{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/apr/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/apr/09/agricultural-holdings-bill", "section": "agricultural-holdings-bill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "to the necessity for a separate Bill for Scotland, and we shall listen with some interest to know why the precedents have been departed from on the present occasion. I suppose there is a kind of policy which is represented in high quarters at present of which we had a cynical intimation from the Financial Secretary for War, who, in answer to a question, said that Scotland was a part of England. * "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/apr/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/apr/09/agricultural-holdings-bill", "section": "agricultural-holdings-bill", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "be said to be entirely relieved by those two measures, or else its condition must have been very much exaggerated. The truth is that it was exaggerated, and exaggerated, I believe, for the purposes of discussion in this House, although, of course, quite unintentionally. The Central Chamber of Agriculture is not a mere Socialistic or Radical body. It is anything but that; it is highly respectable. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/apr/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/apr/09/agricultural-holdings-bill", "section": "agricultural-holdings-bill", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "better able to understand and appreciate each other after these conferences than before. I am able, therefore, to claim that the business is of a practical character, and has been a great benefit to the Department in London and to agriculture. All that has been said by hon. Gentlemen opposite on behalf of Scotland could be urged with equal force in regard to Northumberland, Cumberland, or Durham. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/apr/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/apr/09/agricultural-holdings-bill", "section": "agricultural-holdings-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "se of having to do with conveyancing and the actual title of land, that no doubt is always dealt with by a separate Bill, because the two systems are quite different. But if he means questions such as the present, where such technicalities are absent, I cannot give him a better instance than the Succession Duty Act and the Finance Act . There you have to deal with very difficult questions indeed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/feb/14/local-government-ireland-act-1898", "section": "local-government-ireland-act-1898", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No, no!", "preceding_text": "he main principle of the Bill is the creation of the Board of Control, which, it is said, is for the purpose of assisting the Local Government Board in carrying out the provisions of the Local Government (Ireland) Act of 1898. I think there is a certain amount of humour in proposing to appoint a Board of Control to assist the Local Government Board, which the Bill practically proposes to abolish. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/feb/14/local-government-ireland-act-1898", "section": "local-government-ireland-act-1898", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!", "preceding_text": "in the recollection of everyone that when the Bill was before the House we all specially desired that the existing officials should be treated fairly and liberally. One instance was given in which a salary had been increased from £293 per annum with certain fees to £600. Well, I presume that the fees brought the original salary up to the £600, so that the expenditure was about the same as before. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/feb/14/local-government-ireland-act-1898", "section": "local-government-ireland-act-1898", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The Government is to provide that.", "preceding_text": "y cope with them by sitting continuously twenty-four hours out of every twelve. Again, where is this body to sit? It has no local habitation; is it to meet in Dublin or is it to be ambulatory? § MR. TULLY If you pass this Bill we will prescribe all these rules after. § MR. ATKINSON It has no staff, and the Bill makes no suggestion as to where it is to get money to carry on its business. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/feb/14/local-government-ireland-act-1898", "section": "local-government-ireland-act-1898", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " 10s. which was added to a certain clerk's salary. § MR. DALY The salary was fixed at a sum which the local body deemed sufficient, and my complaint was that the Local Government Board added £7 10s. to it. 1512 § MR. ATKINSON They were bound to fix the salary according to what they considered fair. § MR. CONDON (Tipperary, E.) Then why waste time consulting the local bodies at all? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jan/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jan/31/second-days-debate", "section": "second-days-debate", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ards peace. I say this with the deepest regret, but it is palpable to all who read what has been and is being published, that the policy which Sir Alfred Milner has pursued has not been a policy which has tended to bring the two vast populations in South Africa together, but rather one which has tended towards racial antipathy and the stirring up of one section of the community against the other. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jan/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jan/31/second-days-debate", "section": "second-days-debate", "cue_text": "Ministerial laughter.", "preceding_text": "However, that is my opinion, and it is an opinion which is very generally felt. I will go further. So strongly is that opinion held that when the victorious issue of the war takes place I believe you will never have a permanent and satisfactory peace concluded in South Africa if Sir Alfred Milner continues to be High Commissioner and if the right hon. Gentleman continues to be Colonial Secretary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jul/10/agricultural-holdings-bill", "section": "agricultural-holdings-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not?", "preceding_text": " It was clear that if they once admitted that principle they would adopt the whole Irish land system. The moment the tenant got in as a partner in the ownership of a farm, then he had a right to sell that farm. The Government would have to come down and settle the relationship between them as regards fair rents, and every detail in the management which was characteristic of the Irish land system. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jul/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jul/10/agricultural-holdings-bill", "section": "agricultural-holdings-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh !\"", "preceding_text": "f \"the in- 1186 herent capabilities of the soil.\" What did a tenant pay for when he paid rent? He paid for the inherent capabilities of the soil. If those capabilities were good he paid a high rent, and if they were bad he paid a low rent. There was no such thing as the inherent capabilities of the soil, because the soil without labour and without manure would produce nothing that was marketable. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jul/30/companies-bill", "section": "companies-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Yes.", "preceding_text": "ould say that that was not the prospectus; but if he looked at the definition clause he would find that a prospectus meant \"any prospectus, notice, circular, advertisement, or other invitation offering to the public for subscription or purchase any shares or debentures of a company.\" One might imagine 83 from what had been said that the public subscribed for shares without reading the prospectus. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jun/18/burial-grounds-bill", "section": "burial-grounds-bill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "s never been understood that the freehold of that portion should be given with the allotment. I do not agree with the remark that this Bill settles the controversy, because under Clause 2 this Bill gives power to the Home Office to go behind the local authority, although the local authority has to provide the cost of making the cemetery. In every case now under this Bill consecration must follow. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jun/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jun/20/workmens-compensation-act-1897-extension", "section": "workmens-compensation-act-1897-extension", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "d careless drafting which will lead to a great amount of unnecessary litigation. I should like these points dealt with in an explanatory clause, so that the County Court Judges may have some idea of what the legislature in its wisdom meant. Lord Justice Smith, in dealing with the Workmen's Compensation Act , has made some remarks which are the reverse of complimentary to the wisdom of Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jun/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jun/20/workmens-compensation-act-1897-extension", "section": "workmens-compensation-act-1897-extension", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The minimum premium is 5s.", "preceding_text": "re brought within the scope of the Act; and it is absolutely necessary that the word \"habitually\" should be retained. § MR. WARNER (Staffordshire, Lichfield) As to the statement of the hon. Gentleman who has just sat down that insurance companies would not insure against injuries to occasional labourers, I believe that that is not correct, and that insurance companies will insure such cases. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jun/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jun/20/sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-to-children-1", "section": "sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-to-children-1", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_text": "(In the Committee) § [Mr. J. W. LOWTHER (Cumberland, Penrith) in the Chair.] § Clause 1:— MR. GRANT LAWSON (Yorkshire, N.R., Thirsk) I have an Amendment to 571 move to this Bill. It will be remembered that when, through some misunderstanding, it obtained its Second Beading, I intimated that it would be necessary to introduce some very important Amendments, and this is the first of them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jun/26/companies-bill", "section": "companies-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why?", "preceding_text": " know that it is his idiosyncrasy to think that the world would get on better if there was no law and no lawyers. We in Ireland, however, have always been particularly respectful to the law, but this is really a serious matter', and a change is being made which vitally concerns that part of the United Kingdom, and we have not had an ample opportunity of discussing this Bill on the Second Reading. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jun/26/companies-bill", "section": "companies-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "putting themselves to considerable inconvenience. I think that is an argument of considerable weight. But if I may judge by the reception which this Bill has received upon the present occasion, there is no probability that the discussions in the Grand Committee will be of a protracted character. I should imagine that one or two days at the outside would be quite sufficient to deal with this Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/jun/26/money-lending-bill-lords", "section": "money-lending-bill-lords", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "s forced upon the Court because they had not got this Bill. If the principle of my hon. friend's Bill had then been in existence we should, no doubt, have been deprived of a dramatic masterpiece; but, on the other hand, Shylock would, I think, have been treated in a manner far more consistent with the dignity of a court of law than he appears to have been on the occasion to which I have referred. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Nationalist cries of \"No\"", "preceding_text": "s is a question to be settled, not by the Government, but by the promoters and opponents of the Bill. So far as I am individually concerned I should have thought they would have had no objection to the adjournment, but I am bound to say that after the attitude of hon. Members below the gangway on the Opposition side the position is entirely altered. Hon. Members opposite have attempted by threats "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "nt by the Report of the Royal Commission which was recently issued. The Commission was asked whether it recommended increased control, and the Report of that Commission is distinctly in favour of purchase, and in consequence it is not necessary on the present occasion for me to argue that question. For ten years in this House I have argued it, and the question of purchase is a foregone conclusion—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "her party knew in the least that these Bills were down. § MR. BARTLEY (Islington, N.) I really must protest against the course proposed. As a London Member I have to say that we are as numerous as the Irish Members. § MR. T. M. HEALY We have not stolen your Parliament. (Interruption.) § MR. BARTLEY The only difference between us and them is that we are supporters of the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No section,\" and interruption", "preceding_text": "se proposed. As a London Member I have to say that we are as numerous as the Irish Members. § MR. T. M. HEALY We have not stolen your Parliament. (Interruption.) § MR. BARTLEY The only difference between us and them is that we are supporters of the Government. [Interruption.] We have come here on this important question of the water supply of 19 London, and for any section of this House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Cheers, and interruption", "preceding_text": " numerous as the Irish Members. § MR. T. M. HEALY We have not stolen your Parliament. (Interruption.) § MR. BARTLEY The only difference between us and them is that we are supporters of the Government. [Interruption.] We have come here on this important question of the water supply of 19 London, and for any section of this House—[Cries of \"No section,\" and interruption]—to come down here—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, and interruption.", "preceding_text": "uption.] We have come here on this important question of the water supply of 19 London, and for any section of this House—[Cries of \"No section,\" and interruption]—to come down here—[Cheers, and interruption]—and simply to make a noise and prevent English legislation being carried out is, as my hon. and gallant friend says, a great scandal. I do think the House is coming to a very low ebb indeed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\" and renewed disorder.", "preceding_text": "ion,\" and interruption]—to come down here—[Cheers, and interruption]—and simply to make a noise and prevent English legislation being carried out is, as my hon. and gallant friend says, a great scandal. I do think the House is coming to a very low ebb indeed. [Hear, hear, and interruption.] Of course, when a day was given to the Irish Members, and I must say it was a very great concession to give—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Cheers, and interruption.", "preceding_text": " a great scandal. I do think the House is coming to a very low ebb indeed. [Hear, hear, and interruption.] Of course, when a day was given to the Irish Members, and I must say it was a very great concession to give—[Cries of \"Oh!\" and renewed disorder.] There is no other section of the House that have got a day. § MR. T. M. HEALY We had a Parliament instead of a day, and you robbed us of it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Cheers, and disorder.", "preceding_text": "We had a Parliament instead of a day, and you robbed us of it. [Cheers, and interruption.] § MR. BARTLEY I do say that it seems a regular outrageous scandal that we should be treated in this way by a certain section of the House. § MR. T. M. HEALY It is no section. § MR. BARTLEY I don't know what the hon. Member means by \"no section.\" § MR. T. M. HEALY We are the Irish nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Renewed interruption.", "preceding_text": "utrageous scandal that we should be treated in this way by a certain section of the House. § MR. T. M. HEALY It is no section. § MR. BARTLEY I don't know what the hon. Member means by \"no section.\" § MR. T. M. HEALY We are the Irish nation. [Cheers, and disorder.] § MR. BARTLEY It is certainly a section that has not set an example in the way of the orderly conduct of business. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "section": "london-water-purchase-bill-by-order", "cue_text": "Interruption, and cries of \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": "and disorder.] § MR. BARTLEY It is certainly a section that has not set an example in the way of the orderly conduct of business. [Renewed interruption.] It is not a section whose loyalty should give it privilege, and I say emphatically we ought to protest against this, and I hope we will decide against it. The time has not yet come when the House of Commons is to be dictated to by a rabble. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "he last Returns a sum of £1,725,000 is drawn away from Ireland to this country. I do not know how any fairly candid 68 mind can maintain that such a system is just to such a community as Ireland. I know that this is not an auspicious moment to bring forward this matter. We have heard lately resounding acclaim throughout this country in reference to the valour of the Irish soldiers in South Africa—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ward this matter. We have heard lately resounding acclaim throughout this country in reference to the valour of the Irish soldiers in South Africa—[HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!]—a recognition of that which is quite new, which is quite refreshing. But I ask in what do these brave, honest soldiers at the Cape differ from their countrymen in Ireland? They are brave, of course because they are Irishmen. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: I would ask the hon. Member if those who appointed the Commission were Englishmen.", "preceding_text": "n. When the hon. Gentleman who seconded the Resolution speaks of the Financial Relations Commission as our jury it is nothing of the kind. The hon. Gentlemen opposite who appointed the Commission are to blame, and we are not to be bound by the findings of the Commission. But they very carefully guard themselves, so that any gentleman who signed the Report can say, \"I was limited by my reference.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Islington is not Ireland.", "preceding_text": "not bear out the argument that that is the reason why they are over-taxed. Another reason why the taxation of Ireland should be reduced is said to be that the average income out of which the Irishman can purchase is smaller than the Englishman's. If that argument is to prevail, taxation must be reduced in every poor district, and I should require that my constituency should receive consideration. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Too much.", "preceding_text": "ing to the inequality by the Budget of the present year, I would venture to deny it. I have taken care, in considering the additional taxation which I propose to impose this year on account of the war, to lay a very large part of the burden upon direct taxation—in other words, upon the income tax. Out of a little over £14,000,000 no less than nearly £8,500,000 will be derived from the income tax. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Abolish it, then.\"", "preceding_text": " CLANCY No. § SIR M. HICKS BEACH The hon. Member bases himself upon the Act of Union. § MR. CLANCY That is a very strange thing. § SIR M. HICKS BEACH It is a very strange thing for him to do, because the leader of the party of which the hon. Member for North Dublin is a member has openly, and I think frequently, stated that in his opinion the Treaty of Union has no validity at all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And quite enough, too.", "preceding_text": " SIR M. HICKS BEACH And throughout 100 years between the date of that Act and the date of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland, and ever since, they have never been interpreted otherwise than in this way, that the smaller kingdom should not suffer by the imposition of taxes which injure individuals or industries more in the smaller kingdom than in the greater. That is all those words mean. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: That is the question.", "preceding_text": "eland than it is on Great Britain or the poor in Great Britain? It is impossible for any one to show, and no one has ever attempted in show, that that is the case. On the contrary, I think there is something to be said on the other side. I know that the poor in Ireland—the labouring class—on the average probably possess smaller incomes than the same class in Great Britain. I believe that is true. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " single tax on whisky in Ireland you abolished some seventy distilleries which were wiped out in Ireland. You weighed down other industries in Ireland by increasing the tea and tobacco 128 taxes; yet, when a few Exchanges sent up a protest against the shilling contract note, the right hon. Gentleman trembled in his boots and withdrew it. I tell him that that is an additional injustice to Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/22/financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "section": "financial-relations-england-and-ireland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "he people of Ireland, within the last fifty years, the British Government were not able to steal all our money—the small hoards of the people were kept in stockings; but when the knowledge of banking became popular, no doubt the people took their savings to the banks, and hence arose the increase in the deposits. But in my judgment, instead of that being a good sign, I think it is a very bad one. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/26/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ed practically nothing towards the expenses of the war. I am bound to say that, in my judgment, for every fiscal reason and for every political reason, such a policy would have been a grave mistake, and I could not have consented to anything of the kind. Perhaps I may be asked why I did not choose some other article than tea, but no hon. Member had suggested any such article. 384 MR. FIELD Sugar. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/26/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: A new version.", "preceding_text": "R This question has been debated all round on very general lines. I complain in this clause of the sins of omission quite as much as any hon. Member has complained of sins of commission. Taxation ought to be without a preferential element—— THE CHAIRMAN The right hon. Gentleman must confine himself to the question. MR. JAMES LOWTHER My right hon. friend is intensely a Little Englander in finance. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/26/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_text": "iscuss it at this stage, only to say that I do not agree that an increase of the duties on licences for the sale of intoxicating liquors would be a tax upon the commodity itself. It would be a tax on the monopoly, but not on the commodity, and I hope to have an opportunity when the right hon. Gentleman proposes to increase the tax on that com- 391 modity to say that I do not propose to accept it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/26/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "e who smoked those classes could afford to pay; what the people of Ireland did object to, and object to most strongly, was the increased taxation of the cheaper kinds of tobacco consumed by the great majority of the poorer classes. He was not surprised at hon. Gentlemen opposite, who both inside the House and elsewhere were in the habit of indulging in the luxury of a cigar costing 1s. 6d. or 2s. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/26/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "hat would ensue from it. That was not so easily proved. If the custom house would cause some inconvenience, it would bring enormous advantages as well. The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not know how much tobacco was consumed in Ireland, and how much was collected from tobacco duties; and he never could know until he had got a custom house. The custom house was the brains of a commercial nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/mar/26/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": "ound on common tobacco. While they knew that their protest would not prevent the imposition of the duty, they felt nevertheless that it was their duty to stand up and make the protest. The tobacco duties in Ireland would average 5s. 5d. per head per annum, and when he remembered that the country was not able to afford the taxation, he considered that by every fair means and every reasonable means—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/03/education-department-code-1900", "section": "education-department-code-1900", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " age. You cannot contemplate for a moment the passing of a boy of fifteen from a higher elementary school to a secondary school. The passing should take place at a much younger age than that if you wish to make the best of the boy. You should at least raise the age of passing out of the higher elementary school from fifteen to sixteen; but I do not myself see why there should be any limit at all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/03/education-department-code-1900", "section": "education-department-code-1900", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"No, 629 no!\"", "preceding_text": "sregard the effect of this grant on Voluntary schools, although we may be supporters of the Board school system. It has been truly said that under this proposal the less efficient schools will receive the higher grant. The least efficient schools in the country at the present time belong to the denominational class, the Voluntary schools, which are generally less efficient than the Board schools. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/03/education-department-code-1900", "section": "education-department-code-1900", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: That is agreed.", "preceding_text": "struction into obligatory and optional subjects, and the latter, again, into class subjects, specific subjects, and subjects of the nature of manual training, with their attendant piecemeal grants; that this classification of subjects sometimes led to the school curriculum being more extended and less intelligent than it might be, and frequently caused a want of continuity in individual subjects. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/03/education-department-code-1900", "section": "education-department-code-1900", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers, in which Sir EDWARD GREY joined.", "preceding_text": "t is agreed.] No, it is not; hon. Members opposite have objected very strongly. The Report also stated that there was little hope of this slate of things being remedied to any great extent unless the Education Department altered its system of grants and passed a single grant for the whole of the instruction, and that 686 if this were done well-planned and liberal curricula would then be possible. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/03/education-department-code-1900", "section": "education-department-code-1900", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: When? This year or next year?", "preceding_text": ". Wherever discretion is allowed, discretion will be exercised, and, if it is found by experience that any of the provisions that are placed in the present minute are disadvantageous to education or are not capable of being carried out, I can assure the House that my noble friend the President of the Board of Education will immediately frame a new minute so as to 693 give effect to any amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/10/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "section": "housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No, no!", "preceding_text": "thods of traction. That is a very plausible and tempting suggestion, but just lot the House consider it for a moment, and it will be seen how very delusive it is as a ground for hope. No more striking improvement in locomotion was ever introduced into this country than when railways wore introduced; but have railways dispersed the population? They have on the contrary concentrated the population. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/10/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "section": "housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: Not in the City.", "preceding_text": " question as far as it affects London. I take my authority not from any books or pamphlets or articles that have been written, but from Dr. Shirley Murphy, the medical officer of health to the London County Council, and in doing so I consider I can find no higher authority on that question. He tells us we have no less than 400,000 human beings in the City of London to-day living in one room only. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/10/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "section": "housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " in accordance with the fluctuations of the market. It may be 2⅞ 3, or 3⅛; per cent. We have to take into our calculations the cost of the land, the cost of the 1283 clearance of the buildings, etc., and we have to base our rents to provide a sinking fund of 3 per cent. in order to repay the capital and the interest of the loan. What happens? The result is that our rents are so high—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/10/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "section": "housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ly last year where negotiations were going on for some land. A question was asked in the Council about it, and from the answer it leaked out that the County Council were negotiating for the purchase, and up jumped the price at once, with the result that the Council had to drop the negotiations. We have not only to pay the value of the land, but we have to pay an extra 10 per cent. over the value. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/10/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "section": "housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Enormously.", "preceding_text": "oney, which is £21 5s., and after paying rates and taxes I have a balance of £6 15s. towards empties and repairs. I think that is a fairly sound financial position. § THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. CHAPLIN, Lincolnshire, Sleaford) Is that recently? § MR. PRICE Quite recently—three or four years ago—the prices of buildings have, I suppose, slightly increased since then. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/10/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "section": "housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They are in course of construction.", "preceding_text": "that plenty of powers exist. If so, why are they not used? They cannot be used because nearly all the powers he quoted to-night are powers to unhouse the people, but not to rehouse them. The London County Council, with all its fervour for this good work, has unhoused 24,000 people, and has only been able to rehouse 10,000. There have been schemes for rehousing, but they have not been carried out. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/10/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "section": "housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1890", "cue_text": "Mr. STEAD-MAN: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": " new buildings. That is what I dread in my own constituency—6,000 of the poorest people are to be displaced, and God only knows where they can go. The London County Council will presently build palatial residences which I suppose will be given to favoured members of the working classes as in St. George's-in-the-East, where people were provided with houses who voted for certain County Councillors. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/16/cheap-trains-bill", "section": "cheap-trains-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: How could they?", "preceding_text": "ate the railway companies did everything in their power to evade the Act while securing for themselves the remuneration which the Act provided. Without referring particularly to the present President of the Board of Trade, I will say that for many years after the Act was passed the Board of Trade did not bring sufficient pressure on the companies to make them carry out the obligations of the Act. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1900/may/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/16/cheap-trains-bill", "section": "cheap-trains-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No, no!", "preceding_text": "wo railways which are known to be paying good dividends. He complains that the price of material has risen, that wages have gone up, and that the hours of labour have been shortened. He also contends that the difficulties of railway enterprise are much greater than they used to be. But if wages and materials 362 have gone up during the last twenty years, so have the dividends of the shareholders. "}