Commons Sitting of 9 January 1924

Preamble
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, and Mr. SPEAKERELEcT (the Rt. Hon. John Henry Whitley) having taken the Chair,
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners by Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
The House went, and having returned—
Mr. J. JONES: On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. May I be allowed to ask a question? My point of Order relates to the procedure that has taken place in another House to-day.
Mr. SPEAKER: We have nothing to do with that here.
Mr. JONES: Mr. Speaker—[HON MEMBERS: "Order, order!"]
Mr. SPEAKER: I have to report to the House that, in the House of Peers, His Majesty, by his Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself for the office of your Speaker, and that I have, in your name, and on your behalf, laid claim, by humble petition to His Majesty, to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly freedom of speech in Debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to His Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction may be placed upon all your proceedings. All these His Majesty, by his Commissioners, has been pleased to allow and confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by himself or any of his Royal predecessors.
My first duty to the House is to repeat my very respectful acknowledgment and grateful thanks for the great honour which they have conferred upon me in placing me again in the Chair.
I must now call upon the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance at the Table of the House, first doing so myself.
Thereupon, Mr. SPEAKER first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair took and subscribed the Oath.
Mr. J. JONES: May I now be allowed to ask a question? When will it be possible for me to raise the question of the treatment that the House of Commons has received in another Chamber this afternoon? After all, are we going to stand by—[Hon. MEMBERS: "Order, order!"]
Mr. SPEAKER: If the hon. Member will convey to me the grievance that he has in this matter, I will do my best to assist him.
Mr. JONES: Do you mean privately,
Sir?
Mr. SPEAKER: Yes.
Mr. JONES: First of all, Mr. Speaker, I do not want to disobey your ruling— [Interruption]—I want to obey the Constitution. I am a social democrat. But I want to know where the House of Commons stands in the kind of treatment they have received from another Chamber. We have been deeply insulted this afternoon. [Hon. MEMBERS:" Order ! "] Yes, but it is not order: what I say is right. I want to ask you, Sir, when I shall have an opportunity of raising the question as to how we have been treated this afternoon by the other Assembly? If I cannot raise it now, tell me when I can raise it?
Mr. KIRKW00D: Tell us what they have done.
Mr. JONES: They have treated us contemptuously.
Mr. KIRKWO0D: Why did you not go, and give them a hammering?
Mr. SPEAKER: Whatever it is that the hon. Member suggests has been done. may have been done inadvertently.
Mr. J0NES: Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: "Order, order!"]—I am a constitutionalist. I accept the Constitution as the people accept it. But what I want to know is this: Should the House of Lords treat the House of Commons with contempt, as they have done to-day?
An HON. MEMBER: What have they done?
Mr.JONES: They have done nothing!
Mr. SPEAKER: We cannot deal with this matter any further at this stage. When I receive information about it, I will deal with it.
Mr. JONES: I will give it to you. You saw it yourself!
Mr. SPEAKER: May I say that I am going to call upon the Members of the two Front Benches to take the Oath first. Then Privy Councillors and ex-Ministers, and, if he be present, I may perhaps include the Father of the House (Mr. T. P. O'Connor). After that, I will call upon the Members seated on the different benches in the House, and perhaps they will retain their seats until I call upon them.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation, required by Law.
Right honourable Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Borough of Birmingham (Lady-wood Division).
Major the Right honourable Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, County a York, West Riding (Ripon Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel the Right honourable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, baronet, C.M.G., Borough of Chelsea.
Right honourable Sir Laming Worthing-ton-Evans, baronet, G.B.E., County of Essex (Colchester Division).
Right honourable Sir Philip Lloyd Greame, K.B.E., County of Middlesex (Hendon Division).
Commander the Right honourable Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, R.N., County of Worcester (Evesham Division).
Right honourable Ronald John McNeill,
County of Kent (Canterbury Division).
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, esquire, commonly called the Honourable William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, County of Stafford (Stafford Division).
Edward Earl Winterton, County of West Sussex (Horsham and Worthing Division).
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, Borough of Bristol (Central Division).
Godfrey Lampson Tennyson LockerLampson, esquire, County of Middlesex (Wood Green Division).
Rupert Sackville Gwynne, esquire, County of East Sussex (Eastbourne Division).
Major George Richard James Hennessy, County of Hants (Winchester Division).
Major William Cope, County of Glamorgan (Llandaff and Barry Division).
Captain Douglas Hewitt Hacking, County of Lancaster (Chorley Division).
Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, esquire, commonly called Lord Eustace Percy, Borough of Hastings.
Captain Henry Douglas King, C.B.E., Borough of Paddington (South Division).
Right honourable James Fitzalan Hope, Borough of Sheffield (Central Division).
Colonel the Right honourable George Abraham Gibbs, Borough of Bristol (West Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred William Ashley, County of Hants (New Forest and Christchurch Division).
Frederick Charles Thomson, esquire, K.C., Burgh of Aberdeen (South Division).
Colonel Richard Foulis Roundell, County of York, West Riding (Skipton Division).
James Ramsay MacDonald, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Aberavon Division).
Right honourable John Robert Clynes, Borough of Manchester (Platting Division).
Right honourable James Henry Thomas, Borough of Derby.
Stephen Walsh, esquire, County of Lancaster (Ince Division).
Right honourable William Adamson,
County of Fife (Western Division).
Philip Snowden, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Colne Valley Division).
Major-General the Right honourable John Edward Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., County of Isle of Wight.
Josiah Clement Wedgwood, esquire,
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Right honourable James Ian Macpherson, K.C., County of Inverness, Ross and Cromarty (Ross and Cromarty Division).
Right honourable Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, Borough of Manchester (Rusholme Division).
Henry Vivian Phillipps, esquire, Burgh of Edinburgh (West Division).
Right honourable Dr. Thomas James Macnamara, Borough of Camberwell (North-West Division).
Neil Maclean, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Govan Division).
Right honourable Leifchild Stratten Jones, County of Cornwall (Camborne Division).
Right honourable Hugh Richard Heath-cote Cecil, commonly called the Right honourable Lard Hugh Richard Heath-cote Cecil, University of Oxford.
William Lunn, esquire, County of York,
West Riding (Rothwell Division).
Right honourable George Lambert, County of Devon (South Molton Division).
Morgan Jones, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Caerphilly Division).
Frederick Hall, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Normanton Division).
Walter Russell Rea, esquire, Borough of Bradford (North Division).
George Rennie Thorne, esquire, Borough
of Wolverhampton (East Division).
Charles George Ammon, esquire, Borough of Camberwell (North Division).
Right honourable John Frederick Peel Rawlinson, Cambridge University.
Benjamin Charles Spoor, esquire, County of Durham (Bishop Auckland Division).
Thomas Griffiths, esquire, County of Monmouth (Pontypool Division).
Sidney James Webb, esquire, County of Durham (Seaham Division).
Patrick Gardnier Hastings, esquire, Borough of Wallsend.
John Robertson, esquire, County of Lanark (Bothwell Division).
Right honourable Charles William Bowerman, Borough of Deptford.
Charles Philips Trevelyan, esquire, Borough of Newcastle -upon-Tyne (Central Division).
Frank Gray, esquire, Borough of Oxford.
Murdoch McKenzie Wood, esquire, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Central Division).
David Daniel Irving, esquire, Borough of Burnley.
Robert Smillie, esquire, Borough of Morpeth.
Harry Gosling, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Whitechapel and St. George's Division).
James O'Grady, esquire, Borough of Leeds (South-East Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel the Right honourable Sir John Gilmour, baronet, D.S.O., Burgh of Glasgow (Pollok Division).
Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, baronet, Borough of Birmingham (Erdington Division).
Major Harry Barnston, County of Chester (Eddisbury Division).
David Watts-Morgan, esquire, Borough of Rhondda (East Division).
Frank Bradley Valley, esquire, County of Nottingham (Mansfield Division).
Right honourable Sir Henry Craik, K.C.B., the University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh.
Sir William Henry Davison, K.B.E., Borough of Kensington (South Division).
Nicholas Grattan Doyle, esquire, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (North Division).
Sir William Henry Cowan, Borough of Islington (North Division).
Thomas Williams, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Don Valley Division).
Murrough John Wilson, esquire, County of York, North Riding (Richmond Division).
John Henry Williams, esquire, County of Carmarthen (Llanelly Division).
William John Tout, esquire, Borough of Oldham.
Edmund Russborough Turton, esquire, County of York, North Riding (Thirsk and Malton Division).
Frank Hodges, esquire, County of Stafford (Lichfield Division).
Thomas Davies, esquire, County of Gloucester (Cirencester and Tewkesbury Division).
James Stuart Rankin, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (East Toxteth Division).
Ben Turner, esquire, Borough of Batley and Morley.
David Williams, esquire, Borough of Swansea (East Division).
Alfred Roger Jephcott, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Yardley Division).
Right honourable Thomas Moles, Borough of Belfast (South Belfast Division).
Thomas Sinclair, esquire, C.B., Queen's University of Belfast.
William Henry Egan, esquire, Borough of Birkenhead (West Division).
Right honourable Sir John Lawrence Baird, baronet, Ayr District of Burghs.
Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, County of Parts of Kest-even and Rutland (Grantham Division).
Howel Walter Samuel, esquire, Borough of Swansea (West Division).
Tom Sutcliffe, esquire, Borough of Great Grimsby.
Thomas Edward McConnell, esquire, Borough of Belfast (North Belfast Division).
John Guest, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Hemsworth Division).
Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, esquire, Borough of Sheffield
(Brightside Division).
Major Albert James Edmondson, County of Oxford (Banbury Division).
Thomas Johnston, esquire, County of Stirling and Clackmannan (Western Division).
Sydney Richard Wells, esquire, County of Bedford (Bedford Division).
George Downie Hardie, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Springburn Division).
George Christopher Clayton, esquire,
County of Lancaster (Widnes Division).
James Patrick Gardner, esquire, Borough of Hammersmith (North Division).
William Hutchison, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Kelvingrove Division).
William Henry Porteous Martin, esquire, County of Dumbarton.
Major-General Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., Borough of Sheffield (Hallam Division).
Colonel William Graham Nicholson, County of Hants (Petersfield Division).
James Marley, esquire, Borough of St. Pancras (North Division).
Sir Henry Strother Cautley, baronet, County of East Sussex (East Grinstead Division).
Albert Arthur Purcell, esquire, Borough of Coventry.
Sir Bertram Godfray Falle, baronet, Borough of Portsmouth (North Division).
Campbell Stephen, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Camlachie Division).
Alfred Short, esquire, Borough of Wednesbury.
William McLean Watson, esquire, Dunfermline District of Burghs.
Andrew Young, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Partick Division).
Thomas Henderson, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Tradeston Division).
John William Muir, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Maryhill Division).
William Stapleton Royce, esquire, County of Holland with Boston.
Robert Murray, esquire, County of Renfrew (Western Division).
James Stewart, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (St. Rollox Division).
Thomas Shaw, esquire, Borough of Preston.
Benjamin Smith, esquire, Borough of Bermondsey (Rotherhithe Division).
Benjamin Tillett, esquire, Borough of Salford (North Division).
Sir James Farquharson Remnant, baronet, Borough of Holborn.
Walter Trevelyan Thomson, esquire, Borough of Middlesbrough (West Division).
Captain Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, R.N.V.R., commonly called Viscount Curzon, Borough of Battersea (South Division).
Arthur Michael Samuel, esquire, County of Surrey (Farnham Division).
Robert Waddington, esquire, Borough of Rossendale.
Alfred James Bonwick, esquire, County of Wilts (Chippenham Division).
John Thomas Tudor Rees, esquire, County of Devon (Barnstaple Division).
Henry Haydn Jones, esquire, County of Merioneth.
Captain William Charles Arcedeckne, Lord Huntingfield, County of Suffolk (Eye Division).
Ellis William Davies, esquire, County of Denbigh (Denbigh Division).
Charles Malcolm Barclay Harvey, esquire, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Kincardine and Western Division).
Luke Thompson, esquire, County of Sunderland.
Sir William Lane Mitchell, Borough of Wandsworth (Streatham Division).
Albert Ernest Hillary, esquire, County of Essex (Harwich Division).
Major James Burnie, M.C., Borough of Bootle.
Sir George Geoffrey Gilbert Butler, Cambridge University.
Alfred Ernest Brown, esquire, County of Warwick (Rugby Division).
John Bedford Burman, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Duddeston Division).
Goronwy Owen, esquire, County of Carnarvon.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert James, C.B.E., commonly called Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Cuthbert James, Borough of Bromley.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Page Croft, C.M.G., Borough of Bournemouth.
Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, K.B.E., Borough of Plymouth (Drake Division).
Captain Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, R.N.V.R., C B., C.M.G., commonly called Viscount Elveden, C.B., C.M.G., Borough of Southend-on-Sea.
Sir Robert Newbald Kay, County of York, West Riding (Elland Division).
Charles Sydney Jones, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (West Derby Division).
Stephen Roxby Dodds, esquire, County of Chester (Wirral).
Right honourable Sir Evelyn Cecil, G.B.E., Borough of Birmingham (Aston Division).
John Arthur Ransome Marriott, esquire, Borough of York.
Henry Dubs Lorimer, esquire, County of Derby (Southern Division).
Dennis Henry Herbert, esquire, County of Hertford (Watford Division).
Right honourable Sir William JoynsonHicks, baronet, County of Middlesex (Twickenham Division).
John Allen Parkinson, esquire, Borough of Wigan.
Guy Molesworth Kindersley, esquire, County of Herts (Hitchin Division).
Samuel Servington Savery, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Holderness Division).
Joseph Tinker, esquire, Borough of Leigh.
James Sexton, esquire, Borough of St. Helens.
Sir Sydney Russell-Wells, London University.
Major Archibald George Church, D.S.O., M.C., Borough of Leyton (East Division).
Major George Frederick Davies, County of Somerset (Yeovil Division).
Moss Turner-Samuels, esquire, County of Durham (Barnard Castle Division).
Edward William Spencer Cavendish, esquire, commonly called the Marquess of Hartington, County of Derby (Western Division).
Walter Henry Ayles, esquire, Borough of Bristol (North Division).
George Barker, esquire, County of Monmouth (Abertillery Division).
James Stuart, esquire, commonly called the Honourable James Stuart, County of Moray and Nairn.
Frederick William Jowett, esquire, Borough of Bradford (East Division).
Annesley Ashworth Somerville, esquire, County of Berks (Windsor Division).
James Brown, esquire, County of Ayr and Bute (South Ayrshire Division).
Sir Douglas George Cochrane Newton, K.B.E., Borough of Cambridge.
Lieutenant-Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, D.S.O., Borough of Croydon (North Division).
Joseph Quinton Lamb, esquire, County of Stafford (Stone Division).
Thomas Kennedy, esquire, Kirkcaldy District of Burghs.
Sir Philip Edward Pilditch, County of Middlesex (Spelthorne Division).
Alexander West Russell, esquire, Borough of Tynemouth.
John Scurr, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Mile End Division).
Albert Harland, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Eccleshall Division).
Joseph Westwood, esquire, County of Midlothian and Peebles (Peebles and Southern Division).
Robert Spence, esquire, County of Berwick and Haddington.
Andrew Bathgate Clark, esquire, County of Midlothian and Peebles (Northern Division).
Francis Alfred Broad, esquire, Borough of Edmonton.
Harry Thomas Alfred Becker, esquire, Borough of Richmond.
Robert John Wilson, esquire, County of Durham (Jarrow Division).
William George Cove, esquire, County of Northampton (Wellingborough Division).
Philip Christopher Hoffman, esquire, County of Essex (South-Eastern Division).
George Henry Hall, esquire, Borough of Merthyr Tydvil (Aberdare Division).
Isaac Foot, esquire, County of Cornwall (Bodmin Division).
David Kirkwood, esquire, Dumbarton District of Burghs.
John Wheatley, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Shettleston Division).
Frederick Caesar Linfield, esquire, County of Bedford (Mid Division).
William Greenwood, esquire, Borough of Stockport.
Victor Harold Finney, esquire, County of Northumberland (Hexham Division).
Alexander Mackenzie Livingstone, esquire, County of Inverness, Ross and Cromarty (Western Isles Division).
Leonard Wilfred James Costello, esquire, County of Huntingdon.
Sir Howard Kingsley Wood, Borough of Woolwich (West Division).
Joseph Sullivan, esquire, County of Lanark (Northern Division).
Walter Greaves-Lord, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (Norwood Division).
Hugh Ferguson, esquire, County of Lanark (Motherwell Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William James Allen, K.B.E., D.S.O., County of Armagh.
George Ward, esquire, County of Leicester (Bosworth Division).
Arthur Harbord, esquire, Borough of Great Yarmouth.
John Morrow Simms, esquire, County Down.
Sir Francis Watson, County of York, West Riding (Pudsey and Otley Division).
Abraham England, esquire, County of Lancaster (Heywood and Radcliffe Division).
John Purcell Dickie, esquire, Borough of Gateshead.
Hugh Reynolds Rathbone, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Wavertree Division).
Sir William Alexander, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Burgh of Glasgow (Central Division).
Frederick Hindle, esquire, County of Lancaster (Darwen Division).
John Duckworth, esquire, Borough of Blackburn.
Sir Robert Hunt Stapylton Dudley Lydstone Newman, baronet, Borough of Exeter.
Sir Fredric Wise, Borough of Ilford.
Sir Thomas Arthur Bramsdon, Borough of Portsmouth (Central Division).
Arnold Williams, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Sowerby Division).
James Falconer, esquire, County of Forfar.
Sir Robert John Thomas, baronet, County of Anglesey.
Roderick Morris Kedward, esquire, Borough of Bermondsey (West Bermondsey Division).
William Allan Chapple, esquire, County of Dumfries.
Cecil Bercsford Ramage, esquire, Borough of Newcastle-on-Tyne (West Division).
Thomas Raven Ackroyd, Borough of Manchester (Moss Side Division).
Sir Murdoch Macdonald, K.C.M.G., C.B., County of Inverness, Ross, and Cromarty (Inverness Division).
Sir William Ellis Hume-Williams, baronet, County of Nottingham (Bassetlaw Division).
Dorothea Jewson, Borough of Norwich.
Collingwood James Hughes, esquire,
Borough of Camberwell (Peckham Division).
Francis Nicholas Blundell, esquire, County of Lancaster (Ormskirk Division).
William James Thorne, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Plaistow Division).
Sidney Herbert, esquire, County of York. North Riding (Scarborough and Whitby Division).
Charles Dukes, esquire, Borough of Warrington.
Donald Stirling Palmer Howard, esquire, commonly called the Honourable Donald Stirling Palmer Howard, County of Cumberland (Northern Division).
Wilfred Paling, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Doncaster Division).
William George Perring, esquire, Borough of Paddington (North Division).
Sir William Martin Conway, the University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Bristol.
Tom Smith, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Pontefract Division).
John Rumney Remer, esquire, County of Chester (Macclesfield Division).
Frederick William Pethick Lawrence, esquire, Borough of Leicester (West Division).
Thomas Greenall, esquire, County of Lancaster (Farnworth Division).
Brigadier - General John Sanctuary Nicholson, C.B., C.M. G., C.B.E., D.S.O., City of Westminster (Abbey Division).
James Welsh, esquire, County of Lanark (Coatbridge Division).
Duncan McGregor Graham, esquire, County of Lanark (Hamilton Division).
Sir Charles Cayzer, baronet, County of Chester (City of Chester Division).
George Henry Hirst, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Wentworth Division).
Sir Joseph Hood, baronet, Borough of Wimbledon.
Thomas Walter Grundy, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Rother Valley Division).
Edmund Deno Morel, esquire, Burgh of Dundee.
Clement Richard Attlee, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Limehouse Division).
Henry Charles Charleton, esquire, Borough of Leeds (South Division).
James Maxton, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Bridgeton Division).
Robert Richards, esquire, County of Denbigh (Wrekham Division).
Thomas Cape, esquire, County of Camber-land (Workington Division).
Frank Herbert Rose, esquire, Burgh of Aberdeen (North Division).
John Gretton, esquire, County of Stafford (Burton Division).
Henry Cairn Hogbin, esquire, Borough of Battersea (North Division).
Robert Strother Stewart, esquire, Borough of Stockton-on-Tees.
Sir Herbert Nield, K.C., Borough of Ealing.
John Wycliffe Black, esquire, County of Leicester (Harborough Division).
Percy Alden, esquire, Borough of Tottenham (South Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel George Windsor-Clive, C.M.G., County of Salop (Ludlow Division).
John Hobbis Harris, esquire, Borough of Hackney (North Division).
Lieutenant - Colonel George Graham Woodwark, County of Norfolk (King's Lynn Division).
James Francis Walter Galbraith, esquire, K.C., County of Surrey (Eastern Division).
Alexander Nairne Stewart Sandeman, esquire, County of Lancaster (Middleton and Prestwich Division).
Thomas Ellis Naylor, esquire, Borough of Southwark (South-East Division).
Sir Edward Manger Iliffe, County of Warwick (Tamworth Division).
Walter John Baker, esquire, Borough of Bristol (East Division).
Thomas Keens, esquire, County of Bucks (Aylesbury Division).
Thomas Edward Groves, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Stratford Division).
Major Hugh Mowbray Meyler, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Borough of Blackpool.
Frederick Joseph Laverack, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (Brixton Division).
Henry Harvey Vivian, esquire, County of Devon (Totnes).
Walter Raine, esquire, Borough of Sunderland.
Richard Storry Deans, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Park Division).
Frederick Loverseed, esquire, County of West Suffolk (Sudbury Division).
John Lincoln Tattersall, esquire, County of Chester (Stalybridge and Hyde Division).
Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys, esquire, commonly called the Honourable Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys, County of Essex (Romford Division).
Sir Courtenay Cecil Mansell, baronet, County of Cornwall (Penryn and Falmouth Division).
Arthur Carlyne Niven Dixey, esquire, County of Cumberland (Penrith and Cockermouth Division).
Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb, K.B.E., M.V.O., Borough of Fulham (West Division).
William Ewart Morse, esquire, County of Somerset (Bridgwater Division).
William Edward Robinson, esquire, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Burslem Division).
John Hugh Edwards, esquire, Borough of Accrington.
Sir William Beddoe Rees, Borough of Bristol (South Division).
Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse, esquire,
County of Somerset (Wells Division).
James Daniel Gilbert, esquire, Borough of
Southwark (Central Division).
John Edmund Mills, esquire, County of Kent (Dartford Division).
Valentine George Crittall, esquire,
County of Essex (Maldon Division).
William Whiteley, esquire, County of Durham (Blaydon Division).
Sir Francis William Lowe, baronet, Borough of Birmingham (Edgbaston Division).
Sir Gervase William Beckett, baronet, commonly called the Honourable Sir Gervase William Beckett, baronet, Borough of Leeds (North Division).
Robert Nichol, esquire, County of Renfrew (Eastern Division).
Captain Robert Anthony Eden, M.C., County of Warwick (Warwick and Leamington Division).
William Robert Raynes, esquire, Borough of Derby.
Frank Lee, esquire, County of Derby (North-Eastern Division).
Percy Gates, esquire, Borough of Kensington (North Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel Granville Charles Hastings Wheler, County of Kent (Faversham Division).
George Harold Oliver, esquire, County of Derby (Ilkeston Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Nall, Borough of Manchester (Hulme Division).
Major Ronald Samuel Ainslie Williams, County of Kent (Sevenoaks Division).
William Murdoch Adamson, esquire, County of Stafford (Cannock Division).
Robert Richardson, esquire, County of Durham (Houghton-le-Spring Division).
Harry Snell, esquire, Borough of Woolwich (East Division).
Rhys Hopkin Morris, esquire, County of Cardigan.
Samuel Frederick Perry, esquire, County of Northampton (Kettering Division).
Walter Robert Smith, esquire, Borough of Norwich.
George Alfred Isaacs, esquire, County of Kent (Gravesend Division)
William Bromfield, esquire, County of Stafford (Leek Division).
Edward Timothy Palmer, esquire, Borough of Greenwich.
William Sampson Cluse, esquire, Borough of Islington (South Division).
George Lanshury, esquire, Borough of Poplar (Bow and Bromley Division).
Charles Duncan, esquire, County of Derby (Clay Cross Division).
George Edwards, esquire, County of Norfolk (Southern Division).
Frederick Gould, esquire, County of Somerset (Frome Division).
William Mackinder, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Shipley Division).
Herbert Stanley Morrison, esquire, Borough of Hackney (South Division).
Thomas James Stanislaus Harbison, esquire, County of Fermanagh and Tyrone.
Joseph Sunlight, esquire, County of Salop (Shrewsbury Division).
Leslie Haden Guest, esquire, Borough of Southwark (North Division).
Frederick Montague, esquire, Borough of Islington (West Division).
Thomas William Stamford, esquire, Borough of Leeds (West Division).
John Freeman Dunn, esquire, County of Hertford (Hemel Hempstead Division).
Vernon Hartshorn, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Ogmore Division).
Frank Walter Raffety, esquire, Borough of Bath.
Thomas Atholl Robertson, esquire, County of Middlesex (Finchley Division).
Robert Young, esquire, County of Lancaster (Newton Division).
Thomas Gavan Duffy, esquire, County of Cumberland (Whitehaven Division).
Frederick Owen Roberts, esquire, Borough of West Bromwich.
Arabella Susan Lawrence, Borough of East Ham (North Division).
William Gorman, esquire, County of Lancaster (Royton Division).
Robert Alstead, esquire, County of Chester (Altrincham Division).
Rhys John Davies, esquire, County of Lancaster (Westhoughton Division).
Richard Collingham Wallhead, esquire, Borough of Merthyr Tydvil (Merthyr Division).
Robert Climie, esquire, County of Ayr and Bute (Kilmarnock Division).
Walter Windsor, esquire, Borough of Bethnal Green (North-East Division).
Herbert George Romeril, esquire, Borough of St. Pancras (South-East Division).
Joseph Compton, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Gorton Division).
James Hindle Hudson, esquire, Borough of Huddersfield.
George Banton, esquire, Borough of Leicester (East Division).
Harry Madan, esquire, County of Lancaster (Lonsdale Division).
George Masterman Gillett, esquire, Borough of Finsbury
Joshua Ritson, esquire, County of Durham (Durham Division).
Charles Henry Sitch, esquire, County of Stafford (Kingswinford Division).
Samuel March, esquire, Borough of Poplar (South Poplar Division).
John Joseph Jones, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Silvertown Division).
William Wright, esquire, County of Lanark (Rutherglen Division).
Samuel Philip Viant, esquire, Borough of Willesden (West Division).
George Henry Sherwood, esquire, Borough of Wakefield.
Alfred John Barnes, esquire, Borough of East Ham (South Division).
Arthur Greenwood, esquire, Borough of Nelson and Colne.
Margaret Grace Bondfield, Borough of Northampton.
Frank Eric Joseph Murrell, esquire, County of Somerset (Weston-super-Mare Division).
James Dale Cassels, esquire, K.C., Borough of Leyton (West Division).
Major William Philip Colfox, M.C., County of Dorset (Western Division).
Ernest Whittome Shepperson, esquire, County of Hereford (Leominster Division).
George Balfour, esquire, Borough of Hampstead.
Austin Hopkinson, esquire, County of Lancaster (Mossley Division).
Sir Robert William Hamilton, County of Orkney and Zetland.
Sir George Andreas Berry, the University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh.
James Malcolm Monteith Erskine, esquire, City of Westminster (St. George's Division).
Sir George McCrae, D.S.O., Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs.
Hugh Lawrence Fletcher Moulton, esquire, County of Wilts (Salisbury Division).
Reginald Cheyne Berkeley, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (Central Division).
Arthur Hayday, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (West Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Mark Clement Rudkin, D.S.O., County of West Sussex (Chichester Division).
Vera Florence Anne, Baroness Terrington, County of Bucks (Wycombe Division).
John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones, esquire, County of Dorset (Northern Division).
James Philip Hodge, esquire, Borough of Preston.
William Brass, esquire, County of Lancaster (Clitheroe Division).
Athelstan Rendall, esquire, County of Gloucester (Thornbury Division).
Samuel Pattinson, esquire, County of Parts of Lindsey (Horncastle Division).
John Ward, esquire, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Stoke Division).
George Ernest Spero, esquire, Borough of Stoke Newington.
William Arthur Henry CavendishBentinck, esquire, commonly called the Marquess of Titchfield, County of Nottingham (Newark Division).
Maxwell Ruthven Thornton, esquire, County of Devon (Tavistock Division).
Edward Augustus St. Aubyn Harney, esquire, K.C., Borough of South Shields.
Philip Milner Oliver, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Blackley Division).
Thomas Edmund Harvey, esquire, Borough of Dewsbury.
Henry Nixon, esquire, County of Salop (The Wrekin Division).
William Watson Henderson, esquire, County of Middlesex (Enfield Division).
Edward George Hemmerde, esquire, K.C., County of Chester (Crewe Division).
Albert Law, esquire, Borough of Bolton.
John Buckle, esquire, Borough of Eccles.
Fred William Lindley, esquire, Borough of Rotherham.
John Potts, esquire, Borough of Barnsley.
Benjamin Walter Gardner, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Upton Division).
James Wignall, esquire, County of Gloucester (Forest of Dean Division).
Edwin Scrymgeour, esquire, Burgh of Dundee.
Arthur Henderson, esquire, Borough of Cardiff (South Division).
Henry Cavendish Bentinck, commonly called Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinek, Borough of Nottingham (South Division).
Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate, baronet, County of Leicester (Melton Division).
Edward Algernon Fitzroy, esquire, commonly called the honourable Edward Algernon Fitzroy, County of Northampton (Daventry Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Lambert Ward, Borough of Kingston-upon- Hull (North-West Division).
Rear-Admiral Murray Fraser Sueter, C.B., County of Hertford (Hertford Division).
Sidney Walter Robinson, esquire, County of Essex (Chelmsford Division).
Sir Arthur Charles Churchman, baronet, County of East Suffolk (Woodbridge Division).
Piers Gilchrist. Thompson, esquire, County of Devon (Torquay Division).
Sir Philip Dawson, Borough of Lewisham (West Division).
Eric Macfadyen, esquire, County of Wilts (Devizes Division).
Patrick Collins, esquire, Borough of Walsall.
Dugald McCoig Cowan, esquire, the University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen,and the University of Edinburgh.
Barnet Kenyon, esquire, County of Derby(Chesterfield Division).
Charles Boyle, esquire, Borough of Stockport.
Henry Graham White, esquire, Borough of Birkenhead (East Division).
John Ramsay Bryce Muir, esquire, Borough of Rochdale.
John Emanuel Davison, esquire, Borough of Smethwick.
Robert Craigmile Morrison, esquire, Borough of Tottenham (North Division).
Emanuel Shinwell, esquire, Burgh of Linlithgow.
Charles Edwards, esquire, County of Monmouth (Bedwellty Division).
Ernest Darwin Simon, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Withington Division).
Cecil Henry Wilson, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Attercliffe Division).
William John, esquire, Borough of Rhondda (West Division).
William Jenkins, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Neath Division).
Harcourt Johnstone, esquire, Borough of Willesden (East Division).
Hugh Michael Seely, esquire, County of Norfolk (Eastern Division).
John Henry Hayes, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Edge Hill Division).
George Henry Warne, esquire, County of Northumberland (Wansbeck Division).
Daniel Gerald Somerville,esquire, Borough of Barrow-in-Furness.
Francis Edward Fremantle, esquire, County of Hertford (St. Albans Division).
Sir James Tynte Agg-Gardner, Borough of Cheltenham.
Brigadier-General George Kynaston Cockerill, C.B., County of Surrey (Reigate Division).
George Buchanan, esquire, Borough of Glasgow (Gorbals Division).
Right honourable Sir William James Bull, baronet, Borough of Hammersmith (South Division).
Sir John Sutherland Harmood-Banner, baronet, Borough of Liverpool (Evertors Division).
Noel Edward Buxton, esquire, County of Norfolk (Northern Division).
Joseph Toole, esquire, Borough of Salford (South Division).
John James Lawson, esquire, County of Durham (Chester-le-Street Division).
Edward Charles Grenfell, esquire, City of London.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury, D.S.O., Borough of Wolverhampton (Bilston Division).
Valentine La Touche McEntee, esquire, Borough of Walthamstow (West Division).
Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Moseley Division).
Alexander Wilkinson Frederick Haycock, esquire, Borough of Salford (West Division).
Right honourable Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, the University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Bristol.
Right honourable Frederick Edward Guest, County of Gloucester (Stroud Division).
Francis Stanley Jackson, esquire, commonly called the Honourable Francis Stanley Jackson, County of York, East Riding (Howdenshire Division).
Sir John Norton-Griffiths, baronet, K.C.B., D.S.O., Borough of Wandsworth (Central Division).
Thomas Isaac Mardy-Jones, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Pontypridd Division).
Gerald Fitzroy Hohler, esquire, K. C., Borough of Rochester (Gillingham Division).
Major-General Sir John Humphrey Davidson, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., County of Hants (Fareham Division).
Albert Victor Alexander, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Hillsborough Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams, Borough of Lambeth (Kennington Division).
Lieutenant-Colonel William Robert Campion, D.S.O., County of East Sussex (Lewes Division).
Sir Charles Walter Starmer, County of York, North Riding (Cleveland Division).
George Middleton, esquire, Borough of Carlisle.
Sir Philip Wigham Richardson, County of Surrey (Chertsey Division).
Ronald Wilberforce Allen,esquire,
Borough of Leicester (South Division).
Allen Algernon Bathurst, esquire, D.S.O., M.C., commonly called Lord Apsley, D.S.O., M.C., Borough of Southampton.
Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, Oxford University.
John Sydney Wardlaw Milne, esquire, County of Worcester (Kidderminster Division).
Sir Robert William Aske, baronet, Borough of Newcastle-on-Tyne (East Division).
Samuel Roberts, esquire, County of Hereford (Hereford Division).
Captain Reginald Terrell, County of Oxford (Henley Division).
Robert Daniel Thwaites Yerburgh, esquire, County of Dorset (Southern Division).
John Wakefield Weston, esquire, County of Westmorland.
Reginald Mitchell Banks, esquire, K.C., County of Wilts (Swindon Division).
Sir John Fowler Brunner, Borough of Southport.
William Leach, esquire, Borough of Bradford (Central Division).
William Mather Rutherford Pringle, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Penistone Division).
Samuel Samuel, esquire, Borough of Wandsworth (Putney Division).
Commander Carlyon Bellairs, County of Kent (Maidstone Division).
Gervais Rentoul, esquire, County of East Suffolk (Lowestoft Division).
Sir Robert Burton Chadwick, Borough of Wallasey.
Robert Frederick Jackson, esquire, Borough of Ipswich.
Reginald George Clarry, esquire, Borough of Newport.
Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, esquire, County of Monmouth (Monmouth Division).
Sir Harry Brittain, K.B.E., County of Middlesex (Acton Division).
Walter Grant Morden, esquire, County of Middlesex (Brentford and Chiswick Division).
John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, esquire, Borough of Rochester (Chatham Division).
Joseph Herbert Cunliffe, esquire, K.C., Borough of Bolton.
James Myles Hogge, esquire, Burgh of Edinburgh (East Division).
Peter Wilson Raffan, esquire, Burgh of Edinburgh (North Division).
Leslie Hore-Belisha, esquire, Borough of Plymouth (Devonport Division).
Sir Alfred Butt, Borough of Wandsworth (Balham and Tooting Divisions).
Lauchlan MacNeill Weir, esquire, County of Stirling and Clackmannan (Clackmannan and Eastern Division).
Right honourable Sir Douglas M`Garel Hogg, K.C., Borough of St. Marylebone.
Herbert Dunnico, esquire, County of Durham (Consett Division).
Oswald Ernald Mosley, esquire, County of Middlesex (Harrow Division).
Sir Harry Warden Stanley Chilcott, Borough of Liverpool (Walton Division).
John Dearman Birchall, esquire, Borough of Leeds (North-East Division).
Frederick George Penny, esquire, Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames.
Colonel Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan, Borough of Fulham (East Division).
ADJOURNMENT:—Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Hacking.]
Adjourned accordingly at Seven o'Clock till To-morrow (Thursday) at a Quarter to Three o'Clock, when the Swearing-in or Members will be resumed.