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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/02/thames-river-steamboat-service-bill-by", "section": "thames-river-steamboat-service-bill-by", "cue_text": "BY ORDER.", "preceding_text": "THAMES RIVER STEAMBOAT SERVICE BILL. [BY ORDER.] (Hansard, 2 April 1903) Search Help HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1900s → 1903 → April 1903 → 2 April 1903 → Commons Sitting → EVENING SITTING. THAMES RIVER STEAMBOAT SERVICE BILL. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/02/thames-steamboat-trust-bill", "section": "thames-steamboat-trust-bill", "cue_text": "BY ORDER.", "preceding_text": "ouncil being, as always, magnanimous, were prepared, if he was allowed to keep his pledge, to let the Bill go upstairs and receive the happy despatch at the hands of a Parliamentary Committee. He appealed to the hon. Baronet to rest content with that. § SIR JOSEPH DIMSDALE said that having made his protest he would not attempt to divide the House. Back to THAMES RIVER STEAMBOAT SERVICE BILL. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " against School Boards and against any form of ail hoc administration, treated us to a homily against representative government, more sweeping, more trenchant, more uncompromising, than anything that we have heard in this House since the days of the Reform Bill . The hon. Gentleman covered any School Board system—any directly-elected system of government—with his objections and his denunciations. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "directly-elected system of government—with his objections and his denunciations. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"] He went over a list of their defects. He said they are necessarily extravagant. So is the House of Commons. One of the defects we admit in the House of Commons is that it is 1274 tending to be an extravagant body. Then he says the average elector, for whom he has evidently no great regard—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ecretary of State for India, who did not think it too small a matter to occupy himself with, and the chairmanship of the present Minister of Education, who is the actual sponsor, if not the author, of this Bill—so that 1276 if the Government have erred, as I think they have greatly erred here, they have done so with their eyes widely opened—there has been no complaint from ratepayers and parents. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "they are to interfere, when they have an excuse, with the action of the local bodies in connection with education. But then there are to be the borough councillors, men who are elected to look after the lighting and cleaning of streets, baths and workhouses, and useful purposes of that sort. They have no mandate whatever on education, and they are practically irresponsible on the Education Board. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "ntralisation as that, and the whole object will be attained. But let the House mark that these borough councillors are to appoint teachers, and they are to 1279 have the controlling voice in the securing of sites. They are, therefore, to have the patronage and the actual government of the schools, and that it will be in the hands of bodies with no pretence to fitness for discharging these duties. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "ought in a Bill which is based upon exactly the same principle as the Bill of last year, and that principle the Leader of the Opposition in the speech he has just addressed to the House, has absolutely ignored. He said in his speech— Why don't yon make the London County Council the education authority? That is what my hon. friend the Secretary to the Board of Education said they were going to do. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers and laughter.", "preceding_text": "ast year, and that principle the Leader of the Opposition in the speech he has just addressed to the House, has absolutely ignored. He said in his speech— Why don't yon make the London County Council the education authority? That is what my hon. friend the Secretary to the Board of Education said they were going to do. [OPPOSITION cries of \"No, no.\"] At all events they were going to do it in name—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It will give power to the Board of Education.", "preceding_text": "more than name? There is the power of the purse which I believe alone and by itself, quite irrespective of any restrictions which either side of the House may choose to put upon the operation of the London County Council—I believe that that power of the purse will give to it, as it will give to other County and Borough Councils in England and Wales, the absolute power over education of all kinds. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: We have heard nothing of that now.", "preceding_text": "s, over which the House went almost mad last session, I always said that the very name \"manager\" was rather productive of error because these so-called \"managers\" cannot manage the schools as they like. Every single penny of their expenditure has to be sanctioned and allowed by the County Council. The teachers are appointed under the Act of last year subject to the approval of the County Council. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " does he think he will get rid of that controversy by Bills of this character? This is really one of the most amusing explanations of the Bill. You will introduce religious controversy in departments where it has never been before. At the Borough Council elections in November the contests will be purely and simply a religious controversy. § SIR FREDERICK BANBURY (Camberwell, Peckham) No, no. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/apr/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/apr/07/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Oh, oh!", "preceding_text": "tion. That body is discussing the Prime Minister's theological views and condemning them. What is the good of talking about things of that sort? The Secretary to the Board of Education knows perfectly well that the theological controversy is at the bottom of this whole Bill. If it had not been for that the Bill would never have come into existence. The Cockerton judgment was inspired by theology. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/06/irish-land-bill-1", "section": "irish-land-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "hose words be there inserted.\" § MR. ATKINSON said, as he understood, the position of a trustee guilty of such act was provided for in the clause if the breach of trust was committed after the passing of this Bill, but it could not be dealt with if committed before. He thought the fears of the hon. and learned Member in regard to the trustee who honestly made a mistake were quite groundless. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/06/irish-land-bill-1", "section": "irish-land-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " obligation upon them to do so. In drawing up the rules it would not be necessary to bring in the President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. § *MR. HEMPHILL said this Amendment had been suggested to him by the Incorporated Law Society after very serious deliberation on their part and after full consideration. The Land Commission consisted of men who were, more or less, lay people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/07/irish-land-bill", "section": "irish-land-bill", "cue_text": "Mr. WYNDHAM: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " Reference had been made to the men who should be upon this Board in whom the Irish people had confidence. So far as he was concerned he believed his people had the fullest confidence in the Board as at present constituted. The most Rev. Dr. O'Donnell Ford, Bishop of Raphoe, had rendered yeoman service for the people of the Congested Districts of Ireland and his services never would be forgotten. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/07/irish-land-bill", "section": "irish-land-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: His name is Rattray.", "preceding_text": "the present occupying tenant for the purpose of making a living. He knew a case in the constituency of his hon. friend the Member for East Galway where a man who had made his money out of the halfpence and pence of the people living in a congested area, by keeping a wayside shop, and who, though originally he did not occupy ten acres of land himself, was now a grazier holding 5,000 acres of land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/13/licensing-acts-scotland-consolidation", "section": "licensing-acts-scotland-consolidation", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Yes.\"", "preceding_text": "e doing their best to prevent particular licences being granted. They did so on general principles and not because they had anything to say against A. or B. Were hon. Members who were anxious to have the clause made applicable to both sides prepared to put under £100 penalty every temperance reformer who did what he could with a licensing authority to prevent them from granting any more licences? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/13/licensing-acts-scotland-consolidation-1", "section": "licensing-acts-scotland-consolidation-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "iry; it could have only one result. What was he going to do in regard to this Amendment? MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAY I shall vote against it. § MR. PIRIE (Aberdeen, N.) hoped the English supporters of the Government would be informed that they were at perfect liberty to vote how they liked on this question. § MR. BUCHANAN did not think the Lord Advocate had behaved quite fairly in this matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/15/the-fiscal-inquiry", "section": "the-fiscal-inquiry", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no\"", "preceding_text": "e rules of debate, no one can say that the subject was not dealt with in the lengthy two days' discussion which we had on that subject; and in addition to that we had a debate upon the rising of the House for the Whitsuntide holidays and a subsequent debate on the Motion for the adjournment of the House. These were all occasions on which hon. Gentlemen had an opportunity, and used the opportunity—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/15/the-fiscal-inquiry", "section": "the-fiscal-inquiry", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No\"", "preceding_text": "bject was not dealt with in the lengthy two days' discussion which we had on that subject; and in addition to that we had a debate upon the rising of the House for the Whitsuntide holidays and a subsequent debate on the Motion for the adjournment of the House. These were all occasions on which hon. Gentlemen had an opportunity, and used the opportunity—[Cries of \"No, no\"]—and used the opportunity—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/15/london-education-bill-1", "section": "london-education-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The Education Committees deal with it.", "preceding_text": "ere present whether, after what had been said by the noble Lord the Member for Wiltshire, they could not see their way to allow some modification of the Clause. § MR. WALTER LONG said he was bound to say that nothing which had fallen from the noble Lord and other hon. Members had led them to change their mind. The London County Council could be very well trusted to deal with 781 this matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/15/london-education-bill-1", "section": "london-education-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no,\" from the Opposition, and \"We want the rights we now have in London.\"", "preceding_text": " in these words, holding the views which he had expressed, but he recognised fully that there was some element of doubt as to what the law exactly was. He was quite prepared to undertake on behalf of the Government that if there was any doubt which would leave this Committee, in consequence of this Amendment, in a position different from that occupied by the Committee of any other local authority—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/23/civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "section": "civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "Commons, as negotiations of that kind, by whatever diplomatic term they are described, form an important link in this chapter of history. With the exception of those negotiations which the 141 right hon. Gentleman told us were abortive, nothing took place until the Colonial Conference of last year. Then the whole thing was belittled to the utmost possible degree by the Coloniai Secretary himself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/23/civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "section": "civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL laugher", "preceding_text": "tile action in virtue of the elementary law of self-preservation and self-defence, but where we differ, and differ profoundly, from those who talk about retaliation is this—it is a question by what method, it is not a question of the right of defence but what is the most effectual and most expedient method of making your defence good. Very often 145 our best plan is to leave things entirely alone."}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/23/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about prices?", "preceding_text": "s decline in British trade. Those statistics excluded railway material, which was admitted free of duty, and railway material, as the Committee well knew, had been pouring into China from Belgium, Russia, France and German v within the last few years, but not from this country, because of the failure on the part of our Government to secure a fair share of railway concessions for British subjects. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jul/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jul/23/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "he Government had been asked for the documents showing the Canadian part of the negotiations, and the Colonial Secretary had replied that he was not aware of any such documents. As a mater of fact they were letters from the Canadian Government to the Foreign Office. 193 § * LORD CRANBORNE That is certainly not true, because the Canadian Government does not correspond with the Foreign Office. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jun/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jun/15/irish-land-bill-1", "section": "irish-land-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You are not doing much to promote it.", "preceding_text": "ses be too large, because there would be landlords' pressure on the one hand and tenants' weakness on the other; but he seemed to remember speeches of the hon. Member in former days the staple of which was not landlords' pressure, but tenants' tyranny. He was very sorry to have entered upon controversial channels, because he was extremely desirous that they should come to an amicable arrangement. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1903/jun/15", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1903/jun/15/the-fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "section": "the-fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "xpected, that the corn duty would increase the price of the poor man's bread. And yet now we hear from the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself that that has been the case. People are apt to forget another matter, too, that, even if the price of bread has not been raised—there is evidence that it has been raised—if the duty had not been there they would have got their bread at a much cheaper rate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jun/16/irish-land-bill", "section": "irish-land-bill", "cue_text": "NATIONALIST groans and ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "ance from this Bill. He did not think a reduction of 15 per cent. would affect them very much, but they must not forget that these men had the prospect of calling these small holdings their own. He asked how many working men there were in London, Manchester, or Leeds, or in any of their great towns, who would not be delighted to have a house and two or three acres of land for one shilling a week. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jun/16/irish-land-bill-1", "section": "irish-land-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the Irish Benches: It doesn't.", "preceding_text": "e were landlords and landlords in Ireland. There were landlords who were good to their tenants, who took account of bad seasons, and regularly made abatements to them if they did not go into the Land Court. These tenants under the Bill were treated precisely as ordinary judicial tenants who would come under the zones. If the House wanted to pass a just measure—he did not say whether it did or not—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jun/18/class-iv", "section": "class-iv", "cue_text": "Mr. A. GRAHAM MURRAY: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "been given in aid of the rates was hereafter to be entirely given for the purposes of education. That was forced on the Government by discussion in this House, and ultimately passed with general consent, because it was felt it would be a great educational gain. They should like to do that in Scotland also, and take the whole of the money under the Act of 1890 and apply it to educational purposes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/jun/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/jun/18/class-iv-1", "section": "class-iv-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the hearing?\"", "preceding_text": "ot only a dentist but an oculist to each school. If they did so he did not believe that the Education 1393 Department would stand in the way, but would say that it was to their credit that they had made such appointments. In many cases the eyesight of a child was at fault when he was supposed to be slow in brain, dull, or idle. In fact, sometimes the child could not see a word on his lesson book. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/04/licensing-scotland-acts-amendment", "section": "licensing-scotland-acts-amendment", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about Royal burghs?", "preceding_text": "r the exercise of the Contagious Diseases Act , and I think it is also mentioned in some other pro- 1391 visions. At any rate it is a familiar figure. We propose, therefore, that for the future, burghs which are under 7,000 population are simply to be treated as parts of the counties to which they belong. On the other hand, all burghs above the 7,000 limit are still to have the burgh legislation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/04/sale-of-adulterated-butter", "section": "sale-of-adulterated-butter", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "be 20½ per cent., and what is to be done with the sellers who may be quite innocent in the matter? What punishment is to be put on them? That strikes me as a most difficult provision to enforce. The right hon. Gentleman said there was one class of butter that must be altogether excluded from the operations of the Bill. Practically the arguments that apply to that class apply to all butter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/04/municipal-trading", "section": "municipal-trading", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Oh!", "preceding_text": "and lawyers who are interested in it, and above all by company promoters. The revelations which have been submitted to us during the past twelve months by some of the organs of the Press in this country are sufficient in themselves to deter the Government from pursuing this policy of irritation and annoyance against the great popularly elected, and, in the main, economically managed local bodies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/04/municipal-trading", "section": "municipal-trading", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers", "preceding_text": "age, ice manufacture, concert rooms, hotels, Turkish baths, cycle tracks, and brass foundries. What is trading if that is not trading? The hon. Member also said that there were other openings for municipal activity. Let me give a few of the proposed developments. He had seen suggestions that municipal trading should be further developed so as to take in pawnbroking, banking, running public-houses—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/04/trades-unions", "section": "trades-unions", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers from the OPPOSITION Benches.", "preceding_text": "e made clear, and the absolute fairness and equality of the law ought to be demonstrated without doubt or cavil. Whatever view we may take of labour disputes I think all parties who have to enter such disputes have a right to know where they stand, and have a right to meet each other on equal terms. I do not believe that Parliament will ever give any privilege to one class and deny it to another. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/04/trades-unions", "section": "trades-unions", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the Opposition Benches: \"Why not appoint the House of Lords?\"", "preceding_text": "epresenting every kind of interest, and when that Commission sits over a long period, hearing every kind of evidence from every quarter, an impression is produced on the public mind that it has been appointed to shelve the matter. I deprecate that that should be the ease on this occasion. I think that whatever body is appointed to inquire into this question should be small, expert, and impartial. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/04/trades-unions", "section": "trades-unions", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "was a most urgent need, in order to protect the interests of hundreds and thousands of the workers of this country. § * MR. STUART WORTLEY (Sheffield, Hallam) said that nobody was asking for delay in regard to this question, and he did not think legislation of this sort would be hastened by speeches made in such a spirit as that which had just been delivered by the hon. Member for Leicester. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/04/trades-unions", "section": "trades-unions", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Ploughing the sands.", "preceding_text": "he House upon a subject which, if we had been able to approach it, would have engrossed universal attention; but unprofitable owing to the conditions under which the debate is carried out, which preclude us from discussing even the subject matter. We cannot approach even the outskirts of the subject; our tongues are tied and our hands are fettered, and we are really beating the air to no purpose. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/31/evening-sitting", "section": "evening-sitting", "cue_text": "BY ORDER.", "preceding_text": "EVENING SITTING. (Hansard, 31 March 1903) Search Help HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1900s → 1903 → March 1903 → 31 March 1903 → Commons Sitting EVENING SITTING. HC Deb 31 March 1903 vol 120 cc742-76 cc742-3 BAKER STREET AND WATERLOO RAILWAY (TRANSFER) BILL [BY ORDER]. 203 words cc743-61 LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS AND IMPROVEMENTS) BILL. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/31/baker-street-and-waterloo-railway", "section": "baker-street-and-waterloo-railway", "cue_text": "BY ORDER.", "preceding_text": "he word 'now' stand part of the Question.\" § MR. PERKS (Lincolnshire, Louth) said that Clause 8 would be struck out, and the whole question of the amalgamation of these underground lines would, no doubt, be dealt with by the Royal Commission on London Locomotion. § Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Back to EVENING SITTING. Forward to LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS AND IMPROVEMENTS) BILL. "}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/31/london-county-council-tramways-and", "section": "london-county-council-tramways-and", "cue_text": "BY ORDER.", "preceding_text": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS AND IMPROVEMENTS) BILL. [BY ORDER.] (Hansard, 31 March 1903) Search Help HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1900s → 1903 → March 1903 → 31 March 1903 → Commons Sitting → EVENING SITTING. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS AND IMPROVEMENTS) BILL. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/31/london-county-council-tramways-and", "section": "london-county-council-tramways-and", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Not over Westminster Bridge.", "preceding_text": "the part of the Commission to postpone their work, and he hoped that before long this matter would be considered § MR. THORNTON (Clapham) said this scheme was much needed by the people living in the district he represented. They desired transit facilities for reaching Holborn and the districts beyond without being forced to go underground. Last year a majority declared in favour of the Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/mar/31/labour-representation", "section": "labour-representation", "cue_text": "BY ORDER.", "preceding_text": "in which there was such an amount of unpaid work done for the benefit of the community as in this country; and if they began to pay one particular branch of work, they would be opening the door to payment for all kinds of public service. § And, it being Midnight, the Debate stood adjourned. § Debate to be resumed to-morrow. Back to LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS AND IMPROVEMENTS) BILL. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/18/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "said that they had had ample opportunity. He asked any fair-minded man whether they had had ample opportunity to consider the measure? What opportunity had the School Board, which was to be destroyed by the Bill, of discussing before the Committee stage the details of the measure, as promised by the Prime Minister? The School Board met on 30th April, and immediately appointed a Special Committee. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/18/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "; but at the eleventh hour, on the eve of going into the Committee stage on the Bill, they were told that the Education Committee was to consist of forty-two members appointed by the London County Council, twelve appointed by the Borough Councils, and thirty outsiders—an entirely new scheme altogether. Now, he had spent the whole of the previous day in endeavouring to see how that would work out. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/18/london-education-bill", "section": "london-education-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": " By the London Government Act of 1899, all the existing vestries were extinguished, but could anybody contend that these bodies were consulted beforehand? No public body liked to be suicided out of existence, and he could quite understand that members of the School Board would never vote for their own extinction. He suggested that the Amendment had been put on the Paper for the purposes of delay. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/18/london-education-bill-1", "section": "london-education-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Name.", "preceding_text": "d that, owing to the constitution of the Council, a great many more members had to be put on Committees than were required. Members of the Council had said to him, \"Add to our duties and we will reduce our committees, and we shall hear this burden with the utmost ease.\" § DR. MACNAMARA (Camberwell, N.) Who said that? § MR. WALTER LONG said that that statement was frequently made to him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/18/london-education-bill-1", "section": "london-education-bill-1", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: Not this work.", "preceding_text": "Gentlemen opposite could not escape. The hon. Member for Camberwell had been consistent; he had always advocated the creation of an ad hoc authority. § DR. MACNAMARA So do the London County Council. § MR. WALTER LONG The London County Council advocated the creation of an ad hoc authority on the ground 1033 that they had so much work to do that they could not support this addition to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/28/fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "section": "fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "cue_text": "Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "d by the least experienced of his fellow-citizens. I have, I am aware, trespassed at considerable length on the House, and I know that some of the arguments I have adduced have been dry, and perhaps, with my imperfect power of expression, not easy to follow. But I am convinced that the trend of thought which I have ventured—in, I believe, absolute conformity with the views of my right hon. friend "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/28/fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "section": "fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "on behalf of the Leaders of that Party, for a discussion on this identical subject, to take place on the Second Reading of the Finance Bill . Therefore, I suppose we must assume that the present is only an affair of scouts, and that hon. Gentlemen on the other side who have addressed us hitherto have been acting on behalf of the Leaders of the Party, as spies in a sort of military reconnaissance. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/28/fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "section": "fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: At the present time?", "preceding_text": "What we raise in effect is a principle. It is a question which we put to the people in this country. In my speech, if I may be permitted to refer to it, I called attention in the first place to what I considered the opportunity existing at the present time, and the importance of seizing the opportunity of making preferential arrangements in the nature of a reciprocity agreement with our colonies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/28/fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "section": "fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "My noble friend says that he does not see that it would be advisable to commence progress towards a closer union with the colonies by taking the fiscal union 181 first. Well, all I can say is that the great example of the world is altogether opposed to the conclusion of my noble friend. How was the union of Germany effected? The union of Germany was effected in the first instance by a Zollverein. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/28/fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "section": "fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "cue_text": "Cries of dissent.", "preceding_text": " to carry it out would be to consult the colonies. In that case I should call another conference, representative of the self-governing colonies, and I have not the slightest doubt myself that, as the result, arrangements which we should consider were perfectly fair between the two parties—arrangements, that is to say, which gave us as much as we gave them—could be completed with all the colonies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/28/fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "section": "fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION laughter.", "preceding_text": "ntlemen opposite will be glad to make light of. § MR. LAWSON WALTON (Leeds, S.) ; Did not the Prime Minister tell us that it was not proposed to levy any impost either on raw materials or on food? § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Certainly not. § MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN No, the Prime Minister did not say that. What I 185 was going to say when I was stopped is that without binding myself for all time—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1903/may/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1903/may/28/fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "section": "fiscal-policy-of-the-country", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION Cheers.", "preceding_text": "table to this purpose. If a tax were put on raw materials it would have to be accompanied by drawbacks on the finished exports, and although that is not at all impossible it would be a complicated way of dealing with a matter which could be dealt with much more simply. Therefore, we come to this. If you are to give a preference to the Colonies—I do not say that you are—you must put a tax on food. "}