{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/apr/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/apr/04/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ffer; and, if not, his hon. and gallant Friend should ask that the decision of the House should be taken. § SIR W. HARCOURT By the indulgence of the House I may say one word in regard to what the hon. Member for the West Derby Division of Liverpool (Mr. Long) asks for. What the hon. Gentleman is pressing for is precisely the thing that the President of the Local Government Board has offered. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/aug/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/aug/14/committee-progress-10th-august", "section": "committee-progress-10th-august", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "nother strong claim that Durham and Northumberland had was that their methods of working their mines were altogether different to those which prevailed in other parts of the country. It was true that boys in those mines worked 10 hours a day, but it was a gross libel to describe them as galley slaves. Theirs, however, were not the only districts in which the boys were worked 10 hours underground. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1894/aug/14", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1894/aug/14/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": "isting in part of layman—I mean the Railway Commissioners—which has to determine without any guidance of principle laid down, questions affecting most seriously the rights of property of Railway Companies. Therefore, I deny that this Bill embodies a new principle. I remind your Lordships that in Ireland unfortunately we have seen Courts constituted such as we never should have endured in England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1894/aug/14", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1894/aug/14/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Viscount POWERSCOURT: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " years ending 1877, 503; 1878, 743; 1879, 1,908; and to June 20, 1880, 1,073. Now he thought a case had been made out for the adoption of some extraordinary measures on behalf of the evicted tenants against whom everything appeared to have combined. He was almost ashamed to mention these matters before Irish landlords who were perhaps better acquainted than himself with the real state of affairs. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1894/aug/14", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1894/aug/14/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "t may, there can be no contingency that calls more loudly for the exercise of the ancient powers of this House than an occasion when the House of Commons, yielding to these inferior, secondary motives, has passed a Bill which digs at the root of all society, makes contracts hopeless, and prosperity impossible. THE EARL OF ROSEBERY It will not be my duty to intrude long on your attention to-night. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1894/aug/14", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1894/aug/14/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "the constituencies than your Lordships have. I will not follow my noble Friend in the language which has been described as the language of menace. Neither will I follow the noble Marquess in the language which I may characterise as the language of contempt which he has addressed to the other House of Parliament. The noble Marquess lamented any necessity for contact with the constituencies at all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1894/aug/14", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1894/aug/14/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "have some share of the vigour and the eloquence with which he still addresses us, and even a greater share of Christian charity towards my neighbour. I say he did not ask; he told us that this Bill came up to this House on no authority at all. I will tell him on what authority it comes up. It comes up on the authority of the Commission appointed last year, and presided over by Mr. Justice Mathew. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1894/feb/28", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1894/feb/28/local-government-england-and-wales-bill", "section": "local-government-england-and-wales-bill", "cue_text": "Opposition laughter.", "preceding_text": " them of the liberty we propose to give them. Then, as to the desperate conflicts which the noble Marquess says he is afraid would take place, is it not a matter of everyday experience and a part of our social and political life to which we are accustomed that we should contest such questions? And is it not better that in these villages, so long stagnant, there should be introduced a little life? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jan/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jan/05/committee-progress-4th-january", "section": "committee-progress-4th-january", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Why?\"", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend (Mr. H. H. Fowler) would stick to November, and to the earliest date he could get in November, for having the elections. Not only had the registration been accelerated in 1885, but the Municipal Register was made up in the time proposed every year in every municipal borough in England. It was of very great importance that the new election should come on at the earliest possible date. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jan/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jan/05/new-clauses", "section": "new-clauses", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_text": "n) said, he certainly intended to support his hon. Friend behind him (Air. Storey). He was opposed to any woman of any sort or kind inning a vote. He was one of the advocates of the domestic angel doctrine in regard to women. It would be destructive of all the charms of domesticity if women were given votes; but here they were asking that votes should be given to rich women and not to poor women. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jan/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jan/05/new-clauses", "section": "new-clauses", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "mendment Paper out out of Order? § THE CHAIRMAN Yes. § MR. ATHERLEY-JONES asked whether the clause in reference to the registration of women was out of Order? § SIR. C. W. DILKE said, that this new clause was precisely within the terms of the Instruction passed by the House. § THE CHAIRMAN No. § MR. ATHERLEY-JONES For what reason, Sir, do you rule the clause out of Order? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": "mpathy, but they are not the difficulty upon which this Bill is based. What is to become of the tenants evicted in 1879? Many of them have been absorbed in the population; others have got holdings elsewhere; others are acting as labourers; and what will be the effect of introducing them into this Bill? It will be that you will stimulate them to create a difficulty which at present does not exist. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Nationalist cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "al landlord, not because they had not fair rents, but because they resented the interference of the landlord in a matter in which they did not recognise the right of the landlord to interfere. That was their own confession. Does any man pretend to tell me that theirs is a primâ, facie case for reinstatement? Take the case of the Luggacurren estate. Anyone who is not blinded by Party malice—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "? Then, again, I understand the right hon. Gentleman has given an absolute veto to all proceedings to the sitting tenant in all cases in which the planter tenant has taken the land. I understand him to provide that the planter tenants can exercise their voluntary wishes in the matter. Suppose that is true, may not a considerable number of them stick to the land? They have spent money on the land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ven an absolute veto to all proceedings to the sitting tenant in all cases in which the planter tenant has taken the land. I understand him to provide that the planter tenants can exercise their voluntary wishes in the matter. Suppose that is true, may not a considerable number of them stick to the land? They have spent money on the land. [ Cries of \"No!\"] Many of them are doing well on the land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Laughter and \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "f Campaign. What was the Plan of Campaign? We heard a very imaginative account given by one of the authors of the origin of that Plan. I do not think it necessary to follow him, although I could not accept it as an accurate statement. But we were told by the hon. Member for the Harbour Division, who, I think, has not 688 been always a strong supporter of the Plan, and not committed to it himself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "re serving the ends of justice, or that you are laying the foundations of peace and good government in Ireland by carrying out this horrible system of revenge, for revenge it is in the moral sense, on nine-tenths of the people of Ireland? If it be true, as you say, that injustice has been done these people by us, then I say that, from your own point of view, the punishment should be on our heads. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "against all those connected with the Plan of Campaign movement. It is solely and simply this: that at a time of terrible distress in Ireland, when a savage outburst of crime in that unhappy country would have checked the flow of English opinion towards Home Rule and the Tory Party were confidently looking forward to a renewal of crime and outrage in Ireland, the Plan of Campaign put a stop to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "d, I am fully prepared to find that the success of such a movement is exposed to the bitter animosity and the uncompromising hatred of the Tory Party. It is quite natural that that should be so, because not one in the House can have failed to notice the titillation and the pleasure and excitement 753 which has been caused amongst the Tory Party when somebody has been murdered or maimed in Ireland—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " finds some more decent subject to discuss, there is not a crime in Ireland that is not made the subject of disgusting discussion in this House, and every effort made to get Party capital out of it. I say it deliberately. Sir, the speech of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Dublin University was hailed by all his colleagues as a triumphant and destructive criticism of the clause and of this Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "l that class of tenants the Arrears Act was absolutely voluntary. [Mr. T. M. HEALY: No.] The hon. Member has got one Statute; let him get the other. § MR. T. M. HEALY Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me to read the Statute I have got, and I will convince him on that point, at any rate. § MR A. J. BALFOUR We will come to that. § MR T. M. HEALY You are trying to deceive the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " the Act of 1887 were in possession of the tenants. They could have done all that the Act of 1887 enabled them to do. They could have stayed evictions until the Court had pronounced upon them; they could have had their arrears spread over such time as the Court thought fit; and the enormous privileges which that Act gave to the tenants were given to them before they chose to leave their holdings. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ight to one or two cases of hardship which have come under the notice of the Committee upstairs. Well, I daresay there are cases of hardship. But does the hon. Member think that Ireland is the only place where hardship can occur as between landlord and tenant? Does he think that no man has ever been evicted from a town lodging in London or Leeds? § MR T. M. HEALY Has the man built his house? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/23/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"Time!\"", "preceding_text": "n to the House and tell you that when the Bill was brought forward in 1894 they warned the House it would not be a settlement of the question; that other and supplementary measures would have to follow; and they will again use this incomplete and truncated proposal as a ground for explaining to the British House of Commons that the British House of Commons is incapable of legislating for Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/25/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ut it has been stated generally on both sides of the House that it is occupiers and not owners who are interested in the amount of the rates. It is now some 20 years since I contended in this House that, in parishes where there is a demand for house property, the owner, even where compounding exists, is able to get from the occupier the main portion of any increase which may be made in the rates. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/25/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Absurd!", "preceding_text": "ernment, what was suitable for Scotland, where there was a Radical majority, was not suitable for London, 948 where there was a Conservative majority. That was the real explanation of the opposition of the right hon. Gentleman to this proposal. But what did the Radical Members for London think of that opposition? Would it not be pleasant for all the London Representatives to be gathered together? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jul/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jul/25/second-reading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-reading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Greater.", "preceding_text": "ould not logically ask the House next year to appoint a Grand Committee of Scotch, Welsh, or Irish Members. The Government, it was plain, were only in favour of referring Bills to Committees like the Scotch Grand Committee when such a course answered their own purpose and when the Committee was so constituted that the Liberals were in a majority. London had just as great a population as Scotland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jun/06/finance-bill-no-190", "section": "finance-bill-no-190", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no‡\"", "preceding_text": "as proposed was that upon the death of the first person who enjoyed a life interest in the property settled Estate Duty should be paid. It was only a question of when the duty was to be paid. Did hon. Gentlemen desire that in the case of a sum of money tied up under a settlement which might last for 60 or 70 years the corpus of that property should escape Estate Duty for the whole of that period? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jun/07/finance-bill-no-190", "section": "finance-bill-no-190", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. No one was anxious to delay the proceedings. He admitted the difficulty of drafting without further consideration an Amendment which would give expression to their views in a complete and satisfactory way. In the circumstances, he thought the best plan would be to take a vote now upon the speeches that had been made, if he might put it that way—"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jun/07/finance-bill-no-190", "section": "finance-bill-no-190", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "y duty on the aggregation of the property. But that principle was violated in the second sub-section of the very clause under discussion. His hon. Friend the Member for the West Derby Division quoted a case where an immense sum of personalty was settled on persons not in lineal succession to the possessor. There was a chorus from the Ministerial Benches that that property would not be aggregated. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jun/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jun/19/finance-bill-no-190", "section": "finance-bill-no-190", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "be tremendous difficulty to encounter through not being able to apportion the amount of duty chargeable to each portion of the estate, and payable by each beneficiary. These matters had been treated very lightly in the House. The fact was that the Bill had never been considered in its effects, but merely with a view to the effect it would produce on the electioneering prospects of the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/jun/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/jun/19/finance-bill-no-190", "section": "finance-bill-no-190", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "should like to know at what period of the evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given the Committee the privilege of his attendance—ߞ § THE CHAIRMAN (Sir J. GOLDSMID) Order, order! There has been enough personal recrimination. The hon. and learned Member must confine himself to the Amendment. § SIR R. WEBSTER I bow to your ruling, Sir. I was not indulging in personal recriminationߞ"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/07/defeat-of-kabarega", "section": "defeat-of-kabarega", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh !\" and \"Hear, hear !\" from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend knows why it is that I have not been able to answer that question before. I have really been driven out of all my calculation of days. I have always said that we must have before Whitsuntide the Second Reading of the Registration Bill and the Second Reading of the Budget Bill . Now I understand that the discussion on the Second Reading of the Budget Bill is not to close till Thursday. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/07/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "hich would be appreciated by every agriculturist, whether tenant-farmer, owner, or labourer. It was unfair in times like this not only to refuse relief but to actually throw increased burdens on the land. Hon. Gentlemen opposite who supported the policy of the Budget Bill , thinking it would break up the large estates, were entirely mistaken and misguided. It would not break up the large estates. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/07/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Quote !\"", "preceding_text": "member of a private firm of brewers. § MR. BONSOR No, Sir. § MR. SHAW-LEFEVRE Then I find it somewhat difficult to understand how, in view of the prices quoted by the hon. Member, and the small reduction in the price of beer to the consumer, the Brewery Companies have not made larger profits. Of this I am certain—-that many of them have made very great profits within the last few years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/07/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Quote one case.", "preceding_text": "hen I find it somewhat difficult to understand how, in view of the prices quoted by the hon. Member, and the small reduction in the price of beer to the consumer, the Brewery Companies have not made larger profits. Of this I am certain—-that many of them have made very great profits within the last few years. [Cries of \"Quote !\"]It is a well-known fact that breweries have made very large profits. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/08/second-heading-adjourned-debate", "section": "second-heading-adjourned-debate", "cue_text": "Ironical Ministerial cheers.", "preceding_text": "ckets. Such things as those had to be decided in another place than the House of Commons. But taking the assumption of the right hon. Gentleman, who were the brewers in a concern like Messrs. Guinness? They were no longer one or two rich men. The ordinary shareholders numbered 4,700, and of those nine-tenths of them only got between 4 and 5 per cent. on the price which they paid for their shares. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/09/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No !\"", "preceding_text": "he Civil population—that that was not likely to be the case when the main enactment had proved acceptable to the wisdom of the Victorian Legislature. The Act to which he referred was called the Discipline and Defence Act , Victoria. Before sitting down he would appeal to the House to show a little extra indulgence to the soldiers and sailors, owing to the fact that they did not possess any votes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/09/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh !\"", "preceding_text": "ome cases has been proved to have occurred; we are all concerned in maintaining the dignity of Her Majesty's uniform and in preventing anything that would tend to degrade it. I confess that I do not take the extreme view which has been adopted by some of my hon. and gallant Friends who have spoken. I have been so unfortunate, perhaps, as never to have met these rows of sandwich-men in the street. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/re-directed-letters", "section": "re-directed-letters", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Yes.\"", "preceding_text": "CENT And on newspapers too? § MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.) Why not charge an increased rate? § MR. BARTLEY Will the right hon. Gentleman give instructions to the Postmaster not to forward circulars, but to leave them here till called for? § *MR. A. MORLEY If there is a general wish I will do so, but I believe they are not forwarded at present to Members who do not wish to have them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "n to Session, and perhaps from Parliament to Parliament. The Finance Bill must occupy a large part of the remainder of the present Session. Hon. Members seemed to think that at least four weeks more would be taken up in the consideration of that Bill. This would bring the House to July 1. It was also generally understood that the House would not be asked to sit this year during an Autumn Session. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No\" from the Ministerial Benches.", "preceding_text": "ainder of the present Session. Hon. Members seemed to think that at least four weeks more would be taken up in the consideration of that Bill. This would bring the House to July 1. It was also generally understood that the House would not be asked to sit this year during an Autumn Session. [Cheers.] He heard those cheers coming from the supporters of the Government on the other side of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cheers and Opposition laughter, and cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " statements I find it rather difficult to reconcile. I have said before that, until I know what time we shall have at our disposal after the financial business is done, it is impossible for me to make such a statement. If you ask me now—and you know I cannot make that statement of the Bills the Government intend to drop—I can only give you one answer, and that is—they intend to drop none of them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ith me in politics are also anxious to support Therefore, it is not from a Party point of view, but from a public point of view, that I wish to criticise the policy of the Government. That Bill was passed through a Second Reading on a Wednesday afternoon as a private measure. Had it been a Government Bill at that stage of our proceedings, it would never have got through in four hours' discussion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " pledges that were not given in the House. As regarded the question itself, what was the argument of hon. Gentlemen opposite? Hon. Gentlemen said they would be perfectly ready to agree to the proposal of the Government to take the time of the House during the remainder of the Session if the Government would state to them what Bills they were going to bring in during the Session and in what order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"By whom?\"", "preceding_text": "entlemen opposite? Hon. Gentlemen said they would be perfectly ready to agree to the proposal of the Government to take the time of the House during the remainder of the Session if the Government would state to them what Bills they were going to bring in during the Session and in what order. [ Cries of \"No!\" ] Yes, it had been said, but he did not say it had been said by the right hon. Gentleman. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": " he did think, judging the matter fairly and impartially, that Ministers at the present time had got a fair and legitimate claim considering the mess they had got into—if the Opposition liked to put it that way—to ask for the whole time of the House, and he should vote with them. MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis) said, he also agreed that Ministers had a good claim to ask the House to give them time—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "xchequer was unreasonable to ask for more. The right hon. Gentleman had told them he wanted the time for the Finance Bill and for Supply. They were ready to give that time, and why should the right hon. Gentleman ask for more? The right hon. Gentleman had been extremely amenable; lie had shown such sweet reasonableness that he (Mr. Gibson Bowles) imagined there ought to be no difficulty about it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/resolution", "section": "resolution", "cue_text": "Here the interruptions and cries of \"Divide!\" became so frequent that the rest of the hon. Member's observations failed to reach the Reporters' Gallery.", "preceding_text": "ive that time, and why should the right hon. Gentleman ask for more? The right hon. Gentleman had been extremely amenable; lie had shown such sweet reasonableness that he (Mr. Gibson Bowles) imagined there ought to be no difficulty about it. [ Cries of \"Divide!\" ] Yes, they would divide in time. He submitted that no ground was shown for asking for this time except for the Finance Bill and Supply. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/committee-progress-29th-may", "section": "committee-progress-29th-may", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "at was only another way of carrying out the old system of the propertied class and demanding a special privilege. The Bill was introduced for exactly the opposite object. Their opinion was, that the exemption that had been given to this class of taxation of real property was unjust, and the whole object of this Bridget was to redress that; it was to equalise taxation upon all classes of property. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/committee-progress-29th-may", "section": "committee-progress-29th-may", "cue_text": "Sir W. HARCOURT: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "o have had some promise or some hopes held out by Her Majesty's Government that that portion of public contribution which they believed they paid in excess should be compensated. That was a fair point. The right hon. Gentleman expressed surprise and taxed the landowners with refusing to pay their fair share of taxes. The right hon. Gentleman said, \"It is a scandal that they have not paid before.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/committee-progress-29th-may", "section": "committee-progress-29th-may", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "of the name \"personalty,\" which means property that follows the person. I can cite a case which will illustrate that point as much as any other. It was a 114 case in which a testator was domiciled in England, and died possessed of considerable property in the American, English, French, and Russian funds. The dividends were payable in those respective countries only. That was a question of legacy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/committee-progress-29th-may", "section": "committee-progress-29th-may", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ion proposed, \"That the Committee be resumed Tomorrow.\" § SIR M. HICKS-BEACH The discussion on Uganda is to have the first place to-morrow, and I would therefore ask whether the discussion of the Finance Bill will be resumed afterwards. SIR W. IIARCOURT Yes, Sir. The consideration of the Bill will be resumed whenever the opportunity presents itself, looking at the way it is being obstructed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1894/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1894/may/31/committee", "section": "committee", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\" and \"Obstruction.\"", "preceding_text": "y 1894 → Commons Sitting → PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.—(No. 235.) COMMITTEE. HC Deb 31 May 1894 vol 25 cc130-1 130 § Bill considered in Committee. § (In the Committee.) § MR. BARTLEY said, he moved to report Progress in order to mark the disapproval of the Opposition of the recent observations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Finance Bill was deferred to this day. "}