§ Mr. ATTLEEMay I ask the Prime Minister what business it is proposed to take next week, and how far he proposes to go to-night, in the event of the Motion on the Paper being carried.
§ The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)Perhaps it will be better to allow me, first of all, to state that the report of the Committee of Privileges was laid on the Table last night. It will be printed and circulated to Members with the Votes on Saturday morning. Members therefore have adequate time to study the report before the Debate—I shall announce the date for the Debate in a minute. May I further add that, if any Members who wish that their Friday Papers, received on Saturday, should be posted to them in order that they may get this report as quickly as possible, will leave their addresses at the Vote Office, the Papers received by hand and delivered as a rule on Saturday, will be posted to them early that morning.
§ Mr. THORNEWill it be possible to have them delivered by Friday morning?
§ The PRIME MINISTERWe have found it impossible to So that. Regarding the business itself:
Monday: Further consideration of the Finance Bill, in Committee;
Tuesday: Conclusion of the Committee stage of the Finance Bill; further progress will be made with the Statutory Salaries (Restoration) Bill, and the Gas Undertakings Bill from the House of Lords;
1084 Wednesday: Consideration of the report of the Privileges Committee; Committee stage of the Milk Bill; further consideration of the British Sugar (Subsidy) Bill;
Thursday: Supply [8th Allotted Day], Ministry of Health Estimate;
Friday: Discussion of a Motion to approve the Central (Coal Mines) Scheme (Amendment) Order, 1934.
On any day, if there is time, other Orders will be taken.
Regarding the business for to-night, we will try to get the first five Orders on the Paper, but we have no intention whatever of keeping the House sitting inordinately late.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODMay I ask whether the Palestine Loan Bill is likely to be considered to-night?
§ Mr. PIKECan the hon. Gentleman say, with respect to the answer to the first question, whether or not it is intended to circulate the report of the Committee of Privileges to the Press in order that it shall appear in Saturday's issues, which would mean that the Press would have it in advance of the vast majority of Members of this House?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIt will be circulated to the Press in the ordinary way. If an appreciable time is to elapse between the publication and the Debate here, the Press in any event is bound to have it before the House discusses it.
§ Mr. THORNEIf any Member comes here on Saturday morning, will it be possible for him to get the report from the Vote Office?
§ The PRIME MINISTERYes. I am under the impression that the Vote Office is open on Saturday morning. If it is open, Members can have their Papers on that morning.
§ Mr. KIRKWOODArising out of the question regarding the accident which happened in Viewpark Colliery, Uddingston; will the Prime Minister instruct the Secretary for Mines to issue instructions that Sunday work in mines be stopped except where necessary? I raised this question before. [HON. MEMBERS: "Order!"] Here is a case where a man was killed.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThis is not the time to raise the question.
§ Motion made, and Question put,
§ "That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted, at this day's Sitting,
1086§ from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[The Prime Minister.]
§ The House divided: Ayes, 246; Noes, 51.
1087| Division No. 271.] | AYES. | [3.40 p.m. |
| Adams, Samuel Vyvyan T. (Leeds, W.) | Emrys-Evans. P. V. | Macquisten, Frederick Alexander |
| Agnew, Lieut.-Com. P. G. | Entwistle, Cyril Fullard | Maitland, Adam |
| Ainsworth, Lieut.-Colonel Charles | Erskine-Bolst, Capt. C. C. (Blackpool) | Manningham-Buller, Lt.-Col. Sir M. |
| Albery, Irving James | Everard, W. Lindsay | Margesson, Capt. Rt. Hon. H. D. R. |
| Allen, Sir J. Sandeman (L'pool, W.) | Ford, Sir Patrick J. | Marsden, Commander Arthur |
| Allen, Lt.-Col. J. Sandeman (B'k'nh'd.) | Fox, Sir Gifford | Mayhew, Lieut.-Colonel John |
| Allen, William (Stoke-on-Trent) | Fraser, Captain Sir Ian | Mills, Major J. D. (New Forest) |
| Anstruther-Gray, W. J. | Ganzonl, Sir John | Milne, Charles |
| Apsley, Lord | Gilmour. Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir John | Mitchell, Sir W. Lane (Streatham) |
| Aske, Sir Robert William | Gluckstein, Louis Halle | Monsell, Rt. Hon. Sir B. Eyres |
| Astbury, Lieut.-Com. Frederick Wolfe | Glyn, Major Sir Ralph G. C. | Moore, Lt.-Col. Thomas C. R. (Ayr) |
| Astor, Viscountess (Plymouth, Sutton) | Goff, Sir Park | Moreing, Adrian C. |
| Balfour, Capt. Harold (I. of Thanet) | Goodman, Colonel Albert W. | Morgan, Robert H. |
| Barclay-Harvey, C. M. | Graham, Sir F. Fergus (C'mb'rl'd, N.) | Morris-Jones, Dr. J. H. (Denbigh) |
| Barton, Capt. Basil Keisey | Granville, Edgar | Moss, Captain H. J. |
| Beaumont, Hon. R. E. B. (Portsm'th, C.) | Grattan-Doyle, Sir Nicholas | Mulrhead, Lieut.-Colonel A. J. |
| Benn, Sir Arthur Shirley | Grimston, R. V. | Munro, Patrick |
| Bennett, Capt. Sir Ernest Nathaniel | Gritten, W. G. Howard | Nation, Brigadier-General J. J. H. |
| Bernays, Robert | Guinness, Thomas L. E. B. | Nicholson, Rt. Hn. W. G. (Petersf'ld) |
| Betterton, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry B. | Gunston, Captain D. W. | Normand, Rt. Hon. Wilfrid |
| Blaker, Sir Reginald | Guy, J. C. Morrison | Ormsby-Gore, Rt. Hon. William G. A. |
| Blindell, James | Hacking, Rt. Hon. Douglas H. | Palmer, Francis Noel |
| Boulton, W. W. | Hales, Harold K. | Patrick, Colin M. |
| Bowstor, Col. Sir T. Vansittart | Hall, Capt. W. D'Arcy (Brecon) | Peat, Charles U. |
| Bowyer, Capt. Sir George E. W. | Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry | Petherick, M. |
| Boyd-Carpenter, Sir Archibald | Harbord, Arthur | Peto, Sir Basil E. (Devon, Barnstaple) |
| Brass, Captain Sir William | Hartington, Marquess of | Peto, Geoffrey K.(W'verh'pt'n, Bilston) |
| Broadbent, Colonel John | Hartland, George A. | Pike, Cecil F. |
| Brocklebank, C. E. R. | Harvey, Major S. E. (Devon, Totnes) | Potter, John |
| Brown, Col. D. C. (N'th'I'd., Hexham) | Haslam, Henry (Horncastle) | Powell, Lieut.-Col. Evelyn G. H. |
| Brown, Ernest (Leith) | Headlam, Lieut.-Col. Cuthbert M. | Raikes, Henry V. A. M. |
| Brown, Brig.- Gen. H. C. (Berks., Newb'y) | Hellgers, Captain F. F. A. | Ramsay, Capt. A. H. M. (Midlothian) |
| Browne, Captain A. C. | Henderson, Sir Vivian L. (Chelmsford) | Ramsay, T. B. W. (Western Isles) |
| Buchan-Hepburn, P. G. T. | Heneage, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur P. | Ramsbotham, Herwaid |
| Bullock, Captain Malcolm | Hills, Major Rt. Hon. John Waller | Ramsden, Sir Eugene |
| Burghley, Lord | Hore-Belisha, Leslie | Rathbone, Eleanor |
| Burgin, Dr. Edward Leslie | Horobin, Ian M. | Rawson, Sir Cooper |
| Burnett, John George | Horsbrugh, Florence | Reed, Arthur C. (Exeter) |
| Cadogan, Hon. Edward | Howard, Tom Forrest | Reid, Capt. A. Cunningham- |
| Campbell-Johnston, Malcolm | Howitt, Dr. Alfred B. | Reid, David D. (County Down) |
| Caporn, Arthur Cecil | Hudson, Capt. A. U. M. (Hackney, N.) | Reid, James S. C. (Stirling) |
| Carver, Major William H. | Hurst. Sir Gerald B. | Reid, William Allan (Derby) |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Iveagh, Countess of | Renwick, Major Gustav A. |
| Cautley, Sir Henry S. | Jackson, Sir Henry (Wandsworth, C.) | Rabinson, John Roland |
| Cayzer, Maj. Sir H. R. (Prtsmth., S.) | Jesson, Major Thomas E. | Rosbotham, Sir Thomas |
| Cazalet, Thelma (Islington, E.) | Jones, Lewis (Swansea, West) | Ross Taylor, Walter (Woodbridge) |
| Chapman, Sir Samuel (Edinburgh, S.) | Ker, J. Campbell | Runge, Norah Cecil |
| Clayton, Sir Christopher | Kerr, Hamilton W. | Russell, Alexander West (Tynemouth) |
| Cobb, Sir Cyril | Keyes, Admiral Sir Roger | Russell, R. J. (Eddisbury) |
| Colfox, Major William Philip | Kimball, Lawrence | Rutherford, John (Edmonton) |
| Collins, Rt. Hon. Sir Godfrey | Knox, Sir Alfred | Salmon, Sir Isidore |
| Coiville, Lieut.-Colonel J. | Lamb, Sir Joseph Quinton | Samuel, Sir Arthur Michael (F'nham) |
| Conant, R. J. E. | Lambert, Rt. Hon. George | Sandeman, Sir A. N. Stewart |
| Cook, Thomas A. | Latham, Sir Herbert Paul | Sanderson, Sir Frank Barnard |
| Copeland, Ida | Leckie, J. A. | Sassoon, Rt. Hon. Sir Philip A. G. D. |
| Cranborne, Viscount | Leech, Dr. J. W. | Savery, Samuel Servington |
| Crooke, J. Smedley | Lennox-Boyd, A. T. | Shakespeare, Geoffrey H. |
| Crookshank, Col. C. de Windt (Bootle) | Levy, Thomas | Shaw, Helen B. (Lanark. Bothwell) |
| Crookshank, Capt. H. C. (Galnsb'ro) | Lindsay, Kenneth (Kilmarnock) | Shaw, Captain William T. (Forfar) |
| Crossley, A. C. | Lister, Rt. Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe. | Shepperson, Sir Ernest W. |
| Culverwell, Cyril Tom | Liewellin, Major John J. | Shute, Colonel J. J. |
| Davies, Maj. Geo. F.(Somerset, Yeovil) | Lioyd, Geoffrey | Simon, Rt. Hon. Sir John |
| Davison, Sir William Henry | Lockwood, John C. (Hackney, C.) | Skelton, Archibald Noel |
| Denman, Hon. R. D. | Loftus, Pierce C. | Smiles, Lieut.-Col. Sir Walter D. |
| Dickle, John P. | Lovat-Fraser. James Alexander | Smith, Sir Robert (Ab'd'n & K'dine, C.) |
| Donner, P. W. | Lumley, Captain Lawrence R. | Smithers, Sir Waldron |
| Dower, Captain A. V. G. | McConnell, Sir Joseph | Somervell, Sir Donald |
| Drewe, Cedric | McCorquodale, M. S. | Somerville, Annesley A. (Windsor) |
| Duncan, James A. L. (Kensington, N.) | MacDonald. Rt. Hn. J. R. (Seaham) | Soper, Richard |
| Dunglass. Lord | McEwen, Captain J. H. F. | Stanley, Hon. O. F. G. (Westmorland) |
| Elliot, Rt. Hon. Walter | McKie, John Hamilton | Stevenson, James |
| Elliston, Captain George Sampson | McLean, Major Sir Alan | Stewart, J. H. (Fife, E.) |
| Elmley, Viscount | McLean, Dr. W. H. (Tradeston) | Strauss, Edward A. |
| Emmott, Charles E. G. C. | Macpherson, Rt. Hon. Sir Ian | Sugden, Sir Wilfrid Hart |
| Sutcilffe, Harole | Ward, Lt.-Col. Sir A. L. (Hull) | Wills, Wilfrid D. |
| Tate, Mavis Constance | Ward, Irene Mary Bewick (Wallsend) | Wilson, Lt.-Col. Sir Arnold (Hertt'd) |
| Taylor, Vice-Admiral E. A. (P'dd'gt'n, S.) | Ward, Sarah Adelaide (Cannock) | Wilson, Clyde T. (West Toxteth) |
| Thomas, Rt. Hon. J. H. (Derby) | Wardlaw-Milne, Sir John S. | Windsor Clive, Lieut.-Colonel George |
| Thomas, James P. L. (Hereford) | Watt, Captain George Steven H. | Wise, Alfred R. |
| Thompson, Sir Luke | Wedderburn, Henry James Scrymgeour | Worthington, Dr. John V. |
| Todd, A. L. S. (Kingswlnford) | Wells, Sydney Richard | |
| Touche, Gordon Cosmo | Whyte, Jardine Bell | TELLERS FOR THE AYES— |
| Tryon, Rt. Hon. George Clement | Williams, Herbert G. (Croydon, S.) | Sir Frederick Thomson and Sir Victor Warrender. |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland, Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Dyke | Griffiths, George A. (Yorks. W. Riding) | Owen, Major Goronwy |
| Attlee, Clement Richard | Hall. George H. (Merthyr Tydvil) | Rea, Walter Russell |
| Banfield, John William | Hamilton, Sir R. W. (Orkney ft Zetl'nd) | Sinclair, Maj. Rt. Hn. Sir A. (C'thnest) |
| Batey, Joseph | Harris, Sir Percy | Thorne, William James |
| Brown, C. W. E. (Notts., Mansfield) | Healy, Cahir | Tinker, John Joseph |
| Caps. Thomas | Holdsworth, Herbert | Wedgwood, Rt. Hon. Joslah |
| Cocks, Frederick Seymour | Jenkins, Sir William | West, F. R. |
| Cove, William G. | John, William | White, Henry Graham |
| Cripps, Sir Stafford | Jones. Morgan (Caerphilly) | Williams, David (Swansea, East) |
| Curry, A. C. | Kirkwood, David | Williams, Edward John (Ogmore) |
| Dagger, George | Lawson, John James | Williams, Dr. John H. (Lianelly) |
| Davies, Rhys John (Westhoughton) | Leonard, William | Williams, Thomas (York, Don Valley) |
| Dobbie, William | Logan, David Gilbert | Wilmot, John |
| Edwards, Charles | McEntee, Valentine L. | Wood, Sir Murdoch McKenzie (Banff) |
| Foot, Isaac (Cornwall, Bodmin) | Maclean, Nell (Glasgow, Govan) | Young, Ernest J. (Middlesbrough, E.) |
| George, Major G. Lloyd (Pembroke) | Mason, David M. (Edinburgh, E.) | |
| Graham, D. M. (Lanark, Hamilton) | Maxton, James | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.— |
| Grenfell, David Rees (Glamorgan) | Milner, Major James | Mr. Groves and Mr. G. Macdonald. |
Question, "That the Clause be read a Second time," put, and agreed to.