the subject matter of an Amendment?

The CHAIRMAN

The hon. Member has quite correctly apprehended the Rule.

The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Masterman)

I have been asked what would be the effect if the Amendment proposed were carried.

Mr. NORMAN CRAIG

On a point of Order. Having regard to the fact that you have said the questions put by the hon. Member were irrelevant, is it in order to answer irrelevant questions?

The CHAIRMAN

Certainly, it is not. I should stop the right hon. Gentleman if that was what he was proposing.

Mr. MASTERMAN

We are asked to decide whether this Clause should be rejected or not, and I am sure I shall only be fulfilling my duty in the position I occupy—[Interruption]—if I state what the consequences of its rejection would be, for it appears that every Member of the House is not quite clear what the consequences would be if the Clause was excised from the Bill. This is the operative Clause in the Bill, and if it were excised the whole Bill goes, and no payment could be made out of the Consolidated Fund for services of which the House has already approved in a series of discussions in Committee. [The right hon. Gentleman here read the words of the Clause.] Supposing the Amendment was carried, there would be no money to carry on the Supply of the Army and the Supply of the Navy—[Interruption]—surely an amazing proposition for hon. Gentlemen opposite to make—[Interruption]—without a word of discussion, and without any justification of their own action, either before the House or the country, to suggest that this House should reject the Clause. Not only so, but hon. Gentlemen cannot even advance any justification of their action by showing that the items which are here gathered together, and out of which money is to be paid by the Consolidated Fund, have not been approved by the House. The Consolidated Fund Bill, as the hon. Gentleman opposite knows, is the only way in which money can be released which has been voted in Committee and in Ways and Means. It is not, as my hon. Friend (Mr. Booth) seemed to think, an Appropriation Bill, and that accounts for some of the misapprehension. The money is appropriated at the end of the Session, in August, and consequently this money can be used as general money liberated either for the Navy or the Army or any of the Civil Services.

But what has happened? A Vote on Account has already been given. We discussed very fully, both in Committee and on the Report stage, the various items of the Vote on Account, and hon. Gentlemen had every opportunity for discussion that could be given them. I know myself that I was occupied yesterday answering questions with regard to the money which they now profess not to desire to give to the public services. You may say that the Civil Services can stay after 31st March without money, but that does not sound to me very attractive, and it does not seem to me a very patriotic action. What about the Army and the Navy? I would ask the Noble Lord the Member for Portsmouth (Lord Charles Beresford) whether he is going to vote for an Amendment the only result of which could be that after 31st March no money could be provided as pay for the sailor? I suggest that he should write that in his election address. All this is proposed without a word of justification either in the House or the country outside. Throw the finances into confusion, starve the Navy, starve the Army, do anything you like without any sense of responsibility! Certainly not since I have been in any way connected with the public service has such a suggestion ever been made before, and hon. Gentlemen behind me, whose recollection goes back many years, and even a generation, tell me that they do not remember any such suggestion before.

Mr. RONALD M'NEILL

On a point of Order. The right hon. Gentleman has imputed to hon. Members on this side of the House an objection to the Clause in the Bill. You have already ruled that you have not collected the voices.

The CHAIRMAN

The right hon. Gentleman, as I understood him, was giving to the Committee reasons why the Committee should not negative this Clause.

Mr. M'NEILL

The right hon. Gentleman, I submit, is going further than that, because he is imputing to hon. Members on this side of the House action of which they are not guilty.

The CHAIRMAN

That is not a matter that can be argued. The right hon. Gentleman is surely entitled to show what the effect will be of rejecting the Clause in the Bill.

Mr. MASTERMAN

The interruption of the hon. Member for the St. Augustine's Division puts a new phase on the controversy. I agree that if the hon. Gentleman assures us that neither he nor his Friends have any desire after consideration—[Interruption]—after the consequences which I considered it my duty to point out to the House, and which I can realise he did not realise, would ensue—if on reflection he realises that there are some things too discreditable even for a discredited Opposition to propose—[HON. MEMBERS: "Withdraw," and Interruption.]

The CHAIRMAN

Will hon. Members be good enough to observe silence and not interrupt? The right hon. Gentleman has made a strong statement, but there was nothing, in my opinion, that was un-parliamentary in it, or I would have asked him to withdraw it. Hon. Members on both sides of the House in controversy make strong statements, and there is, of course, an opportunity to reply. I do not think that there is any reason for interrupting the right hon. Gentleman in the way hon. Members have done. It is relevant to point out what would be the consequences of rejecting the Clause in the Bill, and that, I think, can be done by argument, and needs no other means.

Mr. REMNANT

Not to call us discredited.

Mr. MASTERMAN

rose amid cries of "Withdraw."

Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE

also rose.

The CHAIRMAN

Does the hon. Member rise to a point of Order?

Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE

Yes, Sir. Is the right hon. Gentleman in order in referring to this side of the House as a discredited Opposition?

Mr. MASTERMAN

On the point of Order, Mr. Chairman—[HON. MEMBERS: "Withdraw."]

The CHAIRMAN

There is nothing to withdraw. The term used by the right hon. Gentleman is one which, I think, I have frequently heard applied from that side of the House to the Government—not merely by the present Opposition, but by other Oppositions to the Government of the day. The Chair naturally does not desire that such strong phrases should be used, but still it is not right on my part to say that it is unparliamentary.

Mr. BONAR LAW

I rather gather, Mr. Whitley, that you did not hear the expression which was used by the right hon. Gentleman. Is it in order to say "too disgraceful?"

Mr. MASTERMAN

rose and was received with cries of "Withdraw."

The CHAIRMAN

There appears to be some doubt as to what the phrase used was. [HON. MEMBERS: "We all heard it."]

Mr. MASTERMAN

May I explain what I said? [HON. MEMBERS: "No," and "Withdraw."]

The CHAIRMAN

There appears to be some doubt—[HON. MEMBERS: "No doubt."]—as to what the phrase was that was used. [HON. MEMBERS: "None at all," and "There is no doubt."] The right hon. Gentleman is surely entitled to be heard.

Mr. MASTERMAN

rose, and was again received with cries of "Withdraw."

The CHAIRMAN

The right hon. Gentleman suggested that the word "disgraceful" was used. The word I heard at the Table was "discreditable." [HON. MEMBERS: "NO," "Both," and "Order."] The expression which was used is perfectly orderly. If the word "disgraceful" was used, in my opinion that is going beyond Parliamentary order. I should wish the right hon. Gentleman to explain the use of that word—the sense in which he used it. I did not myself understand that it was used.

Mr. MASTERMAN

If I used the word "disgraceful"—[HON. MEMBERS: "With-

draw."] The word I used was "discreditable." That was the only word I did use.

The CHAIRMAN

then put the Question, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."

The Committee divided: Ayes, 252; Noes, 213.

Division No. 7.] AYES. [4.30 p.m.
Abraham, William (Dublin, Harbour) Gelder, Sir W. A. Markham, Sir Arthur Basil
Acland, Francis Dyke George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd Marks, Sir George Croydon
Agar-Robartes Hon. T. C. R. Gilhooly, James Mason, David M. (Coventry)
Alden, Percy Ginnell, Laurence Masterman, Rt. Hon. C. F. G.
Allen, Arthur Acland (Dumbartonshire) Gladstone, W. G. C. Meagher, Michael
Allen, Rt. Hon. Charles P. (Stroud) Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.)
Arnold, Sydney Goldstone, Frank Middlebrook, William
Asquith, Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Greenwood, Granville G. (Peterborough) Millar, James Duncan
Baker, H. T. (Accrington) Griffith, Ellis Jones Molloy, Michael
Baker, Joseph Allen (Finsbury, E.) Guest, Hon. Major C. H. C. (Pembroke) Molteno, Percy Alport
Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) Guest, Hon. Frederick E. (Dorset, E.) Money, L. G. Chiozza
Baring, Sir Godfrey (Barnstaple) Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) Montagu, Hon. E. S.
Barlow, Sir John Emmott (Somerset) Hackett, John Mooney, John J.
Barnes, G. N. Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis (Rossendale) Morrell, Philip
Barton, William Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) Morison, Hector
Beale, Sir William Phipson Hardie, J. Keir Morton, Alpheus Cleophas
Beauchamp, Sir Edward Harmsworth, Cecil (Luton. Beds) Muldoon, John
Beck, Arthur Cecil Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) Munro, R.
Benn, W. W. (T. Hamlets, St. George) Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, West) Munro-Ferguson, Rt. Hon. R. C.
Bentham, G. J. Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry Murphy, Martin J.
Boland, John Pius Hayden, John Patrick Murray, Captain Hon. A. C.
Booth, Frederick Handel Hayward, Evan Needham, Christopher T.
Bowerman, C. W. Hazleton, Richard Neilson, Francis
Boyle, Daniel (Mayo, North) Hemmerde, Edward George Norton, Captain Cecil W.
Brady, Patrick Joseph Henderson, Arthur (Durham) Nugent, Sir Walter Richard
Burke, E. Haviland- Henry, Sir Charles Nuttall, Harry
Burns, Rt. Hon. John Herbert, General Sir Ivor (Mon., S.) O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny)
Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas Higham, John Sharp O'Brien, William (Cork)
Buxton, Noel (Norfolk, North) Hinds, John O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.)
Byles, Sir William Pollard Hogge, James Myles O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool)
Cawley, Sir Frederick (Prestwich) Holmes. Daniel Turner O'Doherty, Philip
Cawley, Harold T. (Lancs, Heywood) Holt, Richard Durning O'Donnell, Thomas
Chancellor, H. G. Horne, Charles Silvester (Ipswich) O'Grady, James
Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. Howard, Hon. Geoffrey O'Malley, William
Clancy, John Joseph Hudson, Walter O'Neill, Dr. Charles (Armagh, S.)
Clough, William Hughes, Spencer Leigh O'Shaughnessy, P. J.
Clynes, John R. Isaacs, Rt. Hon. Sir Rufus O'Shee, James John
Comoton-Rickett, Rt. Hon. Sir J. Jardine, Sir J. (Roxburgh) O'Sullivan, Timothy
Condon, Thomas Joseph John, Edward Thomas Outhwaite, R. L.
Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. Jones, Edgar (Merthyr Tydvil) Palmer, Godfrey Mark
Cotton, William Francis Jones, H. Haydn (Merioneth) Parker, James (Halifax)
Crawshay-Williams, Eliot Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) Parry, Thomas H.
Crean, Eugene Jones, Leif Stratten (Notts, Rushcliffe) Pearce, William (Limehouse)
Crooks, William Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) Pease, Rt. Hon. Joseph A. (Rotherham)
Crumley, Patrick Jowett, F. W. Phillips, John (Longford, S.)
Dalziel, Rt. Hon. Sir J. H. (Kirkcaldy) Keating. Matthew Pointer, Joseph
Davies, Ellis William (Eifion) Kelly, Edward Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H.
Davies, Timothy (Lincs, Louth) Kennedy, Vincent Paul Price, C. E. (Edinburgh, Central)
Davies, M. Vaughan- (Cardiganshire) Kilbride, Denis Priestley, Sir Arthur (Grantham)
Dawes, J. A. King, J. Primrose, Hon. Neil James
Delany, William Lambert, Rt. Hon. G. (Devon, S. Molton) Pringle, William M. R.
Dickinson, W. H. Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) Radford, G. H.
Dillon, John Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields)
Donelan, Captain A. Leach, Charles Reddy, M.
Doris, William Levy, Sir Maurice Redmond, John E. (Waterford)
Duffy, William J. Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas Redmond, William (Clare, E.)
Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) Lundon, Thomas Redmond, William Archer (Tyrone, E.)
Duncan, J. Hastings (Yorks, Otley) Lyell, Charles Henry Rendall, Athelstan
Edwards, Clement (Glamorgan, E.) Lynch, A. A. Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven)
Elverston, Sir Harold Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln)
Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) McGhee, Richard Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford)
Falconer, James Maclean, Donald Robertson, J. M. (Tyneside)
Farrell, James Patrick Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. Robinson, Sidney
Fenwick, Rt. Hon. Charles MacNeill, J. G. Swift (Donegal, South) Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke)
Ferens, Rt. Hon. Thomas Robinson MacVeagh, Jeremiah Roche, Augustine (Louth)
Ffrench, Peter M'Callum, Sir John M. Roe, Sir Thomas
Field, William McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald Rowlands, James
Fiennes, Hon. Eustace Edward M'Laren, Hon. H. D. (Leics.) Rowntree, Arnold
Fitzgibbon, John M'Laren, Hon. F.W.S. (Lincs., Spalding) Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter
Flavin, Michael Joseph M'Micking, Major Gilbert Russell, Rt. Hon. Thomas W.
France, Gerald Asbburner Manfield, Harry Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland)
Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) Taylor, Thomas (Bolton) White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston)
Scanlan, Thomas Tennant, Harold John White, Sir Luke (Yorks, E.R.)
Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton) Thomas, James Henry White, Patrick (Meath, North)
Seely, Rt. Hon. Colonel J. E. B. Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton) Whitehouse, John Howard
Sheehan, Daniel Daniel Toulmin, Sir George Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P.
Sheehy, David Trevelyan, Charles Philips Whyte, A. F. (Perth)
Simon, Rt. Hon. Sir John Allsebrook Verney, Sir Harry Wilkie, Alexander
Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton)
Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim) Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay Wing, Thomas
Soames, Arthur Wellesley Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glas.)
Sutherland, John E. Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) Young, William (Perthshire, E.)
Sutton, John E. Watt, Henry Anderson
Taylor, John W. (Durham) Webb, H. TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr-
Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe) Wedgwood, Josiah C. Illingworth and Mr. Gulland.
NOES.
Agg-Gardner, James Tynte Fisher, Rt. Hon. W. Hayes M'Calmont, Major Robert C. A.
Anstruther-Gray, Major William Fitzroy, Hon. Edward A. M'Neill, Ronald (Kent, St. Augustine's)
Archer-Shee, Major M. Flannery, Sir J. Fortescue Magnus, Sir Philip
Ashley, Wilfrid W. Fleming, Valentine Malcolm, Ian
Baird, John Lawrence Fletcher, John Samuel Mallaby-Deeley, Harry
Baker, Sir Randolf L. (Dorset, N.) Forster, Henry William Mason, James F. (Windsor)
Baldwin, Stanley Gardner, Ernest Middlemore, John Throgmorton
Banbury, Sir Frederick George Gastrell, Major W. Houghton Mills, Hon. Charles Thomas
Banner, J. S. Harmood- Gibbs, George Abraham Moore, William
Barnston, Harry Gilmour, Captain John Morrison-Bell, Capt. E. F. (Ashburton)
Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks Glazebrook, Captain Philip K. Mount, William Arthur
Beckett, Hon. Gervase Goldman, C. S. Newdegate, F. A.
Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) Goldsmith, Frank Newman, John R. P.
Benn, Ion Hamilton (Greenwich) Gordon, Hon. John Edward (Brighton) Nicholson, William G. (Petersfield)
Bennett-Goldney, Francis Goulding, Edward Alfred Norton-Griffiths, J. (Wednesbury)
Bentinck, Lord H. Cavendish- Grant, J. A. O'Neill, Hon. A. E. B. (Antrim, Mid)
Beresford, Lord Charles Greene, Walter Raymond Orde-Powlett, Hon. W. G. A.
Bigland, Alfred Gretton, John Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William
Bird, Alfred Guinness, Hon. Rupert (Essex, S.E.) Paget, Almeric Hugh
Blair, Reginald Guinness, Hon. W. E. (Bury S. Edmunds) Parker, Sir Gilbert (Gravesend)
Boles, Lieut.-Col. Dennis Fortescue Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington)
Boscawen, Sir Arthur S. T. Griffith- Haddock, George Bahr Peel, Lieut.-Colonel R. F.
Boyle, William (Norfolk, Mid) Hall, D. B. (Isle of Wight) Perkins, Walter F.
Boyton, James Hall, Frederick (Dulwich) Peto, Basil Edward
Brassey, H. Leonard Campbell Hambro, Angus Valdemar Pole-Carew, Sir R.
Bridgeman, W. Clive Hamersley, Alfred St. George Pollock, Ernest Murray
Bull, Sir William James Hardy, Rt. Hon. Laurence pretyman, Ernest George
Burgoyne, Alan Hughes Harris, Henry Percy Quilter, Sir William Eley C.
Burn, Colonel C. R. Harrison-Broadley, H. B. Randles, Sir John S.
Butcher, John George Helmsley, Viscount Ratcliff, R. F.
Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. (Dublin Univ.) Henderson, Major H. (Berkshire) Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel
Campbell, Captain Duncan F. (Ayr, N.) Hewins, William Albert Samuel Rawson, Colonel Richard H.
Campion, W. R. Hibbert, Sir Henry F. Rees, Sir J. D.
Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred Hickman, Colonel Thomas E. Remnant, James Farquharson
Carson, Rt Hon. Sir Edward H. Hill, Sir Clement L. Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall)
Cassel, Felix Hill-Wood, Samuel Rutherford, John (Lancs., Darwen)
Castlereagh, Viscount Hoare, S. J. G. Salter, Arthur Clavell
Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) Hohler, Gerald Fitzroy Samuel, Sir Harry (Norwood)
Cecil, Lord Hugh (Oxford University) Hope, Harry (Bute) Sanders, Robert Arthur
Cecil, Lord R. (Herts, Hitchin) Hope, James Fitzalan (Sheffield) Sanderson, Lancelot
Chaloner, Colonel R. G. W. Hope, Major J. A. (Midlothian) Sandys, G. J.
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. (Worc'r., E.) Horne, E. (Surrey, Guildford) Sassoon, Sir Philip
Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry Horner, Andrew Long Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.)
Clay, Captain H. H. Spender Houston, Robert Paterson Smith, Harold (Warrington)
Clive, Captain Percy Archer Hunt, Rowland Stanier, Beville
Clyde, J. Avon Hunter, Sir Charles Rodk. Stanley, Hon. Arthur (Ormskirk)
Coates, Major Sir Edward Feetham Ingleby, Holcombe Stanley, Hon. G. F. (Preston)
Collings, Rt. Hon. J. (Birmingham) Jardine, Ernest (Somerset, E.) Starkey, John Ralph
Cooper, Richard Ashmole Kebty-Fletcher, J. R. Staveley-Hill, Henry
Courthope, George Loyd Kerr-Smiley, Peter Kerr Steel-Maitland, A. D.
Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) Kimber, Sir Henry Stewart, Gershom
Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement Swift, Rigby
Craig, Norman (Kent, Thanet) Knight, Captain Eric Ayshford Sykes, Alan John (Ches., Knutsford)
Craik, Sir Henry Kyffin-Taylor, G. Sykes, Mark (Hull, Central)
Crichton-Stuart, Lord Ninian Lane-Fox, G. R. Talbot, Lord E.
Cripps, Sir Charles Alfred Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar (Bootle) Terrell, G. (Wilts, N.W.)
Croft, H. P. Lawson, Hon. H. (T. H'mts., Mile End) Terrell, Henry (Gloucester)
Dalziel, Davison (Brixton) Lee, Arthur Hamilton Thompson, Robert (Belfast, North)
Denniss, E. R. B. Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) Thomson, W. Mitchell- (Down, North)
Dickson, Rt. Hon. C. Scott Locker-Lampson, O. (Ramsey) Thynne, Lord A.
Dixon, C. H. Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Colonel A. R. Tobin, Alfred Aspinall
Du Cros, Arthur Philip Long, Rt. Hon. Walter Tryon, Captain George Clement
Eyres-Monsell, Bolton M. Lonsdale, Sir John Brownlee Valentia, Viscount
Faber, George Denison (Clapham) Lowe, Sir F. W. (Birm., Edgbaston) Walker, Col. William Hall
Faber, Capt. W. V. (Hants, W.) MacCaw, Wm. J. MacGeagh Ward, A. (Herts, Watford)
Falle, Bertram Godfray Mackinder, Halford J. Weigall, Captain A. G.
Fell, Arthur Macmaster, Donald Weston, Colonel J. W.
Wheler, Granville C. H. Wolmer, Viscount Yate, Colonel C. E.
White, Major G. D. (Lancs., Southport) Wood, John (Stalybridge) Younger, Sir George
Williams, Colonel R. (Dorset, W.) Worthington-Evans, L.
Willoughby, Major Hon. Claud Wright, Henry Fitzherbert TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr.
Wills, Sir Gilbert Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George Mildmay and Mr. Joynson-Hicks