{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/01/savings-banks-trades-unions-deposits", "section": "savings-banks-trades-unions-deposits", "cue_text": "Cries of\" Order!\"", "preceding_text": "cident, out of work, and other benefits? Does he not think that that fact brings it within the provisions of the, Friendly Societies Act? May I ask whether the Operative Bricklayers' Society is not also included in the list of these Friendly Societies; whether it has not, for more than 25 years, deposited money in the Post Office Savings Bank; and whether it has not branches all over the country? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/01/business-of-the-house-saturday-sitting", "section": "business-of-the-house-saturday-sitting", "cue_text": "Cries of\" Agreed!\"", "preceding_text": "ss with regard to Nos. 1 and 2 on the Paper and the Report of Supply are concluded to-night, the substantial business to-morrow will be the Police Bill and the Police (Scotland) Bill . § SIR G. CAMPBELL I protest against taking the Police Bill on Saturday. It is a Bill which affects all the constituencies, a Bill which neither the House nor the country has had an opportunity of understanding—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/01/local-taxation-customs-and-excise-duties", "section": "local-taxation-customs-and-excise-duties", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "he compulsory standards of the Scotch Code.\"—( Mr. Charles Parker. ) § Question proposed, \"That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill.\" § (7.23.) SIR W. HARCOURT I rise, not to argue this question, because the Government are not here to argue the question at all. During all the time that I have been in Parliament I have never seen a piece of more unexampled insolence. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/01/local-taxation-customs-and-excise-duties", "section": "local-taxation-customs-and-excise-duties", "cue_text": "Mr. A. J. BALFOUR: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " the clause will be that you must take the whole number of children attending the schools and divide it into the gross amount of the grant in order to obtain the capitation rate. If the children attending the model schools are left out, of course, the Capitation Grant will be higher. Then, with regard to Subsection A, I understand the right hon. Gentleman agrees to leave it substantially as it is "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/01/local-taxation-customs-and-excise-duties", "section": "local-taxation-customs-and-excise-duties", "cue_text": "Mr. A. J. BALFOUR: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "t, of course, the Capitation Grant will be higher. Then, with regard to Subsection A, I understand the right hon. Gentleman agrees to leave it substantially as it is [Mr. A. J. BALFOUR: Hear, hear!] and that I take to mean this. But in cases of contributory Unions that come under the Act of 1875 the Board of Guardians are bound to contribute to every school in the Union, model or otherwise "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/01/london-county-council-money-bill-no-388", "section": "london-county-council-money-bill-no-388", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "this opportunity of protesting against the doctrine advanced on the Second Reading by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wolverhampton (Mr. H. H. Fowler). That right hon. Gentleman seems to think it is not in the province of the House to discuss any of the proceedings of the County Council. So far as I am able to understand, the County Council represents the late Metropolitan Board of Works. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/05/business-of-the-house-government-business", "section": "business-of-the-house-government-business", "cue_text": "Ministerial Cheers.", "preceding_text": " part of the First Lord of the Treasury, for after the attacks the right hon. Gentleman has repeatedly made on the Rules of the House, nothing that he can do in this direction forms, in my mind, subject for surprise. Of late, the First Lord of the Treasury and many of his Colleagues have been girding at us as though we were responsible for the terrible state into which public business had fallen. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/05/business-of-the-house-government-business", "section": "business-of-the-house-government-business", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "liver up and down the country. One day I read in their speeches that owing to us on this side of the House the Session has been entirely wasted, and then, next day, I read a speech from another hon. Gentleman on the opposite side, to the effect that there never has been such a wonderful Session, and that the Ministry has covered itself with honour. [\"Name!\"] Who says this? Why, all of you. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/aug/05/559-police-bill-no-392", "section": "559-police-bill-no-392", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ot be conferred by this clause. It really requires a study of half a dozen Acts of Parliament to see how this clause applies, but it is quite clear that it only preserves existing rights. § (7.15.) SIR G. CAMPBELL This is a very important question, and it looks to me very much as if a job was being perpetrated. The right hon. Gentleman says that previous Home Secretaries deceived Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/dec/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/dec/03/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " capitalise 463 their extortion from the tenants, not only of the results of the produce of their holdings, but the earnings of their friends in America. There is another consideration which seems to me to be again and again lost sight of. It is this: If you have Home Rule—and Home Rule you will have ere long—one of the important results will be that you will have a real national life in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/dec/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/dec/03/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "s has been delayed by an hon. Member moving the adjournment last night, and who does not even take the ordinary course of continuing the Debate himself next day. And the burning desire of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby for further discussion is 465 evinced by his coming in after the Debate has been going on one hour and a half. The country and the people of Ireland will judge them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jul/01/outrages-in-armenia", "section": "outrages-in-armenia", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\" from the IRISH MEMBERS.", "preceding_text": "h those representations. § MR. F. S. STEVENSON Will the Government instruct Mr. Clifford Lloyd to convey information as soon as possible to the Government with regard to the matters referred to in his question? § *SIR J. FERGUSSON I can assure the hon. Gentleman that it is totally unnecessary to convey such special directions. Mr. C. Lloyd has interested himself greatly in these things. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jul/01/endowed-schools-act-christs-hospital", "section": "endowed-schools-act-christs-hospital", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": ".) MR. SYDNEY GEDGE I rise to move— That an humble address he presented to Her Majesty, praying Her Majesty to withhold her consent from the Scheme of the Charity Commission now before the House for the administration of the foundation commonly called Christ's Hospital. I am aware that an hon. Member who 553 brings forward a Motion of this kind after 12 o'clock at night is voted a great nuisance. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/06/class-iv-education-science-and-art", "section": "class-iv-education-science-and-art", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: It is only for this year.", "preceding_text": "ession. I allude more especially now to a higher grade of female teachers, and I should be glad, indeed, if every encouragement were given to our University Colleges and other collegiate institutions to take up the training of teachers, both male and female. In the Code I find a limit is imposed as to the number of students. I hope that is a limitation which will not be continued in future years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/06/class-v-foreign-and-colonial-services", "section": "class-v-foreign-and-colonial-services", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_text": "ent. § MR. SPEAKER Order, order! The hon. Gentleman is not speaking to the Amendment. § DR. TANNER I was trying to address myself to what has taken place in connection with this Debate, and I was just coming to the point of the reduction of this \"Vote, and the action of this gentleman in America, and the responsibility of the Government for it. I appeal to the common-sense of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/06/electric-lighting-acts-amendment", "section": "electric-lighting-acts-amendment", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order !\"", "preceding_text": " being taken. THE CHAIRMAN No hon. Member moved to report Progress on the Question being put. § MR. CONYBEARE But I objected. THE CHAIRMAN The Question is that Section 2 stand part of the Bill. The hon. Member can now move to report Progress. § MR. CONYBEARE I did not move that, but I said I objected to Clause 1 being put and carried. I objected, and the Chairman had no business to say— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/06/electric-lighting-acts-amendment", "section": "electric-lighting-acts-amendment", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Yes.\"", "preceding_text": "ember can now move to report Progress. § MR. CONYBEARE I did not move that, but I said I objected to Clause 1 being put and carried. I objected, and the Chairman had no business to say— [ Cries of \"Order !\" ] (2.11.) THE CHAIRMAN When I put the Question, \"That Clause 1 stand part of the Bill,\" if any hon. Member had said \"No,\" it would have been my duty to leave the Chair, but no one did so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/06/electric-lighting-acts-amendment", "section": "electric-lighting-acts-amendment", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "emedy we have and 260 how we can go back to that clause, so as to state our objection to it on some other occasion. I wished to oppose the clause, but I objected altogether to going on with the Bill at this hour. I desire to be informed whether we shall have any opportunity of discussing Clause 1? § (2.13.) MR. WADDY (Lincolnshire, Brigg) The moment Clause 1 was put several Members said \"No\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/12/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "he inhabitants of the Scilly Islands. § MR. CHANNING The statements which I have made are made on the authority of a gentleman who resides on the mainland, and who is intimately acquainted with the wants of the inhabitants. He informs me that there was great reluctance on the part of the inhabitants to come forward in the matter owing to certain circumstances to which I do not wish to refer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/12/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Go on.\"", "preceding_text": "bers of the Unionist Party, and what I warn them of is this, that if these infamous clauses are allowed to pass they are simply, instead of settling this question, giving it a chance of being settled, starting an agitation 748 which will convulse everything else, and will make it impossible for the people of England to attend to ordinary politics. Mr. Courtney, I have kept the Committee too long. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/12/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "overnment, but it is quite sufficient for those who attended the Hyde Park meeting, and spoke from platforms, to call this Bill a Public House Endowment Bill; they do not want to know anything more about it. The Government proposal cannot in justice be designated by that name. What is it the Government propose? Why, that out of money which would not be raised at all if not raised for this purpose—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/12/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Mr. MUNDELLA: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "in and again asserted that by this Bill we enable a publican to be paid for 753 his house any sum he may demand. Anything more absurd than that could not be conceived. The publican has no claim at all. If he is paid any sum of money it will be only that sum which a popularly elected body chooses to give him. How can that be called endowment? I heard someone one say sotto voce \"increase of value.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/12/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Opposition laughter.", "preceding_text": "aronet and his friends. § MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne) Give us the names. § MR. RITCHIE I did not intend to do so; but I will trouble the Committee by giving names. Last night I received a letter from a gentleman, with whom I am not personally acquainted, but who has been very prominent in the promotion of a great many very good and philanthropic movements—Sir George Hayter Chubb. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/12/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "barrel on beer furnishes the fund, and thus the trade itself bears the burden. The abolishing of the issue of new licences will at once act. If this measure becomes law I shall set myself to the task of withdrawing licences in objectionable places in this neighbourhood. Assuring you that I shall be happy to be of any further service in the matter, I am, Yours very faithfully, GEORGE HAYTER CHUBB. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/12/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Read.\"", "preceding_text": " beside himself objected. 755 § MR. RITCHIE He says— It is right that you should know I have since found that other members of that Committee who were not present when the vote was taken are in favour of the Government proposal. What I said was that he not only expressed his own opinion, but asserted he expressed the opinion of other members of the Governing Body. I have several others here. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/12/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: How many cases?", "preceding_text": "at Birkenhead for the same purpose, at which an amendment was carried by a majority. At Liverpool the Government licensing scheme was endorsed at a large temperance meeting. At many other places temperance meetings called to denounce the Government measure have carried resolutions by large majorities supporting the proposals of the Bill. This shows at least that public opinion is not all one way. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/23/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: A Select Committee.", "preceding_text": "ry. This proposal very strongly confirms my determination to resist this measure. § (9.52.) MR. RITCHIE The Home Secretary has pointed out that the actuarial calculations on this matter are not 1713 altogether reliable, while some of them have been shown to be incorrect. As I understand, however, there seems to be a general opinion in the House that the matter requires further investigation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/23/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "he Amendment to be withdrawn, as we are some of us altogether opposed to the clause. This is an attempt to thrust English ideas upon Scotland. Until now we have been able to prevent that. We have no system of pensions in Scotland, not even in our Poor Law, and those of us who are opposed to such a system intend to vote against it now. THE CHAIRMAN Is it your pleasure that the Motion be withdrawn? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/23/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "gest that the proper course to adopt is to re-commit the Bill. This is a wholly different measure to that we assented to on the Second Reading. Three of the most important clauses are to be struck out. In the famous words of an Irish Judge, that is enough to capsize the intellect. The House in its corporate capacity assented to the Bill on the ground that it was a Bill to compensate the publican. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/23/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "e o'clock and 11 o'clock are different things. The Government are responding at 11 o'clock to what they were asked at 5 o'clock. § MR. W. H. SMITH The hon. and learned Gentleman is quite mistaken. We were asked to report Progress when the first sub-section was disposed of, and we have agreed to that suggestion. § MR. T. M. HEALY The Government were asked at 5 o'clock to report Progress. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/26/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman aware that the postponement of the Colonial Vote will deprive hon. Members of opportunities of discussing the Agreement between this country and Germany, and will he have the Colonial Vote set down for an early day? § *MR. W. H. SMITH I will endeavour to get the Vote forward as early as possible; but I think that colonial subjects have already been discussed during two evenings. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/26/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Mr. J. MORLEY: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "this question. Instead of adopting the advice of Sir F. N. Broome, that the Legislative Council should be made an Elective Council, the Colonial Office insisted that the Upper House should be a nominee House. The Colonial Office lost a favourable opportunity of winning the approval and 125 consolidating the good will of the masses of Australia. I shall be told that we ought to go by local opinion "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/26/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ng these qualifications when and if they think fit by subsequent statutory enactments of their own. If the hon. Member will look at Sections 5 and 73 of the schedule of the Bill he will see they will have that power, and they may some day use it. We have not the right or the power, under 13 and 14 Vict., cap. 50 and 59, to deprive Western Australia of the right conferred on the colony by Statute. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/jun/26/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Read!\"", "preceding_text": "n. If the hon. Member will look at Sections 5 and 73 of the schedule of the Bill he will see they will have that power, and they may some day use it. We have not the right or the power, under 13 and 14 Vict., cap. 50 and 59, to deprive Western Australia of the right conferred on the colony by Statute. [ Cries of \"No!\"] If hon. Members will take the trouble to read they will see that I am correct. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/mar/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/mar/10/special-commission-1888-report", "section": "special-commission-1888-report", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "en of the Motion precisely as in the case of Motions in relation to Supply when Supply is counted out. I am not concerned to describe the incident of Friday night. I think we may fairly consider it to be an incident which will not occur again. I acknowledge it is the duty of the Government to endeavour by all means to keep a House when Government business is in progress, and especially on Friday. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/mar/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/mar/10/special-commission-1888-report", "section": "special-commission-1888-report", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "nted out that it was generally understood that there should be a Division to-night on the Amendment of the right hon. Member for Mid Lothian. I think it is the first duty of the Government to endeavour to carry out an understanding arrived at between the two sides of the House. I deeply regret the count-out on Friday night. There were 25 Members on this side of the House and only 10 on that side. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/mar/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/mar/10/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "t when last in England he had met Lord Salisbury, who was anxious to know from him how he was progressing with his commission from the Times, in America. The inquiry was given to us to clear our reputation, but Lord Salisbury appeared to be so anxious on the incriminated Members' account, that he could not wait for the evidence to be given in Court, but must hold private conference with this spy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/mar/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/mar/10/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Read.\"", "preceding_text": "ho took into his personal management the conduct of a Newgate case. I have here a letter from Lord Salisbury to Pigott. It is written on the paper of the Foreign Office, and is dated from Hatfield House. It was apparently written long after the forgeries, long after the publication of Parnellism and Crime, and the most curious part of the matter is that the letter is marked by the word \"private.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/mar/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/mar/10/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "kes me there is a great sense of disproportion in this matter. These forged letters have really been a God send to the hon. Member. No one ventured to say that with regard to the forged letters the antecedent probabilities were that the hon. Member had not written them. When the letter with regard to the Phœnix Park murders was published, the hon. Member gave it only a half-hearted denial. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/mar/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/mar/10/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Which may be forged", "preceding_text": "e in the last few days. § * MR. A. J. BALFOUR I do not know, and I have, of course, no right to ask, who gave the letter to the hon. Gentleman, but the letters were written in ample time for production. And, Mr. Speaker, to come down to this debate and for the first time to bring before us materials which may be true, which may be untrue, which may be worthy of credit or not worthy of credit—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/mar/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/mar/10/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " charges? § SIR W. HARCOURT You quoted Boyton's speech, which you say instigated to murder, when it was found that Mr. Parnell did not know that Sheridan and Boyton had been organising outrage. § * MR. A. J. BALFOUR Let me correct some errors into which the right hon. Gentleman has fallen. The Commission did not find that the hon. Member for Cork did not know. It is a not proven charge. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/mar/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/mar/10/adjourned-debate", "section": "adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ler policy, and the first fruits of that policy we show in our demand that you shall offer to the Irish nation and the Irish leaders the reparation which is their due for an admitted wrong. You refuse. Well, the responsibility will lie with yon. Yours is a policy of exasperation, irritation, and insult, and to that we oppose a policy of charity, of generosity, of forgiveness, and of conciliation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Ironical Home Rule cheers.", "preceding_text": "mportant paragraph of the Bill has been treated by the Members who have brought forward the measure. I wish to say for myself, and I am sure my Colleagues on this Bench agree with me, that any such measure, if it had not contained this particular proposal for allocating and absorbing £1,500,000 of the Irish Church surplus, would have received from them the most careful and friendly consideration. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Home Rule cries of \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_text": "h me, that any such measure, if it had not contained this particular proposal for allocating and absorbing £1,500,000 of the Irish Church surplus, would have received from them the most careful and friendly consideration. [ Ironical Home Rule cheers. ] Why should it not? Do hon. Members opposite really pretend that the present Government is disinclined to confer advantages on the Irish labourers? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "fallen on the shoulders of agitators has not been borne by him? I challenge contradiction when I say that the condition of the labourer on a large estate is a thousandfold more pre- 897 ferable to the condition of the labourer under the small farmer. Now, you propose to sweep away the present Irish landlords. [\"No.\"] Hon. Members say \"No;\" but an Irish landlord must have money to live in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Question!\"", "preceding_text": "w when I remarked that to-day Irish rhetoric does not seem to flow in the abundant stream that is usually noticeable when matters of such small importance are under discussion. The hon. Member said that was a novel complaint. And so it is, because this is a very unusual occurrence. During the 15 or 16 years I have been in the House I have never known 901 it necessary to make the complaint before. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_text": "ed. They were brought in as a temporary measure originally, they were extended to seven years; we have had that length of experience, and the Acts will 907 expire next year, and then will be the proper and legitimate time for I the Government to bring forward their own proposals for amendment, and for hon. Gentlemen to offer what suggestions they may think right for the improvement of those Acts. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: He denies it.", "preceding_text": "atement, and, before referring to it, I should like to read to the House the statement of an eminent member of the English Bar who attended these trials for purposes of observation simply; and I take the opportunity of saying I wish other members of the English Bar, who have any doubts as to the manner in which the law is administered in Ireland, would follow the course that Mr. Crompton adopted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ent words of the Mac Dermot, 'made them mad.' An hon. Gentleman interrupted me by saying that Mr. Crompton afterwards denied, or modified or qualified that statement. He did nothing of the kind. I know the letter to which the hon. Gentleman referred. He did not deny or qualify his testimony as to the conduct of the Judge and jury, but said he made some general charges in relation to jury packing. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "Ironical Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": "xperience later in Ireland that when there were cases of agrarian or political moment which created much excitement among people the cry was again raised, and I will just explain how it came about. Some of you may not agree with me. You may think that I am not giving a proper version of affairs, but what happened was this—I speak of Dublin, and I do not know so much about the rest of the country— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "ve cross-examined the officers on the subject, and I know these men did not challenge because a man was a Roman Catholic. I am satisfied that the law officers did not challenge and set men aside because they were Roman Catholics; but the result was that, as these two classes were invariably Roman Catholics, we constantly had juries in Roman Catholic districts almost wholly made up of Protestants. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ction. The hon. Member for Cork (Mr. M. Healy) said this Bill would have the effect of bringing the law back to the ancient Constitutional practice in England and Ireland, and the hon. Member for South Kerry (Mr. Kilbride) said that such things as he complained of could not take place in England. I do not know whether the House is aware that the law is precisely the same in England as in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Certainly.", "preceding_text": "ournal, was denouncing what he called jury packing, and complained that every good Catholic was insulted by being told to stand aside as being unfit to serve as a juryman, and he was interrupted by one of his audience calling out, \"And every good Protestant too.\" Now what did his audience understand? Did they understand that jurymen were directed 916 to stand aside on account of religious belief? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "An. hon. MEMBER: \"Packing.\"", "preceding_text": "ng out, \"And every good Protestant too.\" Now what did his audience understand? Did they understand that jurymen were directed 916 to stand aside on account of religious belief? [An hon. MEMBER: Certainly.] But what did the interruption mean when the hon. Member was referring to the complaint of Catholics, did it not mean that objection was made to both Catholics and Protestants? What did it mean? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Joyce.", "preceding_text": " do so, I can only say—supporter of the Government as I am —that I will support this Bill. If they 918 bring before the House a case in which it can be plainly and distinctly shown that, owing to the action of the Crown in packing a jury with the political or religious opponents of an accused person that an unjust verdict was obtained, I would not for a moment support the maintenance of this law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " know the Catholic is among those to whom the Parish Priest addresses himself, and who are apt to accept his teaching, and we know that what the Parish Priest has told his hearers comes to this: that if they find 919 themselves upon a jury, before whom a co-religionist from the parish is to be tried, it is a duty and obligation upon the juryman to find a verdict for that prisoner, right or wrong. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_text": "s to this: that if they find 919 themselves upon a jury, before whom a co-religionist from the parish is to be tried, it is a duty and obligation upon the juryman to find a verdict for that prisoner, right or wrong. [ Cries of \"No, no!\"] Well, unfortunately, we know perfectly well that it has been done. We know that the influence of many among the Catholic Priesthood has been used from the pulpit—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"It is not true. You dare not repeat that out of doors.\"", "preceding_text": "r! § *MR. C. DARLING To impress upon their followers that the law, as administered, is an alien law, that they owe no obligation to it, and that they owe no obligation to the oath taken as a juror. If after this kind of incitement to the Catholic people, an incitement which has not reached Protestants, the majority of those who are directed to stand aside are Catholics, who can wonder at it? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/14/second-beading", "section": "second-beading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Ridiculous?", "preceding_text": "; and so plain was the case that when the prisoners were afterwards put on their trial they pleaded guilty and admitted that all 921 alleged against them in law and in fact was true. Now I ask hon. Members who do not look on this as a piece of Party tactics to reflect when they are told that the law as regards juries in Ireland is not fairly administered, is it not necessary, is it not absolutely—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/15/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "o deal with this question two years ago, and their proposal for compensation was met with almost universal condemnation out of doors. As to this Bill, it comes before us most unfairly, but as it is before us, we must do our best for our constituents, and deal with the measure in a manner which will be best for the country. Now, the remarkable point about this Bill is that it is a Temperance Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/15/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": " the Treasury Chambers, such circulars as that in which the following passage occurs:— He wishes to express his regret that the efforts of the Government to promote the cause of temperance, by placing stringent regulations upon the issue of new licences, should be 981 met with such hostility by those whom they might legitimately expect to find supporting them in a measure directed to such an end. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/15/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": " Society, and there will, perhaps, be a sprinkling of bishops. The procession will be brought up by the hon. Gentleman the Member for South Tyrone (Mr. T. W. Russell), and, probably, the Solicitor General will preside at one of the platforms. To demonstrate is all we can do. You may laugh. This is your day of power and triumph, and you are making the most of it. You will carry your Bill to-night. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/15/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "rmouth, and I heard another, hardly equalling his best efforts, from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Mid Lothian, and we have just listened to the hon. Member for Northampton. To the latter I do not propose to reply, for I feel perfectly certain that those who know the hon. Member for Northampton best, and are accustomed to the display of his abilities, never treat his speeches seriously. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/15/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "ed houses entirely differs from that of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Mid Lothian. It is the smaller, not the larger, houses which are badly conducted. The large amount of money, sometimes £30,000, invested in the larger public houses is sufficient to induce care in their management. I believe the effect of this Bill will be to cause the automatic closure of houses which are not paying. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/15/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no\" from hon. Members below the Gangway.", "preceding_text": "instance. Well, here is a case 1040 where there was an appeal to Quarter Sessions. There are five cases from the Liskeard Division where the licences are refused; and what is the reason given? \"Licence not necessary for the requirements of the district,\" \"Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto.\" \"Refusal to renew confirmed on appeal to Quarter Sessions.\" Is my friend the Chairman of Committees going to vote? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/22/the-proposed-meeting-at-new-tipperary", "section": "the-proposed-meeting-at-new-tipperary", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: There was a meeting outside.", "preceding_text": "ust be stopped. MR. J. MORLEY Will the right hon. Gentleman state what is the difference between a meeting addressed by Irish Members and a meeting addressed by English Members? § MR. A. J. BALFOUR I do not know what meeting the hon. Gentleman alludes to. If he alludes, as perhaps he does, to the banquet at New Tipperary, I may remind him that that banquet did not take place in the open air. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/22/further-vote-on-account", "section": "further-vote-on-account", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "s about the bullies and robbers who, the hon. Member seems to think, are likely to get hold of Africa. I am in no way interestsd, financially or otherwise, in the matter, but I wish to deprecate both jealousy of Germany and fear of Portugal. I have been in Africa, and I always hope we shall work hand in hand with all civilised Powers, who may set about the task of reducing Africa to civilisation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/22/further-vote-on-account", "section": "further-vote-on-account", "cue_text": "Several hon. MEMBERS: The negotiations are finished.", "preceding_text": "TE FOR THE COLONIES (Baron H. DE WORMS,) Liverpool, East Toxteth May I correct my hon. Friend's error as to Swaziland'.' My hon. Friend is wrong in supposing that Swaziland is within the sphere of British influence. It is a native State that has been ad ministered by a joint European Committee, but negotiations are going on, and it is impossible while the negotiations are pending to say anything. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1890/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1890/may/22/further-vote-on-account", "section": "further-vote-on-account", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No,\" \"Livingstone.\"", "preceding_text": "ion in Africa much better than he found it. An hon. MEMBER The Transvaal? COLONEL NOLAN But the Transvaal was annexed by a Conservative Government. THE CHAIRMAN Order, order! COLONEL NOLAN Well, I do not want to talk about that, though I am quite ready to do so. The hon. Member for Oldham spoke in a deprecatory way of Mr. Stanley, who is certainly the greatest traveller who has lived in our time. "}