HC Deb 31 May 1922 vol 154 cc2101-11

Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House, at its rising tins day, do adjourn until Monday, 12th June."—[Mr. Chamberlain.]

Captain W. BENN

As I said on the occasion of the previous Motion, Members of this House consider that the time has arrived when some protest should be made against the practice of putting down a Motion in this form, which has the effect of depriving private Members, unless they belong to a party which has a quorum, or which can induce enough Members to form a quorum, of one of the few opportunities which remain to private Members of bringing their grievances to the attention of Members of the Government. This Motion, which has been put on the Paper from year to year, is a very shrewd device, because it is framed in such a way as to narrow very much the range of Debate. It is impossible on a Motion of this kind to discuss general topics with the same freedom as we could on the general Motion that the House do now adjourn. As I understand it, the limits set are somewhat as follows: first of all there is the effect which a Motion of this kind has upon the rights and privileges and opportunities of private Members, and then there is the question of the day selected in the Motion for the re-assembling of the House. It is quite clear that the day on which we decide to re-assemble, or, rather, the length of the holiday which we prescribe for ourselves, is a determining factor in regard to our power to complete or not to complete the legislative programme of the Session.

We have to ask ourselves upon this Motion, first, what available time is there before the Prorogation or the Dissolution of this Parliament; and, secondly, what is the business to which the Government is pledged either in the introduction and the initial stages of Measures, or by promises given to Members of this House, or to their supporters in the country? I take it that on a Motion of this kind we are entitled to ask whether there are not some matters of such extreme urgency that it is unwise for the House to separate for so long a period before they have been fully dealt with. These are the some what strait limits set in the discussion which I am initiating. On the last point, I shall have something to say at the end of the few remarks I intend to make. I apologise for detaining the House. (Hon. MEMBERS: "Hear, hear!") Hon. Members must realise that we are not responsible for putting this Motion on the Paper. We are called upon to discuss the Motions when they are put down by the Leader of the House, and any inconvenience which I regret hon. Members have to suffer is not our fault. On the question of the form of the Motion and of the effect which it has on the rights of private Members to raise individual grievances and difficulties, I may say that I have been a Member of this House 15 or 16 years, and it requires an industrious Member to find out what vestiges of privilege are left to private Members. The Adjournment Motion is one of the very few opportunities on which the private Member is able to bring forward these matters without the fear that he may be out of order and without the fear that the process of the count may cut out his speech. So far from its being a cause of legitimate grievance, as the Leader of the House seems to think, or a discredit to the reputation of the House, that private Members should exercise their privileges, it is one of the most important and valuable features of Parliamentary government.

Mr. SPEAKER

That question does not snow arise. The only question which can arise is whether the House should adjourn for some shorter period, or some longer period.

12 N.

Captain BENN

On that point of Order. This matter was raised on the 12th April of this year, and the discussion which took place was in regard to the effect which a Motion of this kind would have upon the opportunities given to private Members to debate questions in this House. I am going to show that the form of the Motion in effect gags the private Members of this House because of the count which will follow if this Motion is passed whenever the Government or the Members of the House think it advisable to count. In that Debate the hon. Member for East Edinburgh (Mr. Hogge) traversed the ground I am touching upon. The Leader of the House dealt with it very fully, and the only point of Order put to you, Mr. Speaker, was put by the Noble Lord the Member for Hitchin (Lord R. Cecil) as to whether a general discussion could take place, and on that you ruled that it could not take place. I submit that the remarks which I am about to make will, as I proceed, appear to be in order.

Mr. SPEAKER

We cannot now have a general Debate on the rights of private Members.

Captain BENN

I will take care to refrain from any general discussion on the rights of private Members, and will simply point out that this Motion, if passed, will deprive Members of many opportunities of Debate which otherwise they would have. We shall pass this Motion, I assume. Then, when a certain number of questions have been asked and replies made by the Government, there will appear a most remarkable spontaneity in the House, by which the desire of the Government to terminate the Debate will coincide with the desire of hon. Members to fulfil other engagements. It would be improper for me to say more that that, but if we have the spectacle of Members who were apparently interested in the Debate suddenly leaving the Chamber, and even peacefully picketting at the doors to prevent hon. Members returning, when some hon. Members desire to do so, also in a most spontaneous manner—

Mr. SPEAKER

I would point out that there is no compulsory attendance in the House.

Captain BENN

I was very careful to say that all these matters would be entirely spontaneous. I do not suggest that any pressure of any kind will be put on them. I am merely describing a scene which is all too familiar to private Members of this House who belong to a small minority and endeavour to bring forward subjects in which their constituents are interested. The Government reply is that they cannot keep 100 Members in the House in order to apply the old-fashioned weapon of the Closure. Why cannot they keep 100 Members? The Government have 491 supporters at the present moment, and they say that they cannot maintain a 25 per cent. attendance and must needs adopt this means, which involves a further invasion of the rights of private Members, and this is only in addition to many invasions, as the Standing Orders will show. I think that the date specified in this Motion should be altered from the 12th of June to the 7th. This will give us an additional week for the purpose of discussing the business which has to be disposed of.

Leaving out of account the programme which the Leader of the House has outlined for the first week after we return from the Whitsuntide holiday, I calculate that we have two weeks in June, four weeks in July and two weeks in August, if the House adjourn on 12th August. That is 36 Parliamentary days. We have in that time to dispose of the Finance Bill, and the Irish Free State Bill. Then there are ten or twelve days for Supply, an Irish Indemnity Bill, the Electricity (Supply) Bill, the National Health Insurance Bill, the Law of Property Bill, the Consolidated Fund Bill and the Teachers' Superannuation Bill. If properly debated, these Bills will require at least 36 Parliamentary days, which will absorb all the time left to us by the Government if this Motion be carried. But, in addition, the Government have promised other Bills. A promise was made by the Home Secretary that a Bill dealing with Workmen's Compensation will be passed, following a Report by a Committee over which an hon. Member of this House presided. There are also an Allotments Bill and a Milk Bill and a large number of small Measures which, being anxious to economise time, I will not mention. There is also a large number of small Orders on the Paper which have to be disposed of, and which should receive full, free and unfettered debate in this House.

If we pass this Motion we shall find at the end of the Session the Leader of the House coming down and explaining: "I am very sorry, but we must take 10 Orders to-night, and suppress all those safeguards which the House, by great labour over a series of centuries, has built up for the control of public expenditure. We must pass the Finance Bill through all its stages to-day and take the consecutive stages of our Money Resolution." That happened the other night. There is the question of time. Hon. Members want to go—[HON. MEMBERS: "We do!"]—and nobody will be able to deny that there is no time. All the Bills must be passed. Therefore, we shall be faced with accepting, after some feeble and ineffective, because illogical, protest, some time table or some guillotine arrangement which will reduce this House to a condition of contemptibility as to which the Leader of the House himself has uttered many vigorous and, as I think now, convincing protests.

The time to protest against guillotine Resolutions and time tables is now. If we say that we will not adjourn until the 12th, but will adjourn for a week, then we shall be in a position to see that the Debates on these important matters are carried out with the dignity due to this. House, and also find time to discuss many of the subjects as to which the Leader of the House has given the most definite pledges that there shall be debate. I have spoken of Bills of the first importance which form part of the programme of the Government as it is to-day, but there are many other subjects which will come up from day to day and will demand instant attention. For instance, when the Hague Conference begins there is no provision for discussing its result. Is that a desirable thing? Suppose hon. Members wish to raise a Motion for Adjournment, there is no provision for that in the time table. A Scottish Member who is present has had a definite pledge that time will be found to discuss the embargo on Canadian cattle. I do not speak for all the Members of my party, but I happen to agree cordially with the hon. Member.

Every time we ask for this discussion we are told, "Yes, you shall have a discussion, but you can see for yourself that we have not got enough time to complete the programme which is before us.' If this pledge is to be redeemed and time is to be found for a discussion, as it should be, for reasons of great urgency with regard to feeling in the Dominions and otherwise, then I appeal confidently to the hon. Member and other Members to support me in the demand that this holiday should be curtailed to allow such discussion. I am well aware that the merits of any of these Bills cannot be discussed on this Motion, but the time that will be consumed in discussing them is precisely the point involved. I ask the Leader of the House what about constitutional reform? If we adjourn until the 12th June, will he still be able to give a full opportunity for a discussion on this matter?

Mr. SPEAKER

This is really an abuse.

Mr. CHAMBERLAINrose in his place, and claimed to move, "That the Question be now put."

Question put, "That the Question be now put."

The House divided: Ayes, 207; Noes, 39.

Division No. 130.] AYES. [12.15 P.m.
Adair, Rear-Admiral Thomas B. S. Gould, James C. Palmer, Brigadier-General G. L.
Adkins, Sir William Ryland Dent Green, Joseph F. (Leicester, W.) Parker, James
Amery, Leopold C. M. S. Gregory, Holman Parry, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Henry
Archer-Shee, Lieut.-Colonel Martin Guest, Capt. Rt. Hon. Frederick E. Pearce, Sir William
Armstrong, Henry Bruce Guinness, Lieut.-Col. Hon. W. E. Percy, Lord Eustace (Hastings)
Astbury, Lieut.-Com. Frederick W. Gwynne, Rupert S. Philipps, Gen. sir I. (Southampton)
Atkey, A. R. Hallwood, Augustine Philipps, Sir Owen C. (Chester, City)
Bagley, Captain E. Ashton Hall, Rr-Adml Sir W. (Liv'p'l, W. D'by) Pinkham, Lieut.-Colonel Charles
Baird, Sir John Lawrence Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry Pollock, Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Murray
Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley Harmsworth, C. B. (Bedford, Luton) Polson, Sir Thomas A.
Balfour, George (Hampstead) Harris, Sir Henry Percy Pratt, John William
Banner, Sir John S. Harmood- Haslam, Lewis Raeburn, Sir William H.
Barlow, Sir Montague Henderson, Lt.-Col. V. L. (Tradeston) Rees, Sir J. D. (Nottingham, East)
Barnes, Rt. Hon. G. (Glas., Gorbals) Hilder, Lieut.-Colonel Frank Roberts, Samuel (Hereford, Hereford)
Barnston, Major Harry Hoare, Lieut.-Colonel sir S. J. G. Rose, Frank H.
Barrand, A. R. Holbrook, Sir Arthur Richard Royds, Lieut.-Colonel Edmund
Bartley-Denniss, Sir Edmund Robert Hope, Lt.-Col. Sir J. A. (Midlothian) Samuel, A. M. (Surrey, Farnham)
Beauchamp, Sir Edward Hopkins, John W. W. Sanders, Colonel Sir Robert Arthur
Bellairs, Commander Carlyon W Hopkinson, A. (Lancaster, Mossley) Sassoon, Sir Philip Albert Gustave D.
Benn, Sir A. S. (Plymouth, Drake) Horne, Sir R. S. (Glasgow, Hillhead) Scott, A. M. (Glasgow, Bridgeton)
Bennett, Sir Thomas Jewell Hunter, General Sir A. (Lancaster) Scott, Sir Leslie (Liverp'l, Exchange)
Betterton, Henry B. Hurd, Percy A. Seely, Major-General Rt. Hon. John
Bigland, Alfred Irving, Dan Sharman-Crawford, Robert G.
Blades, Sir George Rowland Jackson, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. F. S. Shaw, Hon. Alex. (Kilmarnock)
Boscawen, Rt. Hon. Sir A. Griffith- James, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Cuthbert Shaw, William T. (Forfar)
Bowyer, Captain G. W. E. Jellett, William Morgan Shortt, Rt. Hon. E. (N'castle-on-T.)
Bridgeman, Rt. Hon. William Clive Jesson, C. Simm, M. T.
Brittain, Sir Harry Jodrell, Neville Paul Smith, Sir Allan M. (Croydon, South)
Buchanan, Lieut.-Colonel A. L. H. Jones, Sir Evan (Pembroke) Sprot, Colonel Sir Alexander
Buckley, Lieut.-Colonel A. Joynson-Hicks, Sir William Stanley, Major Hon. G. (Preston)
Burdon, Colonel Rowland Kellaway, Rt. Hon Fredk. George Stephenson, Lieut.-Colonel H. K.
Butcher, Sir John George Kelley, Major Fred (Rotherham) Sueter, Rear-Admiral Murray Fraser
Cairns, John Kennedy, Thomas Sugden, W. H.
Campion, Lieut.-Colonel W. R. King, Captain Henry Douglas Surtees, Brigadier-General H. C.
Cecil, Rt. Hon. Evelyn (Birm., Aston) Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement Sutherland, Sir William
Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. A. (Birm., W.) Lane-Fox, G. R. Thomson, F. C. (Aberdeen, South)
Chamberlain, N. (Birm., Ladywood) Law, Rt. Hon. A. B. (Glasgow, C.) Thomson, Sir W. Mitchell- (Maryhill)
Cheyne, Sir William Watson Lewis, Rt. Hon. J. H. (Univ., Wales) Townley, Maximilian G.
Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. Lewis, T. A. (Glam., Pontypridd) Townshend, Sir Charles Vere Ferrers
Clough, Sir Robert Lindsay, William Arthur Tryon, Major George Clement
Cobb, Sir Cyril Lloyd, George Butler Wallace, J.
Cohen, Major J. Brunel Lloyd-Greame, Sir P. Ward-Jackson, Major C. L.
Colvin, Brig.-General Richard Beale Locker-Lampson, Com. O. (H'tingd'n) Ward, William Dudley (Southampton)
Cope, Major William Lorden, John William Waring, Major Walter
Courthope, Lieut.-Col. George L. Loseby, Captain C. E. Watson, Captain John Bertrand
Craik, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Macdonald, Rt. Hon. John Murray Weston, Colonel John Wakefield
Curzon, Captain Viscount Mackinder, Sir H. J. (Camlachie) Wheler, Col. Granville C. H.
Davidson, J. C. C. (Hemel Hempstead) Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. Williams, C. (Tavistock)
Davies, A. (Lancaster, Clitheroe) Macpherson, Rt. Hon. James I. Williams, Lt.-Col. Sir R. (Banbury)
Dean, Commander P. T. Mallaby-Deeley, Harry Wills, Lt.-Col. Sir Gilbert Alan H.
Edge, Captain Sir William Malone, Major P. B. (Tottenham, S.) Wilson, Col. M. J. (Richmond)
Edwards, Hugh (Glam., Neath) Marriott, John Arthur Ransome Windsor, Viscount
Elliott, Lt.-Col. Sir G. (Islington, W.) Mason, Robert Winterton, Earl
Erskine, James Malcolm Monteith Mildmay, Colonel Rt. Hon. F. B. Wise, Frederick
Eyres-Monsell, Com. Bolton M. Mitchell, Sir William Lane Wolmer, Viscount
Falcon, Captain Michael Mond, Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Wood, Hon. Edward F. L. (Ripon)
Falle, Major Sir Bertram Godfray Moore-Brabazon, Lieut.-Col. J. T. C. Wood, Sir H. K. (Woolwich, West)
Fell, Sir Arthur Morden, Col. W. Grant Wood, Sir J. (Stalybrldge & Hyde)
Fisher, Rt. Hon. Herbert A. L. Moreing, Captain Algernon H. Wood, Major Sir S. Hill-(High Peak)
FitzRoy, Captain Hon. Edward A. Morris, Richard Woods, Sir Robert
Flannery, Sir James Fortescue Munro, Rt. Hon. Robert Woolcock, William James U.
Forestier-Walker, L. Murray, C. D. (Edinburgh) Worthington-Evans, Rt. Hon. Sir L.
Fremantle, Lieut.-Colonel Francis E. Neal, Arthur Yate, Colonel Sir Charles Edward
Gardiner, James Newman, Colonel J. R. P. (Finchley) Young, E. H. (Norwich)
Gardner, Ernest Newson, Sir Percy Wilson Young, Sir Frederick W. (Swindon)
Gee, Captain Robert Nicholson, Brig.-Gen. J. (Westminster) Young, Robert (Lancaster, Newton)
Gibbs, Colonel George Abraham Nicholson, Reginald (Doncaster) Younger, Sir George
Gilbert, James Daniel Nicholson, William G. (Petersfield)
Gilmour, Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Norton-Griffiths, Lieut.-Col. Sir John TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—
Glyn, Major Ralph Oman, Sir Charles William C. Colonel Leslie Wilson and Mr.
McCurdy.
NOES.
Adamson, Rt. Hon. William Hayward, Evan O'Connor, Thomas P.
Banbury, Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick G John, William (Rhondda, West) Rattan, Peter Wilson
Benn, Captain Wedgwood (Leith) Jones, Morgan (Caerphilly) Richardson, R. (Houghton-le-Spring)
Bentinck, Lord Henry Cavendish- Kenworthy, Lieut.-Commander J. M. Royce, William Stapleton
Bramsdon, Sir Thomas Lambert, Rt. Hon. George Short, Alfred (Wednesbury)
Cecil, Rt. Hon. Lord R. (Hitchin) Lowther, Major C. (Cumberland, N.) Walsh, Stephen (Lancaster, Ince)
Collins, Sir Godfrey (Greenock) Maclean, Rt. Hn. Sir D. (Midlothian) Wedgwood, Colonel Josiah C.
Davies, David (Montgomery) Malone, C. L. (Leyton, E.) White, Charles F. (Derby, Western)
Foot, Isaac Mills, John Edmund Wignall, James
Foxcroft, Captain Charles Talbot Mosley, Oswald Wintringham, Margaret
Galbraith, Samuel Murray, Hon, A. C. (Aberdeen) Wood, Major M. M. (Aberdeen, C.)
Griffiths, T. (Monmouth, Pontypool) Murray, Dr. D. (Inverness & Ross)
Halls, Walter Myers, Thomas TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—
Hayday, Arthur Naylor, Thomas Ellis Mr. Hogge and Mr. G. Thorne.

Question put accordingly.

The House divided: Ayes, 215: Noes, 28.

Division No. 131.] AYES. [12.20 p.m.
Adair, Rear-Admiral Thomas B. S. France, Gerald Ashburner Malone, Major P. B. (Tottenham, S.)
Adkins, Sir William Ryland Dent Fremantle, Lieut.-Colonel Francis E. Marriott, John Arthur Ransome
Amery, Leopold C. M. S. Galbraith, Samuel Mason, Robert
Archer-Shee, Lieut-Colonel Martin Gardiner, James Mildmay, Colonel Rt. Hon. F. B.
Armstrong, Henry Bruce Gardner, Ernest Mitchell, Sir William Lane
Ashley, Colonel Wilfrid W. Gee, Captain Robert Mond, Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz
Astbury, Lieut.-Com. Frederick W. Gibbs, Colonel George Abraham Moore-Brabazon, Lieut.-Col. J. T. C.
Atkey, A. R. Gilbert, James Daniel Morden, Col. W. Grant
Bagley, Captain E. Ashton Gilmour, Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Moreing, Captain Algernon H.
Baird, Sir John Lawrence Glyn, Major Ralph Morris, Richard
Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley Gould, James C. Munro, Rt. Hon. Robert
Balfour, George (Hampstead) Green, Joseph F. (Leicester, W.) Neal, Arthur
Banner, Sir John S. Harmood- Gregory, Holman Newman, Colonel J. R. P. (Finchley)
Barlow, Sir Montague Guest, Capt. Rt. Hon. Frederick E. Newson, Sir Percy Wilson
Barnes, Rt. Hon. G. (Glas., Gorbals) Guinness, Lieut.-Col. Hon. W. E. Nicholson, Brig.-Gen. J. (Westminster)
Barnston, Major Harry Hallwood, Augustine Nicholson, Reginald (Doncaster)
Barrand, A. R. Hall, Rr-Adml Sir W. (Liv'p'l, W. D'by) Nicholson, William G. (Petersfield)
Bartley-Denniss, Sir Edmund Robert Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry Norton-Griffiths, Lieut.-Col. Sir John
Beauchamp, Sir Edward Harmsworth, C. B. (Bedford, Luton) Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William
Bellairs, Commander Carlyon W. Harris, Sir Henry Percy Palmer, Brigadier-General G. L.
Bonn, Sir A. S. (Plymouth, Drake) Haslam, Lewis Parker, James
Bennett, Sir Thomas Jewell Henderson, Lt.-Col. V. L. (Tradeston) Pearce, Sir William
Betterton, Henry B. Herbert Dennis (Hertford, Watford) Pennefather, De Fonblanque
Bigland, Alfred Hilder, Lieut.-Colonel Frank Percy, Lord Eustace (Hastings)
Blades, Sir George Rowland Hoare, Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. J. G. Philipps, Gen. Sir I. (Southampton)
Boscawen, Rt. Hon. Sir A. Griffith- Holbrook, Sir Arthur Richard Pinkham, Lieut.-Colonel Charles
Bowyer, Captain G. W. E. Hope, Lt.-Col. Sir J. A. (Midlothian) Pollock, Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Murray
Boyd-Carpenter, Major A. Hopkins, John W. W. Poison, Sir Thomas A.
Bridgeman, Rt. Hon. William Clive Hopkinson, A. (Lancaster, Mossley) Pratt, John William
Brittain, Sir Harry Home, Sir R. S. (Glasgow, Hillhead) Prescott, Major Sir W. H.
Buchanan, Lieut.-Colonel A. L. H. Hunter, General Sir A. (Lancaster) Raeburn, Sir William H.
Buckley, Lieut.-Colonel A. Hurd, Percy A. Rees, Sir J. D. (Nottingham, East)
Burdon, Colonel Rowland Irving, Dan Richardson, R. (Houghton-le-Spring)
Cairns, John Jackson, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. F. S. Roberts, Samuel (Hereford, Hereford)
Campion, Lieut.-Colonel W. R. James, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Cuthbert Rose, Frank H.
Cecil, Rt. Hon. Evelyn (Birm., Aston) Jellett, William Morgan Royce, William Stapleton
Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. A. (Birm., W.) Jodrell, Neville Paul Royds, Lieut.-Colonel Edmund
Chamberlain, N. (Birm., Ladywood) John, William (Rhondda, West) Samuel, A. M. (Surrey, Farnham)
Cheyne, Sir William Watson Jones, Sir Evan (Pembroke) Sassoon, Sir Philip Albert Gustavo D.
Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. Joynson-Hicks, Sir William Scott, A. M. (Glasgow, Bridgeton)
Clough, Sir Robert Kellaway, Rt. Hon. Fredk. George Scott, Sir Leslie (Liverp'l, Exchange)
Cobb, Sir Cyril Kelley, Major Fred (Rotherham) Seely, Major-General Rt. Hon. John
Cohen, Major J. Brunel Kennedy, Thomas Sharman-Crawford, Robert G.
Colvin, Brig.-General Richard Beale Kenyon, Barnet Shaw, Hon. Alex. (Kilmarnock)
Cope, Major William King, Captain Henry Douglas Shaw, William T. (Forfar)
Courthope, Lieut.-Col. George L. Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement Shortt, Rt. Hon. E. (N'castle-on-T.)
Craik, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Lambert Rt. Hon. George Simm, M. T.
Curzon, Captain Viscourt Lane-Fox, G. R. Smith, Sir Allan M. (Croydon, South)
Davidson, J. C. C. (Hemel Hempstead) Law, Rt. Hon. A. B. (Glasgow, C.) Sprot, Colonel Sir Alexander
Davies, A. (Lancaster, Clitheroe) Lewis, Rt. Hon. J. H. (Univ., Wales) Stanley, Major Hon. G. (Preston)
Dean, Commander P. T. Lewis, T. A. (Glam., Pontypridd) Stephenson, Lieut.-Colonel H. K.
Edge, Captain Sir William Lindsay, William Arthur Sueter, Rear-Admiral Murray Fraser
Edwards, Hugh (Glam., Neath) Lloyd, George Butler Sugden, W. H.
Elliott, Lt.-Col. Sir G. (Islington, W.) Lloyd-Greame, Sir P. Surtees, Brigadier-General H. C.
Erskine, James Malcolm Monteith Locker-Lampson, G. (Wood Green) Sutherland, Sir William
Eyres-Monsell, Com. Bolton M. Locker-Lampson, Com. O. (H'tlngd'n) Thomson, F. C. (Aberdeen, South)
Falcon, Captain Michael Lorden, John William Thomson, Sir W Mitchell- (Maryhill)
Falle, Major Sir Bertram Godfray Loseby, Captain C. E. Townley, Maximillan G.
Fell, Sir Arthur Macdonald, Rt. Hon. John Murray Townshend, Sir Charles Vere Ferrers
Fisher, Rt. Hon. Herbert A. L. Mackinder, Sir H. J. (Camlachie) Tryon, Major George Clement
FitzRoy, Captain Hon. Edward A. Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. Wallace, J.
Flannery, Sir James Fortescue Macpherson, Rt. Hon. James I. Walsh, Stephen (Lancaster, Ince)
Forestier-Walker, L. Mallaby-Deeley, Harry Ward-Jackson, Major C. L.
Ward, William Dudley (Southampton) Wilson, Col. M. J. (Richmond) Worthington-Evans, Rt. Hon. Sir L.
Waring, Major Walter Windsor, Viscount Yate, Colonel Sir Charles Edward
Watson, Captain John Bertrand Winterton, Earl Young, E. H. (Norwich)
Weston, Colonel John Wakefield Wise, Frederick Young, Sir Frederick W. (Swindon)
Wheler, Col. Granville C. H. Wolmer, Viscount Young, Robert (Lancaster, Newton)
Wignall, James Wood, Hon. Edward F. L. (Ripon) Younger, Sir George
Williams, C. (Tavistock) Wood, Sir H. K. (Woolwich, West)
Williams, Lt.-Col. Sir R. (Banbury) Wood, Sir J. (Stalybrldge & Hyde) TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—
Willoughby, Lieut.-Col. Hon. Claud Wood, Major Sir S. Hill-(High Peak) Colonel Leslie Wilson and Mr.
Wills, Lt.-Col. Sir Gilbert Alan H. Woolcock, William James U. McCurdy.
Wilson, Lt.-Col. Sir M. (Bethnal Gn]
NOES.
Adamson, Rt. Hon. William Hogge, James Myles Short, Alfred (Wednesbury)
Benn, Captain Wedgwood (Leith) Jones, Morgan (Caerphilly) Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton, E.)
Bentinck, Lord Henry Cavendish- Maclean, Rt. Hon. Sir D. (Midlothian) Wedgwood, Colonel Josiah C.
Bramsdon, Sir Thomas Malone, C. L. (Leyton, E.) White, Charles F. (Derby, Western)
Cecil, Rt. Hon. Lord R. (Hitchin) Mills, John Edmund Wintringham, Margaret
Collins, Sir Godfrey (Greenock) Mosley, Oswald Wood, Major M. M. (Aberdeen, C.)
Davies, David (Montgomery) Murray, Hon. A. C. (Aberdeen)
Griffiths, T. (Monmouth. Pontypool) Murray, Dr. D. (Inverness & Ross) TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—
Halls, Walter Naylor, Thomas Ellis Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy and
Hayday, Arthur O'Connor, Thomas P. Mr. Foot.
Hayward, Evan Raffan, Peter Wilson

Resolved, "That this House, at its rising this day, do adjourn until Monday, 12th June."