§ Mr. LEIF JONESCan the President of the Local Government Board say whether it is intended to sit late to-night, and how far he intends to go with the Military Service Bill?
§ Mr. LONGThe hour to which we shall sit depends, of course, on what happens in the Debate. The Government propose to finish the Report stage of the Bill tonight, and we hope to take the Third Reading also. There are really, if you eliminate the mass of Amendments standing in the name of one hon. Member, only two or three outstanding questions, one of which was debated in Committee, and, having regard to the great urgency of the matter, I hope the House will assent to our
§ finishing the Report stage and taking the Third Reading to-night.
§ Mr. JONESDoes the right hon. Gentleman realise that a good part of the Bill was discussed in Committee in the early hours of the morning; and, in view of the great public interest taken in the remaining points, can he see his way to give another day?
§ Mr. LONGWhat my hon. Friend has said is the strongest argument in favour of our proceeding at once with the consideration of the Bill.
§ Motion made, and Question put, "That the Proceedings on Government Business be not interrupted this night under the Standing Order (Sittings of the House), and may be entered upon at any time though opposed."—[Mr. McKenna.]
§ The House divided: Ayes, 163; Noes, 29.
1147| Division No. 15.] | AYES. | [3.37 p.m. |
| Amery, L. C. M. S. | Gardner, Ernest | Montagu, Rt. Hon. E. S. |
| Ashley, Wilfrid W. | Goddard, Rt. Hon. Sir Daniel Ford | Morgan, George Hay |
| Baird, John Lawrence | Grant, James Augustus | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Greig, Colonel J. W. | Murray, Major Hon. Arthur C. |
| Banbury, Rt. Hon. Sir F. G. | Hamilton, C. G. C. (Ches., Altrincham) | Neville, Reginald J. N. |
| Barnes, Rt. Hon. George N. | Hardy, Rt. Hon. Laurence | Newdegate, F. A. |
| Barrie, H. T. | Harmsworth, Cecil (Luton, Beds) | Newman, John R. P. |
| Bathurst, Col. Hon. A. B. (Glouc., E.) | Harris, Henry Percy (Paddington, S.) | Nicholson, Sir Charles N. (Doncaster) |
| Beale, Sir William Phipson | Haslam, Lewis | Parker, James (Halifax) |
| Beck, Arthur Cecil | Helme, Sir Norval Watson | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) |
| Bellairs, Commander C. W. | Henderson, Rt. Hon. Arthur (Durham) | Pennefather, De Fonblanque |
| Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) | Hewins, William Albert Samuel | Phillips, Sir Owen (Chester) |
| Bentinck, Lord H. Cavendish- | Hibbert, Sir Henry F. | Pretyman, Ernest George |
| Bird, Alfred | Hinds, John | Price, Sir Robert J. (Norfolk, E.) |
| Blair, Reginald | Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles E. H. | Primrose, Hon. Neil James |
| Bowden, Major G. R. Harland | Hohler, Gerald Fitzroy | Prothero, Rowland Edmund |
| Bowerman, Charles W. | Holmes, Daniel Turner | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Brace, William | Houston, Robert Paterson | Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) |
| Brookes, Warwick | Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | Rees, Sir J. D. |
| Broughton, Urban Hanlon | Hughes, Spencer Leigh | Reid, Rt. Hon. Sir George H. |
| Brunner, John F. L. | Hunter, Sir Charles Rodk. | Remnant, James Farquharson |
| Bryce, John Annan | Illingworth, Albert H. | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Burdett-Coutts, W. | Ingleby, Holcombe | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Burgoyne, Alan Hughes | Jackson, Lieut.-Col. Hon. F. S. | Robertson, Rt. Hon. John M. |
| Burn, Colonel C. R. | Jacobsen, Thomas Owen | Robinson, Sidney |
| Carew, Charles R. S. (Tiverton) | Jardine, Ernest (Somerset, E.) | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred | Jardine, Sir J. (Roxburgh) | Rowlands, James |
| Cassel, Felix | Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) | Rutherford, Watson, (L'pool, W. Derby) |
| Cator, John | Jones, William S. Glyn- (Stepney) | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Cecil, Rt. Hon. Lord Robert (Herts, Hitchin) | Joynson-Hicks, William | Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton) |
| Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Knight, Captain Eric Ayshford | Shaw, Hon. A. |
| Coats, Sir Stewart A. (Wimbledon) | Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar (Bootle) | Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West) |
| Cochrane, Cecil Algernon | Lee, Arthur Hamilton | Sutherland, J. E. |
| Craig, Col. James (Down, E.) | Lloyd, George Butler (Shrewsbury) | Swift, Rigby |
| Craik, Sir Henry | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter | Sykes, Sir Mark (Hull, Central) |
| Currie, George W. | Lonsdale, Sir John Brownlee | Talbot, Lord Edmund |
| Dalrymple, Hon. H. H. | Lowe, Sir F. W. (Birm., Edgbaston) | Tennant, Rt. Hon. Harold John |
| Dalziel, Davison (Brixton) | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Terrell, George (Wilts, N. W.) |
| Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton) |
| Davies, M. Vaughan- (Cardigan) | Mackinder, Halford J. | Thorne, Willam (West Ham) |
| Dixon, C. H. | M'Laren, Hon. F. W. S. (Lincs., Spalding) | Tickler, T. G. |
| Dougherty, Rt. Hon. Sir J. B. | Macmaster, Donald | Toulmin, Sir George |
| Faber, George Denison (Clapham) | Macnamara, Rt. Hon. T. J. | Warde, Colonel C. E. (Kent, Mid) |
| Fell, Arthur | Macpherson, James Ian | Wardle, George J. |
| Fenwick, Rt. Hon. Charles | Magnus, Sir Philip | Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay T. |
| Fisher, Rt. Hon. W. Hayes | Markham, Sir Arthur Basil | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Flannery, Sir J. Fortescue | Mason, James F. (Windsor) | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Forster, Henry William | Meux, Sir Hedworth | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) |
| Foster, Philip Staveley | Middlemore, John Throgmorton | White, Sir Luke (Yorks, E. R.) |
| Galbraith, Samuel | Mond, Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred | Whyte, Alexander F. (Perth) |
| Williams, Thomas J. | Wright, Henry Fitzherbert | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) | Yate, Colonel C. E. | |
| Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glasgow) | Yeo, Alfred William | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.— |
| Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart- | Younger, Sir George | Mr. Gulland and Mr. James Hope. |
| NOES. | ||
| Anderson, W. C. | King, Joseph | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Arnold, Sydney | Lamb, Sir Ernest Henry | Pringle, William M. R. |
| Byles, Sir William Pollard | Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) | Radford, George Heynes |
| Chancellor, Henry George | Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) |
| Glanville, Harold James | M'Curdy, Charles Albert | Roch, Walter F. |
| Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, West) | Macdonald, J. Ramsay (Leicester) | Snowden, Philip |
| Holt, Richard Durning | Mason, David M. (Coventry) | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| John, Edward Thomas | Molteno, Percy Alport | Whitehouse, John Howard |
| Jones, Leif (Notts, Rushcliffe) | Morrell, Philip | |
| Jowett, Frederick William | Nuttall, Harry | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. |
| Kenyon, Barnet | Outhwaite, R. L. | Hogge and Mr. Thomas. |