{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/apr/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/apr/26/reported-sale-of-the-steamship-ireland", "section": "reported-sale-of-the-steamship-ireland", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " not to leave the port? And may I further ask if the contract for her sale had been completed before the declaration of war, would her purchasers have been entitled to take her away? § THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY As I understand she has not been sold. § MR. P. O'BRIEN I must ask the right honourable Gentleman has she been ordered not to leave the port? § MR. MACNEILL Yes, or no? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/apr/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/apr/26/question-of-privilege", "section": "question-of-privilege", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "ote for the old Rule if they had 1233 been present would have actually carried it, and it almost fits this case. The paragraph that they wished to be inserted in the Report was this— Your Committee think it desirable that the position and votes of members who are directors or shareholders in companies affected by private Bills should be regarded more strictly than has been the case of late years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/apr/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/apr/26/question-of-privilege", "section": "question-of-privilege", "cue_text": "Here the honourable Member, in waving his hand, sent Mr. Knox's hat upon the Gangway; amidst the laughter of the House.", "preceding_text": "er!\"] Sir, if you, in your discretion, think that I am out of order, I will not proceed in reference to that, but I will proceed with the paragraph in Committee, which exactly fits this case— Such instances as those of directors and shareholders, who have undertaken to represent their companies in conducting Bills through the House, appear to come within the spirit, if not the letter of the rule. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/apr/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/apr/26/local-government-ireland-bill-2", "section": "local-government-ireland-bill-2", "cue_text": "Mr. GERALD BALFOUR: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ranchise in 1889, but you spin a coin for the year 1900, and, lo! his qualification disappears. Still, I agree that if we are going to have this thing at all we must take it with all its imperfections on its head. I should like, however, to ask the right honourable Gentleman for a distinct pledge that he will not be a party to creating, by a Local Government Bill, any new Parliamentary franchise. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/apr/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/apr/26/local-government-ireland-bill-2", "section": "local-government-ireland-bill-2", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": " rated in respect of the occupation of premises for the relief of the poor, while paying such rate. It may well be that certain persons who have paid their rates yet do not appear on the Parliamentary register. Under the Amendment of the right honourable Gentleman, even those persons would be entitled to obtain the vote for local government purposes. 1257 § MR. CLANCY With great respect, Sir—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/feb/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/feb/11/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-most", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "which will make the position clear, it must be of enormous value to us and our cause. If the Liberal Leaders remain silent, their silence, I am afraid, will be liable to misconstruction. It certainly will be ominous, and I hope they will not take that course. It is, Sir, for that reason, and, remembering as I do the attitude of the right hon. Gentleman on some similar occasions in the past years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/jul/05/taxation-ireland", "section": "taxation-ireland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ot interested. The Irish nation had no quarrel with the French people at the time of the Peninsular War; on the contrary, the French were ready to come over and help the Irish nation. This was proved by the Embassy of Wolfe Tone and the expeditions of Hoche and Humbert, and previously Irishmen had fought all over the Continent, amongst other battles, at Fontenoy, in 1188 the exiled Irish Brigade. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/jul/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/jul/13/local-government-ireland-bill", "section": "local-government-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "ecause he can charge practically any price he likes for his land; so the capital value of his land is enormously increased. Supposing, under this particular clause, you take land in a district where the rent is, say, £5 an acre. Your poor tenement holder gets no relief at all, but the holder in the district is relieved to the extent of half his rates—he gets his proportion of the extra fivepence. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/jul/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/jul/13/local-government-ireland-bill", "section": "local-government-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear,\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "conduct on one side or the other, it will be impossible, during the rest of the sitting, to make any progress. I would appeal to the honourable Member for Waterford to withdraw his Motion. § MR. J. REDMOND My object in making the Motion was to put myself in order for making a protest against what was going on during the afternoon. Having done that, I will be very glad to withdraw the Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/jul/22/navy-estimates-1898-9", "section": "navy-estimates-1898-9", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ollowers, and he is abused by the Liberals. I should like to stiffen up the First Lord of the Admiralty; I should like him to be able to resist. I think 910 on this side of the House we ought to declare that we are opposed to this enormous expenditure. I perfectly understand what all this vast expenditure on armament means. It means that you want to stem the advance of Liberalism in this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/jul/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/jul/22/navy-estimates-1898-9", "section": "navy-estimates-1898-9", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "shipwright working for daily wages. He had taken no part in the riveters' agitation at all, and it is not alleged that he had any 958 part in any irregularities. It happened that he was asked to preside at this public meeting, and he did so. That is his sole offence. § COLONEL SANDYS I should like to ask Where this meeting was held. § MR. MADDISON It was held outside the dockyard gates. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/14/paris-exhibition", "section": "paris-exhibition", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: That is pounds in weight.", "preceding_text": "13;97, out of a, total supply to the troops of over 120,000,000 pounds of forage—oats, hay, and straw—65 per cent. was homegrown, and only 35 per cent. was foreign. The total cost of the whole supply of Great Britain was £209,800. Now, I have a calculation worked out to show what it would really amount to in England. I will take the whole supply, and deal with the whole of the 120,000,000 pounds. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/21/the-easter-holidays-course-of-public", "section": "the-easter-holidays-course-of-public", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: Till when?", "preceding_text": " we hope to get the Speaker out of the Chair on the Civil Service Estimates. Of course, this general outline of the programme does not necessarily exclude the Government from advancing small Departmental Bills a stage; but it gives a general notion of the business which we ought without difficulty to get through before Easter, and, if we do, we can confidently reckon on separating on the Tuesday. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/21/local-government-ireland-bill", "section": "local-government-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No, only Chairmen of District Councils.", "preceding_text": " the country when they are to do it at their own expense, or at the expense of the occupiers, and when, as we shall see further on in the Bill, the landlords are to be set free from all expense. Well, the third point I desire to take is this. Under the English Act , as I understand, the Chairman of the County Councils and the Chairmen of the District Councils are ex-officio Justices of the Peace. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/21/local-government-ireland-bill", "section": "local-government-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Nationalist cheers.", "preceding_text": "—them to the business for which they are elected, it would be a different thing; but their minds will soar to other things, and you will find at these county board meetings that debates will take place on matters far more interesting and important to them than county government, such as Home Rule, the financial relations between the two countries, and the release of the Irish political prisoners. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/21/local-government-ireland-bill", "section": "local-government-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. G. BALFOUR: Long before that. An Hon. MEMBER: 1798.", "preceding_text": "three dream that this extinction will happen or will be realised. I do not believe that in his heart my hon. and gallant Friend who spoke last thinks so; I do not believe that the right hon. and learned Gentleman who sits next him thinks so. I think they know Ireland far too well. They know that the demand which was first authentically propounded and formulated in 1885 by the Irish constituencies—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/21/local-government-ireland-bill", "section": "local-government-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. J. E. REDMOND: What is this to do with the Bill; what is the hon. Member dealing with?", "preceding_text": "ill; and the fourth £100,000 might, I think, have been given, with the approval of the whole of the workers of Great Britain and Ireland, towards the better housing of the working classes in that unfortunate country. I venture to 523 say that if this money had been distributed in that way under this Bill, it would be more in consonance with what is right, and with what the country is entitled to. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/23/poor-law-unions-association-bill", "section": "poor-law-unions-association-bill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: And expenses.", "preceding_text": "8 deal of harm. The attempt to get a Bill into one clause generally means that you say nothing about the proposal you make in the Bill so long as you get something into existence without anybody understanding what it is, and once in existence the country can never get rid of it. I find there is a proposal to allow a subscription of £10 to these representatives who are to attend these conferences. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/23/old-age-provident-pensions-bill", "section": "old-age-provident-pensions-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " very large and dense population of the working classes, and there is no doubt that if he looked upon this as a really serious Measure, to be seriously discussed, he would have been in his place to-day to lend a hand in the passing of the Bill. I believe every Member on this side of the House, and many on the other side of the House, are pledged in some form or other to an old-age pension scheme. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/mar/23/old-age-provident-pensions-bill", "section": "old-age-provident-pensions-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "nection with old-age pensions. They have delivered stronger speeches throughout the country than even I have made on this question; they have placed it in their social programme, on which they rode into power; and we hold them responsible for the early introduction of some Measure which may satisfy the public mind. I am sorry to see that the Government is badly represented now on the Front Bench. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/may/13/irish-estimates", "section": "irish-estimates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "he responsibility upon the head of the Member for Central Leeds, who in Ireland arrogates to himself the right of overriding the nation and the Irish Members, and also upon the head of the British nobleman who is sent over to Dublin to play at being kings and queens. The right honourable Gentleman says that there has been exaggeration, but there has been no exaggeration on my part in this matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/may/13/irish-estimates", "section": "irish-estimates", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "I appeal to Members of this House; if their constituencies were in such a deplorable condition— § MR. DILLON He has no right to be uncivil. § SIR J. COLOMB I did not wish to say anything unfair. § MR. DILLON You have no right to be uncivil. § MR. DUNCOMBE (Cumberland, W.) You talk about absentee landlords, but what about absentee Members? § DR. TANNER (Cork, Mid) Shut up! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/may/13/irish-estimates", "section": "irish-estimates", "cue_text": "Interruption, and cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "cy is in the condition pictured by the honourable Member, and it was necessary to make an appeal to the House, it was the Member's business to do it, and I want to know— § MR. DILLON I say it is most uncivil. § MR. FLAVIN On a point of order, Mr. Chairman— THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN Order, order! I must ask the honourable Member not to interrupt. § MR. KILBRIDE I rise to a point of order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1898/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1898/may/13/irish-estimates", "section": "irish-estimates", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_text": " understood by this House. Now, Sir, another point I wish to notice has reference to what was said about Colonel Kirkwood. Colonel Kirkwood has a district comprising many unions, and he lives in a part of the district from which he can, by means of railway communication, most easily and most readily inspect the unions under his charge. I will say this, speaking from 1329 my own personal knowledge—"}