HC Deb 16 May 1916 vol 82 cc1488-9

This Act may be cited as the Military Service Act, 1916 (Session 2), and the principal Act and this Act shall be read together and may be cited together as the Military Service Acts, 1916, and the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907, and this Act (so far as they relate to the Territorial Force) may be cited together as the Territorial Force Acts, 1907 and 1916.

Amendment made: At the end of the Clause insert, "(2) The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that Schedule."—[Sir G. Cave.]

[Sir G. Cave.]

Question put.

The House divided: Ayes, 250; Noes, 35.

Barran, Sir J. N. (Hawick, Burghs) Gretton, John Paget, Almeric Hugh
Bathurst, Col. Hon. A. B. (Gloe., E.) Griffith, Rt. Hon. Ellis Jones Parker, James (Halifax)
Beale, Sir William Phipson Hamilton, Lord C. J. (Kensington, S.) Parry, Thomas H.
Beauchamp, Sir Edward Hancock, John George Pearce, Sir William (Limehouse)
Beck, Arthur Cecil Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis (Rossendale) Pennefather, De Fonblanque
Bellairs, Commander C. W. Hardy, Rt. Hon. Laurence Perkins, Walter Frank
Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) Harmsworth, Cecil (Luton, Beds) Peto, Basil Edward
Benn, Com. Ian Hamilton Harris, Henry Percy (Paddington, S.) Phillips, Sir Owen (Chester)
Bentham, George Jackson Harris, Percy A. (Leicester, S.) Pollock, Ernest Murray
Bentinck, Lord H. Cavendish- Haslam, Lewis Pratt, J. W.
Bethell, Sir J. H. Henry, Sir Charles Pretyman, E. G.
Blair, Reginald Herbert, Maj.-Gen. Sir Ivor (Mon., S.) Price, Sir Robert J. (Norfolk, E.)
Booth, Frederick Handel Hewart, Gordon Prothero, Roland Edmund
Bowerman, Charles W. Hewins, William Herbert Samuel Pryce-Jones, Colonel E.
Boyton, James Hinds, John Radford, George Heynes
Brace, William Hodge, John Raffan, Peter Wilson
Brookes, Warwick Hohler, G. F. Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel
Broughton, Urban Hanlen Holmes, Daniel Turner Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough)
Brunner, J. F. L. Hope, James Fitzalan (Sheffield) Rees, Sir J. D.
Bryce, J. Annan Hope, Major J. A. (Midlothian) Rendall, Athelstan
Bull, Sir William James Horne, Edgar Richardson, Albion (Peckham)
Burdett-Coutts, W. Howard, Hon. Geoffrey Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln)
Burn, Colonel C. R. Hunt, Major Rowland Roberts, Sir J. H. (Denbighs)
Butcher, J. G. Hunter, Sir Charles Rodk. Robertson, Rt. Hon. John M.
Buxton, Noel Illingworth, Albert H. Robinson, Sidney
Carew, Charles R. S. (Tiverton) Ingleby, Holcombe Roe, Sir Thomas
Cassel, Felix Jacobsen, Thomas Owen Rowlands, James
Cator, John Jones, Edgar (Merthyr Tydvil) Rutherford, Sir J. (Lancs., Darwen)
Cave, Rt. Hon. Sir George Jones, Henry Haydn (Merioneth) Rutherford, Watson (L'pool, W. Derby)
Cawley, Sir Frederick (Prestwich) Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) Salter, Arthur Clavell
Cecil, Lord Hugh (Oxford University) Jones, William S. Glyn- (Stepney) Samuel, Sir Harry (Norwood)
Cecil, Rt. Hon. Lord R. (Herts, Hitchin) Kellaway, Frederick George Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland)
Chaloner, Colonel R. G. W. Kenyon, Barnet Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees)
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J. A. Kerry, Earl of Samuel, Samuel (Wandsworth)
Clive, Captain Percy Archer Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton)
Coates, Major Sir Edward Feetham Knight, Captain Eric Ayshford Shortt, Edward
Coats, Sir Stuart (Wimbledon) Lambert, Rt. Hon. G. (Devon, S. Molton) Spicer, Rt. Hon. Sir Albert
Cochrane, Cecil Algernon Larmor, Sir J. Stanton, Charles Butt
Collins, Sir Stephen (Lambeth) Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar (Bootle) Stewart, Gershom
Compton-Rickett, Rt. Hon. Sir J. Layland-Barrett, Sir F. Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West)
Cooper, Sir Richard Ashmole Levy, Sir Maurice Sutherland, John E.
Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. Lewis, Rt. Hon. John Herbert Swift, Rigby
Cory, Sir Clifford John (St. Ives) Lloyd, George Butler (Shrewsbury) Sykes, Col. A. J. (Ches., Knutsford)
Cory, James H. (Cardiff) Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. Sykes, Sir Mark (Hull, Central)
Cowan, W. H. Long, Rt. Hon. Walter Talbot, Lord Edmund
Craig, Ernest (Crewe) Lonsdale, Sir John Brownlee Taylor, Theodore C. (Radcliffe)
Craig, Col. James (Down, E.) Lowe, Sir F. W. (Birm., Edgbaston) Tennant, Rt. Hon. Harold John
Craik, Sir Henry M'Callum, Sir John M. Terrell, George (Wilts, N.W.)
Crooks, Rt. Hon. William MacCaw, William J. MacGeagh Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton)
Currie, George W. M'Curdy, C. A. Tickler, T. G.
Dalrymple, Hon. H. H. Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) Tootill, Robert
Dalziel, Davison (Brixton) McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald Touche, George Alexander
Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) Mackinder, H. J. Toulmin, Sir George
Denniss, E. R. B. M'Laren, Hon. F.W.S. (Lincs., Spalding) Tryon, Captain George Clement
Dixon, C. H. M'Laren, Hon H. D. (Leics.) Walters, Sir John Tudor
Dougherty, Rt. Hon. Sir James B. Maclean, Donald Warde, Colonel C. E. (Kent, Mid)
Du Cros, Arthur Philip Macmaster, Donald Warner, Sir Thomas Courtenay T.
Duke, Rt. Hon. Henry Edward M'Micking, Major Gilbert Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannon)
Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney)
Edge, Captain William Magnus, Sir Philip Weigall, William E. G. A.
Edwards, John Hugh (Glamorgan, Mid) Markham, Sir Arthur Basil Weston, John W.
Faber, George Denison (Clapham) Mason, James F. (Windsor) White, Sir Luke (Yorks, E.R.)
Fell, Arthur Meux, Sir Hedworth Whiteley, Herbert, J.
Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey Middlemore, John Throgmorton Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P.
Fiennes, Hon. Eustace Edward Millar, James Duncan Wiles, Thomas
Finlay, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Mills, Lieut. Arthur R. Williams, Aneurin (Durham N. W.)
Finney, Samuel Mond, Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred Williams, T. J. (Swansea)
Fisher, Rt. Hon. W. Hayes Money, Sir L. G. Chiozza Williamson, Sir A.
Flannery, Sir J. Fortescue Montagu, Rt. Hon. E. S. Wood, John (Stalybridge)
Fletcher, John Samuel Morgan, George Hay Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glasgow)
Forster, Henry William Morrison-Bell, Capt. E. F. (Ashburton) Worthington Evans, Major L.
Foster, Philip Staveley Morison, Hector Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart-
Galbraith, Samuel Morton, Alpheus Cleophas Wright, Henry Fitzherbert
Gardner, Ernest Munro, Rt. Hon. Robert Yate, Colonel C. E.
Gibbs, Col. George Abraham Neville, Reginald J. M. Yeo, Alfred William
Gilbert, J. D. Newdegate, F. A. Young, William (Perthshire, East)
Goldman, C. S. Nicholson, Sir Charles N. (Doncaster) Younger, Sir George
Goulding, Sir Edward Alfred Nield, Herbert
Grant, J. A. Norton-Griffiths, John TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. Gulland and Mr. Bridgeman.
Greenwood, Granville G. (Peterborough) O'Grady, James
Greig, Colonel J. W.
NOES.
Abraham, Rt. Hon. W. Arnold, Sydney Barlow, Sir John Emmott (Somerset)
Anderson, W. C. Baker, Joseph Allen (Finsbury, E.) Burns, Rt. Hon. John
Byles, Sir William Pollard Macdonald, J. Ramsay (Leicester) Sherwell, Arthur James
Chancellor, Henry George Mason, David M. (Coventry) Simon, Rt. Hon. Sir John Allsebrook
Clynes, J. R. Molteno, Percy Alpert Snowden, Philip
Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, West) Morrell, Philip Thomas, J. H.
Hogge, James Myles Outhwaite, R. L. Trevelyan, Charles Philips
Holt, Richard Durning Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. Whitehouse, John Howard
John, Edward Thomas Pringle, William M. R. Williams, Liewelyn (Carmarthen)
Jowett, F. W. Richards, Thomas
King, Joseph Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. Leif Jones and Mr. Goldstone.
Lamb, Sir Ernest Henry Rowntree, Arnold
Lough, Rt. Hon. Thomas Runciman, Sir Walter (Hartlepool)

Bill read the third time, and passed.

The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.