{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/apr/27/cotton-growing-africa", "section": "cotton-growing-africa", "cue_text": "Ironical MINISTERIAL cheers.", "preceding_text": " in the Soudan capable of growing cotton; but the question he wished to put to the Government for subsequent consideration was this—that if there was a large territory suitable for the purpose and there was not a sufficient population, the question of the immigration of Indian coolies, if it could be satisfactorily done, might be considered. He said Indian coolies; he did not say Chinese coolies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the OPPOSITON Benches: And very cheap.", "preceding_text": " the amount of unskilled labour. That had been proved beyond all controversy, and if the unskilled labour could be got from China a great deal of labour would be secured for the skilled white man. The Chinaman was an undesirable person if left alone; but he had three characteristics which were very valuable He was very thrifty, he was very diligent. and he lived very peacably with his fellow men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Or any shares.", "preceding_text": "in South Africa. What I said was that the noble Lord had shares in South African concerns. Unless I am misinformed—and if I am I withdraw the statement and express my regret for having made it—the noble Lord formerly possessed, if he does not now possess. 5,000 shares in the Chartered Company. § LORD ALWYNE COMPTON I never held 5,000 shares in the Chartered Company, and I have no shares now. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And the Millionaires.", "preceding_text": "rs of the Government pointed out to the working classes in this country what a happy hunting ground South Africa would be r the British labourer, and what a splendid outlet it would be for the surplus population of this country. Now it turned out that this country had shed the blood of tens of thousands of its subjects not in the interests of British labour but in the interests of Chinese labour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Did they recommend Chinese labour?", "preceding_text": " the members of that Conference? They consisted of delegates and advisers from all the four colonies in South Africa—self-governing and Crown colonies delegates and advisers from Rhodesia, and one delegate from Portuguese East Africa, Mr. Lencastre. The resolution was passed, as he had said, on 19th March last, and no protest was entered to show that any individual dissented from its conclusions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the MINISTERIAL BENCHES: No.", "preceding_text": "skilled whites, gradually becoming skilled, to step into his shoes. He thought he had shown that the Labour Party was not agreed on this question. He came now to his second point. He thought that his right hon. friend the Colonial Secretary must have satisfied everyone on that side of the House, except the hon. and gallant Member for Isle of Wight, that South Africa was not a white man's country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Is that Lord Milner's view?", "preceding_text": "ent was proposed to that resolution which began— That this Conference is of opinion that South Africa is essentially a white man's country, but it was abandoned and merged in the resolution, which he had quoted at the outset, in regard to the introduction of non-African labour. Could anything be clearer than that? Even in South Africa it was fully recognised that it was not a white man's country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": ", to subject them to the horrors of the compound equalling the sufferings of the Middle Passage, to involve South Africa in turmoil and dissatisfaction and this country in an electoral fight, there would be but one ending to it, viz., the 102 re-assertion of liberty, freedom, and independence, and the revival of the anti-slavery enthusiasm which had been one of the greatest glories of this House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION laughter", "preceding_text": "a fortnight, to wind up a debate for the Opposition on a vote of censure on the Government. The first was based on the conduct of the Government during the war—a debate which began with an impeachment of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham, and ended, I venture to say, with an impeachment of the Leader of the Opposition. There was a large majority against him on that occasion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "uproar, and loud cries of \"Order\"", "preceding_text": " labourer to be subjected, under this proposal, to the same restrictions which are denounced as slavery, which apply to 200,000 men in His Majesty's service? 110 The conditions under which they enter are entered into on their part without any sacrifice of their character or of their liberty. § MAJOR SEELY (Isle of Wight) (who rose amidst cries of \"Order\")—Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "have little studied the present economic position in the Transvaal. If a change is needed at the present moment, it is not in the interest of the mine-owners or the mine shareholders; but it is because unless there is a change, and a radical change, no man in the colonial or military service can possibly have a decent living at the present prices in the Transvaal. This is not a subject of debate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/17/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"The war.\"", "preceding_text": ". There are men who have refused appointments in the Army because they could not make both ends meet on the pay in South Africa. In these new Colonies food is dear, house-rent is enormous, and the wages of servants are almost prohibitive. At this moment, apart from that, you have, as the Secretary for the Colonies showed last night, a falling revenue and a considerable debt. Why is that the case? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/army-supplementary-estimates-1903-4", "section": "army-supplementary-estimates-1903-4", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ces would be a mere by-product. That was the opinion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. § THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (ME. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, Worcestershire, E.) But the right hon. Gentleman is not reading from my speech. § SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN said he was not quoting the right hon. Gentleman's actual words, but what he had stated was the legitimate deduction from his speech. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ith Chinese labour, by reason of the profits made under the truck system. It would be possible to enumerate many other vital points coming under these regulations. This Motion was made in order to assert the claim of the House of Commons to dismiss an Ordinance providing, if not slavery itself, something alien to the wish of the country and approaching perilously near to that condition of things. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": " it incumbent upon him to say a few words upon this question. He had listened carefully to the remarks of the previous speaker, and he was exceedingly sorry Mr. Speaker had had to call him to order for an interruption, because his indignation at the statements made by the hon. Member were 644 such that he could not help interrupting. The hon. Member opposite had never seen a Chinaman, but he had. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers.", "preceding_text": "infinitely of more value if Parliament had received a detailed explanation of the regulations. § SIR FREDERICK BANBURY (Camberwell, Peckham) said the hon. Member for North Camberwell had stated that it was not the Ordinance but the importation of Chinese which had caused so much irritation in the country. Only two or three days ago the hon. Member for Camberwell held a meeting in Camberwell. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The Rand.", "preceding_text": " was proposed was not slavery. He had in his possession an election bill which was issued in the constituency of the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for India at the last 651 election. It called upon the electors to vote for the right hon. Gentleman and \"freedom in South Africa.\" Hon. Members cheered that. The language was exceedingly ambiguous. Freedom for what? They had left it out. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "Cheers and counter-cheers, and Opposition cries of \"Oh,\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "condition in which the slave was treated like a beast. Will any fair-minded man in this House, apart from Party questions, say on his conscience that this contract which the Government propose is one which treats its subject as a beast? § MAJOR SEELY (Isle of Wight) Yes; so the Chinese Minister thought. § * MR. LYTTELTON I hope my hon. and gallant friend can be excused by his ignorance. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers from the OPPOSITION Benches.", "preceding_text": "ar on his way to what some hon. Members prefer to call slavery, the Chinese labourer can break the contract at any time he thinks fit, if the conditions which have been explained to him in China at his own home and again in the Transvaal prove to be such that they are disagreeable to him. [Cries from the OPPOSITION Benches of \"Nothing of that in the Ordinance.\"] I am perfectly well aware of that. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no !\"", "preceding_text": "at his own home and again in the Transvaal prove to be such that they are disagreeable to him. [Cries from the OPPOSITION Benches of \"Nothing of that in the Ordinance.\"] I am perfectly well aware of that. [Ironical cheers from the OPPOSITION Benches.] I am not surprised at that cheer, for it is the habit of some hon. Members on that side of the House to disbelieve the word of an English Minister. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: By closure.", "preceding_text": "a very different thing. § * MR. LYTTELTON What is the present situation? It is that the House affirmed only four or five days ago the principle of this legislation. It affirmed the fact that there was a great shortage of native labour in the Transvaal, and that white labour will not replace that black labour. Those were the first two principles definitely established by our debate last week. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Who said it,\" and \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "dinance and its regulations have been discussed by the House of Commons in their complete and operative form. Of course, if we are to wait for that, we may postpone the matter for years. I utterly repudiate what more than one hon. Member has said that we and our own countrymen in the Transvaal are treating this question on a level lower than the Chinese. I utterly repudiate that, whoever said it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Where?\"", "preceding_text": " be invoked to mitigate your barbarity. Hon. Members, I observe, first deny that the expression was used, and then, when they are convicted of using it, they cheer it. Well, I say it is untrue—if that is a Parliamentary expression—that the Chinese Minister has to be invoked in order to mitigate the Government's barbarity. The suggestions made by the Chinese Minister were all anticipated by myself—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ernor sufficient grounds it shall be lawful for him to transfer a labourer during the length of his service from one employer to another. 664 § * MR. ASQUITH Let me point out that there is a broad distinction between a thing done on the initiative of the Government and the thing done here on the initiative of the employer, although it may require the assent of the Government to carry it out. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/22/chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "section": "chinese-labour-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_text": "tiative of the employer, although it may require the assent of the Government to carry it out. [\"Oh!\"] If the right hon. Gentleman challenges me on that point, why is he going to accept the protest of the Chinese Government? If the Trinidad Ordinance is sufficient security for the freedom of the labourer, why is he going to alter this? § MR. LYTTELTON My right hon. friend asks me a Question. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/natal-act-immigration-1903-alleged", "section": "natal-act-immigration-1903-alleged", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Why", "preceding_text": "iscourteous, does not cover the Question whether in point of fact such persons were landed, and, if so, whether the penalties were inflicted. § MR. LYTTELTON The hon. Member is aware that the Natal Government have, as a self-governing colony. Ministers who are the judges on this point— subject to the hon. Member. The Natal Ministers say that there has not been an infraction of the Natal law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers.", "preceding_text": "guise the fact that it intended to use every possible means to defeat the measure. Could it be honestly said that there were now, as then, special circumstances justifying a desperate and special expedient? The real facts were notorious. On several occasions, when the House was ready for a division the Government Whips had put up speakers to postpone a division until their supporters had arrived, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "Cheers and some OPPOSITION cries of \"When?\"", "preceding_text": " by a reminiscence of the Evicted Tenants Bill , to which I shall refer in a moment, and I thought that, after all, perhaps \"the crack of the whip\" had been heard before in other quarters. And in a moment of unaccustomed prophecy I looked forward and I thought it not impossible that from the same quarter, and adjusted to the same victims, \"the crack of the whip\" might be heard at no distant date. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers.", "preceding_text": "ber for Waterford and his friends. So much for the first count in the indictment, which says that we have introduced this closure too early in the proceedings. 517 Now we come to the second count, and I venture to think a much more important count, in the indictment, which says that our compartments are so contrived that nothing like adequate discussion can be found for the questions that remain. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "he House thereupon to plunge into the sixty-five pages of Amendments already upon the Paper, which, as I said on Friday, are probably mere rude and inadequate sketches of the changes that would be proposed if we went on as we are doing now, I do state as a fact that the Parliamentary 519 machine would break down. I do not believe there is a single man on the other side of the House who doubts it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ebarred from taking a proceeding which, compared with what they have done in the past, sinks into absolute insignificance because they are of opinion that the Parliamentary liberties, which have survived the action of Mr. Gladstone on the Home Rule Bill , and have survived the action of the Member for Monmouth on the Evicted Tenants Bill , are now imperilled by the modest proposals we are making? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "worthy of him, because hon. Members knew that these Amendments vanished like snow when the governing principles had been disposed of and many of the Amendments were duplicates. But they had had something else this session besides the general mismanagement and nonchalance of the Prime Minister, for there had been a certain slackness in attendance on this and other Bills of hon. Gentleman opposite. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ruck against moral and social reform. The great army of workers in those causes were to a man opposed to the Bill. He listened with pain to the callous words which the Prime Minister let fall about those who suffered from this great evil, \"those people are ruined by their gross and criminal indulgence.\" The Prime Minister had no pity for the drunkard, or word of sympathy for the widow and orphan. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh\" and \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": ". [MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh!\"] From the Treasury Bench the word justice was applied solely to a particular trade, and not in any way to its fruits or its victims. What was to his mind the most shocking and astounding element of the whole situation was that that Bill marked the high-water mark of that era of materialism upon which we had entered. It was because the people were a God-fearing people "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " many temperance people throughout the country. He wished the hon. Member to understand what the effect of that speech had been on him. It would lead him not to vote with the hon. Member in the lobby into which he 534 would go, but in the Government lobby. There was no states man living or dead who had ever sat on the front bench who had done so much for the temperance cause as the Prim Minister. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh!\" and \"With-dray\"", "preceding_text": "ut he regretted to say that he was afraid that the anxiety of his hon. friends opposite was that the Bill should not be passed in any form or state whatever. He had only to listen to the passionate invective of the hon. Member for Spen Valley to find what was the Opposition feeling in regard to this particular Bill. When he listened to the impertinent buffoonery of the hon. Member for Northampton "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "riends opposite was that the Bill should not be passed in any form or state whatever. He had only to listen to the passionate invective of the hon. Member for Spen Valley to find what was the Opposition feeling in regard to this particular Bill. When he listened to the impertinent buffoonery of the hon. Member for Northampton [OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh!\" and \"With-dray\"]—he felt it was a deliberate—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "]—he felt it was a deliberate—[Renewed cries of \"Withdraw.\"] § MR. SPEAKER Order, order! The hon. Member must not use discourteous language of another Member. § MR. MARSHALL HALL I withdraw it, but if the hon. Member were here I do not think he would wish it withdrawn, for this reason—I think the hon. Member for Northampton takes pleasure in turning to ridicule matters before the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION interruption", "preceding_text": " had the greatest interest in this principle, because I was brought up to think, and I thought, and I am not certain that it was not true, at any rate at that time, that it was to the Liberal Party that we were to look for social and legislative progress. Well, I very much doubt whether any impartial man can say that that is any longer the case. The Liberal Party has been engaged for a. long time "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "he Liberal Party, as every Conservative would recognise, has had a great work to perform, and has performed it; but that in regard to another port of our legislat ve work—namely, the work of social reform—I do not say why, I am not speaking in a controversial sense, but it has happened that most of our social legislation his been brought forward and carried by the Conservative and Unionist Party. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION laughter.", "preceding_text": ", and imploring the House to consider 569 the dignity of Parliament, and I know not what, because I am opposed to a Bill to repeal the Bill which is now under the consideration of the House. Are we to go on for ever playing this purely partisan game on one side equally with the other? Are we to go on doing this without considering the situation to which we are reduce 11 I agree with Mr. Gladstone "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "CHILL (Oldham) said he was sure that everybody, without distinction of Party, would be glad to see the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham in his place again. He was particularly glad to see him, because the right hon. Gentleman and himself were to a certain extent in the same boat. He wanted to see that Government turned out and go to the country; so did the right hon. Gentleman. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": ". He was particularly glad to see him, because the right hon. Gentleman and himself were to a certain extent in the same boat. He wanted to see that Government turned out and go to the country; so did the right hon. Gentleman. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh.\"] The only difference between them was that he was able to express his opinion, and the right hon. Gentleman was for the present dissembling his. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of: \"Oh, oh\" and \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": "xpense of their ordinary Parliamentary procedure. When he thought of some of the ambitious schemes which the right hon. Gentleman desired to carry he was not inclined to vote for making procedure much more drastic by the hope and belief that the present proposal might 574 some day be imitated by the right hon. Gentleman in order to carry the tariff proposals which he had submitted it the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh\" and \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": "s very curious. He would venture to repeat a story he heard the other day. The editor of a newspaper in the Western States of America received a letter one morning from a n an whose acquaintance he had the privilege of enjoying, which began as follows— Dear Sir,—I regret to inform you that last night I had an altercation with Mr. Dawkins of this city, in the course of which I shot and killed him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Renewed MINISTERIAL interruptions.", "preceding_text": "e morning from a n an whose acquaintance he had the privilege of enjoying, which began as follows— Dear Sir,—I regret to inform you that last night I had an altercation with Mr. Dawkins of this city, in the course of which I shot and killed him. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh\" and \"Divide.\"] He claimed the same courtesy that had been extended to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Go on \"and \"Why not?\" and MINISTERIALIST cries of \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": "tended to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham. [Renewed MINISTERIAL interruptions.] § MR. FLAVIN (Kerry, N) You have got to listen to it whether you like it or not. The hon. Member for Oldham is not on your side now.\" § MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL said he did not wish to weary hon. Members opposite and he had no desire to continue his story if they did not wish to hear it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No, I no\" and \"Withdraw,\" and cheers.", "preceding_text": ". They were face to face with a great commercial organisation mobilised for the effective purposes of political warfare. They had seen it thrust its greedy fingers down the back of the Treasury Bench and pull the coat tails of Ministers, and when they reflected that the Prime Minister was dependent for his return to the House upon the votes of a certain class of liquor-sellers in his constituency "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers and MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "argely responsible for the present situation. It was undoubtedly the case that the right hon. Gentleman had led the House by different methods to those of some of his predecessors. If there was some matter the House was anxious to discuss, on which the conduct of the Government was impeached, the Prime Minister did not prepare an elaborate answer to the charges. No, he put down a blocking Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": "STERIAL cries of \"No.\"] § MR. SPEAKER The Prime Minister's action with regard to that, even if the hon. Member is correct, is one of those past actions of the Government which cannot have contributed to produce this Motion, and cannot now be commented upon. § MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL said it was very difficult to bring any point within the Rules of debate in the face of such interruptions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "nt within the Rules of debate in the face of such interruptions. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"Divide.\"] § MR. SHACKLETON (Lancashire, Clitheroe) Mr. Speaker, I rise to order. For the last ten minutes I have been endeavouring to listen to the speech of the hon. Member, and I have been unable to follow him. I think it is one of the privileges every hon. Member is entitled to that he should be heard. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh\" and \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "ivide.\"] § MR. SHACKLETON (Lancashire, Clitheroe) Mr. Speaker, I rise to order. For the last ten minutes I have been endeavouring to listen to the speech of the hon. Member, and I have been unable to follow him. I think it is one of the privileges every hon. Member is entitled to that he should be heard. [Cries of \"Order.\"] I do ask you, as Speaker of this House, to try to keep order for us. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": " the rough-and-ready method of obstruction. But the Prime Minister had not alleged that there had been obstruction. The rights of the minority, he ventured to suggest 579 to hon. Members opposite, were rights which they would perhaps have need to consider in days that were not far distant. He saw the Prime Minister in his place. Was it to be supposed that he was a consenting party to this uproar? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Cheers and cries of \"Divide\"", "preceding_text": "mons were to be voted 580 away, but not willing, as the hon. Member for Spen Valley had said, to forsake their dinner, not willing to forego the pleasures of Ascot, or to sit in the House later than 15th August. He had finished the observations which he desired to make, and he was bound to say that he appealed to the good sense of the House of Commons to say whether he had received fair treatment—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"Order,\" \"Withdraw,\" and cheers", "preceding_text": "r than 15th August. He had finished the observations which he desired to make, and he was bound to say that he appealed to the good sense of the House of Commons to say whether he had received fair treatment—[Cheers and cries of \"Divide\"]—whether the carefully-organised attack upon the liberties of debate in which the right hon. Member for West Birmingham was an accomplice and a consent ing party—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No\" and interruption.", "preceding_text": " the good sense of the House of Commons to say whether he had received fair treatment—[Cheers and cries of \"Divide\"]—whether the carefully-organised attack upon the liberties of debate in which the right hon. Member for West Birmingham was an accomplice and a consent ing party—[Loud cries of \"Order,\" \"Withdraw,\" and cheers]— § MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN said, Mr. Speaker, I rise to a point of ordsr. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "interuption and cries of \"Order\"", "preceding_text": "—[Cheers and cries of \"Divide\"]—whether the carefully-organised attack upon the liberties of debate in which the right hon. Member for West Birmingham was an accomplice and a consent ing party—[Loud cries of \"Order,\" \"Withdraw,\" and cheers]— § MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN said, Mr. Speaker, I rise to a point of ordsr. [Cries of \"No\" and interruption.] I merely wish to know, Sir, whether it is in order "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh\" and \"Order\" and cheers and counter-cheers.", "preceding_text": " ing party—[Loud cries of \"Order,\" \"Withdraw,\" and cheers]— § MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN said, Mr. Speaker, I rise to a point of ordsr. [Cries of \"No\" and interruption.] I merely wish to know, Sir, whether it is in order [interuption and cries of \"Order\"] for the junior Member for Oldham to say that there is a conspiracy against him in which I am an accomplice—a statement which is absolutely untrue. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "Cheers and cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": " [Cries of \"No\" and interruption.] I merely wish to know, Sir, whether it is in order [interuption and cries of \"Order\"] for the junior Member for Oldham to say that there is a conspiracy against him in which I am an accomplice—a statement which is absolutely untrue. [Cries of \"Oh\" and \"Order\" and cheers and counter-cheers.] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member should not make charges of that kind. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "cries of! \"Order\" and \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_text": "plice—a statement which is absolutely untrue. [Cries of \"Oh\" and \"Order\" and cheers and counter-cheers.] § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member should not make charges of that kind. [Cheers and cries of \"Withdraw.\"] § MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, who was again received with cries of \"Withdraw,\" said: Mr. Speaker, if I have said anything which passes in any degree the limitations of the order of debate "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "l larger amount of time if it had been done two or three months ago. Then, with regard to the Navy, a great deal of time has been spent in reconciling a two-Power standard of strength with three and a half-Power standard of expenditure. Then there are, blunders like the Somaliland campaign, and such incidents as the adventure of the peaceful Mission to Tibet and the importation of Chinese labour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "at esteem the Prime Minister, and believed the right hon. Gentleman to be a man of great sincerity, although he had not always agreed with him in all the right hon. Gentleman had said and done. But that conviction had been dispelled out of his mind, because he really believed that the right hon. Gentleman was not sincere in thrusting this Bill down the throats of the hon. Members and the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL interruptions and cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " J.A (Worc. Balcarres, Lord Boscawen, Arthur Griffith Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry Baldwin, Alfred Bousfield, William Robert Chapman, Edward Balfour, Rt. Hon. A.J. (Manch'r Bowles, Lt.-Col. H.F (Middlesex Charrington, Spencer Balfour, Capt. C. B. (Hornsey) Brassey, Albert Clare, Octavius Leigh 590 § become a very active resister after that night and should take no part in closure by compartments. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/04/licensing-bill-procedure-1", "section": "licensing-bill-procedure-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL ironical laughter.", "preceding_text": "Capt. C. B. (Hornsey) Brassey, Albert Clare, Octavius Leigh 590 § become a very active resister after that night and should take no part in closure by compartments. [MINISTERIAL interruptions and cries of \"Oh, oh!\"] He did not say that with a view of convincing hon. Members opposite, because many of them were convinced of the advantages of a Bill which would put money into their own pockets. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/11/the-aliens-bill", "section": "the-aliens-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Three lines in six days;\"", "preceding_text": "ts consideration during the present session; and if he will undertake to reintroduce it early next session. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR From what I can hear of the proceedings in Committee upon this Bill, it received treatment which would make it absolutely impossible to carry it into law during the course of the present session. I understand that the average rate of progress was two lines in a day. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/11/the-aliens-bill", "section": "the-aliens-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order\"", "preceding_text": "tion of the Government to reintroduce the Bill next session. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR I am sorry I was not clearly heard by my hon. friend. The Government do propose to introduce a Bill on this subject early next session. § * MR. PEEL (Manchester, S.) asked the right hon. Gentleman a Question of which he had given private notice, whether, in view of the fact that a small body of obstructives "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/11/licensing-bill-2nd-allotted-day", "section": "licensing-bill-2nd-allotted-day", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ublicans out of their own funds. He thought that a great deal too much had been made of that point by the supporters of this Bill. There was no reason whatever why a fund for public purposes should not be raised by increasing the licensing tax, and if the State chose to increase the licensin tax for the purposes of compensation, it was really giving the publicans compensation out of public funds. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/11/licensing-bill-2nd-allotted-day", "section": "licensing-bill-2nd-allotted-day", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "s into which he might have entered by reason of the premises being licensed. That really was no compensation at all. The hon. Gentleman had asked him whether the holder of the licence would be allowed for fittings under the scheme of compensation proposed in the Amendment of the Home Secretary. It was a little out of place to discuss that proposal now, but as they might not come to that Amendment—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/11/licensing-bill-2nd-allotted-day-1", "section": "licensing-bill-2nd-allotted-day-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They might be.", "preceding_text": "s to be subject to the approval of quarter sessions. He rather imagined 1285 quarter sessions would be apt to take the view of the Solicitor-General and say that where the publican and the brewer had come to an agreement under which the amount of compensation was to be paid to the publican it should be nothing more than nominal. They were free contracting patties; they were not Chinese labourers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/11/licensing-bill-2nd-allotted-day-1", "section": "licensing-bill-2nd-allotted-day-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Chair.\"", "preceding_text": "r solicitors, or landlords, or tenants, or shipowners, or any other class, then the vote would not be disallowed. § MR. LLOYD-GEORGE submitted that this was a different case from the Irish case. That was a Bill, not to give a pecuniary advantage to the landlords, but to establish local government in Ireland, though incidentally something was done to benefit the landlords. But this was a Bill—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/18/the-government-and-the-taxation-of-food", "section": "the-government-and-the-taxation-of-food", "cue_text": "Ironical cries of \"Shame\" by hon. Members.", "preceding_text": " think it is in the highest degree important that we should finish the Licensing Bill so as to send it up to another place by the 26th inst. at the very latest. It is necessary that the Budget should be passed by the House of Commons on the 29th, and even if it passed its last stage on the 29th, that would involve a Saturday sitting on the part of the House of Lords. § MR. SWIFT MACNEILL Oh! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/18/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"Move.\"", "preceding_text": "e old system, but they would be quite as great under that now proposed. § MR. DAVID MACIVER (Liverpool, Kirkdale) said that the importers of Liverpool appreciated the fair way in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had met the difficulty. If his right hon. friend could see his way to give them another 364 halfpenny, their losses would not be so great, and they would be still more grateful. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "The hon. Member's observations were inaudible in the Press Gallery.", "preceding_text": "E BILL. HC Deb 19 July 1904 vol 138 cc430-81 430 § Considered in Committee. § (In the Committee.) § [MR. J. W. LOWTHER (Cumberland, Penrith) in the Chair.] § Clause 4. § Motion made, and Question proposed, \"That the clause stand part of the Bill.\" § * MR. J. F. HOPE (Sheffield, Brightside) asked for an explanation of the reason why 1st August was the date fixed upon. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": " by adopting August 1 as the date than they had by adopting 1st July. He would like to know how far the dates were harmonious, He understood that they were working on the principle of 439 separate dates, and the case which had been made out for the alteration from August to July might equally apply to other matters. It was bound to lead to confusion, and it would have an effect upon the Exchequer "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "an a certain amount of income the tax was to increase progressively, a shilling here and two shillings there, and the result of that would be practically to prohibit by a process of taxation on the part of the State the earning of more than a certain sum. That was entirely contrary to public policy. Their policy should be to encourage people to earn by honest means as much as they possibly could. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "better means of developing them than by giving the people the opportunity of earning as much as they honestly could. It was extremely presumptuous to propose in this House a system of graduated income-tax in the face of the repeated declarations of the Inland Revenue authorities, who knew what they were talking about, and of successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, that the system was impossible. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "section": "adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " would be debated without heat or ill-feeling on either side of the House. They were considering a constitutional infraction which had left certain grave consequences. What was the status of Lord Dundonald in Canada? He was the greatest political figure in that country at the present moment with the exception of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He was an Imperial officer appointed by the Imperial Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "section": "adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: He has not been there yet.", "preceding_text": "ce there next week. Montreal was a very different arena for such a political discussion than Toronto. The people of Toronto were nearly all of the same way of thinking, but in Montreal there was a French and a British element coming into close contact, and there was in Montreal a sharp political division of opinion. After all, the Toronto meeting had passed off all right. But what about Montreal? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "section": "adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "quently there would be more order. § MR. SWIFT MACNEILL With great respect, sir, I called out \"Order\" only twice. I called out \"Order\" because I thought that the word \"lecture\" was an improper description for a speech. § MR. SPEAKER There was nothing disorderly in what was said. § MR. SWIFT MACNEILL It was a sneer. § MR. SPEAKER The hon. Member must not call out so frequently. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "section": "adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: We are thinking Imperially.", "preceding_text": "first proposition was—and may I extend it?—that it is a most unfortunate thing, and one of the things which make me fear most the advent of hon. Gentlemen opposite to power, that they should invariably manage, or try to manage, to contribute to an aggravation of feeling between this country and the Colonies. That is a fact which I am sorry to say was too painfully established during the late war. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "section": "adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Not on the active list.", "preceding_text": " not quite the position which he seems to suppose. Lord 494 Dundonald had a perfect right, and has now, to stand for the Dominion Parliament and to become a Member of that Parliament; he would have a right, if he were a commoner, to stand as a Member of this Parliament. He has a right, which has been conceded over and over again to officers on half-pay—to express his views on political questions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "section": "adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL laughter.", "preceding_text": "ts him very much in the matter. But it is undoubtedly a grave piece of bad taste, as well as, I should think, a bad constitutional action, on the part of Lord Dundonald to go on allowing himself to be made an instrument for bringing these accusations against the Government that he has served. But the right hon.Gentleman apparently has taken the course it was his duty to take. I praise him for it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "section": "adjournment-under-standing-order-no-10", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "unt of that Bill was the Dundonald Cemetery. The House, which had heard him with unusual patience, would recognise, therefore, that he had a certain sympathy with the hon. Gentleman in rising as he did to take part for the first time in an Imperial debate. § MR. LLOYD-GEORGE said that after the statement of the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for War he would withdraw his Motion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cheers.", "preceding_text": "e trying to convert the Government, but at any rate they should get the chance of educating public opinion. To say that they could educate public opinion by discussing the coal tax at three, four, or five in the morning was simply mocking them. Let the Prime Minister give them a chance of discussing the coal tax on Friday. How could the House of Commons discuss the question if they sat all night? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The Budget on Report.", "preceding_text": "g the coal tax on Friday. How could the House of Commons discuss the question if they sat all night? [MINISTERIAL cheers.] Hon. Members opposite seemed rather to relish the idea. It was quite natural. They did not want to discuss anything. The appeal made to the Prime Minister by his hon. friends behind him was perfectly reasonable. What other business had the right hon. Gentleman got for Friday? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "give way and allow Progress to be reported. § MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL said they had witnessed a most unedifying spectacle. The Prime Minister had not met in a friendly spirit the very generous proposals made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Berwick. The right hon. Gentleman had not been listening to the debate and probably he had been preparing his speech for the British Association. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "er of Members, but in the first place the inconvenience was not so great numerically as the right hon. Gentleman supposed, for the Grand Committee had separated for the day— § MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe) said he might perhaps explain as Chairman of the Grand Committee that by Standing Orders it could not sit whi1st the House was sitting without leave obtained from the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL laughter and ironical cheers", "preceding_text": "ld be reported, especially as, if the Motion were agreed to, it would not lengthen the ultimate proceedings on the Bill. § MR. EMMOTT quite agreed with what the Prime Minister had said about the temperateness with which their long discussion during the night had been 629 carried on—in fact, he did not know, but for one speech in singularly bad taste, the speech by the hon. Member for Eskdale "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "the close of the sentence was drowned by interruptions by MINISTERIALISTS and cries of \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": "d not lengthen the ultimate proceedings on the Bill. § MR. EMMOTT quite agreed with what the Prime Minister had said about the temperateness with which their long discussion during the night had been 629 carried on—in fact, he did not know, but for one speech in singularly bad taste, the speech by the hon. Member for Eskdale [MINISTERIAL laughter and ironical cheers], that there was any very—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh'\"", "preceding_text": "ing Bill . It was not treating the House fairly. The Finance Bill had always been treated somewhat exceptionally by the House. A great deal more latitude had been allowed in regard to that Bill than in regard to any other matter. But they could not discuss the Finance Bill properly in the circumstances in which they had been discussing it. Was it not a very bad example to set to the Liberal Party "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and cries of \"He has not been here.\"", "preceding_text": "inister could not agree to their request it was impossible for an outside Member to make an appeal which would have any effect upon him. The Prime Minister hardly knew what he was doing just now with the 631 Party that was supporting him. That was his opinion. He did not think Mr. Balfour fully appreciated the work that had been going on in the last twenty-four hours—and certainly since midnight. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"Move.\"", "preceding_text": "yesterday's sitting. Until that comes to a conclusion in some way or other, I have no power to leave the Chair. § SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN As this question has been very naturally 658 raised, I think it well to ask the Leader of the House, at this stage, what the intentions of the Government are with regard to the business of the House. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR That is not a point of order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jul/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jul/19/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "s of the Government are with regard to the business of the House. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR That is not a point of order. [Opposition cries of \"Move.\"] § SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN Then I will move that the Chairman do report Progress in order to ascertain what are the intentions of the Government with regard to the scheme of business. It is perfectly clear that matters have got into a tangle. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-2", "section": "licensing-bill-2", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No, No!\"", "preceding_text": "ceded to the views of those who were in favour of a time limit, they would find the House in a less controversial frame of mind when it came to discuss the question of procedure. He had another point to raise. He held that the Government, in a thing of this sort affecting the magistrates' discretion, should take an opportunity of consulting the magistrates themselves in regard to their proposals. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-2", "section": "licensing-bill-2", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " it all over again when the second clause is reached. § MR. ASQUITH said that in view of what had been stated by the Chairman, it would be far better that this Amendment should be withdrawn, and that the question of the time limit should be discussed later on. 826 § MR. ELLIS GRIFFITH After the appeal of my right hon. friend, and as I understand it would meet the wishes of the Committee "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-2", "section": "licensing-bill-2", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "on of the time limit should be discussed later on. 826 § MR. ELLIS GRIFFITH After the appeal of my right hon. friend, and as I understand it would meet the wishes of the Committee [MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"] I beg leave to withdraw the Amendment. § MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.) If this Motion is negatived what happens? *THE CHAIRMAN Is it your pleasure that the Amendment be withdrawn? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-2", "section": "licensing-bill-2", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: From the Home Secretary.", "preceding_text": "ions which have been debated in this House and outside in the most convenient way. § SIR EDWARD GREY said he did not think the Prime Minister gauged the point raised. He did not believe that they on that side of the House objected to take the discussion on the Amendment as it stood; but the objection to take it at the present moment came from the right hon. Gentleman's own side of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-2", "section": "licensing-bill-2", "cue_text": "Loud cries of \"No\"", "preceding_text": "(Islington, W.) said that before the question was settled he would give another reason. The Chairman had said it all depended upon the character of the discussion, but the Prime Minister could not absolutely dictate the character of any discussion. Therefore if they took the discussion now it would be very inadequate and inconclusive. *THE CHAIRMAN The Question is that the Amendment be withdrawn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-2", "section": "licensing-bill-2", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "of the case. What are you going to do for the cause of temperance or the better conduct of public-houses by introducing a time limit? In the first place let it be noted that by introducing a time limit into your compensation you reduce the fund out of which compensation is to be given, and by reducing that fund you reduce the amount which can be immediately applied to the purpose of compensation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-2", "section": "licensing-bill-2", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " justified the conclusion that the existence of too many public-houses was an encouragement of drinking. On the other hand, he thought it was equally true to say that if there were too few public-houses the evil was driven under the surface. What they ought to do was to find the mean, and the only way to find the mean was to approach the question and find what the result was over a term of years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-2", "section": "licensing-bill-2", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It is a freehold now.", "preceding_text": "g else to insure its being properly conducted. The 1869 beerhouse stood in a different position to the ordinary public-house, but nobody would contend that it should have a licence for all time. It had a licence granted by Parliament for the benefit of the public, but it was in the power of Parliament to revise and reverse its decision with regard to it. It was not a freehold—an absolute property "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-3", "section": "licensing-bill-3", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No,\" and \"Yes.\"", "preceding_text": " the reduction of licences. It was that difficulty, together with the absence of control over the ante-1869 houses, that this Bill of the Government would remedy. Hon. Members opposite had used such expressions as that the Bill would \"tie the hands\" of the authorities, and that there would be \"no effective reduction of licences,\" and that the Bill \"would make reform more difficult.\" But would it? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-3", "section": "licensing-bill-3", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " justice of the Bill, and for the reasons he had stated he intended to oppose it. § SIR EDWARD GREY said the hon. and learned Member who had just sat down had made a great point of the difficulty which would be created, if this Amendment were carried, in dealing with the 1869 beerhouses. In his opinion the 1869 beerhouses were really a small matter in the whole question of temperance reform. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-3", "section": "licensing-bill-3", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"One-third.\"", "preceding_text": "o oppose it. § SIR EDWARD GREY said the hon. and learned Member who had just sat down had made a great point of the difficulty which would be created, if this Amendment were carried, in dealing with the 1869 beerhouses. In his opinion the 1869 beerhouses were really a small matter in the whole question of temperance reform. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"] What proportion were they to the whole? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-3", "section": "licensing-bill-3", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"One-third of the total number.\"", "preceding_text": "st sat down had made a great point of the difficulty which would be created, if this Amendment were carried, in dealing with the 1869 beerhouses. In his opinion the 1869 beerhouses were really a small matter in the whole question of temperance reform. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"] What proportion were they to the whole? [MINISTERIAL cries of \"One-third.\"] One-third of the value of the whole trade? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-3", "section": "licensing-bill-3", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION ironical laughter.\"", "preceding_text": "t them. The Bill simply provided facilities for the reduction of licences and for the creation of a compulsory insurance fund, and it avoided injustice by spreading the contribution to the fund over the whole of the trade. He therefore asked hon. Members to address themselves to this question. What was there in the Bill which imposed a fatal barrier to temperance reform? That was the whole point. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-3", "section": "licensing-bill-3", "cue_text": "\"OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh,\" and MINISTERIAL cheers.", "preceding_text": "he contribution to the fund over the whole of the trade. He therefore asked hon. Members to address themselves to this question. What was there in the Bill which imposed a fatal barrier to temperance reform? That was the whole point. [OPPOSITION ironical laughter.\"] Well, he did not think that any one disputed that the Bill would, under present circumstances, facilitate the reduction of licences. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/06/licensing-bill-3", "section": "licensing-bill-3", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh,\" and an HON. MEMBER: Does that not mean if the contributions are continuous?", "preceding_text": "ny one disputed that the Bill would, under present circumstances, facilitate the reduction of licences. [\"OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh,\" and MINISTERIAL cheers.] The hon. Members who had preceded him had not disputed that; on the contrary they had admitted that there would be a large reduction of licences. It had been estimated by Mr. Sidney Webb that the reduction in London alone would be 25 percent. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/17/railways-private-sidings-bill", "section": "railways-private-sidings-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ys, roads, footpaths, or thoroughfares by means of level crossings, or where such private sidings or private branch railways abut or adjoin such public highways, roads, footpaths, or thoroughfares. § SIR WILLIAM TOMLINSON said the clause was not in order. § MR. CALDWELL (Lanarkshire, Mid.) , on the point of order, said the object of the Bill was to give increased facilities for sidings. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/24/labourers-ireland-bill", "section": "labourers-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They are more entitled to it.", "preceding_text": "he Land Act of 1903 available for the housing of the labourers, and, after all, a very large sum was not required. Under the Act of 1903 it was possible to raise any amount of money required for the purchase of Irish land. Why were not the labourers of Ireland entitled to the advantage of the cheap rates provided by the Act of 1903 as well as any others connected with the agricultural population. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/jun/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/jun/24/labourers-ireland-bill", "section": "labourers-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the IRISH Benches: 3,500.", "preceding_text": "each be judged on its own merits, but do not ask the Government to vote further sums of money for labourers' cottages when there were sums of money now available for that purpose. No Chancellor of the Exchequer would listen to such a proposal. He did not know whether he had made any impression on 1153 his hon. friends by that argument. There was no county which would build more than 500 cottages. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/23/police-superannuation-bill", "section": "police-superannuation-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"; and ironical OPPOSITION cheers.", "preceding_text": "tive programme. He did not know whether this Bill was the Government's most important measure, but it belonged to the class of Departmental Bills which were usually dealt with at the close and not at the beginning of the session. Did the Government mean by bringing forward this Bill that they had no other important business, or did it mark the close of the session or the close of this Parliament? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/23/telegraph-money", "section": "telegraph-money", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "ost Office system might be materially strengthened, and the service made more effective. Foreign countries were ahead of us in the matter of telephones. § LORD STANLEY They have very different powers from those we have in regard to wayleaves. § MR. DALZIEL said that might be, but he was sure Parliament would give the Postmaster-General whatever powers he wanted in regard to that matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/23/dogs-bill", "section": "dogs-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "system had not worked well, and there was an enormous number of dogs that got exemptions to which they were not entitled. In the county of Montgomery,1,747 licences were issued, and the exemptions numbered 6,220; in the county of Dumfries, 4,471 licences were issued, and the exemptions numbered 12,386; and in the county of Inverness, 2,748 licences were issued, and the exemptions numbered 17,772. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/23/dogs-bill", "section": "dogs-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "ve that the Bill be read that day six months. § Amendment proposed— To leave out the word 'now,' and at the end of the Question to add the words 'upon this day six months.'\"—( Mr. Bayley. ) § Question proposed, \"That the word: now ' stand part of the Question.\" § MR. O'MARA (Kilkenny, S.) said that under this Bill any poor, miserable animal, the joy of a widow's home, was affected. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/23/dogs-bill", "section": "dogs-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Another injustice to Ireland.", "preceding_text": " objected to the wearing of a collar being compulsory, as was proposed by Sub-section (a) of Clause 2. It was proposed also, that the name and address of the owner should be on the collar. It came to this, that dogs were really not ordinary animals at all. They were ' a luxury, but they were not so much a luxury in Ireland as in England. A dog licence in England was 7s. 6d. and in Ireland 2s. 6d. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/aliens-bill", "section": "aliens-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "poor; and it is a mere drop in the ocean, infinitely smaller than the number of foreigners who inhabit almost every other country in the civilised world. The right hon. Gentleman spoke of the rapidity with which they are coming. That rapidity has been alleged by the hon. Member for Sheffield for the last fifteen years, and alleged on figues which have always broken down when tested by the census. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/aliens-bill", "section": "aliens-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "he ringleaders in revolutionary movements. Those men are not the dangerous 995 persons, and not the miserable persons, they are represented to be in this country. Miserable as may be their condition when they come here, they are not of a stock inferior to our own. They are of a stock which, when it mixes with our own in course of years, goes rather to improve than to deteriorate the British race. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/aliens-bill", "section": "aliens-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical MINISTERIAL cheers", "preceding_text": "I have known many strange scares in this House, but I never knew so strange a scare, even under the odd circumstances of the present Government, at the present time as that which caused the tremendous whip to-day, and the appeal even in their newspapers to Members to come down and save them in the division. I make the frankest admission to hon. Members opposite. I am not going to divide the House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No\"", "preceding_text": "ct according to the Constitution. Is it really in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution that the Government—and the right hon. Gentleman is the Government—should retain power when the country demonstrates, on every opportunity afforded to it, that he no longer enjoys its favour? Technically, of course, he has still the support, but evidently the reluctant support, of the House of Commons "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "orded to it, that he no longer enjoys its favour? Technically, of course, he has still the support, but evidently the reluctant support, of the House of Commons [Cries of \"No\"]; but what is the authority of the present Parliament? We have always refused to acknowledge the full claim of the present Parliament to the continued sanction of the electorsafter the war and its settlement were concluded. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " before the consideration of the country; and at the head of the list I could quote the right hon. Gentleman himself. But now I would 1006 ask the right hon. Gentleman to put himself these questions; does the present state of things—of which he is as well aware as I—does the present state of things redound—I would say first of all to his own credit, but I know that is the last thing he considers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " most respectful attention to his speech—though it was no hasty utterance but the point of much careful reflection—to understand why it is he thinks it would be—I will not say to his or our benefit, but to the benefit of the country at large, that we should take so unusual a course, such an unprecedented course as far as I am aware, of resigning office while we retain the confidence of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "e great burden of legislative work still before us. That is true, but who is to blame for it? If there is blame—and I do not say there is—on whom does the blame rest? We have not gratuitously occupied the time of the House with other matters. We have been sedulous, as every Government will be sedulous, I hope, under the new Rules to preserve the rights conferred on private Members by those Rules. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No", "preceding_text": " I may call progressive free trade, was a real change from the stationary and petrified free trade which passes 1012 for orthodox on the other side of the House. And, thinking as I do that that change is an important one, and that it will undoubtedly open for good or for evil a new era in British finance, I think it quite right that the public, on a subject on which they are very little informed— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: We have the power now.", "preceding_text": "eat all I have said on public platforms and in printed documents I think he is making an excessive demand. But I would put these two Questions. Does he or does he not think that the policy which contemplates as one of its weapons for obtaining greater free trade between this country and others full power of negotiation—does he or does he not think that that is a great change in our fiscal policy? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You said it was concluded.", "preceding_text": "been made over and over again by hon. Gentlemen opposite, and still more by their irresponsible supporters in the country. I have seen it stated hundreds of times. The charge is that inasmuch as the present majority were returned in 1900, when the question absorbing the attention of the country was the war, they had no right to continue their existence a moment after the war was con- 1014 cluded. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ntry from end to end in 1880 upon the wrongs of the Christians in what is now called the Near East. He raised a great storm of passion and emotion on that subject, and almost entirely on that subject, and owing to 1015 that subject he swept the country in 1880. Although he had with him an enormous Liberal majority, as far as I know not a single thing was done for the Christians: in the Near East. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-easter-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION ironical cheers and MINISTERIAL laughter.", "preceding_text": "ction takes place. They are not, and they cannot be made, the index and the test of what the feeling of the people of the country is as a whole. Any doctrine that is inconsistent with that is, in my judgment, not only wholly unconstitutional in theory, but wholly unworkable in practice. The right hon. Gentleman talks really as if we were hanging on in office with a doubtful and wavering majority. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/police-ireland", "section": "police-ireland", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: When you want money.", "preceding_text": "e of Commons would be blind indeed if it handed over an armed force to the control of the county councils, who were absolutely under the thumb of Nationalist Members. He did not think the House of Commons had got to such a state of imbecility yet. Therefore he could not join hon. Members opposite in this vote of censure on the Government. He and his friends sometimes differed from the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/mar/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/mar/29/police-ireland", "section": "police-ireland", "cue_text": "Some cries of \"What about the landlords?\"", "preceding_text": "der the operation of the Land Act there would be less need for a large force than there was now. Hon. Members opposite should have a little patience and see how far the 1061 Chief Secretary was able to carry out the promises he had given. He had no doubt that the reduction of the police force would largely depend upon the position which the Irish tenants took towards the carrying out of that Act. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/may/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/may/16/religious-nomenclature-catholic-or-roman", "section": "religious-nomenclature-catholic-or-roman", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " of the word \"Catholic\" is one which is claimed by other Churches as well, the insertion of \"Roman\" is merely intended to avoid any dispute or difference or ambiguity, and for no other purpose is it used. It is always the practice to indicate by the word \"Roman\" what Church is meant. § MR. JOHN REDMOND (Waterford) May I ask, in view of the fact that the word \"Roman\" is regarded as offensive —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/may/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/may/16/religious-nomenclature-catholic-or-roman", "section": "religious-nomenclature-catholic-or-roman", "cue_text": "ironical cheers", "preceding_text": "y, and for no other purpose is it used. It is always the practice to indicate by the word \"Roman\" what Church is meant. § MR. JOHN REDMOND (Waterford) May I ask, in view of the fact that the word \"Roman\" is regarded as offensive —[MINISTERIAL cries of \"No, no!\"] [A NATIONALIST MEMBER: How do you know?] Inasmuch as it is regarded as offensive by the Roman Catholic Members of this House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/may/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/may/16/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Heat, hear!", "preceding_text": "churches on the Navy Estimates, the policy of the Government was not one which could be seriously attacked. He hoped that during the present debate the Government would hear more definitely what their sins in the direction of extravagance had been, and also that hon. Members opposite would give a clear declaration of their policy, because, after all, it was nothing else except a matter of policy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/may/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/may/16/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "AN HON. Member: No wonder.", "preceding_text": "rsue the same economic performances he had hitherto devoted himself to, and that, unless the incoming Government made a substantial reduction both in naval and military expenditure, he should do his best to be a plague to the right hon. Gentleman. He supposed his quarrel with the Government was now quite irreparable. The Prime Minister had dismissed him formally from the number of his supporters. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/may/19/adjournment-of-the-house-whitsuntide", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-whitsuntide", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "he business of this House, and voluminous evidence, never acted on, has been taken by those Committees. After all, a Committee of this House usually meets and deliberates in order that it may inform the House on a subject on which the House itself has not adequate means of information, but the Rules of the House are perhaps the one subject on which all the House has adequate means of information. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1904/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/may/19/adjournment-of-the-house-whitsuntide", "section": "adjournment-of-the-house-whitsuntide", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "y been abolished Parliamentarily, but it had been abolished socially. Hostesses used to be able to count on Parliamentary diners on Wednesday, but they could no longer do that now that hon. Members had to attend the House on that evening. The new Rules had indeed professedly substituted Friday for Wednesday in the Parliamentary sense, but not socially. Everybody went out of town for the week-end. "}