{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/25/bill-315-consideration", "section": "bill-315-consideration", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "arliament, so that the country might know the result of their legislation upon a matter which affected the welfare of very important interests. They had a right to expect a statement of the character of the Bill, and of the grounds upon which it was presented to Parliament. He did not think the Government had any reason to complain of the way in which their measures had been treated this Session. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/25/bill-315-consideration", "section": "bill-315-consideration", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "e of very important interests. They had a right to expect a statement of the character of the Bill, and of the grounds upon which it was presented to Parliament. He did not think the Government had any reason to complain of the way in which their measures had been treated this Session. [\"Oh, oh!\"] There had been a great desire on the part of the House to facilitate the Business of the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no !\"", "preceding_text": "erable discussion. The noble Lord might have made his remarks about the hon. Member for Tipperary on Monday evening and the rest of his speech last evening. The noble Lord wished for an explanation of a speech which he (Mr. W. E. Forster) had made on Tuesday evening, and he did not know whether he would be quite in Order in complying with the request; but he felt obliged, to some extent to do so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " But he spoke more with reference to the effect which those words had produced upon a certain Party in that House than to the words themselves. Why had the Irish Party in that House so suddenly withdrawn from opposition to the Estimates? Why had the right hon. Gentleman thought it necessary to threaten Irish landlords? It could only be for the purpose of conciliating the Irish Party in the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ing for it; that was not a complimentary suggestion. He appealed to them to consider what had taken place during the last Session. They had had nothing but noise and menace, and their only satisfaction was this, which he emphatically declared—namely, that they would not allow the British Empire to be pulled to pieces by any 129 such theories. England and Ireland were inseparable now and for ever. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Mr. WARTON: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "amboat or by rail, without having a constable's nose stuck into one's face as if one was a pickpocket. He himself had often felt a very strong inclination to do what an Englishman would do in this country, if a policeman came near him—namely, to tell him to mind his own business and look after the peace. But they could not move anywhere in Ireland without having these ruffians looking after them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\" and Cheers.'", "preceding_text": "e principles of the Constitution their proper course would be to retire. § Question put. § The Committee divided: —Ayes 29; Noes 142: Majority 113.—(Div. List, No. 136.) § Original Question again proposed. THE O'DONOGHUE begged to move that the Chairman do now leave the Chair. In making that proposal he wished, at the same time, to make an earnest appeal to Her Majesty's Government—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Mr. BIGGAR: Hear, hear ! and Laughter,", "preceding_text": "were human beings. § DR. COMMINS I beg pardon. I simply quoted an expression used by the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. § MR. W. E. FORSTER said, that might be; but the hon. Member had put on it an interpretation, which he was quite sure his right hon. Friend never intended. He believed if the police were unarmed that some landlords might be exterminated. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "which he intended to make. He had very much to say about the Irish Constabulary; for he differed from a great deal that had been said, although he approved of a great deal more. He would not, however, touch that now; but he did appeal to the Government not to misunderstand them. He would speak only for himself; indeed, it was very dangerous for anyone speaking as he did to speak for anybody else. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e, if they did not, at some time in the Session, bring forward for discussion this central and fundamental principle, to support which they were sent there. If they did not, their conduct would be quite as ridiculous as if the Party opposite were returned for the purpose of disestablishing the English Church, as 236 he daresay they would be one of these days, and he hoped he would live to see it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "he had always acted towards them in a kind and courteous manner which deserved their warmest acknowledgments. Whatever the noble Lord had done to-night he 242 had done as an official of the Government. Now let him discuss— THE CHAIRMAN The hon. and learned Gentleman is now speaking to a Question of Order. I will answer. § MR. A. M. SULLIVAN Will you kindly allow me to finish my observations? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Groans.'", "preceding_text": "ng into the details of the Estimates was at all improved by four, or five, or six, or it might be 10, hours watchfulness. For the last two or three hours they had made no real progress. No one could deprecate more than he did progress in a policy which must lessen their confidence in Her Majesty's Government, and lessen their confidence in the Liberal Party, from whom they expected better things. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "he minority should give way to the majority! Not at all. The noble Marquess knew a trifle better than that, and immediately after the division they went at it again as fresh as ever. Question again proposed, \"That those 255 words be there inserted.\" Motion made and Question proposed, \"That this House do now adjourn.\" How many was it? Oh ! It was no use counting; they went on in just the same way. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "Dr. LYONS: Hear, hear !", "preceding_text": "f Secretary for Ireland and his noble Friend had led their minority through all the obstructive divisions he (Mr. A. M. Sullivan) had quoted; but the honourable record was not yet finished. They did a little more, and he was going to tell the Committee what it was. Of course, hon. Gentlemen who were there supporting the Government were anxious that they should criticize these Votes. He could only—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"'Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ged to pay 10s. 6d. for an inferior hospital? The verdict of the Coroner's jury was such that the Lord Lieutenant directed the Hospital Board to hold an inquiry into the matters disclosed; but what an idea it was —the Dublin Hospital Board holding an inquiry into matters of illegal treatment. They collected the medical men, and, of course, they adopted the old Scotch system of \"claw me, claw thee."}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ly repudiated any idea that they were actuated by factious motives. The Obstruction had not been initiated by the Irish Members; it had been commenced on the other side. Human nature was human nature, and if they found, as they had done, that this kind of treatment of Ireland was going on year after year, and that for the last six years all the Irish Land Bills were voted down by brute majorities—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "mean one night? or did it mean one night, and, perhaps, one night more, or more than one night? That was the whole point; and he believed that, at the present moment, Her Majesty's Government would be glad to give a night—in fact, they had said so. Everyone would be glad. And they could separate amicably now, if hon. Gentlemen would agree not to report Progress tonight when the Estimates came on. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/26/class-iii-law-and-justice", "section": "class-iii-law-and-justice", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ally had some five or six hours before them in which to discuss these matters; and they had asked for more time, solemnly declining to enter into any agreement as to the precise time they should occupy. They would not set this precedent to English, Scotch, or Welsh consituencies. Give them the privilege of reconsidering the Vote. Trust to the honour of the Irish Members not to prolong the debate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1880/aug/26", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1880/aug/26/no-199-committee", "section": "no-199-committee", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "onsidered to more or less involve the whole principle of the Bill; and, as he did not speak on the second reading, he might be allowed to explain his views now. He approached the subject entirely unprepossessed on one side or another, and he confessed that he had been sorry to hear it suggested that the object of the Government was to promote the interests of one class more than those of another. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/observations-question", "section": "observations-question", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "d a grievance before money was voted to Her Majesty. With regard to the Resolution of the hon. Member, which met with the support of many hon. Members on both sides of the House, and which he intended to second, he thought that the continued existence of the House of Lords in its present form was a grievance such as an hon. Member was entitled to bring before the House before money was voted. 472 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "d appear, according to his right hon. Friend's contention, as if he thought that either members of the Church of England had no conscientious scruples at all, or that, if they had, they were not worth entertaining. The right hon. Gentleman, and the hon. Member who had just sat down, would not dare to carry out the principle of the Amendment, because they knew public opinion would be against them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": " of rates, and they could add that no graveyard should be recognized as working out the purpose of this Amendment where the donor had not, by way of endowment, or of rent charge, set aside a sum adjudged at the arbitrament of the Home Secretary, the President of the Local Government Board, the County Court Judge, or any other great and competent authority, sufficient for keeping up the graveyard. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "rchman regarded as of some weight. Now, he would ask hon. Gentlemen opposite what was their objection to the 510 Amendment which he proposed? The only objection he had been able to see formulated was this. They said when a man had given a piece of ground to the Church for certain purposes, he must be considered to have given it out and out and to have no right to interfere in any proposed change. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Four days.", "preceding_text": "me—it seems to me they would be more likely to feel more acutely the intrusion forced upon them than they would if funerals took place on other days in the week. I admit the arguments in favour of the clause; but it is not equal. It gives an advantage to those who now bury with the Church Service in the Church graveyards of three days in the year over those who bury with Nonconformist ceremonies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "be received with as much good feeling as possible throughout the country. I have no objection to give my vote in favour of the words. § MR. FINIGAN said, he had seldom listened to more able special pleading than had now fallen from the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was rather afraid that this conscientiousness sprang from Office rather than from the heart. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "nt to allow the belief that that alteration would not be altogether acceptable in \"another place,\" to deter them from the assertion of a sound principle of legislation for which they were responsible in that House. It must not be forgotten that they, on that side of the House, claimed to be the Representatives of the people on that question. At any rate, they represented most of their countrymen. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_text": "had opposed this Bill had become enamoured of the Secularists. A country clergyman had told him that the only honest man in the House was the hon. Member for Northampton (Mr. Bradlaugh); and the rest of them, Tories and Liberals alike, were nothing but a pack of humbugs. The hon. Member had said he did not care for the Bill as it stood; let them throw it 549 out, and have a better Bill next year. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and Laughter.'", "preceding_text": " that, following the lines he had laid down for his own guidance during these discussions, the Amendment he now brought forward was the offering of his own deep conviction, based on considerations of decency, and not upon any pretensions of sacerdotalism; and the right hon. Gentleman would 566 understand him when he said that the Amendment was to exclude the ministrations of women in churchyards. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " He had said that ho agreed to cutting out the reference to Convocation, and also to the proposal of the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, 576 as it appeared on the Paper. He went on to say that he had received a communication from the most rev. Prelate the Archbishop of Canterbury, and that he was disposed to accept the suggestion of the most rev. Prelate. What was the character of that suggestion? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/aug/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/aug/28/committee-adjourned-debate", "section": "committee-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "learned Friend the Home Secretary to take \"sweet counsel\" with his Colleagues, so that, at the same time that the clergy were relieved, the Majesty of Parliament might be asserted, and that nothing might be done contrary to those laws of precedent which he so deeply venerated. He therefore, in order to give the Government an opportunity of ascertaining its own mind, would move to report Progress. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jul/05/second-reading-adjourned-debate-on", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate-on", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "House in Dublin, the noble Lord had stated his intention to put the law in force in order to preserve peace in Ireland, and there could be no doubt that before long they would see the Chief Secretary come down to the House and ask for Westmeath Acts, Arms Acts, Curfew Acts, and other similar measures, which were always required for the government of Ireland wheneverthe Liberal Party was in power. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jul/05/second-reading-adjourned-debate-on", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate-on", "cue_text": "Mr. WARTON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " engagement to the poorest part of the population of Ireland, now suffering heavily under a severe visitation of Providence. Under these circumstances, a grave discussion is all I can promise to the House. The noble Lord says it is a Bill introduced for the purpose of \"oiling the Parliamentary machine,\" and for the purpose of bribing supporters; and there are Gentlemen who agree with those views. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jul/05/second-reading-adjourned-debate-on", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate-on", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "w challenged; and while the principle of the Bill is so challenged, as involving robbery, plunder, and confiscation, it is idle for us to tender to opponents who hold such views Amendments which might meet reasonable objections and mitigate alarm. As regards a large portion of the opposition to this measure, I must say it is a revival of the hostility, the smouldering hostility, to the Land Act . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jul/05/second-reading-adjourned-debate-on", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate-on", "cue_text": "Cheers, and cries of \"NO!\"", "preceding_text": " General for Ireland, that the House was asked to say that there was ground for passing the Bill. Of course, there had been an increase in the number of ejectments. How could it have been otherwise, when many rents had been due for two or three years? Could a contrary state of things have been expected in the face of the great anti-rent agitation, which preached to the tenant not to pay his rent? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1880/jul/05", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1880/jul/05/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Much laughter.", "preceding_text": "Army, which he regretted had not been presented. That Report was sure to ooze out through the news- 1603 papers. He thought it ought to he produced. § EARL GRANVILLE rose to Order, and suggested to the noble Lord that it was irregular to allude to a Report not before the House, and which was on a subject not before the House. § LORD DORCHESTER said, he accepted the noble Earl's apology. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1880/jul/05", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1880/jul/05/observations", "section": "observations", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "owed to his reproof; but he might add that he believed the Report to which he had alluded would throw much light on the matter. He begged to support his noble Friend (Earl Fortescue) in every observation he had made. Good riding was, of course, indispensable in the Cavalry; but he held, from his own experience of 25 years, that it was highly useful to Infantry officers and to Naval officers also. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jul/07/bill-135-second-reading", "section": "bill-135-second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Ireland.", "preceding_text": " would be of no avail in Ireland, and that, therefore, there was no need of a Board, such as existed in Scotland. He was surprised that no allusion had been made in the debate to this Report of the Irish Fishery Inspector. Then there was a complaint about there not being any harbour of refuge between Queenstown and the Nore. He had heard of several, and therefore did not know what was alluded to. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/18/bill-205-committee", "section": "bill-205-committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "l as other Members, had sufficient cause for complaint. Like his hon. Friend the Member for the City of Cork, he was disposed to place a great deal of reliance on the statesmanship of the Irish Chief Secretary. What was he to think of the 306 machinery behind the right hon. Gentleman? What was he to think of the officials in Dublin? When the right hon. Gentleman came down and gave evasive answers—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/18/bill-205-committee", "section": "bill-205-committee", "cue_text": "\"Order, order !\"", "preceding_text": "l act as paymasters instead of me. I think it would be a good thing to empower landlords to give up a portion of their loans to Boards of Guardians, for they would constitute a very suitable machinery for the distribution of relief funds in employment, and I suspect that many a landlord would be glad to avail himself of such a provision. I will move that the following clauses be added to the Bill—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/18/bill-205-committee", "section": "bill-205-committee", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "he apparent desire of the Chief Secretary to put on the shoulders of the Irish Members the blame for the postponement of the Bill. The course suggested would obviate all inconvenience, and would expedite the passage of the Bill. § MR. RYLANDS , as an English Member, felt that he was in a difficulty with respect to the Bill considering the view he had taken of the measure of the last Session. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/18/intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "section": "intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "on such bodies despotic powers to deal with vested interests of legal creation, and give effect to all sorts of crotchets and crazes in disregard of individual liberty and social convenience. That is the publican's case, and a very poor one. I must now explain, as well as I can, what is the meaning of this Resolution, this Local Option Resolution. Local Option seems to puzzle a great many people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/18/intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "section": "intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "at he is in favour of reducing the county franchise, and yet that he cannot trust these men he is going to enfranchise to look after a matter such as the licensing of a beerhouse. I do not believe that my hon. Friend the Member for Liskeard (Mr. Courtney) would do that. I know that many of my hon. Friends look with suspicion upon the Resolution, and say that it is the Permissive Bill in disguise. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/18/intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "section": "intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "regard to something I had written about the land, and said I was almost too tender with regard to the rights of property. I think it is 375 impossible for anyone who attempts seriously to undertake the work of reform to deal too tenderly with the rights of property. The foundation of success in regard to the work of reform is to pay due and proper and consistent respect to the rights of property. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/18/intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "section": "intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": " was a clause which shook every man's notions and feelings of security as regarded property, because it empowered either ratepayers or the State to forfeit every publican's licence at the end of 10 years. If there was anything which turned out the Liberal Government of the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Gladstone), and brought in the Conservatives, it was the shock which legislation such as that gave. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/18/intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "section": "intoxicating-liquors-licences-resolution", "cue_text": "\"Order!\" \"Chair!\"", "preceding_text": "low them to come to a close in the course of 20 minutes. It had been said that no arguments of importance had been adduced against the Motion on that side of the House. [\"Divide !\"] If his hon. Friends opposite would allow him to be heard he would try to adduce some arguments against it. He complained of the interruption with which he was met, and expressed a hope that the Speaker would check it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order !\"\"Withdraw !\"", "preceding_text": "ution:— That, having regard to the Reports and proceedings of two Select Committees appointed by this House, Mr. Bradlaugh be not permitted to take the Oath or make the Affirmation mentioned in the Statute 29 Vic. c. 19, and the 31 and 32 Vic. c. 72. In pursuance of that Resolution I must call upon the hon. Member to withdraw. § MR. BRADLAUGH Before withdrawing, Sir, I would ask through you —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Renewed interruption.'", "preceding_text": " appointed by this House, Mr. Bradlaugh be not permitted to take the Oath or make the Affirmation mentioned in the Statute 29 Vic. c. 19, and the 31 and 32 Vic. c. 72. In pursuance of that Resolution I must call upon the hon. Member to withdraw. § MR. BRADLAUGH Before withdrawing, Sir, I would ask through you —[Cries of \"Order !\"\"Withdraw !\"] —before withdrawing, Sir, I would ask through you—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "de of religious liberty during the past two nights—it would be impertinent in me to add one word save this. It is said that you may deal with me because I am isolated. I could not help hearing the ring of that word in the Lobby as I sat outside last night. But is that a reason, that, because I stand alone, that the House are to do against me what they would not do if I had 100,000 men at my back? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Order, order !\"", "preceding_text": "mit to the House that the proper course is that the hon. Member should be desired to attend at the Table to receive a final direction from the Chair that he do withdraw—because the hon. Member, if I understand him aright, awaits the final verdict from the Chair after he has been heard at the Bar. Is it your pleasure that Mr. Bradlaugh be called in? § MR. LABOUCHERE rose to address the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "; MR. LABOUCHERE That is precisely the point I wished to raise—what is the pleasure of the House upon this subject?—because I evidently could not raise that question after Mr. Bradlaugh had been called in and told what the pleasure of the House is. As I understand it, you intend to convey to Mr. Bradlaugh that the pleasure of the House is that he be neither allowed to affirm nor to take the Oath. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "House is, whether it is the pleasure of the House that Mr. Bradlaugh be called in? § MR. LABOUCHERE, who rose amid renewed cries of \"Order,\" said: I apprehend, Sir, I am in Order. Of course you will tell me if I am not, and I will sit down; but I want to say this. You have, or the House has, heard Mr. Bradlaugh at the Bar. Well, it is just possible that the House may have changed its opinion—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "Arms, advancing to and touching Mr. BRADLAUGH upon the shoulder, requested him to withdraw. § MR. BRADLAUGH (while being removed below the Bar): I shall submit to the Sergeant at Arms removing me below the Bar; but I shall immediately return. § MR. BRADLAUGH, again advancing within the Bar, said: I understand that I am ordered out of the House. I claim my right as a Member of this House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " and regretting the Resolution that has been passed by the House, do not think I should be serving any good purpose in opposing the Resolution, or in asking the House to go to a vote on this question. I believe myself that the sending Mr. Bradlaugh into custody will be the first step towards his becoming a recognized Member of this House. § MR. BRADLAUGH Mr. Speaker, I ask through you, Sir — "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "n asking the House to go to a vote on this question. I believe myself that the sending Mr. Bradlaugh into custody will be the first step towards his becoming a recognized Member of this House. § MR. BRADLAUGH Mr. Speaker, I ask through you, Sir — [ Cries of \"Order!\"] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member cannot be heard without the leave of the House. § MR. BRADLAUGH I ask through you, Sir—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/jun/23/parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "section": "parliamentary-oath-mr-bradlaugh", "cue_text": "\"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Parnell) was the true or real issue before the House. THE O'DONOGHUE said, he was sorry to be obliged to differ from his hon. Friend the Member for Cork (Mr. Parnell) on the course he had taken in this question. On most subjects he was quite ready to allow his hon. Friend to speak for him; but on this occasion he must positively decline to do so. § MR. PARNELL said, he rose to explain. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/mar/05/capital-punishment-the-prisons-act-1868", "section": "capital-punishment-the-prisons-act-1868", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\" and \"Move!\"", "preceding_text": " which we used to have of executions, which caused much demoralization. § MR. JOHN BRIGHT Sir, I suppose I am not in Order in following the right hon. Gentleman; but the right hon. Gentleman has made a speech upon a very important, I think a very painful, subject. He has referred to what was recommended by the Commission on Private Executions. One of the objections made before the Commission—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/mar/05/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " I can give the Licensed Victuallers too high a character; because the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in that remarkable speech, which has been such a great blessing to me, that he made at Exeter, the Chancellor of the Exchequer described \"the publicans and beer-shop-keepers of this country as of the very highest class.\" He went to Scripture, and said—\"If you turn to the pages of the Old Testament\"—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/mar/05/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "htful,\" \"That Sir Wilfrid Lawson is a political nuisance.\" Any Resolution of that kind might be received with cordiality and unanimity in the whole House; but I do not see why they should be proposed as Amendments to my Resolution. I am glad to see the hon. and learned Member for Leeds there. I am, indeed; for I road in the newspapers in the autumn that he had been appointed Resident of Zululand. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/mar/05/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "ted that Free Trade in drink had proved a failure; but the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Greenwich now asserted that it had never been fairly tried, and could not be considered, therefore, to have been played out. And another question had been brought forward—that of total prohibition, though it had been touched upon, comparatively, in a slight degree. His hon. Friend the Member for Leatham—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/mar/05/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d to the shape which future legislation should take; and if the Government proposed a measure which did not meet with his ap- 501 proval, the hon. Member for Carlisle might take a division upon it, as any other hon. Member could. No doubt, the hon. and learned Member for Leeds would have some proposition of his own to propose by way of Amendment to the Government Bill, however feeble it might be. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/mar/05/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Sir WILFRID LAWSON: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " should be absolutely taken away from them, because one in 20 of their class occasionally drank to excess, or because the sight of an open public-house door was too severe a trial for the feeble virtues of the friends of the hon. Baronet opposite. The hon. Baronet had kindly referred to him personally, and had suggested that he owed his entrance to that House to the support of a particular trade. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/mar/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/mar/15/bill-104-second-reading", "section": "bill-104-second-reading", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": "n estates of £500. Now, what he had said out-of-doors, and what he now said in-doors, was that it was a most serious matter, in this hasty way, without a word of explanation, in the dying days of Parliament, when the matter could not be deliberately entertained, to add £750,000 to the duty levied upon personalty, when the duty upon personalty was already three or four times as great as on realty. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1880/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1880/mar/19/ireland-the-prime-ministers-letter-to", "section": "ireland-the-prime-ministers-letter-to", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Go on!\"", "preceding_text": "they displayed an arrogance which was really intolerable—utterly intolerable. He was standing on the brink of the grave; but if they were to be his last words, he would say to his countrymen, never submit to the insults of the Saxons, never permit them to domineer over you, but, in public bodies or private bodies, by all lawful means, resist them to the last. He would not detain the House longer. "}