§ Mr. BONAR LAWMay I ask the Prime Minister if he can now tell us what period he proposes for the Whitsuntide Recess, and what business will be taken before it?
§ The PRIME MINISTEROn Monday, we shall take the Report of the Money Resolution of the Established Church (Wales) Bill, and the Committee stage of that Bill, and after that, the Third Reading of the Bill, which we hope we shall be able to conclude on Tuesday evening.
On Wednesday, we shall take the Government of Ireland Money Resolution.
On Thursday, the Report of the Money Resolution and the formal stage in Committee, and we shall thereafter proceed with the Third Reading.
We hope to be able to move the adjournment for the Whitsuntide Recess on the Wednesday of the following week. Of course, that depends upon the progress we make. If so, we shall ask the House to resume on Tuesday, 9th June.
§ Mr. CASSELHas the right hon. Gentleman borne in mind that the Second Reading of the Finance Bill must, under the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, be disposed of before the Wednesday adjournment, and is it the right hon. Gentleman's intention to allow a full opportunity for a discussion of that very important measure?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI think the hon. and learned Gentleman is not correct there.
§ Mr. BONAR LAWDo I understand from the announcement of the right hon. Gentleman that the Third Reading of the Home Rule Bill will be continued on Monday and Tuesday of the following week?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIf it is so desired.
§ Mr. CASSELIs the right hon. Gentleman not aware that under the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act the Second Reading
§ of the Finance Bill must be passed within the twenty days on which the House sits after the first Resolution of the 4th May, and, if he makes this arrangement, there would only be one day left for taking the whole of the Second Reading of the Finance Bill?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIt counts after the first Resolution is reported.
§ Mr. JAMES HOGGEWill the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that the 27th is Derby Day, and will he attempt to bring the Resolution forward on the 26th?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI wish to ask a question in relation to the notice for a Return which I placed on the Paper some days ago, and which stands there to-day, I understand, from a communication just received from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that he is unwilling to grant the Return in the form in which I have moved it on the ground that he and the Board of Inland Revenue of to-day do not accept the basis of calculation adopted by the Board of Inland Revenue under the Prime Minister in 1906. What I wish to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer is whether he does not think that is a matter for argument, and whether he could not meet me by giving the Return in the form in which I asked for it, at the same time adding the form in which he would prefer to put it, and attaching any explanation which the Board of Inland Revenue think necessary?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEAs long as the right hon. Gentleman accepts the responsibility for the basis of calculation, certainly I am prepared to give it on that basis, and allow him to have it.
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI prefer to have both calculations. I am quite prepared to take the responsibility of asking for the Return in the form presented by the then Chairman of the Inland Revenue at the time when the Prime Minister was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Business of Ways and Means have precedence this day of the Business of Supply."—[The Prime Minister.]
§ The House divided: Ayes, 255; Noes, 234.
1317| Division No. 103.] | AYES. | [3.50 p.m. |
| Abraham, William (Dublin, Harbour) | Allen, Arthur A. (Dumbartonshire) | Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) |
| Addison, Dr. Christopher | Allen, Rt. Hon. Charles P. (Stroud) | Baring, Sir Godfrey (Barnstaple) |
| Adkins, Sir W. Ryland D. | Arnold, Sydney | Barnes, George N. |
| Agnew, Sir George William | Asquith, Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry | Beale, Sir William Phipson |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Baker, Harold T. (Accrington) | Beck, Arthur Cecil |
| Alden, Percy | Baker, Joseph Allen (Finsbury, E.) | Benn, W. W. (T. Hamlets, St. George) |
| Bentham, George Jackson | Hodge, John | Pearce, William (Limehouse) |
| Bethell, Sir J. H. | Hogge, James Myles | Pease, Rt. Hon. Joseph A. (Rotherham) |
| Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Holmes, Daniel Turner | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) |
| Boland, John Plus | Holt, Richard Durning | Pirie, Duncan V. |
| Booth, Frederick Handel | Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | Pollard, Sir George H. |
| Bowerman, Charles W. | Hughes, Spencer Leigh | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Boyle, Daniel (Mayo, North) | John, Edward Thomas | Pratt, J. W. |
| Brady, Patrick Joseph | Jones, Rt. Hon. Sir D. Brynmor (Swansea) | Price, C. E. (Edinburgh, Central) |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Jones, Henry Haydn (Merioneth) | Priestley, Sir Arthur (Grantham) |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) | Primrose, Hon. Neil James |
| Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Jones, Leif (Notts, Rushcliffe) | Pringle, William M. R. |
| Byles, Sir William Pollard | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | Radford, George Heynes |
| Cawley, Harold T. (Lancs., Heywood) | Jones, William S. Glyn-(Stepney) | Raffan, Peter Wilson |
| Chapple, Dr. William Allen | Jowett, Frederick William | Raphael, Sir Herbert H. |
| Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Joyce, Michael | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields) |
| Clancy, John Joseph | Kelly, Edward | Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) |
| Clough, William | Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Reddy, Michael |
| Collins, Godfrey P. (Greenock) | Kenyon, Barnet | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Collins, Sir Stephen (Lambeth) | Kilbride, Denis | Redmond, William (Clare, E.) |
| Condon, Thomas Joseph | King, Joseph | Redmond, William Archer (Tyrone, E.) |
| Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Lambert, Rt. Hon. G. (Devon, S. Molton) | Rendall, Athelstan |
| Cotton, William Francis | Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) | Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) |
| Crooks, William | Lardner, James C. R. | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Crumley, Patrick | Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, West) | Roberts, George H. (Norwich) |
| Cullinan, John | Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rld, Cockerm'th) | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) |
| Davies, Ellis William (Eifion) | Leach, Charles | Robertson, John M. (Tyneside) |
| Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) | Levy, Sir Maurice | Robinson, Sidney |
| Davies, M. Vaughan-(Cardiganshire) | Lewis, Rt. Hon. John Herbert | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) |
| Dawes, James Arthur | Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Roche, Augustine (Louth) |
| Delany, William | Lundon, Thomas | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Denman, Hon. Richard Douglas | Lyell, Charles Henry | Rowlands, James |
| Devlin, Joseph | Lynch, Arthur Alfred | Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter |
| Dewar, Sir J. A. | Macdonald, J. Ramsay (Leicester) | Russell, Rt. Hon. Thomas W. |
| Dickinson, Rt. Hon. Willoughby H. | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Dillon, John | McGhee, Richard | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Donelan, Captain A. | Maclean, Donald | Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton) |
| Doris, William | MacNeill, J. G. Swift (Donegal, South) | Seely, Rt. Hon. Colonel J. E. B. |
| Duffy, William J. | Macpherson, James Ian | Sheehy, David |
| Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Sherwell, Arthur James |
| Duncan, J. Hastings (Yorks, Otley) | M'Callum, Sir John M. | Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) |
| Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald | Smith, H. B. Lees (Northampton) |
| Edwards, John Hugh (Glamorgan, Mid) | M'Laren, Hon. F. W. S. (Lincs., Spalding) | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) | M'Micking, Major Gilbert | Snowden, Philip |
| Esmonde, Sir Thomas (Wexford, N.) | Marks, Sir George Croydon | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Essex, Sir Richard Walter | Marshall, Arthur Harold | Sutherland, John E. |
| Falconer, James | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| Farrell, James Patrick | Meehan, Patrick J. (Queen's Co., Leix) | Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe) |
| Fenwick, Rt. Hon. Charles | Millar, James Duncan | Taylor, Thomas (Bolton) |
| Ffrench, Peter | Molloy, Michael | Tennant, Harold John |
| Field, William | Molteno, Percy Alport | Toulmin, Sir George |
| Fitzgibbon, John | Montagu, Hon. E. S. | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | Mooney, John J. | Verney, Sir Harry |
| Furness, Sir Stephen Wilson | Morgan, George Hay | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) |
| Gelder, Sir W. A. | Morrell, Philip | Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay |
| George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd | Morison, Hector | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Gill, A. H. | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Ginnell, Laurence | Muldoon, John | Webb, H. |
| Gladstone, W. G. C. | Munro, Rt. Hon. Robert | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) |
| Glanvilie, Harold James | Murphy, Martin J. | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Goldstone, Frank | Murray, Captain Hon. Arthur C. | Whitehouse, John Howard |
| Greig, Colonel J. W. | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Whyte, Alexander F. (Perth) |
| Griffith, Ellis Jones | Needham, Christopher T. | Wilkie, Alexander |
| Guest, Hon. Frederick E. (Dorset, E.) | Nolan, Joseph | Williams, Aneurin (Durham, N. W.) |
| Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard | Williams, John (Glamorgan) |
| Hackett, John | Nuttall, Harry | Williams, Llewelyn (Carmarthen) |
| Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis (Rossendale) | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Williams, Penry (Middlesbrough) |
| Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Williamson, Sir Archibald |
| Harmsworth, Cecil (Luton, Beds) | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Wilson, Hon. G. G. (Hull, W.) |
| Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) | O'Doherty, Philip | Wilson, John (Durham, Mid) |
| Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, West) | O'Donnell, Thomas | Wilson, Rt. Hon. J. W. (Worcs., N.) |
| Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) | O'Dowd, John | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry | O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklow, W.) | Winfrey, Sir Richard |
| Hayden, John Patrick | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | Wing, Thomas Edward |
| Hazleton, Richard | O'Malley, William | Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glasgow) |
| Helme, Sir Norval Watson | O'Neill, Dr. Charles (Armagh, S.) | Yeo, Alfred William |
| Henry, Sir Charles | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Young, William (Perthshire, East) |
| Herbert, General Sir Ivor (Mon., S.) | O'Shee, James John | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Higham, John Sharp | O'Sullivan, Timothy | |
| Hinds, John | Palmer, Godfrey Mark | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. |
| Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles E. H. | Parker, James (Halifax) | Illingworth and Mr. Gulland. |
| NOES. | ||
| Amery, L C. M. S. | Anstruther-Gray, Major William | Ashley, Wilfrid W. |
| Anson, Rt. Hon. Sir William R. | Archer-Shee, Major Martin | Astor, Waldorf |
| Baird, John Lawrence | Gardner, Ernest | Nield, Herbert |
| Baker, Sir Randolf L. (Dorset, N.) | Gibbs, G. A. | O'Neill, Hon. A. E. B. (Antrim, Mid) |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Gilmour, Captain John | Orde-Powlett, Hon. W. G. A. |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J. (City, London) | Glazebrook Captain Philip K. | Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Goldman, C. S. | Parker, Sir Gilbert (Gravesend) |
| Banner, Sir John S. Harmood- | Goldsmith, Frank | Parkes, Ebenezer |
| Baring, Major Hon. Guy V. (Winchester) | Gordon, Hon. John Edward (Brighton) | Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington) |
| Barlow, Montague (Salford, South) | Goulding, Edward Alfred | Peel, Lieut.-Colonel R. F. |
| Barnston, Harry | Grant, J. A. | Perkins, Walter F. |
| Barrie, H. T. | Greene, Walter Raymond | Pole-Carew, Sir R. |
| Bathurst, Hon. A. B. (Glouc. E.) | Gretton, John | Pollock, Ernest Murray |
| Bathurst, Charles (Wilts, Wilton) | Guinness, Hon. Rupert (Essex, S. E.) | Pryce-Jones, Colonel E. |
| Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (Bury S. Edmunds) | Quilter, Sir William Eley C. |
| Beckett, Hon. Gervase | Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) | Randies, Sir John S. |
| Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) | Haddock, George Bahr | Ratcliff, R. F. |
| Benn, Ion Hamilton (Greenwich) | Hall, D. B. (Isle of Wight) | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Bennett-Goldney, Francis | Hall, Frederick (Dulwich) | Rawson, Colonel R. H. |
| Bigland, Alfred | Hamersley, Alfred St. George | Remnant, James Farquharson |
| Bird, Alfred | Hamilton, C. G. C. (Ches., Altrincham) | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Blair, Reginald | Hardy, Rt. Hon. Laurence | Ronaldshay, Earl of |
| Boles, Lieut.-Colonel Dennis Fortescue | Harris, Henry Percy | Rothschild, Lionel de |
| Boscawen, Sir Arthur S. T. Griffith- | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Royds, Edmund |
| Boyle, William (Norfolk, Mid) | Helmsley, Viscount | Rutherford, Watson (L'pool, W. Derby) |
| Boyton, James | Henderson, Major H. (Berks, Abingdon) | Salter, Arthur Clavell |
| Brassey, H. Leonard Campbell | Henderson, Sir A. (St. Geo., Har. Sq.) | Samuel, Sir Harry (Norwood) |
| Bridgeman, William Clive | Herbert, Hon. A. (Somerset, S.) | Samuel, Samuel (Wandsworth) |
| Bull, Sir William James | Hewins, William Albert Samuel | Sanders, Robert Arthur |
| Burdett-Coutts, W. | Hibbert, Sir Henry F. | Sanderson, Lancelot |
| Burgoyne, A. H. | Hill-Wood, Samuel | Sandys, G. J. |
| Burn, Colonel C. R. | Hoare, Samuel John Gurney | Sassoon, Sir Philip |
| Butcher, John George | Hohler, Gerald Fitzroy | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Campbell, Captain Duncan F. (Ayr, N.) | Hope, Harry (Bute) | Sharman-Crawford, Colonel R. G. |
| Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. (Dublin Univ.) | Hope, James Fitzalan (Sheffield) | Smith, Rt. Hon. F. E. (L'pool, Walton) |
| Campion, W. R. | Hope, Major J. A. (Midlothian) | Smith, Harold (Warrington) |
| Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred | Horne, E. (Surrey, Guildford) | Spear, Sir John Ward |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Horner, Andrew Long | Stanier, Beville |
| Cassel, Felix | Hume-Williams, William Ellis | Stanley, Hon. Arthur (Ormskirk) |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Hunt, Rowland | Stanley, Major Hon. G. F. (Preston) |
| Cator, John | Hunter, Sir Charles Rodk. | Starkey, John R. |
| Cautley, H. S. | Ingleby, Holcombe | Staveley-Hill, Henry |
| Cave, George | Jardine, Ernest (Somerset, East) | Swift, Rigby |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Jessel, Captain H. M. | Sykes, Alan John (Ches., Knutsford) |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Oxford University) | Joynson-Hicks, William | Talbot, Lord Edmund |
| Cecil, Lord R. (Herts, Hitchin) | Kerr-Smiley, Peter Kerr | Terrell, George (Wilts, N. W.) |
| Chaloner, Colonel R. G. W. | Kerry, Earl of | Terrell, Henry (Gloucester) |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. (Worc'r., E.) | Keswick, Henry | Thompson, Robert (Belfast, North) |
| Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Thomson, W. Mitchell-(Down, North) |
| Clay, Captain H. H. Spender | Knight, Captain E. A. | Thynne, Lord Alexander |
| Clive, Captain Percy Archer | Kyffin-Taylor, G. | Touche, George Alexander |
| Clyde, J. Avon | Lane-Fox, G. R. | Tryon, Captain George Clement |
| Coates, Major Sir Edward Feetham | Larmor, Sir J. | Tullibardine, Marquess of |
| Cooper, Sir Richard Ashmole | Lawson, Hon. H. (T. Hmts., Mile End) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Courthope, George Loyd | Lee, Arthur Hamilton | Walker, Colonel William Hall |
| Craig, Ernest (Cheshire, Crewe) | Lewisham, Viscount | Walrond, Hon. Lionel |
| Craig, Norman (Kent, Thanet) | Lloyd, George Ambrose (Stafford, W.) | Ward, A. S. (Herts, Watford) |
| Craik, Sir Henry | Lloyd, George Butler (Shrewsbury) | Warde, Colonel C. E. (Kent, Mid) |
| Crichton-Stuart, Lord Ninian | Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) | Watson, Hon. W. |
| Croft, H. P. | Locker-Lampson O. (Ramsey) | Weigall, Captain A. G. |
| Currie, George W. | Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Colonel A. R. | Weston, Colonel J. W. |
| Dairymple, Viscount | Lowe, Sir F. W. (Birm., Edgbaston) | Wheler, Granville C. H. |
| Dalziel, Davison (Brixton) | MacCaw, William J. MacGeagh | White, Major G. D. (Lancs., Southport) |
| Denison-Pender, J. C. | Mackinder Halford J. | Williams, Colonel R. (Dorset, W.) |
| Denniss, E. R. B. | Macmaster, Donald | Willoughby, Major Hon. Claud |
| Dickson, Rt. Hon. C. Scott | M'Calmont, Major Robert C. A. | Wills, Sir Gilbert |
| Dixon, C. H. | M'Neill, Ronald (Kent, St. Augustine's) | Wilson, A. Stanley (Yorks, E. R.) |
| Du Cros, Arthur Philip | Magnus, Sir Philip | Wilson, Captain Leslie O. (Reading) |
| Duncannon, Viscount | Malcolm, Ian | Wilson, Maj Sir M. (Bethnai Green, S. W.) |
| Du Pre, W. Baring | Mason, James F. (Windsor) | Wolmer, Viscount |
| Eyres-Monsell, Bolton M. | Meysey-Thompson, E. C. | Wood, Hon. E. F. L. (Yorks, Ripon) |
| Faber, George Denison (Clapham) | Mills, Hon. Charles Thomas | Wood, John (Stalybridge) |
| Falle, Bertram Godfray | Morrison-Bell, Major A. C. (Honiton) | Worthington Evans, L. |
| Fell, Arthur | Mount, William Arthur | Wright, Henry Fitzherbert |
| Finlay, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert | Neville, Reginald J. N. | Yate, Colonel Charles Edward |
| Fisher, Rt. Hon. W. Hayes | Newdegate, F. A. | Younger, Sir George |
| Fitzroy, Hon. Edward A. | Newman, John R. P. | |
| Fleming, Valentine | Newton, Harry Kottingham | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. |
| Foster, Philip Staveley | Nicholson, William G. (Petersfield) | Mildmay and Major Gastrell. |
§ Ordered, "That the Proceedings upon the Reports of Ways and Means (4th May and 11th May), if under discussion at 1318 Eleven o'clock this night, be not interrupted under the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[The Prime Minister.]