HC Deb 20 October 1932 vol 269 cc469-74

Resolved, That, with a view to giving effect to certain of the Agreements made at the Imperial Economic Conference held at Ottawa, the duty of customs on wine, not being an Empire product and not exceeding twenty-five degrees of proof spirit, shall be increased to four shillings per gallon."—[Mr. Chamberlain.]

GENERAL PROVISIONS TO BE INCLUDED IN ACT FOR GIVING EFFECT TO AGREEMENTS MADE AT THE IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.

Motion made, and Question put, That any Act of the present Session for giving effect to the Resolutions of this House providing for the fulfilment of the Agreements made at the Imperial Economic Conference held at Ottawa (hereinafter referred to as 'the said Act')—

  1. (a) shall provide that any order made under the said Act by the Treasury increasing or re-imposing any duty of customs (not including an order fixing the date on which any provision of the said Act is to come into operation) shall cease to have effect on the expiration of twenty-eight days from the date on which the order is made unless at some time before the expiration of that period it is approved 'by a resolution of this House, and that in reckoning any such period as aforesaid no account shall he taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which this House is adjourned for more than four days; and
  2. (b) shall provide that any order made under the said Act—
    1. (i) with respect to prohibition of the importation of goods of any class or description grown, produced, or manufactured in a foreign country; or

  1. (ii) with respect to regulation of the importation of frozen and chilled meat; or
  2. (iii) declaring that any of the Agreements aforesaid is to be deemed to have ceased to be in force or revoking such a declaration, shall cease to have effect on the expiration of a period of twenty-eight days (to be reckoned as aforesaid) from the date on which it is made unless at some time before the expiration of that period it has been approved by a resolution passed by each House of Parliament; and
  1. (c) may contain all such other incidental and consequential provisions as may he necessary or expedient in connection with the matters for which provision is made by any of the Resolutions aforesaid, and, in particular, may include provisions—

  1. (i) with respect to the making of declarations by the Treasury that any of the Agreements aforesaid has ceased, or is to Agreement deemed to have ceased, to he in force;
  2. (ii) for applying, for the purposeof any of the duties charged by the said Resolutions, any of the provisions of the Import Duties Act, 1932, and of any enactment a mending that Act, whether with or without modifications;
  3. (iii) as to drawbacks;
  4. (iv) for amending the Import Duties Act, 1932, and any other Act relating to customs;
  5. (v) for applying the said Act to the Agreements aforesaid when varied;
  6. (vi) for providing that the said Act shall come into operation on days to be fixed by the Treasury, and shall (except as otherwise expressly provided therein) continue in force so long as any of the Agreements aforesaid is in force."—[Mr. Chamberlain.]

The Committee divided: Ayes, 431; Noes, 81.

Division No. 309.] AYES. [11.34 p.m.
Acland-Troyte, Lieut.-Colonel Allen, Lt.-Col. Sir William (Armagh) Bailey, Eric Alfred George
Adams, Samuel Vyvyan T. (Leeds, W.) Amery, Rt. Hon. Leopold C. M. S. Baillie, Sir Adrian W. M.
Agnew, Lieut.-Com. P. G, Anstruther-Gray, W. J. Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley
Aitchison, Rt. Hon. Cralgie M. Applin, Lieut.-Col. Reginald V. K. Baldwin-Webb, Colonel J.
Albery, Irving James Apsley, Lord Balfour, George (Hampstead)
Alexander, Sir William Astor, Mal. Hn. John J. (Kent, Dover) Balniel, Lord
Allen Lt.-Col. J. Sandeman (B'k'nh'd.) Atholl, Duchess of Banks, Sir Reginald Mitchell
Allen, William (Stoke-on-Trent) Atkinson, Cyril Barrie. Sir Charles Coupar
Bateman, A. L. Dawson, Sir Philip Horobln, Ian M.
Beauchamp, Sir Brograve Campbell Denman, Hon. R. D. Horsbrugh, Florence
Beaumont, M. W. (Bucks., Aylesbury) Denville, Alfred Howard, Tom Forrest
Beaumont, Hon. R. E. B.(Portsm'th,C.) Despencer-Robertson, Major J. A. F. Howitt, Dr. Alfred B.
Bens, Sir Arthur Shirley Dickle, John P. Hudson, Capt. A. U. M. (Hackney, N.)
Bennett, Capt. Sir Ernest Nathaniel Dlxey, Arthur C. N. Hudson, Robert Spear (Southport)
Betterton, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry B. Doran, Edward Hume, Sir George Hopwood
Bevan, Stuart James (Holborn) Drcwe. Cedric Hunter, Dr. Joseph (Dumfries)
Birchall, Major Sir John Dearman Duckworth, George A. V. Hurd, Sir Percy
Bird, Ernest Roy (Yorks., Skipton) Dugdale, Captain Thomas Lionel Hurst, Sir Gerald B.
Bird, Sir Robert B.(Wolverh'pton W.) Duggan, Hubert John Hutchison, W. D, (Essex, Romford)
Blaker, Sir Reginald Duncan, James A. L. (Kensington, N.) Ivagh, Countess of
Blindell, James Dunglass, Lord Jackson, Sir Henry (Wandsworth, C.)
Boothby, Robert John Graham Eady, George H. James, Wing.-Com. A. W. H.
Bossom, A. C. Eastwood, John Francis Jamieson, Douglas
Boulton, W. W. Eden, Robert Anthony Jennings, Roland
Bower, Lieut.-Com. Robert Tatton Edge, Sir William Jesson, Major Thomas E.
Boyce, H. Leslie Edmondson, Major A. J. Joel, Dudley J. Barnato
Boyd-Carpenter, Sir Archibald Elliot, Major Rt. Hon. Walter E. Johnston, J. W. (Clackmannan)
Braithwaite, Maj. A. N. (Yorks, E. R.) Ellis, Sir R. Geoffrey Jones, Sir G. W. H. (Stoke New'gton)
Braithwaite, J. G. (Hillsborough) Elliston, Captain George Sampson Jones, Lewis (Swansea, West)
Brass, Captain Sir William Elmley, Viscount Ker, J. Campbell
Briscoe, Capt. Richard George Ernmott, Charles E. G. C. Kerr, Lieut.-Col. Charles (Montrose)
Broadbent, Colonel John Emrys-Evans, P. V. Kerr, Hamilton W.
Brocklebank, C. E. R. Entwistle, Cyril Fullard Kimball, Lawrence
Brown, Col. D. C, (N'th'l'd., Hexham) Erskine, Lord (Wcston-super-Mare) Kirkpatrick, William M.
Brown, Ernest (Leith) Erskine-Bolst, Capt. C. C. (Blackpool) Knatchbull, Captain Hon. M. H. R.
Brown,Brig.-Gen.H.C.(Berks.,Newb'y) Evans, Capt. Arthur (Cardiff, S.) Knebworth, Viscount
Browne, Captain A. C. Falle Sir Bertram G. Knox, Sir Alfred
Buchan, John Flelden, Edward Brocklehurst Lamb, Sir Joseph Quinton
Buchan-Hepburn, P. G. T. Fleming, Edward Laseelles Lambert, Rt. Hon. George
Bullock, Captain Malcolm Flint, Abraham John Latham, Sir Herbert Paul
Burghley, Lord Fox, Sir Gifford Law, Sir Alfred
Burgin, Dr. Edward Leslie Fraser, Captain Ian Leckie, J. A.
Burnett, John George Fremantle, Sir Francis Leech, Dr. J. W.
Butler, Richard Austen Fuller, Captain A. G. Lees-Jones, John
Butt, Sir Alfred Galbraith, James Francis Wallace Leigh, Sir John
Cadogan, Hon. Edward Ganzonl, Sir John Lenn,x-Boyd, A. T.
Caine, G. R. Hall- Gillett, Sir George Masterman Levy, Thomas
Campbell, Edward Taswell (Bromley) Gilmour, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir John Lewis, Oswald
Campbell, Rear-Adml. G. (Burnley) Gledhill, Gilbert Liddall, Walter S.
Campbell-Johnston, Malcolm Glossop, C. W. H. Lindsay, Noel Ker
Caporn, Arthur Cecil Gluckstein, Louis Halle Lister, Rt. Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-
Cassels, James Dale Glyn, Major Ralph G. C. Little. Graham-, Sir Ernest
Castlereagh, Viscount Goff, Sir Park LlewellIn, Major John J.
Castle Stewart, Earl Goldie, Noel B. Lloyd, Geoffrey
Cautiey, Sir Henry S. Goodman, Colonel Albert W. Locker-Lampoon, Rt. Fin. G.(Wd. Gr'n)
Cayzer, Maj. Sir H. R. (Prtsmth., S.) Gower, Sir Robert Locker.Lampson, Com. O. (H'ndsw'th)
Cazalet, Thelma (Islington, E) Graham, Sir Fergus (Cumberland, N.) Lockwood, John C. (Hackney, C.)
Cazalet, Capt. V. A. (Chippenham) Granville, Edgar Lockwood, Capt. J. H. (Shipley)
Chamberlain,Rt.Hn.Sir J. A.(Birm.,W) Grattan-Doyle, Sir Nicholas Loder, Captain J. de Vere
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. N. (Edgbaston) Graves, Marjorie Lovat-Fraser. James Alexander
Chapman, Col. R.(Houghton-le.Spring) Greases-Lord, Slr Walter Lymington, Viscount
Chorlton, Alan Ernest Leofric Greene, William P. C. Lyons, Abraham Montagu
Christie, James Archibald Gretton, Colonel Rt. Hon. John MacAndrew, Lt.-Col. C. G. (Partick)
Clarke, Frank Grimston, R. V. MacAndrew, Capt. J. O. (Ayr)
Clarry, Reginald George Gritten, W. G. Howard McConnell, Sir Joseph
Clayton, Dr. George C. Guest, Capt. Rt. Hon. F. E. McCorquodale, M. S.
Clydesdale, Marquess of Guinness, Thomas L. E. B. MacDonald, Rt. Hn. J. R. (Seaham)
Cobb, Sir Cyril Gunston, Captain D. W. MacDonald, Malcolm (Bassetlaw)
Cochrane, Commander Hon. A. D. Guy, J. C. Morrison Macdonald, Sir Murdoch (Inverness)
Colfox, Major William Philip Hacking, Rt. Hon. Douglas H. Macdonald, Capt. P. D. (I. of W.)
Colman, N. C. D. Hail, Capt. W. D'Arcy (Brecon) McEwen, Captain.J. H. F.
Colville, Lieut.-Colonel J. Hamilton, Sir George (Ilford) McKie, John Hamilton
Conant, R. J. E. Hammersley, Samuel S. McLean, Major Alan
Cooke, Douglas Hanbury, Cecil McLean, Dr. W. H. (Tradeston)
Cooper. A. Duff Hanley, Dennis A Macpherson, Rt. Hon. James I.
Courtauld, Major John Sewell Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry Magnay, Thomas
Courthope, Colonel Sir George L. Harbord, Arthur Maitland, Adam
Craddock, Sir Reginald Henry Hartland, George A. Makins, Brigadier-General Ernest
Cranborne, Vlscunt Harvey. George (Lambeth,Kenningt'n) Manningham-Buller, Lt.-Col. Sir M.
Craven-Ellis, William Harvey, Major S. E. (Devon, Totnes) Margesson, Capt. Henry David R.
Croft, Brigadier-General Sir H. Haslam, Sir John (Bolton) Marsden, Commander Arthur
Crooke, J. Smedley Headlam, Lieut.-Col. Cuthbert M. Martin, Thomas B.
Crookshank, Col. C. de Windt (Bootle) Heilgers, Captain F. F. A. Mayhew, Lieut.-Colonel John
Croom-Johnson, R. P. Henderson, Sir Vivian L. (Chelmsford) Metter, Richard James
Cross, R. H. Heneage, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur P. Merriman, Sir F. Boyd
Crossley, A. C. Hepworth. Joseph Millar, Sir James Duncan
Cruddas, Licut.-Colonel Bernard Herbert, Capt. S. (Abbey Division) Mills, Sir Frederick (Leyton, E.)
Culverwell, Cyril Tom Hills, Major Rt. Hon. John Waller Mills, Major J. D. (New Forest)
Dalkeith, Earl of Hoare, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir S. J. G. Milne, Charles
Davidson, Rt. Hon. J. C. C. Hope, Capt. Hon. A. O. J. (Aston) Mitchell, Harold P.(Br'tf'd & Chlsw'k)
Davies, Edward C. (Montgomery) Hore-Belisha, Leslie Mitchell, Sir W. Lane (Streatham)
Davies, Maj. Geo. F.(Somerset,Yeovll) Hornby, Frank Mltcheson, G. G.
Davison, Sir William Henry Horne, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert S. Molson, A. Hugh Elsdale
Monsell, Rt. Hon. Sir B. Eyres Reid, Capt. A. Cunningham- Strauss, Edward A.
Moore-Brabazon, Lieut.-Col. J. T. C. Reid, David D. (County Down) Strickland, Captain W. F.
Moreing, Adrian C. Reid, James S. C. (Stirling) Stuart, Hon. J. (Moray and Nairn)
Morris, John Patrick (Salford, N.) Reid, William Allan (Derby) Stuart, Lord C. Crichton-
Morris, Owen Temple (Cardiff, E.) Remer, John R. Sugden, Sir Wilfrid Hart
Moss, Captain H J. Rentoul, Sir Gervais S. Summershy, Charles H.
Munro, Patrick Rhys, Hon. Charles Arthur U. Sutcliffe, Harold
Murray-Philipson, Hylton Ralph Ropner, Colonel L. Tate, Mavis Constance
Nall, Sir Joseph Rosbotham, S. T. Tayior,Vice-Admiral E.A.(rdd'gt'n,S.)
Nall-Cain, Arthur Ronald N. Ross, Ronald D. Templeton, William P.
Newton, Sir Douglas George C. Ross Taylor, Walter (Woodbridge) Thomas, Rt. Hon. J. H. (Derby)
Nicholson, Godfrey (Morpetn) Ruggles-Brise, Colonel E. A. Thomas, James P. L. (Hereford)
Nicholson, Rt. Hn. W. G. (Peters'fld) Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter Thomas, Major L. B. (King's Norton)
Normand, Wilfrid Guild Runge, Norah Cecil Thompson, Luke
Nunn, William Russell, Albert (Kirkcaldy) Thomson, Sir Frederick Charles
O'Donovan, Dr. William James Russell, Alexander West (Tynemouth) Thorp, Linton Theodore
Oman, Sir Charles William C. Russell,Hamer Field (Sheffleid,B'tside) Todd, A. L. S. (Kingwinford)
Ormiston, Thomas Rutherford, Sir John Hugo Touche, Gordon Cosmo
Ormsby-Gore, Rt. Hon. William G. A. Salmon, Major Isidore Train, John
Palmer, Francis Noel Salt, Edward W. Tryon, Rt. Hon. George Clement
Patrick, Colin M. Samuel, Sir Arthur Michael (F'nham) Turten, Robert Hugh
Peaks, Captain Osbert Samuel, Samuel (W'dsworth, Putney) Vaughan-Morgan, Sir Kenyon
Pearson, William G. Sandeman, Sir A. N Stewart Wallace, Captain D. E. (Hornsey)
Peat, Charles U. Sanderson, Sir Frank Barnard Wallace, John (Dunfermline)
Penny, Sir George Sassoon, Rt. Hon. Sir Philip A. G. D. Ward, Lt.-Col. Sir A. L. (Hull)
Percy, Lord Eustace Scone, Lord Ward, Irene Mary Bewick (Walisend)
Perkins. Waiter R. D. Selley, Harry R. Ward, Sarah Adelaide (Cannock)
Peters, Dr. Sidney John Shakespeare, Geoffrey H. Warrender, Sir Victor A. G.
Patherick, M. Shaw, Helen B. (Lanark, Bothwell) Waterhnuee, Captain Charles
Peto, Sir Basil E. (Devon, B'nstaple) Shaw, Captain William T. (Forfar) Watt, Captain George Steven H.
Poto, Geoffrey K.(W'verivnt'n, Baston) Skelton, Archibald Noel Wayland. Sir William A.
Plckford, Hon. Mary Ada Slater, John Wells, Sydney Richard
Pike, Cecil F. Smiles, Lieut.-Col, Sir Waiter D. Weymouth, Viscount
Potter, John Smith, Bracewell (Dulwich) Whiteside, Borras Noel H.
Powell, Lieut.-Col. Evelyn G. H. Smith, Sir Jonah W. (Barrow-in-F.) Whyte, Jardine Bell
Power, Sir John Cecil Smith, Louis W. (Sheffield, Hallam) Williams, Charles (Devon, Torquay)
Pownall, Sir Assheton Smith, R. W. (Aberd'n & Kinc'dine,C.) Wills, Wilfrid D.
Preston, Sir Waiter Rueben Smith-Carington, Neville W. Wilson, Clyde T. (West Toxteth)
Procter, Major Henry Adam Smithers, Waldron Windsor-Clive, Lieut.-Colonel George
Purbrick, R. Somervell, Donald Bradley Winterton, Rt. Hon. Earl
Pybus, Percy John Somerville, Annesley A. (Windsor) Wise, Alfred R.
Raikes, Henry V. A. M. Somerville, D. G. (Willesden, East) Withers, Sir John James
Ramsay, Alexander (W. Bromwich) Soper, Richard Wolmer, Rt. Hon. Viscount
Ramsay, Capt. A. H. M. (Midlothian) Sotheron-Estceurt, Captain T. E. Womerstey, Walter James
Ramsay, T. B. W. (Western Isles) Southhy, Commander Archibald R. J. Wood, Rt. Hon. Sir H. Kingsley
Ramsbotham, Herwald Spears, Brigadier-General Edward L. Worthington, Dr. John V.
Ramsden, E. Stanley, Lord (Lancaster. Fyide) Wragg, Herbert
Rankin, Robert Steel-Maitland. Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Young, Rt. Hon.Sir Hilton (S'v'noaks)
Ratetcliffe, Arthur Stevenson, James
Rawson. Sir Cooper Stewart, William J.
Ray, Sir William Stones, James TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—
Reed, Arthur C. (Exeter) Storey, Samuel Captain Sir George Bowyer and Dr.
Marris-Jonas.
NOES.
Acland, Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Dyke Greenwood. Rt. Hon. Arthur Maclay, Hon. Joseph Paton
Adams, D. M. (Poplar, South) Grenfell, David Rees (Glamorgan) Maclean, Nell (Glasgow, Govan)
Attlee, Clement Richard Griffith, F. Kingsley (Middlesbro,'W.) Mallalieu, Edward Lancelot
Barnfield,, John William Griffiths, T. (Monmouth, Pontypool) Mender, Geoffrey le M.
Batey, Joseph Grundy, Thomas W. Mason, David M. (Edinburgh, E.)
Erernays, Robert Hall, F. (York, W.R., Normanton) Maxton, James
Bevan, Aneurin (Ebbw Vale) Hall, George H. (Merthyr Tydvil) Nathan, Major H. L.
Briant, Frank Hamilton, Sir R. W.(Orkney & Zetl'nd) Parkinson, John Allen
Brown. C. W. E. (Notts., Mansfield) Harris, Sir Percy Pickering, Ernest H.
Buchanan, George Hicks, Ernest George Price, Gabriel
Cape, Thomas Hirst, George Henry Rea, Walter Russell
Cocks, Frederick Seymour Hoidsworth, Herbert Roberts, Aled (Wrexham)
Cove, William G. Janner, Barnett Rothschild, James A. de
Cripps, Sir Stafford Jenkins, Sir William Samuel, Rt. Hon. Sir H. (Darwen)
Curry, A. C. Johnstone, Harcourt (S. Shields) Thorne, William James
Daggar, George Jones, Henry Haydn (Merioneth) Tinker, John Joseph
Davies, David L. (Pontypridd) Jones, J. J. (West Ham, Silvertown) Wailtiead, Richard C.
Davies, Rhys John (Westhoughton) Jones, Morgan (Caerphilly) Watts-Morgan, Lieut.-Col. David
Devlin, Joseph Kirkwood, David White, Henry Graham
Edwards, Charles Lansbury, Rt. Hon. George Williams, David (Swansea, East)
Evans, David Owen (Cardigan) Lawson, John James Williams, Edward John (Ogmore)
Evans, R. T. (Carmarthen) Leonard, William Williams, Dr. John H. (Llanelly)
Foot, Dingle (Dundee) Llewellyn-Jones, Frederick Williams. Thomas (York, Don Valley)
Foot, Isaac (Cornwall, Bodmin) Lunn, William Wood, Sir Murdoch McKenzie (Banff)
George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd (Carn'v'n Mabane, William Young, Ernest J. (Middlesbrough, E).
George, Major G. Lloyd (Anglesea) Macdonald, Gordon (Ince)
George, Megan A. Lloyd (Angledea) McEntee, Valentlne L. TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—
Graham, D. M. (Lanark, Hamilton) McKeag, William Mr. John and Mr. Groves.
Resolutions to be reported To-morrow; Committee to sit again To-morrow.