{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/apr/30/business-of-the-house-proceedings-on-the", "section": "business-of-the-house-proceedings-on-the", "cue_text": "Cries of \" No!\" from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "1884 only 27, and in 1884-5 only 10. I propose now to provide that private Members should have the opportunity of disposing of some of the Bills that have passed a Second Reading and now stand in Committee. We must ask the House, first of all, to dispose of the Land Purchase Bill . That measure has been accepted in principle on both sides, and I believe there is a desire that it should be passed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/apr/30/business-of-the-house-proceedings-on-the", "section": "business-of-the-house-proceedings-on-the", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \" Hear, hear,\" and \"Free \"", "preceding_text": "essfully delayed the progress of Public Business for some time. § MR. LABOUCHERE (Northampton) Hear, hear. § MR. W. H. SMITH The hon. Member cheers that, and accepts the statement, and it is because of that delay that I am compelled to make the present appeal to the House. As soon as the Land Purchase Bill is disposed of, it will be our duty to introduce a measure for assisted education "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/apr/30/business-of-the-house-proceedings-on-the", "section": "business-of-the-house-proceedings-on-the", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "the first part of June are concerned. If the right hon. Gentleman should be of opinion that it is undesirable that we should take next Wednesday, and if the concession of that day would remove objections on the part of the House, I am perfectly prepared to fall in with his view. There is another point to which I must refer. There is a general desire that the prorogation should take place in July. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/apr/30/business-of-the-house-proceedings-on-the", "section": "business-of-the-house-proceedings-on-the", "cue_text": "cries of \"Oh !\"", "preceding_text": "o the House that they should continue to sit during the month of August. The arrangement I have referred to has reference to a Prorogation before the end of July. The House, I think, has fair reason to expect that that should take place. Well, Sir, in addition to the business which I have described, there is Supply, and we have 1780 practically—allowing three or four days' holiday at Whitsuntide— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/apr/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/apr/30/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "re time should be taken to consider the effect of the Amendment, and I, therefore, move that the Chairman report Progress and ask leave to sit again. § Motion made, and Question proposed, \" That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" — (Mr. Joicey.) § (11.59.) MR. CONYBEARE I want to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, considering the muddle we have all got into "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/aug/04/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Sir G. CAMPBELL: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ey might become guards and protectors of our frontier. It is quite true that, in pursuance of a policy of this kind, occasional outbreaks on the frontier will take place. In the course of last year there were outbreaks of that kind in the Black Mountain, to which the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy has alluded. But these are the necessary and natural incidents which happen in the pursuit of our policy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/aug/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/aug/04/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Twenty-six times.", "preceding_text": " is a most serious matter that we should raise its price from time to time. But Mr. Pringle Kennedy stated at the last Indian Congress that— There are millions of men and women and children who have their lives shortened, their physique stunted, their moral and intellectual faculties blunted by lack of cheap salt. I am told the present tax on salt amounts to 16 times the prime cost of production. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/05/adjournment-of-the-house", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "been asleep upstairs, came down and turned the three \"desperate ruffians\" out of the house without their committing any assault upon him—all three of them, the men who were shot and the man who providentially escaped the second shot! They were at the time so drunk that the witnesses say they were falling about outside the public house. They were, therefore, certainly not in a dangerous condition. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/05/adjournment-of-the-house", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "on. Friend will not defend. It is not for me to attempt to defend Mr. Justice Charles, who is far above any words that I can use in his praise. But, as he has been criticised, I would draw attention to this: that there were circumstances in the case which might lead to a conclusion very hostile indeed to Hargan. When he had shot these two men, he used an extraordinary and unpardonable expression. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/05/tithe-rent-charge-recovery-bill-no-184", "section": "tithe-rent-charge-recovery-bill-no-184", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\">", "preceding_text": "ich are met by Sections 48 and 162 of the County Court Acts, namely, assault, rescue, insulting the Judge, bailiff, or Registrar, or wilful misbehaviour in Court. It is the duty of those who desire to see justice properly administered to endorse the principle that the Court should have power to protect its own officers. The hon. Gentleman proposes that if an admitted breach of the law takes place—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/05/tithe-rent-charge-recovery-bill-no-184", "section": "tithe-rent-charge-recovery-bill-no-184", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "ond this, he may call on the bystanders at their peril to assist him in these arrests, and, as far as I can make out, the arrested persons may be put in prison and kept there until they can be taken before the Judge, who will then have to decide whether the law has been broken, and what are the penal consequences that should ensue. We say that this is an inequitable mode of administering the law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from Mr. BALFOUR.", "preceding_text": "ty; that I was unnerved by the sight of broken heads. Well, I was brought up in a surgery, and the sight of broken heads has no alarms for me. I have said in public what I have to say on this point. I have been prepared ever since the incident happened to attest everything I have said in the most solemn manner in which the English law allows me to do so. The right hon. Gentleman cannot deny that. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear!\" from Mr. BALFOUR.", "preceding_text": ", I was brought up in a surgery, and the sight of broken heads has no alarms for me. I have said in public what I have to say on this point. I have been prepared ever since the incident happened to attest everything I have said in the most solemn manner in which the English law allows me to do so. The right hon. Gentleman cannot deny that. [\"Hear, hear!\" from Mr. BALFOUR.] It is no fault of mine. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from Mr. BALFOUR, and cheers.", "preceding_text": " any landlord who should make peace with his mutinous tenants. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Indeed, I did nothing of the sort. § MR. J. MORLEY The right hon. Gentleman did not say that in the words I have used, but he said something which was more violent. He said that he would rather beg his bread—— § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Yes, go on. § MR. J. MORLEY —than give in to the Plan of Campaign. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " Gentleman did not say that in the words I have used, but he said something which was more violent. He said that he would rather beg his bread—— § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Yes, go on. § MR. J. MORLEY —than give in to the Plan of Campaign. [\"Hear, hear!\" from Mr. BALFOUR, and cheers. ] Yes, you cheer that; you defend the attitude of the Chief Secretary; but the words I used in no respect differ—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "would rather beg his bread—— § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Yes, go on. § MR. J. MORLEY —than give in to the Plan of Campaign. [\"Hear, hear!\" from Mr. BALFOUR, and cheers. ] Yes, you cheer that; you defend the attitude of the Chief Secretary; but the words I used in no respect differ—[ Cries of \"Oh!\"] What is refusal to give way to the Plan of Campaign but a refusal to make peace with the tenants? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " she was assailed. I put a question on the subject to the Chief Secretary, who said it was true. That young lady was assaulted on her way home, and that Presbyterian Manse has been under police protection ever since. Mr. Hume, a man who has gone in and out amongst his people in the town and neighbourhood for 25 years, walks the roads as I have seen him with a six-chambered revolver in his pocket. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: It does not support you.", "preceding_text": "hat the Scotsman sent one of its ablest men to Tipperary, and I am quite sure that the instructions he got were these: \"Give us the facts; we can reason upon them for ourselves in Scotland.\" I will not quote the evidence of the Scotsman, but I will quote that of the Cork Examiner. I do not know on which side that paper is 718 now. I do not know which Party it supports, or whether it supports any. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": " of those charges. Am I giving an untrue description of 727 the speech of the hon. Member? What did it consist of? With his usual ability and his usual decision he made attacks upon the Nationalist Members from Ireland and upon certain Roman Catholic priests; he contended that the Plan of Campaign in general, and in particular as it had been exhibited at Tipperary, was illegal and was pernicious. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Opposition laughter and ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": " that booing the police was regarded as a criminal offence. This was the charge, so far as I can make out, which he made in his speeches at Swindon and St. Helen's. There is booing, no doubt. A crowd is assembled to boo the escort 774 or cheer the prisoner. The police who escort the prisoner are booed. I apprehend that that crowd, from the fact of doing these things, would be an illegal assembly. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " was it that every time that the right hon. Gentleman referred to this subject he omitted to state the fact that there was a large crowd and a relatively small escort, that the crowd booed the police and cheered the prisoners, and all this in a town which had for months been the scene of rioting and disorder, and where on legal evidence we have it that the police had to fire and had killed a man? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ment or theory 775 the astounding conclusion that Colonel Caddell was not justified in stopping the men coming in, even if he believed they would be riotous when there. That is not law or common sense in Ireland, and it is not law or common sense in England. The idea that a Magistrate must be precluded from stopping a disorderly, or noisy, or, for the sake of argument, I will say, a drunken crowd "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "is relatively trumpery riot, which never would have been heard of but for him, and which would have occupied the precise place in Irish history that its proportions seem to demand. Now, the right hon. Gentleman was very angry with me because, going back upon old speeches of mine, I accused him of garbling. I did do so. The expression may have been a strong one. As I do not love strong expressions—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/16/archdeaconry-of-cornwall-bill-hl-no-177", "section": "archdeaconry-of-cornwall-bill-hl-no-177", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " on that the Bill would be deferred, if objection were taken. § MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne) The next Order on the Paper is the Archdeaconry of Cornwall Bill . Should I not be in order in moving that the House do now adjourn? § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member can take the opinion of the House on that question. § MR. CONYBEARE Then I make the Motion, that the House do now adjourn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/feb/24/second-reading-3", "section": "second-reading-3", "cue_text": "Sir C. RUSSELL: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_text": "e object of the Bill is to dispense with the attendance of registrars at the marriages of Nonconformists, by providing that before a marriage a form shall be obtained from the registrar, and that the minister who solemnises the marriage shall be made responsible, under a penalty of £2, for the subsequent registration. I appeal to the legal leader on the Front Opposition Bench to support the Bill! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jan/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jan/29/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order !\"", "preceding_text": "n, and the tithe owner who seeks for his remedy by distraining can find nothing to distrain upon. If he takes possession of the land he finds he has got a white elephant. [At this point Mr. Gedge walked several yards in the direction of the Gangway. The Chairman was conversing with Mr. H. Gardner.] I am afraid I was rather interrupting you, Mr. Chairman, and, therefore, I have moved further away. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jan/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jan/29/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Order !\"", "preceding_text": "is point Mr. Gedge walked several yards in the direction of the Gangway. The Chairman was conversing with Mr. H. Gardner.] I am afraid I was rather interrupting you, Mr. Chairman, and, therefore, I have moved further away. [ Cries of \"Order !\"] Well, I will put it the other way: I could not get on while the Chairman was conversing with the hon. Member, as, of course, he has a perfect right to do. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jan/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jan/29/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "from a selfish point of view, knowing that if they let the land go out of cultivation they lose more than their rents; but the effect of their action has been that the largest amount of labour has been employed on the land, and the greatest amount of good has been done to the community at large. I know Members opposite glory in thinking that the landed interest has been reduced to such a low ebb. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jan/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jan/29/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "amount of good has been done to the community at large. I know Members opposite glory in thinking that the landed interest has been reduced to such a low ebb. [ Opposition cries of \"No!\"] I have heard many of them say they rejoiced to see it, and that rent ought to be the very last consideration. I have heard the senior Member for Northampton (Mr. Labouchere) say that rent was simply the surplus. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jan/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jan/29/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "ame on, and so he got his salary. But certainly if when a question like this is being discussed the right hon. Gentleman does not favour the House with his opinion, nor give it his advice, I consider that we ought not to pay him £2,000 a year in order that he may be at liberty to slink out of the House when his assistance is needed, or to give a silent vote. Really, Mr. Courtney, I thank my Maker—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jan/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jan/29/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "is Assessment Committee. The County Council stands between the squire and parson. It is independent. It 1379 is elected by the people of the county. Of course a Committee appointed by the Council commands the respect of the county. But would a Committee consisting of Magistrates command respect? I know there are many like me, and I have not the slightest respect for any Magistrate in the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jan/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jan/29/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "country, and yet the Government actually come forward and propose that this Committee should consist of these Magistrates plus a number of persons appointed by themselves. This is the Government who passed a County Government Bill. They talked about giving Local Government to the country, and they go swaggering about and saying how honoured the country ought to be by having such a great Ministry. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jan/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jan/29/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "concerns the county. There is only one reason why I hesitate for a moment to vote with my hon. Friend and that is that I shall have to vote against the Government. The tribunal under the Bill is to consist of country gentlemen, and I am satisfied that their decisions will sow discord between the squire and the parson in every parish. I should like to sow discord between the squire and the parson. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/22/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: His client?", "preceding_text": "been suggested since the close of the case that a prosecution for perjury may be instituted. But a prosecution for perjury might arise out of a revenue case or a criminal case in which the Attorney General had been engaged on behalf of the Crown. There is nothing but sentiment to prevent a barrister's prosecuting for perjury a witness whom he himself has on a former trial put into the witness-box "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/22/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "prosecution for perjury may be instituted. But a prosecution for perjury might arise out of a revenue case or a criminal case in which the Attorney General had been engaged on behalf of the Crown. There is nothing but sentiment to prevent a barrister's prosecuting for perjury a witness whom he himself has on a former trial put into the witness-box [An hon. MEMBER: His client?] or even his client. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ct Committee to inquire into the matter. If that be not granted, I will take the Chiltern Hundreds, and will go down to Boston and stand upon the question whether I did my duty in this matter or 421 not. I will not be trampled upon by any one. § *MR. SPEAKER I must recall to the House the circumstances of which the hon. Member complains. MR. LLOYD-GEORGE&c.) (Carnarvon, May I ask a question? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "Cries of \" Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ught after what had taken place I might properly employ the Standing Order No. 30 and ask the minority to stand up. The hon. Member stood up alone in his place, and the House was saved the trouble of a Division. The hon. Member complains that in the Journals of the House an entry is made that he had frivolously and vexatiously attempted to divide the House. § MR. ATKINSON It does not say so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " in the Journals of the House an entry is made that he had frivolously and vexatiously attempted to divide the House. § MR. ATKINSON It does not say so. [ Cries of \" Order!\"] § *MR. SPEAKER Order, order! I thought it was vexatious, and I put the Standing Order into effect. I have something more to say, and I desire to say it in the hon. Member's presence. § MR. ATKINSON Hear, hear! "}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "he treatment which he says he has received at my hands for a week past. § MR. ATKINSON Hear, hear! [ Cries of \" Order!\"] § *MR. SPEAKER I wish to say, in reply, that I will not notice any communication that comes from the hon. Member in his private capacity. I think that any complaints which he has to make against me should be made publicly in this House. § MR. ATKINSON Hear, hear! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " friendly kind. They have distinguished between the person and the office. Now, it is my duty, and a very painful one it is, to read to the House two communications which I have received during the last 48 hours from the hon. Member, and I think that the House will agree with me that a stop must be put to these communications between an hon. Member and the Speaker. § MR. ATKINSON Hear, hear! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ll not find, wherever he sits, on this side of the House or the other, that I will submit to it. I therefore ask the House, even now, to appoint a Committee on the subject, or to listen while I give the other side of the matter which the Speaker has put before the House. Just now, when the right hon. Gentleman was giving an account of the last Division, he did not mention the fact that Dr. Tanner "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "hat I will submit to it. I therefore ask the House, even now, to appoint a Committee on the subject, or to listen while I give the other side of the matter which the Speaker has put before the House. Just now, when the right hon. Gentleman was giving an account of the last Division, he did not mention the fact that Dr. Tanner [ Cries of \"Order!\"] did stand up and was called upon. After Dr. Tanner "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "Mr. ATKINSON: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "office the dignity of which is valued by this House and by the country generally, it is that of the Speaker. I am only expressing the feelings which obtain universally in every part of the House when I say that you, Sir, have shown courtesy and impartiality to all sides of the House and to every Member of the House. You, Sir, have been obliged to appeal to the House against a Member of this House "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "section": "mr-atkinson-and-mr-speaker", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ortnight for \"the end of the Session\" if that would in any way meet the view of hon. Members opposite; but I distinctly wish that those who give their votes should not give them thinking this is a harsh punishment, but that it is a protection to the Speaker. I would move that the hon. Member should be suspended for the remainder of the Session or for a fortnight, whichever should first terminate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "to the ruling of the Chair, but I am bound to make some explanation with reference to the statement made by the hon. Member for Cork, which would otherwise go forth without any explanation. The hon. Member in his speech said that Daly himself admitted the possession of dynamite, and never from first to last, as far as I know, has Daly until this time disputed any of the facts alleged against him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Mr. 451 PARNELL: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "as if it was less serious because fatal consequences have not ensued, but the results of explosions were often cruel if they came short of being fatal. Victims have received injuries from which they have never recovered, and on them at least sentences for life have been passed by those injuries. Then the hon. Member speaks of plots by the police, and I think he said plots by the Home Office also. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: When was that?", "preceding_text": "s continued so up to the present time. Only once admitted into hospital for bronchial attack. Free from organic disease, No complaint was made. On the 17th March, 1891, he was taken into hospital. His illness developed suddenly into acute tuberculosis, and on the 21st April he was considered in 463 danger. In accordance with one of the prison rules, his friends were immediately communicated with.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "eman is trying not to bring light into our minds, but to throw dust in our eyes, and I must tell him that that experiment is one which depends for its success very much upon the quality of the dust he throws, and the nature of the eyes he tries to throw it into. I say to him that the engrossing clerks had a certain claim at a particular 510 date, and they are not to be mixed up with the copyists. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh! All the better for you.\"", "preceding_text": " Belfast. I address myself to the Chief Secretary. The right hon. Gentleman knows as well as any man in the House that I have over and over again expressed my desire that this Bill should be discussed at an hour not only when it can be discussed and the discussion made public, but when Divisions can take place upon it. A discussion now will never go before the public; it will never reach Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jul/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/27/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Interruptions", "preceding_text": "ish Members, he will insist at such an hour on forcing this Bill down out throats. § (2.10.) MR. SEXTON The hon. Gentleman is entitled to take what course he pleases, but he cannot expect us to accept his account of the contents 520 of a Bill to which, on a former occasion, he invited the hon. Member for Camber\" well to withdraw his opposition. § *COLONEL SANDYS I do not often interpose—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jun/08/elementary-education-fee-grant", "section": "elementary-education-fee-grant", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "#x00BD;d. a week on beer, and 2d. a week on education. Well, by this Bill we are telling them to throw that 2d. a week into their beer money. I say, for all these reasons, that this Bill is a mistake. One of the motives which has led to the introduction of this measure is this: that if the Con- 1870 servative Party do not deal with this question the Radical Party will deal with it in a worse way. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jun/08/elementary-education-fee-grant", "section": "elementary-education-fee-grant", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "w is this going to be worked out? Is it to be possible for a single parent to say, \"I want free education for my child,\" and, if he does, is his child to receive free education in a ninepenny school? Can such a system work? How can you have many scholars paying 9d. and one going free? Is it meant that all the parents of the scholars shall have a right to demand that a free school shall be set up? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jun/08/elementary-education-fee-grant", "section": "elementary-education-fee-grant", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e made on the subject of free education any remark can be picked out which is at variance with that statement I really cannot say. The hon. Member for Bradford (Mr. Illing-worth) ironically cheers that remark. I will say this, that in 1885, long before I had any idea that a Conservative Government would propose free education, and when I had no idea that the Gladstonian Liberals would support it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jun/08/elementary-education-fee-grant", "section": "elementary-education-fee-grant", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Most of them were.", "preceding_text": "mber of the Royal Commission which sat to consider this question, to accept the proposal for free education with a very good grace. The hon. Member for Poplar is the only Member of the House who sat on that Commission who was then in favour of free education. This, however, is not a matter of Party recrimination, for the 23 members on that Commission were by no means all Tories and Reactionaries. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jun/08/elementary-education-fee-grant", "section": "elementary-education-fee-grant", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: They are all Unionists.", "preceding_text": "n, for the 23 members on that Commission were by no means all Tories and Reactionaries. [An hon. MEMBER: Most of them were.] There was Dr. Dale; he is not remarkable for his reactionary principles; then there was Cardinal Manning, who, as everyone knows, though he is a great supporter of 1909 denominational education, is certainly attached to the Party opposite; there was also Mr. Lyulph Stanley. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/jun/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jun/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear! \" from the Opposition", "preceding_text": "dren, and the result may be that the parents may desert the voluntary schools and send their infants to the Board schools. This, however, would not be the worst of the matter, because it appears, singularly enough, that where the infants go the older children follow; and if the infants are sent to the Board schools it will be impossible to keep the older children at the voluntary schools near by. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/05/motion-for-adjournment", "section": "motion-for-adjournment", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d by the Motion of my hon. Friend is a much more important one than can be satisfactorily dealt with by any inquiry before a Magistrate. It is a question not merely of one or two assaults by police constables; it is a question of the growing tendency on the part of the police here and there to regard their batons as instruments of punishment rather than as instruments wherewith to defend the law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/public-business-and-the-easter-holidays", "section": "public-business-and-the-easter-holidays", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "o one is better able than the right hon. Gentleman to recall to the consideration of any Government the duties which devolve upon it. I think, however, that, if the right hon. Gentleman will make a careful investigation of the circumstances relating to the \"counts out\" to which he refers, he will find 769 that Her Majesty's Government have not been very deficient in the discharge of their duties. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/public-business-and-the-easter-holidays", "section": "public-business-and-the-easter-holidays", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "rest in the question that was being discussed at the time that they gave no assistance to Her Majesty's Government in their endeavours to keep a House. The hon. Member for the Rushcliffe Division (Mr. J. E. Ellis) asks a question which is of interest to hon. Members generally, and I should have been extremely glad had I been able at the moment to give some definite information with respect to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/class-vii", "section": "class-vii", "cue_text": "The hon. Member exhibited to the Committee two or three extremely small potatoes.", "preceding_text": "he people dying of starvation. Some of the people who ought to have been the recipients of relief are in a state of absolute destitu- 813 tion and starvation. Within two days of the Chief Secretary leaving Donegal some peasants were expelled from their homes. I saw them, myself, and saw the food some of them were taking with them and preserving with the utmost care. Here are some of the potatoes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Interruptions .", "preceding_text": "o the remembrance of the House that the House may see how, to use a sporting phrase, we have been \"jockeyed\" for the sake of getting the British taxpayers money for—I will not say nefarious purposes, for the House has sanctioned it—but by a series of artifices we who are here to watch the administration of the national funds have been deceived, and this by gentlemen who call themselves Unionists. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Interruptions .", "preceding_text": " money for—I will not say nefarious purposes, for the House has sanctioned it—but by a series of artifices we who are here to watch the administration of the national funds have been deceived, and this by gentlemen who call themselves Unionists. [ Interruptions .] They obtained the wretched little Bill of 1889 for Light Railways, and now they come and tell us that means a line of 5 feet 3 inches. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Interruptions", "preceding_text": "ns .] They obtained the wretched little Bill of 1889 for Light Railways, and now they come and tell us that means a line of 5 feet 3 inches. [ Interruptions .] Yes, this may be a laughing matter to the Government and their supporters. We have been told, in reference to one line, there are no funds but there are promoters. No capital but a promoter. Yes, that is just the point, there are promoters—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Interruptions .", "preceding_text": "ed the construction of a line because it will increase the wages of his constituents by 2s. 6d. a week, but is that a sufficient reason to satisfy the representatives of English, Scotch and Welsh taxpayers? Are they to provide the money for such a line as that the late Mr. Biggar mentioned—where the engine, being unable to pull the train up an incline, the passengers got out and tried to push it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Interruptions .", "preceding_text": "r to the Act of 1889 he will find that a light railway is defined as including a tramway, did the right hon. Gentleman ever hear of a tramway 5 feet 3 inches? The term tramway was included, so that part of the money might be used for carrying out the object of the Tramways Act of 1883. The whole proceedings in Committee was misleading in the highest degree, and I say they were intended to mislead "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "o that part of the money might be used for carrying out the object of the Tramways Act of 1883. The whole proceedings in Committee was misleading in the highest degree, and I say they were intended to mislead [ Interruptions .] I know the facts, but hon. Gentlemen do not; and I shall not change that opinion. There were 24 pages of clauses, and when we got into Committee 21 of these were torn out. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/mar/12/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Interruptions .", "preceding_text": " not; and I shall not change that opinion. There were 24 pages of clauses, and when we got into Committee 21 of these were torn out. [ Cries of \"Divide!\"] Yes, I will divide the Bill; I will show how the 21 pages were divided from the Bill as it was sent to the Committee. These pages contained safeguards, introduced, as we were told, by the Treasury to protect the pockets of the taxpayers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1891/may/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/may/29/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "things as that to exist. I want the Government to give us an assurance that some inquiry into the matter will take place. I appeal to them upon it as a matter of principle. I do not ask them only to reduce the salary of an office on the death of its present occupant, but to abolish offices altogether where they are not needed. I want to know whether any gentlemen opposite justifies these charges? "}