[322:1] Notably in recent years that of 1903 on the War in South Africa, Com. Papers, 1904, XL., 1 et seq.; and that of 1904 on the Beck case, Com. Papers, 1905, LXII., 465 et seq.
[322:2] "The very structure and furniture . . . of the Chamber in which the Grand Committee would sit, were designed to carry out the idea of government by Party." Hans. 4 Ser. XXII., 1162.
[322:3] Hans. 4 Ser. XCII., 570.
[322:4] Second Rep. of Com. on House of Commons (Procedure), 1906, Qs. 100, 280, 341.
[323:1] In the anomalous standing committee for Scotch business the condition of things was very different. It reported upon only one bill, that on Local Government for Scotland, and on this there were no less than sixty-three divisions, of which twenty-one were party votes.
[323:2] Both of the party votes in the standing committees of Law and Trade in 1894 were on the Church Patronage Bill, which was not a government bill.
[323:3] The Agriculture and Technical Education (Ireland) Bill.
[323:4] The method of making these computations is the same as that described in the chapter on "The Strength of Party Ties," and the divisions in the committees are taken from their reports in the blue books for the year.
The figures may be presented in other ways which give much the same result. If we take only the party in power, to see in what proportion of divisions it cast a party vote—paying no attention to the votes of the members of the Opposition—we find it as follows:—
| 1894: | House 81%; | Select Coms. 49%; | Stand. Coms. Law & Trade 43% |
| 1899: | House 91%; | Select Coms. 34%; | Stand. Coms. Law & Trade 59% |
| 1900: | House | Select Coms. 18%; | Stand. Coms. Law & Trade 43% |