{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/apr/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/apr/19/bill-47-second-reading", "section": "bill-47-second-reading", "cue_text": "The hon. Member read the passages of Blackstone's Commentaries relating to trial by jury.", "preceding_text": "ery cultivated mind—he meant Blackstone. Blackstone described trial by jury as having ever been \"the glory of the English law,\" and especially in criminal cases; for that it— Is the most transcendent privilege which any subject can enjoy, or wish for, that he cannot be affected either in his property, his liberty, or his person, but by the unanimous consent of twelve of his neighbours and equals. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/aug/04/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "their great colonial Empire. Did that not affect the position of their colonies? Did it not affect the prosperity of the Dominion of Canada? He should like to know what part of the British Empire was so interested in having a good understanding between England and America as that Dominion? It had been said that in some matters connected with the Treaty the interests of Canada had been sacrificed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/aug/04/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: New Brunswick.", "preceding_text": "ear, hear!] Now, he wanted to know in what way. He ventured to say that if there was one portion of the British Empire for the benefit of which the Treaty had been concluded it was the Dominion of Canada. And if it could be shown that in any minor details Canada had not got as good a bargain as she might have done, still he contended that the result was so great as to outweigh any small interest. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/aug/04/bill-238-committee", "section": "bill-238-committee", "cue_text": "Several hon. MEMBERS: What is it?", "preceding_text": "le, wine, or other liquors, there shall be charged for every twenty shillings of such annual value of any such dwelling house the sum of sixpence,\"—( Mr. Alderman Lawrence, )— § brought up, and read the first time. § On Question, That the clause be read the second time, § MR. STANSFELD said, he must oppose the clause on the ground of the extra taxation paid by licensed victuallers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1871/aug/04", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1871/aug/04/address-for-a-paper", "section": "address-for-a-paper", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "uld like some information as to the views of the Control Office in reference to meteorology. They appeared to think a fortnight's military manœuvres impossible unless held after harvest and before the equinoctial gales. Now, in the latitude of Berkshire the harvest was very seldom entirely carried before the end of August, and the equinoctial gales often came at the beginning of September. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/17/france-and-germany-terms-of-peace", "section": "france-and-germany-terms-of-peace", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: By both the belligerents.", "preceding_text": "of her long alliance with France, and thus assert her own place in the councils of Europe. Lord Granville's reply was—\"The Government must judge what is best for themselves;\" and objected to even an offer of mediation, or of good offices. Why, Lord Granville had just before said that the Government would most zealously exert themselves, if any application were made to them for their good offices. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/17/france-and-germany-terms-of-peace", "section": "france-and-germany-terms-of-peace", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "le. I do not know why, but he spoke in the highest terms of Lord Granville's father. Now, one is always proud to hear one's father spoken well of; but why such pains should be taken to record in a letter from Lord Granville to Lord Lyons, forming part of the official correspondence upon the French and German War, that M. Thiers remarked to Lord Granville—\"What an excellent fellow your father was—\""}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/17/france-and-germany-terms-of-peace", "section": "france-and-germany-terms-of-peace", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " true, and I received in reply that it was stuck up in Mans and had never been contradicted. The document is in French, but I will translate a few of its expressions— 406 Exert all your activity,\" he says to his soldiers, \"march and parcel out this impious land. Exterminate this horde of brigands which they call the French army. The world cannot rest in peace so long as the French people survive. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/17/france-and-germany-terms-of-peace", "section": "france-and-germany-terms-of-peace", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "years. It had been brewing on the part of France since 1815, and France had only been waiting for an opportunity to make its rush at the throat of Prussia. He had lived in France and had seen a great deal of French society, and he was in France at the time when the Luxemburg difficulty took place. Then mediation was asked, it was given, and it succeeded. Prussia had never been an aggressive Power—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/17/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "A. laugh", "preceding_text": "uld soon be back in renewed health; but he must ask what the right hon. Gentleman at the head of the Government would do in case the First Lord of the Admiralty was unable to resume duty? Would he bring back the octogenarian Peer who had lately been keeping warm the eggs of the Admiralty? Why, the right hon. Gentleman had not in his whole phalanx a gentleman fit to be First Lord of the Admiralty. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/28/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "nts; and the artificial rent was the rent obtained from the soil by the investment of capital. But what right was there to tax the personal property or capital, invested in the soil for improvements, at a higher rate than any other personal property was taxed? It was argued that if property was increased the rates ought to be increased also; but he would not admit that land had increased in value "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/28/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: To farm it.", "preceding_text": "il. It was \"a penal tax;\" and the hon. Baronet was afraid that capitalists might were prevented by it from 1087 seeking an investment in land in this country, and that capital was driven abroad. Now, was that the experience of hon. Members with regard to the purchase of land? [\"Yes!\"] Against such an opinion he would place the experience of anyone who had ever tried to buy a piece of land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/28/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " the poor rates by a grant from the Consolidated Fund, there might be some hope of the poor rates being reduced. But he was quite sure that no step was more certain to increase our expenditure in poor relief than if they were to open the floodgates of the Consolidated Fund, for such a course would damage not only their Poor Laws, but also injuriously affect many other institutions of the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/28/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "come into force to any extent till 1841. Then in 1848 and 1858 the Public Health Act and Local Government Acts were passed, under which various sums were raised in boroughs and towns, and it was a remarkable fact that, of the £8,000,000 increase referred to by the hon. Baronet, £5,000,000 were due to town rates, raised in the small towns as well as in the large and improving cities of the Empire. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/28/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ver intended to draw any distinction between houses and land. § MR. GOSCHEN said, the hon. Baronet was perfectly right not to draw any distinction between houses and land; if he had done so he would have found his argument soon fail him. If the taxation upon real property were divided into two portions it would be found that the rates had increased infinitely more upon houses than upon land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/28/local-taxation-resolution", "section": "local-taxation-resolution", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Land and buildings?", "preceding_text": "f this country, as regarded Imperial taxation, lay in an exceedingly comfortable state. He wished next to ask the House how much did they think that land, exclusive of houses, paid towards Imperial taxation in the United Kingdom, as regarded both amount and percentage? With respect to amount, land by itself paid only £3,000,000 out of the £65,000,000 of taxation, and the percentage was 5½. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/06/committee-progress-4th-july", "section": "committee-progress-4th-july", "cue_text": "\"Order!", "preceding_text": "e occasion to criticize the conduct of the two front Benches was because he was strongly opposed to political tergiversation and political apostacy. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire seemed hardly to be conscious of the position in which he was placed—he did not seem to understand that a long career of political tergiversation had placed him in a position which subjected him—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/10/questions-observations", "section": "questions-observations", "cue_text": "Several hon. MEMBERS: Before an Election Judge!", "preceding_text": "cribed by some Act, and as the Act he has cited does not proscribe any penalties, he may keep his mind at ease. I see several hon. Members of the legal profession around me, and I think they may also be easy in their minds, because I quite agree with the right hon. Baronet the Member for Morpeth (Sir George Grey), that their seats can be only questioned before a Committee of the House of Commons. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/10/questions-observations", "section": "questions-observations", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Spoke, spoke!", "preceding_text": " that was in the Parliament which sat at Coventry, and which was called the Indoctum Parliamentum. That was the origin of the saying, when lawyers met with a foolish man—\"Send him to Coventry;\" he, however, thought the Act in question was repealed by a statute of one of the Georges. § MR. TOMLINE said, the hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney General had enumerated a great many instances. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/10/committee-progress-7th-july", "section": "committee-progress-7th-july", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " it was, and was not prepared to give them the further power the Ballot would bestow, he must say that was not the feeling of the Government. The Government were prepared to give the £12 householder the power which the Ballot would bestow on him—namely, the power of voting according to his own free will and his own conscience, independently of any influence that might be brought to bear upon him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/10/committee-progress-7th-july", "section": "committee-progress-7th-july", "cue_text": "\"Oh! and \"No!", "preceding_text": "fied in any amount of opposition which they might offer, because nothing could be more factious than the conduct of the Government themselves. Of all the instances of misconduct that he could remember in any Leader of that House, there was no parallel to the manner in which the right hon. Gentleman the present Prime Minister had convened his party with the object of coercing the House of Commons. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/10/committee-progress-7th-july", "section": "committee-progress-7th-july", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "reach the country. He knew that hon. Members opposite believed that the country was 1387 dead to politics, because they had been successful in passing measures which were notoriously adverse to the expressed opinion of the people of England. [\"No, no!] He said \"Yes.\" And he founded his assertion upon this—that they on that side of the House directly represented the majority of the English people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/10/committee-progress-7th-july", "section": "committee-progress-7th-july", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Berkshire told them that they, the Conservative party, had no reason to fear the estab- 1390 lishment of household suffrage in the counties; and in a party sense, he (Mr. Newdegate) perfectly agreed with him. But then he had another reason for objecting to that measure. The whole of that measure was introduced because the party opposite feared the progress and effects of democracy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/10/committee-progress-7th-july", "section": "committee-progress-7th-july", "cue_text": "Cheers, and cries of \"Oh!", "preceding_text": "however, and he should have no excuse for not demanding household suffrage for the counties. And when they had granted household suffrage in the counties, he should still toll every adult throughout the country—\"Little as he might think them fitted for the possession of the franchise, yet Parliament had placed them in such a position that he should consider them degraded unless they demanded it.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/11/committee-progress-10th-july", "section": "committee-progress-10th-july", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " vast majority consisted of working men, and most of these working men were connected with mines. Now no miner could go to the poll during the dinner hour, because, inasmuch as the work was divided into shifts of six, eight, or ten hours, there could be no dinner hour. He had the good fortune to possess the confidence of the vast majority of the working classes in the constituency he represented. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/11/committee-progress-10th-july", "section": "committee-progress-10th-july", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "e which was not well founded. He said that they wished to save their own pockets in electioneering matters; but if they could credit the statements of the noble Lord the Member for Tyrone (Lord Claud Hamilton) and others, the liberality of those hon. Members in electioneering matters was boundless. Workmen would be more than compensated for the loss of wages by what they received for their votes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/11/committee-progress-10th-july", "section": "committee-progress-10th-july", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh! and cheers.", "preceding_text": "ry by Her Majesty's Government and their supporters he had not heard a word of 1435 disapproval or refutation of the statement, and therefore he repeated it, and called the attention of the Committee to the fact that they were forwarding a measure to prevent the detection of bribery. The conduct of the Government supporters below the gangway was disparaging to the dignity of the House of Commons. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/11/resolutions", "section": "resolutions", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Yes; more than that.", "preceding_text": "r revenue also, because it involves as much trouble to manage as their expenditure. Then take the late Mr. Brassey, the father of the hon. Member for Hastings. In the course of a year he occasionally turned over £5,000,000 or £6,000,000, and he employed 80,000 men. Why, the Admiralty do not employ 80,000 altogether. Their seamen, marines, clerks, and dockyard labourers do not make up that number. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jul/11/resolutions", "section": "resolutions", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "at the present system not only engenders extravagance, but that it is inevitable it should also involve inefficiency. I ask, whether there is any confidence in our shipbuilding department? Will any hon. Member get up and say that the state of things is satisfactory as regards the building of our ships? What is our position? We have a Controller just appointed who knows but little of his business. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/protection-of-life-and-property-in", "section": "protection-of-life-and-property-in", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: For making a House.", "preceding_text": "tleman the Secretary of State for War, in consequence of what had occurred in the House on Friday night. There was nobody more unwilling than he was to make groundless complaints; but the House had, after three attempts, two of which were rendered unsuccessful, been counted out on that evening, and it was, he believed, understood that the Government were responsible for keeping a House on Friday. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " to his salary in the British Army. That could not be called justice, and if it was a sample of the economy advocated on the Opposition benches, the Liberal Members might well have faith in the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for War. As for the officers not being in a position to speak for themselves, why, if justice were on their side, the English people would be on their side also. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "is Bill on the narrow ground of the interests of the officers; he had proceeded on the far larger and more constitutional ground, that this Bill was in its entirety a waste of public money, that it destroyed an Army while doing nothing to replace it, and that it was destructive, not constructive, in its provisions. They had been told that they would get a worse Bill next year if this did not pass—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "ch of contract, and therefore the State ought either to return their money or pay them interest upon it. In \"another place,\" a noble Lord who had been sent there to bless the Bill had to-night done the other thing, and such opinions deserved consideration. His Amendment was a reasonable one, but he was quite content with the discussion which had been raised, and would not ask the House to divide. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "r the purpose, as the noble Lord the Member for North Leicestershire (Lord John Manners) suggested, to give those Morning Sittings to private Members, but for the purpose of expediting the Public Business; and he must say, when he was told that the rights of private Members were to be sacrificed, that never had the rights of private Members been more fully enjoyed than during the present Session. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": "He hoped that he had sufficiently distinguished the precedents of the right hon. Gentleman, and he trusted that, as he was always anxious to promote the course of Public Business, he would consent to the Army Bill being proceeded with at a Morning Sitting to-morrow. § SIR RAINALD KNIGHTLEY said, that Government were apparently determined to make use of the very narrow and decreasing majority—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "rivate Members. If there was any grave urgency he would not object, and that brought him to what the question they were required to have a Morning 1594 Sitting to-morrow upon was. He was not going into this measure; but it was a measure which ought to be discussed when there was a full attendance of the Members of the House, and not on a day when Government could command a majority of this House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " be discussed when there was a full attendance of the Members of the House, and not on a day when Government could command a majority of this House. [\"Oh, oh!\"] It was only put for that day and hour because Government had found it had raised such hostility, not only on the Opposition side, but on their own side of the House, that they did not believe they could carry it by fair discussion. "}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Thirty-eight.", "preceding_text": "ir own side of the House, that they did not believe they could carry it by fair discussion. [\"Oh, oh!\"] It was perfectly manifest. [\"Oh, oh!\"] It was as manifest as anything could well be, that that was the object and intention of the Government. [\"Oh, oh!\"] If it was not so, why did they not put it down for Thursday? He did not know how many Orders of the Day there might be. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Whose fault?\"", "preceding_text": "e most industrious classes of people in this country? For three Sessions hon. Members had been endeavouring to induce the Government to proceed with that measure. The right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary almost gave a pledge to those interested in that measure—the miners—that it should be pressed through Committee before Easter. For that measure the Government would not give a Morning Sitting. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Whose fault?\"", "preceding_text": " hon. Members had been endeavouring to induce the Government to proceed with that measure. The right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary almost gave a pledge to those interested in that measure—the miners—that it should be pressed through Committee before Easter. For that measure the Government would not give a Morning Sitting. [ Cries of \"Whose fault?\"] Were not the miners honest, industrious men? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/05/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " made at every step in Committee. So far as his knowledge went this was an absolute novelty; and now, when it was asked that Morning Sittings might be resorted to, the Government were met by an opposition which threatened to detain the Speaker in the Chair for the purpose of deliberately preventing the consideration by the House of a measure recommended by the Crown in the Speech from the Throne. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/08/parliament-recent-counts-out", "section": "parliament-recent-counts-out", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "nd of mine happened to have a friend that evening who desired to see the House. Soon after the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Forster) had sat down an hon. Member (Mr. G. Bentinck) rose to continue the debate, and was immediately counted. Then my hon. Friend, after the House was cleared, brought his friend to see it. They walked up the opposite side, and in passing the box observed this piece of paper—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/08/army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "section": "army-regulation-bill-bill-39", "cue_text": "Lord ELCHO: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "country would derive considerable advantage from the rapidity of promotion facilitated in this way. But he supposed they would be told, and they were always told, that what they were proposing was confiscation, and he was sure the noble Lord the Member for Haddingtonshire would not be able to avoid telling them that. But he had always understood that confiscation was the confiscation of property. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/22/bill-103-committee", "section": "bill-103-committee", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!", "preceding_text": "rarr; 22 June 1871 → Commons Sitting → ELECTIONS (PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL) (re-committed) BILL. [BILL 103.] COMMITTEE. HC Deb 22 June 1871 vol 207 cc401-90 401 § Order for Committee read. § MR. G. BENTINCK rose to move— That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to make provision therein for the better prevention of bribery and corruption at Elections. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/22/bill-103-committee", "section": "bill-103-committee", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ion that the general impression with regard to bribery is exaggerated, judging from the cases I tried. … . With the exception of three places, bribery did not exist to any great extent. …. In a very great number of cases the charge was perfectly ridiculous. He was aware that hon. Gentlemen opposite complained of the increase, not of bribery in its grosser forms, but of intimidation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/22/bill-103-committee", "section": "bill-103-committee", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "hey should conduct them like reasonable beings, or like raving maniacs. Now, he would not cross the Atlantic to America, and he would not accompany the hon. Gentleman to the Antipodes—he would take two elections, both held in the same country, and for the same purpose—the one with, and the other without a Ballot. They all remembered the London School Board election; he voted twice in that contest "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/22/bill-103-committee", "section": "bill-103-committee", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: The Army Bill.", "preceding_text": "er from yonder benches. On the contrary, he admitted that the Ministry had behaved loyally to their party in this matter. But he might fairly ask, if they did not pass the Bill, what would be the net result of their labours this Session? Putting aside the University Tests Bill —which was a fait accompli from the first—their legislative triumphs would be confined to a Coercion Bill and a Dog Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/22/bill-103-committee", "section": "bill-103-committee", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "o our house, and the members agreed that it should be decided by Ballot. We both canvassed; there were 30 members, and I got 20 promises, so I thought myself sure. When the time came I got 10 votes, and lost. But that was not the worst of it, for in the course of the day the whole 20 came in, one after the other, and said—'My dear fellow, I am so sorry you did not win; you know I voted for you.'\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/22/bill-103-committee", "section": "bill-103-committee", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: No, no!", "preceding_text": "d be in any way as effective as the Ballot, because under it the state of the poll would 472 never be known until it was too late to alter it. The only objection made by the opponents of the Ballot in the Committee which sat last year was to the statement that the Ballot was a cure for every form of corruption; and no division was made by them on the assertion that it also prevented intimidation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/22/bill-103-committee", "section": "bill-103-committee", "cue_text": "\"Go on! and \"Order!", "preceding_text": "llot, on the ground that there was such apathy in the colony that the Ballot was not put to a fair test. But what did Sir James Fergusson say? Though Sir James Fergusson did not think the test complete in the colony over which he ruled, he was so far convinced of its value that he believed— If trying times were to come, the evils of corruption and intimidation would be mitigated if not prevented. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/jun/22/bill-103-committee", "section": "bill-103-committee", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": " him to do so, that he was not in the habit of endeavouring to produce a false impression. Sir James Fergusson went on to say— That it must be remembered that, few as were the opportunities which that system afforded for the entrance of such evils, it could not be said as 474 yet to have felt the strain of trial or to have brought to bear upon it the ingenuity of zealous and unscrupulous persons. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/mar/03/south-africa-resolution", "section": "south-africa-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ntention was that States should become adults before they had any business to think of confederation. In reply, he would point to that marvellous aggregation of commonwealths at the other side of the Atlantic—bone of our bone, worshipping in our language, and whose Courts every day quoted the decisions of our Judges. What was their condition at the time they broke from the yoke of a lunatic king? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1871/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/may/12/motion-for-a-select-committee", "section": "motion-for-a-select-committee", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": "us. Self-reliance did not mean separate existence, for a Colony might be great and self-reliant, and still maintain an intimate connection with the mother country. The Government wished to retain the Colonies; but they wished to retain them 767 bound to this country by ties of kindred and affection. They were sometimes taunted with having told the Colonies that they might go free if they pleased. "}