{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/aug/08/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Five years.", "preceding_text": "o the measure on which they spent their nights and days they would have kicked him out of office without any more ceremony than they would kick out a hall porter. He was 104 retained in office with the usual caution, because he had strong friends in the Ministry, and, of course, his expulsion would only have given offence to that body. He understood Mr. Bagnell was only appointed for three years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/aug/08/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "when there was a difference of opinion between the county, urban, or district councils and these officials of the Local Government Board, a conference should he held of both sides, a mutual agreement might be arrived at without involving friction and litigation. The Local Government Board and the governing bodies ought not to be constantly in collision, but acting in co-operation with each other. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/aug/08/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "dies ought not to be constantly in collision, but acting in co-operation with each other. [Laughter.] He was quite serious in this matter. He had had many interviews with Sir Henry Robinson in regard to many questions, and he found him a most cultured, patient, and efficient official. He had frequently managed to change that gentleman's opinion, and that was the reason why he made the suggestion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/aug/08/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " managed to change that gentleman's opinion, and that was the reason why he made the suggestion. [Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"] Would anyone say that in matters of public business he 127 should not go to a public official and ask for a favour if he thought it was just and right? Would anyone say that they ought to cultivate friction instead of co-operation, if the interests of the people were to be served? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/aug/08/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " in that country was to increase taxation, and to take out of the hands of the local governing bodies the function of legislation which properly belonged to them. He maintained that no more dangerous course could be taken by the right hon. Gentleman and other responsible authorities in Ireland than to bring themselves into conflict and friction with the duly elected representatives of the people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/aug/08/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "Laughter from the Ministerial Benches.", "preceding_text": "f the hands of the local governing bodies the function of legislation which properly belonged to them. He maintained that no more dangerous course could be taken by the right hon. Gentleman and other responsible authorities in Ireland than to bring themselves into conflict and friction with the duly elected representatives of the people. [Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"] They who represented constitutionalism—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/aug/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/aug/08/class-v", "section": "class-v", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e closure rule in the face of the proviso he had quoted. He intended to take an early opportunity of reminding the First Lord of the Treasury of his pledge. § MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.) , upon a point of order, contended that \"submitted for consideration\" did not mean that a certain motion had been simply put upon the Notice Paper, for that could have no practical bearing on the point. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/19/address-in-reply-to-his-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-reply-to-his-majestys-most", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Who else?", "preceding_text": "estions made in two other speeches from that bench of a speedy return of self-government after the close of the war might possibly most tend to conciliation. I ask the House to look at the matter clearly and to face the facts as they are at this moment. We are told by all the speakers opposite that the Boers we now have to deal with are desperate men. You may say that we have made them desperate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/19/address-in-reply-to-his-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-reply-to-his-majestys-most", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Never were there more disgraceful terms.", "preceding_text": "the mere offer of 25 per cent. of their independence would cause them more vigorously than ever to pull themselves together to fight in order to turn that 25 per cent. into 50 per cent. The position at this moment, so far as the Government are concerned, is this. We have by proclamation offered to the Boers terms of surrender which have never before, I delieve, been offered to a vanquished enemy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/19/address-in-reply-to-his-majestys-most", "section": "address-in-reply-to-his-majestys-most", "cue_text": "Irish cheers", "preceding_text": "uent perhaps upon my less concentrated methods of thought, I should have said that I had exactly expressed the right hon. Gentleman's meaning, However that may be, I want to make the House, in all sincerity, feel in the fullest sense its responsibility in this matter. It is one on which I feel exceedingly deeply. Letters reach me by every mail showing the mischief done by speeches, proclamations— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/19/licensing-laws", "section": "licensing-laws", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER laughed.", "preceding_text": "ic was not put in beer, and that whisky was not made from sawdust. it would do far more towards promoting temperance than by reducing the number of licences, and taking the bread out of the mouths of people who were conducting their business in an honourable way. Would England like to have its trade interfered with, simply because of the fads of some gentlemen who did not understand the question? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/gibraltar-docks", "section": "gibraltar-docks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "s all the evidence available. The whole question is a very simple one, and may be put into a single sentence: whether the risk of war with Spain—and that is a very small one— is not completely outweighed by the great and undoubted dangers which the east side of the dock presents for the dock accommodation now being provided. That is the principal question that the Committee will have to consider. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/south-africa-surrenders-of-troops", "section": "south-africa-surrenders-of-troops", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "uestion at any moment, but I wish to do so upon a motion on which I am entitled to reply. § MR. LAMBERT And I hope the right hon. Gentleman will reply with more accuracy than he did upon the last occasion. This sort of thing has a very bad effect on the recruiting for our Army. It is impossible to get men of high intelligence if recruits have an inkling that they may be led into death-traps. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"So you are.\"", "preceding_text": " for the Colonies, in the speech which he delivered on Monday night, which was characterised by an almost ferocious bitterness, hurled across the floor of this House the epithet \"Pro-Boer\" as a term of reproach to hon. Members sitting on this side of the House. So far as I am concerned, and the other Members who sit on these benches, the Secretary for the Colonies is welcome to call us pro-Boers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "Ministerial laughter.", "preceding_text": "f this House the epithet \"Pro-Boer\" as a term of reproach to hon. Members sitting on this side of the House. So far as I am concerned, and the other Members who sit on these benches, the Secretary for the Colonies is welcome to call us pro-Boers. [Ministerial cries of \"So you are.\"] I am a pro-Boer, because during the last two years I have made a careful study of the history of 1146 these people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "nk it is a brutal and unfortunate remark to talk about the comparative cheapness of labourers' cottages. All the evidence before us goes to show that the houses of the Boers, particularly in the Free States, were especially fine and well furnished. Did we not read in the descriptions, so harrowing to the feelings of many hon. Members, of pianos and pictures and comfortable furniture being burned? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS laughed.", "preceding_text": "and I would like to believe it was also painful to many hon. Members opposite—than the detailed descriptions which filled the columns of the newspapers of furniture being dragged out of houses and burned before the eyes of unfortunate women and children. I have already quoted the testimony of the junior Member for Oldham. Here is a quotation from the Cape correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no\" and \"Proclamation\" from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman has been furnished with incorrect information on this matter. Now let me show how the House has been misled on this particular point. Let me draw attention to the language used by the Financial Secretary to the War Office, who, when pressed the other night, said— Hon. Members had rather taken it that those farm-burnings were done without authority by irresponsible persons. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "Laughter from Opposition benches.", "preceding_text": " when pressed the other night, said— Hon. Members had rather taken it that those farm-burnings were done without authority by irresponsible persons. [Cries of \"No, no\" and \"Proclamation\" from the Opposition.] If he remembered right, Lord Roberts, in his proclamation, did not say that when the railway was broken farms within ten miles should be burned, but that they should, be liable to be burned. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Wanton damage.", "preceding_text": " Boberts's proclamation. First the Secretary of State for the Colonies states that farm-burning was conditional on complicity being shown, whereas the Financial Secretary to the War Office declares that Lord Roberts did not use words to the effect that farms should be burnt. Proclamation No. 5 says— Whereas small bodies of raiders have recently been doing wanton damage in the Orange River Colony— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "sitioned may have been a prisoner of war, and may have been deported, and yet because the railway was broken in the neighbourhood of his farm all receipts for goods taken perhaps months before are to be cancelled— The houses and farms [continues the proclamation] in the vicinity of the place where the damage is done will be destroyed and the residents of the district dealt with under martial law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear !", "preceding_text": "s gospel and ought to be believed. This is an interview which a correspondent had with Australian troopes who bad returned home. He writes— The men all speak in the utmost disgust of the heartrending work of burning farmhouses and turning women and children out to sleep on the open veldt. They say, however, that the British troops throughout treated the enemy with humanity and consideration— 1158 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear !", "preceding_text": "all taken along too. I attach great importance to this letter, because it proves that these houses were burned down not because of acts of war committed from them, but as a part of a deliberate wholesale policy of devastating the country. Here is the other case. James Cook, who is now in the Constabulary in South Africa, writes home to his father, the clerk of the petty sessions at Newtown Butler—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/feb/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/feb/25/conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "section": "conduct-of-the-south-african-war", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "een paroled, were retaken prisoners. Britishers were allowed to go at liberty, but their livestock were taken and their stacks burnt. That appears to me to be an overwhelming case as showing that this policy of farm burning in the Transvaal was a policy, as indeed was admitted in some of the proclamations of the generals, of devastating the country in order to make it uninhabitable for the enemy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/12/vlakfontein-engagement", "section": "vlakfontein-engagement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "stion, he will ask by telegraph for an answer to my question. LORD STANLEY I am afraid that I cannot undertake to say that. But, as my right hon. friend has promised that a full inquiry shall be made into the matter, I have no doubt that the answer to this question will be elicited by the 253 information which has already been asked for. § MR. DILLON That is not a fair answer to my question. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/12/vlakfontein-engagement", "section": "vlakfontein-engagement", "cue_text": "Nationalist cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": ", has not the slightest intention to hide anything which happened on this occasion; and he will place the House in possession of as full information as he can in relation to every occurrence on that day. § MR. DILLON Why, then, will not the noble Lord promise that he will inquire whether this all-important incident occurred? § * MR. SPEAKER Order, order! That question has been answered. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/12/vlakfontein-engagement", "section": "vlakfontein-engagement", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " of as full information as he can in relation to every occurrence on that day. § MR. DILLON Why, then, will not the noble Lord promise that he will inquire whether this all-important incident occurred? § * MR. SPEAKER Order, order! That question has been answered. [Nationalist cries of \"No.\"] The noble Lord has given an answer which he says is the only answer he proposes to give. § "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/12/class-iv", "section": "class-iv", "cue_text": "The hon. Member then read the memorandum, and continued", "preceding_text": "admission of the offence. In this memorandum they admitted the offence, and they put forward the miserable plea that they were overworked, and had so many thousands of letters to attend to, and they used the phrase that if a subordinate official did improperly interpret the rules, and make statements he had no right to make in the name of the Commissioners, after all his offence was a venial one. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/12/class-iv", "section": "class-iv", "cue_text": "Mr. WYNDHAM: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "om teachers. Archbishop Walsh himself said that the teachers commenced writing to the Commissioners individually, a very bad habit, and they wrote a larger number 283 probably to Archbishop Walsh than to any other Commissioner, and what did Archbishop Walsh say in regard to these appeals? He stated that in nearly all the cases in which appeals had been made to him there was nothing in the appeal. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/12/class-iv", "section": "class-iv", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear,\" from the Irish Benches.", "preceding_text": "aw that there were difficulties in 292 the way. The Minister might not have a seat in the House, and if he were a Catholic the Protestants might be dissatisfied, and if he were a Protestant he might not be acceptable to the Catholics. What the English Members wished to know was what the Irish Members wanted them to do with regard to this Board. Did they wish the Board to be swept away altogether? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/12/class-iv", "section": "class-iv", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS on the Irish Benches: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "it would be impolitic to do so until the staff have completed the work they have carried so far. If after that we need more enlightenment, I should be the last man to throw obstacles in the way. I turn from that section of the remarks of the hon. Member for Waterford to the main drift and purpose of this debate, namely, that this is but another illustration of our incapacity to govern in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/23/education-no-2-bill-1", "section": "education-no-2-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "ir opening, that, in this emergency, the Department was willing to run away from its guns, and not pretend to look another way for twelve months. As to how much or how little there was left to struggle for, he asked right hon. 1357 and hon. Gentlemen on both sides of the House whether there was a man, woman, or child who cared a brass farthing as to which way the House might decide this question? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/23/education-no-2-bill-1", "section": "education-no-2-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: For one year", "preceding_text": "rawn according as the Bill is shaped one way or the other. From the Bill, as we have presented it, it will be perfectly clear to the House and the country that we consider the proper authority for organising secondary education is the local authority. From the plan recommended by my right hon. friend there is but one inference to be drawn, and that is that he wishes to prolong as long as possible—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/23/education-no-2-bill-1", "section": "education-no-2-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "Avoid any course which may produce delay in the settlement of the question, for delay will have a disastrous effect on the economic future of our rising generation to whom the great commercial interests of Great Britain are to be entrusted. But does my right hon. friend think that if we adopted the course which he presses upon us we could come down to the House next year with a comprehensive Bill—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/23/education-no-2-bill-1", "section": "education-no-2-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "mic future of our rising generation to whom the great commercial interests of Great Britain are to be entrusted. But does my right hon. friend think that if we adopted the course which he presses upon us we could come down to the House next year with a comprehensive Bill—[Cries of \"Why not?\"]—or, if we did come down with such a Bill, that we should have the smallest chance of passing it into law? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/23/education-no-2-bill-1", "section": "education-no-2-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"You are wrong.\"", "preceding_text": " be entrusted. But does my right hon. friend think that if we adopted the course which he presses upon us we could come down to the House next year with a comprehensive Bill—[Cries of \"Why not?\"]—or, if we did come down with such a Bill, that we should have the smallest chance of passing it into law? [Cries of \"Why not?\"] I presume we should not have gained the respect of hon. Gentlemen opposite. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/23/education-no-2-bill-1", "section": "education-no-2-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "? I wondered, in listening to the right hon. Gentleman, whether at all moments of his speech he remembered what this Bill was. It is a Bill for enabling a certain number of schools and classes to be carried on for one year, and one year only. Why should that Bill settle any principle at all? Why should a Bill which is only a temporary expedient to correct an error in the interpretation of the law—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jul/23/education-no-2-bill-1", "section": "education-no-2-bill-1", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "e Bill being regarded as settling any principle. He said that next session when the Bill was introduced they must come to the question with an absolutely open mind. But if the Government had simply suspended the Cockerton judgment for a year they would have been endorsing the principle that school boards were the proper authorities to undertake the control of education above the elementary stage. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jun/14/south-african-war-shooting-of-boer", "section": "south-african-war-shooting-of-boer", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name\" from Nationalist Members.", "preceding_text": "een shot in this way by the Boers when captured by them? § MR. BRODRICK No, Sir. § MR. WILLIAM REDMOND Of course not. § MR. BRODRICK But I do not know of any cases in which British prisoners, having escaped, have fired on a patrol sent to capture them and wounded them, though I do know cases in which British subjects, for no valid offence, have been shot in cold blood by the Boers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jun/14/disturbances-in-belfast", "section": "disturbances-in-belfast", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "itable incident to which the hon. Member refers took place on Tuesday. § MR. JOHN REDMOND I was asking as to the proceedings on Wednesday. § MR. WYNDHAM I am giving the hon. Gentleman all the information I have. A large number of Queen's Island men made an attack on Roman Catholics on Wednesday. Some 250 took refuge in boats, and one man was struck by a missile, but he was a Protestant. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jun/14/disturbances-at-belfast", "section": "disturbances-at-belfast", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " are henceforth to be accused of sympathy with crime because we do not denounce it, why should I not publicly accuse him of sympathy with these outrages in Belfast? If the hon. Gentleman does not avail himself of the position which he occupies in this House, and say that, in his opinion, the outrages that have been perpetrated in Belfast deserve no sympathy, then he sympathises with these crimes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jun/14/disturbances-at-belfast", "section": "disturbances-at-belfast", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER on the Ministerial benches: They are not Orange disturbances", "preceding_text": "e more serious. I say it most deliberately, that the failure of hon. Gentlemen opposite who sit silent while these things are being enacted, and fail to protest against these disturbances and crimes, incite their continuance. And if the Government continue to pursue their policy of inaction—and fail on every future occasion, as they have failed in the past, to anticipate these Orange disturbances—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jun/14/disturbances-at-belfast", "section": "disturbances-at-belfast", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the Irish benches: A legal sham", "preceding_text": "n.\"—( Mr. John Redmond. ) § MR. WYNDHAM In replying to a question this afternoon as to the disturbances in Belfast, I ventured to deprecate any discussion of the subject at the present moment; and I think that many members on both sides of the House who have listened to the speech just delivered will agree with me that it was not an opportune pronouncement on the eve of the legal proceedings—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jun/14/disturbances-at-belfast", "section": "disturbances-at-belfast", "cue_text": "Nationalist cheers, and AN HON. MEMBER; No; they will not touch them.", "preceding_text": " any religious ceremony which they believe they ought to perform. These riots in Belfast, unfortunately, occasionally recur. I deplore this, but these riots are invariably got up by boys and girls under eighteen. They are never got up by the leaders of any party, and amongst those who are now being tried or have been tried in Belfast you will not find one single member of the Orange organisation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jun/14/navy-estimates-1901-2", "section": "navy-estimates-1901-2", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "yal subject of the King he hoped His Majesty would not go to, sea in her. They had much better break up the yacht and spend another £209,000 to build a new ship. He thought that course would be far more satisfactory to the country and also to His Majesty. He hoped that the Government would take this matter into their serious consideration. He had made many mistakes in his time, like other people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/jun/14/navy-estimates-1901-2", "section": "navy-estimates-1901-2", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"No, no,\" and Ministerial cries of \"Joicey.\"", "preceding_text": "entirely in agreement with what has fallen from him with regard to Sir William White, the distinguished gentleman who has been responsible for the designs of this yacht, as for so many of the finest ships of war afloat in the world. I did not hear the statement myself, but I understand that one hon. Gentleman opposite sug 496 gested the propriety of turning Sir W. White out of the public service. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/11/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "§ Mr. T. W. RUSSELL Then it will not be taken to-night? § Mr. A. J. BALFOUR No. § Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN (Stirling Burghs) With regard to the discussion on the Army Estimates, will the right hon. Gentleman not agree to postpone getting the Speaker out of the Chair until to-morrow, at least, in order that we may have time for the full discussion of the statement? Let me point out—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/11/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: Exaggeration.", "preceding_text": " him how much it was necessary for an officer in that regiment to have. The colonel replied, \"From the first moment he comes into the regiment, something between £1,000 and £1,500.\" The situation was, that a subaltern of twenty-two or twenty-three years of age must, forsooth, have as much money to horses free and spend as any hon. Gentleman who was sitting in that House for a county constituency. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/11/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "my. Personally, and many others agreed with him, he would not be afraid of democratising the Army to any extent. Honours were open from the lowest ranks to the very highest in the Napoleonic armies. Every private soldier, it was said, carried a field marshal's baton in his knapsack. In one great Anglo-Saxon army, Cromwell's, the officers were many of them mere millers and blacksmiths and brewers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/11/supply-army-estimates", "section": "supply-army-estimates", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: They brewed pure beer.", "preceding_text": " any extent. Honours were open from the lowest ranks to the very highest in the Napoleonic armies. Every private soldier, it was said, carried a field marshal's baton in his knapsack. In one great Anglo-Saxon army, Cromwell's, the officers were many of them mere millers and blacksmiths and brewers. [Laughter.] Yes, and brewers, too, who in those days were humbler people than they were at present. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/11/an-irrevocable-decision", "section": "an-irrevocable-decision", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER laughed.", "preceding_text": "oubtful black troops. He fought in Burma and in the Toka expedition, and he rendered to the Imperial policy of this country in Uganda services of which I have heard those who were in charge of the foreign affairs of this country at the time speak in terms of grateful admiration. He is a scientific soldier who was appointed only a few years ago as umpire at the manœuvres on Salisbury Plain. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_text": "gainst Mr. Loveday, nor 455 did he wish to throw any dirt upon him, but as this was the only opportunity he had of attacking the constitution of the Commission, he was obliged to bring Mr. Loveday's name into the matter. Mr. Loveday was a member of the firm of Messrs. Eckstein, otherwise Messrs. Wernher, Beit and Company, who were nothing more nor less than a common gang of thieves and swindlers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "Oh, oh.", "preceding_text": "ica. If the Government were prepared to undertake that, his object would be accomplished. He had no axe to grind; he was acting solely in the public interest. With regard to the question of the settlement of soldiers on the land, he said there was only one Member of the House who had made attacks on the soldiers of the Empire on anonymous correspondence. That gentleman was the Colonial Secretary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Quote,\" and \"What book?\"", "preceding_text": "estion of the settlement of soldiers on the land, he said there was only one Member of the House who had made attacks on the soldiers of the Empire on anonymous correspondence. That gentleman was the Colonial Secretary. [Oh, oh.] On anonymous correspondence the right hon. Gentleman had charged the soldiers of the Empire with being guilty of little less than murder. Let hon. Members read the book. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "s correspondence the right hon. Gentleman had charged the soldiers of the Empire with being guilty of little less than murder. Let hon. Members read the book. [Cries of \"Quote,\" and \"What book?\"] The right hon. Gentleman did not deny the accusation. § MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN I cannot deny the statement, because I do not understand the allusion. § MR. MARKHAM said that on the 1st August, 1879—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "ainst the personal character of any of the five men who have been appointed on these two Commissions. If the hon. Gentleman has a different opinion. I call upon him for facts, and not mere statements and indirect insinuations which other people have brought, and of whom I know nothing. § MR. MARKHAM The right hon. Gentleman has made white appear black, and black white, as I said he would do. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order, order !\"", "preceding_text": "to the motion before the Committee, *THE CHAIRMAN It does not appear to be relevant. § MR. MARKHAM The right hon. Gentleman has referred to my position 468 as being a shareholder, and with the permission of the Committee I would like to point out that, being in business myself, and not having passed from the stage of being a business man to that of a diplomatist like the right hon. Gentleman—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes.", "preceding_text": "ing a shareholder, and with the permission of the Committee I would like to point out that, being in business myself, and not having passed from the stage of being a business man to that of a diplomatist like the right hon. Gentleman—[Cries of \"Order, order !\"]—a shareholder is not in the same position as a man who is an alternate director, acting as the representative of Messrs. Eckstein. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "Cries of \"There was no charge.\"", "preceding_text": "t like the right hon. Gentleman—[Cries of \"Order, order !\"]—a shareholder is not in the same position as a man who is an alternate director, acting as the representative of Messrs. Eckstein. [HON. MEMBERS: Yes.] Well, if they do, I am sorry for their business capabilities. § *MR. LYTTELTON I certainly do not think it necessary to defend myself against the charge of being a capitalist. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/transvaal-concessions-commission", "section": "transvaal-concessions-commission", "cue_text": "Nationalist cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": " Member evidently expected me to accept it. I call upon Mr. Markham. § MR. MARKHAM said that it was his last wish to cast any reflections, either directly or indirectly, upon the conduct of the hon. Member for Warwick. With regard to Mr. Loveday, ho did not accuse him nor make any charge whatsoever against him. With the permission of the Committee, therefore, ho would withdraw his Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/the-somaliland-expedition", "section": "the-somaliland-expedition", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\" from the Irish benches.", "preceding_text": "untry. Whenever a Vote of 504 this kind came up it must be apparent to all hon. Members that it would be far better for the interests of this country if, instead of being compelled to come to this House, they were allowed to remain at home and manage their own affairs. § *SIR BRAMPTON GURDON said that after the explanation given by the noble Lord he would ask leave to withdraw his Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/19/the-somaliland-expedition", "section": "the-somaliland-expedition", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "ture relationship of this country with the people whom they ought to be in kindly, benevolent, and friendly contact with. Who were the people they had chosen for this expedition? They had employed 1,600 Central African irregulars. § *VISCOUNT CRANBORNE Native levies. § *MR. JOHN BURNS said that by employing those men under British supervision they were only producing tribal animosities. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/27/consolidated-fund-no-1-bill", "section": "consolidated-fund-no-1-bill", "cue_text": "The hon. Member moved an Amendment to this effect, but it was negatived.", "preceding_text": "ire, E. This is a Consolidated Fund and not an Appropriation Bill. It is only on the Appropriation Bill at the end of the session that the sums are specifically ear-marked. § Clause agreed to. § Clauses 2 and 3 agreed to. § Clause 4:— § MR. CALDWELL objected to the title. The Bill was really the first \"Consolidated Fund Bill.\" and not the \"Consolidated Fund First Bill.\" § "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/27/beer-bill-1", "section": "beer-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And in beer brewed from malt.", "preceding_text": "ed himself to be a Balaam among the prophets. He dissented from the comfortable conclusions arrived at by the members of the Committee who signed the Majority Report, and his prophecies, spoken with the fearless perception of a seer, had turned out true. No one could deny that the sad story of loss of life in Lancashire had proved to the hilt that arsenic could appear in beer brewed from glucose. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/27/beer-bill-1", "section": "beer-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"26s.\"", "preceding_text": "hon. friend the Member for Saffron Walden, who represents a great Norfolk family. They represent the class of high-priced barley; but the majority of barley interests in this country are second and third class barleys, and the question is when this Bill is passed what will be the price of these barleys, and how far it will affect those barleys above 30s. and the lower class of barleys above '20s. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/mar/27/beer-bill-1", "section": "beer-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": " fountain head of knowledge in the person of my hon. friend the Member for Sudbury I asked whether beer drinkers 1487 Blight be able to order Pilsener at any I public-house. He said, \"No, Pilsener is brewed from rice.\" But if the public is going to drink beer brewed from rice what is the value of Clause 8? § *SIR CUTHBERT QUILTER I want the right hon. Gentleman to consult the evidence of Mr.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/the-coal-duties-resolution", "section": "the-coal-duties-resolution", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Or wasted.", "preceding_text": "the resolution, but may I remind my right hon. friend of what has already taken place in connection with the resolution, and the ample opportunities afforded for discussion of the principle and details on the stages of the Budget Bill . I had hoped that the discussion of the Report of the resolution would have concluded on Tuesday, but the manner in which the early sitting on Tuesday was employed—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Mr. BALFOUR: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": " on behalf of the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydvil that he concurs in this proposal. § *SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT (Monmouthshire, W.) The House is called upon to agree to a resolution which introduces a system of taxation which has recorded against it the proscription and condemnation of more than half a century. We have seen a demand 465 lately for a broader basis of taxation—for original taxation—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"Hear, hear\" and \"Justly.\"", "preceding_text": "nd they gave a pledge, expressed or implied, that they would not renew the aid to agricultural rates until they had settled the grave injustice of not extending the boon to dwellers in towns. We are now told that the Government without having considered the question as to what ought to be given to the towns, are going to renew this boon, 480 this dole, of a million and a half, or more, this year. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"On the foreigner.\"", "preceding_text": "e now told that the Government without having considered the question as to what ought to be given to the towns, are going to renew this boon, 480 this dole, of a million and a half, or more, this year. [Ministerial cries of \"Hear, hear\" and \"Justly.\"] Oh, no doubt you are very glad to get your £1,500,000; and you are very happy to put £2,000,000 upon the coal trade and the coalminers of England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"No, no,\" and Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": "xchequer need not be ashamed to imitate the wisdom and prudence of his predecessor, Mr. Pitt. I hope there is still time for the Government to reconsider this tax. But if, after all, that be not so, I have only to say, in conclusion, that the two other taxes which have been brought forward, and which seem to be necessary, in the disastrous financial condition to which you have reduced the country—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name\" and \"Hay.\"", "preceding_text": " and inaccurate. Is it true that we have attempted to hustle this proposal through the House of Commons? § SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT I did not mean that, because I know the right hon. Gentleman at my instance postponed it. I was referring to the request for an extension of the time for the present debate. § *SIR M. HICKS BEACH Whose fault was it that this discussion did not begin on Tuesday? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "But that is not the statement which has been made to me. I have heard—and the right hon. Gentleman repeated the statement to-night—that mines would beclosed, that thousands of miners would be thrown out of work, that wages would be reduced, that ships would be laid idle and their crews left without employment, and the whole industry disorganised. That is what I characterise by the word \"destroy.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "cries of \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_text": "hequer knows perfectly well the conditions under which this industry is carried on, and for a man of his position to get up and make a speech to this House and ask for the support of his Government on such grounds as he has done, when only quoting three years out of an industry of that kind is, I think, most unfair, and no gentleman better than himself knows that he has not given a true statement—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about the royalty?", "preceding_text": "That represents a produce of twenty-seven millions. There is no doubt about the accuracy of that amount. Now, what has been the average price realised according to these accounts? It has been 5s. 7d. per ton at the pithead, and I defy the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make out that, over a period like that, 5s. 7d. is an unreasonable figure to provide for cost of working and interest on capital. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: £2,000,000.", "preceding_text": "e will have been seriously damaged, and in many cases lost entirely. What is the right hon. Gentleman going to get from the experiment? I could understand that it would be worth while perhaps to dislocate even a great industry of this kind, and cause agitation and disturbance throughout the country, if the tax was going to raise a large revenue, but the nett result will be a miserable £1,000,000. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "ts are not coal producers, 521 they are, at any rate, great coal users. There probably is no area in the whole of the Kingdom which, for its size, consumes or requires so much coal for its great industry as the city and district of Sheffield. My view is that it would be quite impossible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to have devised a more generally popular tax than this export duty on coal. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Opposition cheers.", "preceding_text": "myself come under the latter head. I did indeed attempt to speak upon this question before war was declared in favour of the dispute being referred to arbitration, but I was howled down. If I have any regret upon this question it is that I was perhaps too easily cowed, and that I should have protested more emphatically than I did against what I regarded as the most disgraceful war in our history. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "talk about mines I know what I am talking about. I spent eighteen years of my life as an underground workman, and the House may gauge my ambition when I tell them that I never wanted to go higher. I never had any desire to change my occupation, but my fellow-workmen asked me to leave the pits and represent them. Well, I must not give you my autobiography, although it may be interesting to myself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/02/coal-1", "section": "coal-1", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And less.\"", "preceding_text": "I knew then, and it is a satisfaction to me to know now, that at any rate during one 532 period of my life I earned my bread honestly. I have not always been sure since. I see that I have the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Let me, then, give him some notion of what a shilling a ton means from the coal-hewer's point of view. The hewer is many a time getting coal at a shilling a ton. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/derwent-valley-water-board-bill", "section": "derwent-valley-water-board-bill", "cue_text": "BY ORDER.", "preceding_text": "DERWENT VALLEY WATER BOARD BILL. (Hansard, 3 May 1901) Search Help HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1900s → 1901 → May 1901 → 3 May 1901 → Commons Sitting → PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS. DERWENT VALLEY WATER BOARD BILL. HC Deb 03 May 1901 vol 93 cc572-80 572 § "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: All Ireland.", "preceding_text": "tionalist Members, being now united, have adopted in order to make government in Ireland impossible. It is by terrorism and an abuse of all legal comment that jurors individually are to be prevented from doing their duty. In his paper of the 6th December Mr. M'Hugh noticed that the case was to be proceeded with, and he boasted that the county of Sligo was honeycombed with the United Irish League. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ited, have adopted in order to make government in Ireland impossible. It is by terrorism and an abuse of all legal comment that jurors individually are to be prevented from doing their duty. In his paper of the 6th December Mr. M'Hugh noticed that the case was to be proceeded with, and he boasted that the county of Sligo was honeycombed with the United Irish League. [An HON. MEMBER: All Ireland.] "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "is a liar, 'and the truth is not in him.' Then why convict Messrs Muff any and Maguire when on his oath? But we wonder if any consideration of this kind ever touched the hearts of the Protestant jurors before finally returning their verdict of 'guilty' against Messrs. Muff any and Maguire. We hardly think so. Kindly considerations have no room where prejudice, bigotry, and ignorance rule supreme. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "During this portion of his speech the right hon. and learned Member was constantly interrupted by various Nationalist Members.", "preceding_text": "o pressure in anticipation of a coming trial. It is obvious that in districts where the whole agricultural community is penetrated by a widespread organisation which habitually enforces its rules by the maltreatment or persecution of those who disregard them, it must be difficult or impossible for jurors, themselves members of that community, to withstand the influences to which they are exposed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: All were Protestants.", "preceding_text": " been made in the course of the present discussion was wholly Protestant. There has been a trial at Sligo. I am not quite sure that I accurately followed the figures, but I understand that in Sligo there are 50,000 Catholics, and 7,000 Protestants. In that case also there was a jury in which the whole of them were Protestants, or it may be a case in which there was one Roman Catholic on the jury. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Cries of 667 \"Oh, oh\" from the Irish Benches.", "preceding_text": "is a jury which prefers to give a verdict in the teeth of the evidence. But I pass from that. The hon. Gentleman admits that the same right of ordering jurors to stand by exists in England, but the right is not often exercised. Why? Because, as is perfectly well known, if either side has an objection to a juryman the clerk is asked not to call that person. Both sides act reasonably in the matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "onnected with the administration of the law, and he could 695 understand the position, of hon. Members opposite who frankly and openly in this House had ever challenged the administration of the law in Ireland, who had ever honestly and openly endeavoured to interrupt order. He represented 1,000,000 loyalists in Ireland, whose views had not been heard on this question in the course of the debate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It might.", "preceding_text": "nd those who heard the speech, and to the constituents of South Tyrone who returned the hon. Member by a majority of ninety to support the Union, He had heard attacks 696 on the administration of law and order in Ireland, but he had not in any quarter heard any suggestion of an alternative scheme, except Home Rule. That was what it amounted to. The Unionist party would not adopt that alternative. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the Irish Benches: Home Rule.", "preceding_text": "he wish, entertained, of course, by everybody, that greater harmony should prevail in Ireland. We had a speech of somewhat the same kind from the hon. Member for South Longford, who had been a distinguished politician in a colony which included a number of loyal Catholic subjects of the Empire. By what means were all people in Ireland to be brought into harmony? How was the change to be effected? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Nationalist interruption, and cries of \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_text": "r action here—set aside sixty men from the jury panel, and the prisoner's counsel set aside eighteen men, four of whom were Catholics. Eventually the jury was composed of six Protestants and six Catholics. Timothy Cadogan was convicted, and nobody has a shadow of doubt that he was guilty of a wry savage and unprovoked murder. If those sixty men had not been set aside he would have been acquitted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/03/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Further Nationalist interruption.", "preceding_text": "l set aside eighteen men, four of whom were Catholics. Eventually the jury was composed of six Protestants and six Catholics. Timothy Cadogan was convicted, and nobody has a shadow of doubt that he was guilty of a wry savage and unprovoked murder. If those sixty men had not been set aside he would have been acquitted. [Nationalist interruption, and cries of \"How do you know?\"] That is my opinion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/14/army-organisation", "section": "army-organisation", "cue_text": "Mr. BRODRICK laughed.", "preceding_text": " what happened on the outbreak of the war in South Africa. That was the policy I thought he was departing from in introducing his Army reform, but he is back in the old rut, as this resolution shows. He is clinging to the same old policy. Let us see what happened in South Africa from putting over-sea service in the background of policy. We had the outbreak of the war in the early days of October. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/14/duration-of-speeches-in-parliament", "section": "duration-of-speeches-in-parliament", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER on the Irish Benches: We respect Ireland only.", "preceding_text": "are for it treat the Mother of Parliaments with respect. What are the chief evils from which we suffer? I say it in no spirit of reproach to our friends from Ireland, but avowedly they despair of obtaining from this House the remedies of the evils of which they complain, and they use the rules of the House for their own ends, and do not profess respect for the dignity or convenience of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/14/duration-of-speeches-in-parliament", "section": "duration-of-speeches-in-parliament", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear,\" from the Nationalist Members.", "preceding_text": " and I venture to think that it would be much more advantageous for the House, and for the nation as a whole, that nine Members should be able to give expression to their views before the question was put, rather than that the closure should be applied when only four or five have spoken. We are sometimes told that we have come to this House, not to speak, but to listen and to obey the Party Whip. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/14/duration-of-speeches-in-parliament", "section": "duration-of-speeches-in-parliament", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: Debate.", "preceding_text": "rocedure? What might happen would be this. An hon. Member would rise to address the House, and at the close of his twenty minutes one of his hon. friends would move that he be heard for another twenty minutes. Some other hon. Member would move as an Amendment that he be heard for twenty-five minutes longer, or for a less time. I presume the ordinary course would be followed, and a division taken. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/14/duration-of-speeches-in-parliament", "section": "duration-of-speeches-in-parliament", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": "ought to find it comparatively an easy task to lay before the House and the country that measure of instruction and enlightenment which they have at their disposal in a limited, number of minutes. I cannot sit down without saying that a time limit is very arbitrary and unwise. § MR. SPEAKER That does not arise on the Amendment now before the House. § LORD HUGH CECIL I quite accept that. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1901/may/14", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1901/may/14/licensing-boards-bill", "section": "licensing-boards-bill", "cue_text": "The Marquess of SALISBURY: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "hat conduces to health and longevity are entitled to the highest respect. It is impossible to catch the noble Marquess on this question. You speak of a Royal Commission. That I know is the usual preliminary to legislation in this country. The noble Marquess, with a struggle, appoints a Royal Commission, and when it has reported—reported in a twofold form, giving him the choice of either 30 option—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/24/demise-of-the-crown-bill", "section": "demise-of-the-crown-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: In six months.", "preceding_text": "f this House. There used to be an idea that the whole machinery of the Government should stop when there was a change in the person of the Sovereign. Gradually, however, that ancient con- 1141 stitutional doctrine had been curtailed and reduced. There used to be a doctrine that the moment the demise of the Crown took place this House ceased to exist, and there would have to be a General Election. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/24/demise-of-the-crown-bill", "section": "demise-of-the-crown-bill", "cue_text": "Several hon. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": " hon. and learned Gentleman would say what the Bill was for, if his argument were correct? § MR. DUKE said he should have thought it was very plain what the Bill was for. The Bill was to relieve the country from an admitted inconvenience and the House from the discredit of making a great constitutional change without including the present Ministers of the Crown in the effects of that change. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/24/army-estimates-1901-2", "section": "army-estimates-1901-2", "cue_text": "Nationalist cries of \"No, no,\" and Ministerial laughter", "preceding_text": "the Russians across the Balkans. Then, as now, he recognised that these horrors were the necessary consequences of war before which humanity felt helpless. He felt certain that an inquiry would be made, and that whatever was humanly possible would be done by the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues. However much they might differ about the causes of this war, after all they were all Englishmen—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/24/army-estimates-1901-2", "section": "army-estimates-1901-2", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Yes they were.", "preceding_text": "istence of these camps on the ground that they were a military necessity. He had said that war was war, and always resulted in the hardships which had been brought to the attention of the Committee. He thought that was an extreme statement. He did not think refugee camps, denudation of the country, destruction of farm buildings, supplies, and standing crops were features of the Franco-German War. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/24/army-estimates-1901-2", "section": "army-estimates-1901-2", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Yes.\"", "preceding_text": " thought that was an extreme statement. He did not think refugee camps, denudation of the country, destruction of farm buildings, supplies, and standing crops were features of the Franco-German War. [An HON. MEMBER: Yes they were.] There was no removal of the inhabitants and non-combatants in that war, nor in any other European war. It was not so in the Danish War, nor in the Peninsular 1194 War. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1901/may/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/may/24/army-estimates-1901-2", "section": "army-estimates-1901-2", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "t at all. That was fifty years ago, and he thought they would agree that humanity and civilisation had made some progress since the American Civil War. They had had within the last two years the Hague Convention, which had met in order to formulate and stereotype rules in relation to such matters as they were now discussing, which were absolutely prohibited under the rules drawn up two years ago. "}