{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/10/exchequer-bonds", "section": "exchequer-bonds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The income-tax.", "preceding_text": "cussion of our financial arrangements. My right hon. friend, for reasons that he is quite willing to explain, thinks it is absolutely necessary to obtain the first Resolution in the course of this evening. On the other hand, we are of course sensible of the fact that the House has a right to discuss the Budget in its larger aspects at this stage. That can be done by arrangement on any Resolution. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/10/exchequer-bonds", "section": "exchequer-bonds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Uganda Railway.", "preceding_text": "ngs might be put in a different category if the operations were either productive or remunerative, or if the expenditure on them had in its nature anything in the direction of finance—if, for instance, making up for lost time in the past and putting our national defences once and for all on a good footing. But he saw in any charge on a Works Act no difference from expenditure on a national asset. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/10/exchequer-bonds-1", "section": "exchequer-bonds-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "for their wrong doing, but he believed there were two kinds of repentance, one genuine, and the other spurious—one that was begotten of deep conviction, and the other that was the outcome of fear. He was rather inclined to think that the statement they had heard to-day was a sort of death-bed repentance. He took the statement as the precursor of an immediate dissolution of the present Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/13/supply-civil-services-and-revenue", "section": "supply-civil-services-and-revenue", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "llege, seeing that it was a kind of historic embodiment of all to which they felt the utmost aversion. Higher education all round in Ireland was admittedly defective. Quite recently in connection with an important appointment in the statistical branch of the Department of Agriculture it was found impossible to obtain an 108 Irishman with the necessary qualifications and a Scotchman was appointed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/13/supply-civil-services-and-revenue", "section": "supply-civil-services-and-revenue", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Order, order\"", "preceding_text": "new nothing about it. § MR. DILLON said the right hon. Gentleman professed to know nothing about it, but was it not a monstrous thing that the Irish people should be delude in this way. An official offered £10,000 to Trinity College and the First Lord of the Treasury knew nothing about it. Servants of the Government were allowed to offer large financial bribes to the Presbyterians of Belfast "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/14/land-values-assessment-and-rating-bill", "section": "land-values-assessment-and-rating-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ad 222 and comprehensive measure to deal with the whole basis and incidence of taxation and rating which both in town and country now are antiquated and need drastic reform. The one object to be arrived at is not piecemeal and partial treatment, but such legislation as will secure fair and equitable results to all classes of the community in the financial burdens which as citizens they must bear. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/14/land-values-assessment-and-rating-bill", "section": "land-values-assessment-and-rating-bill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: Yes, previously.", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman says, but the report I have read shows, 224 at all events, that the list is not absolutely reliable. § MR. TREVELYAN It is reliable up to December. Of course it is obvious that one or two municipalities may have changed their opinion one way or the other, § MR. REMNANT It is only a small matter. There waalign=\"center\"s no resolution passed up to December in Stockport. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/14/land-values-assessment-and-rating-bill-1", "section": "land-values-assessment-and-rating-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Agreed, agreed.\"", "preceding_text": "olved, and they dwelt upon the enormous expense which might be entailed. Friction would arise in regard to the proportion which the occupier could deduct from the amount paid to his landlord, and another great objection would be the very considerable expense entailed in determining site values. He imagined that at first there would be constant appeals, and this would involve considerable expense. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/14/land-values-assessment-and-rating-bill-1", "section": "land-values-assessment-and-rating-bill-1", "cue_text": "At this point the remarks of the hon. Member became inaudible owing to the loud and insistent cries of \"divide\" from the NATIONALIST Benches.", "preceding_text": "ore, and were glad to get from one class a tax twice over, especially when that class was supposed to be composed of rich men whom they pillaged with perfect immunity as they did not come on their councils. The Bill, in his opinion, was an interference with the principle of freedom of contract which was one of the greatest principles which the commerce and industry of the world ought to preserve. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/18/aliens", "section": "aliens", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " or two statistics, but they will be very few. During the year 1904 as many as 195,000 aliens were returned as having come to this country. Of these, 99,000 odd were described as transmigrants, and 12,000 as sailors. Though the destination of the remaining 82,000 was not definitely known, some of them were known to have gone to America, but the greater proportion probably settled in this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/18/aliens", "section": "aliens", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": ". [Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"] I do not want, on this occasion, to treat this matter as controversial, but I have read the speeches of hon. Gentlemen opposite in which they have been able to prove to their own satisfaction that a minus quantity remained on these shores. Certainly that is not the information which reaches me through the Government Departments from sources open to all Members of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/18/aliens", "section": "aliens", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Yes.\"", "preceding_text": "al with cases of aliens, but also from Judges of the High Courts, as to the large amount of work, and, I think, unnecessary work, cast upon them by the presence of this class of criminal. Last year I am aware certain Members of the Opposition made an offer on the Grand Committee that 466 they would accept that portion of the Bill which dealt with criminal aliens, but that offer was not unanimous. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/18/physical-deterioration", "section": "physical-deterioration", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "ing for them to pass a Resolution of this kind expressing pity and sympathy with these cases, whilst at the same time they acknowledged that the parents could feed their own children and yet did not feed them because gin and horse-racing prevented them. It was an extraordinary thing that the public should be asked to pay the expense of feeding these children while such a state of affairs existed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/apr/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/apr/18/physical-deterioration", "section": "physical-deterioration", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": " philanthropy to say to a young man that he might go and marry at eighteen years of age some girl of sixteen years of age; that he might have ten or twelve children and take no trouble to work for them, and then that somebody else who was married himself, and had done his best to provide his own children, should be called upon to contribute towards the maintenance of the children of other people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/pay-of-chinese-coolies-in-the-transvaal", "section": "pay-of-chinese-coolies-in-the-transvaal", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL interruption.", "preceding_text": "s than Is. 6d. per day? § Mr. CROOKS (Woolwich) Is it not customary when piecework is introduced to induce men to do over and above the work usually done at day rates so that the minimum is always secured and the men reap the advantage of the extra work? § * Mr. LYTTELTON Where does the hon. Member mean it is customary? § MR. CROOKS In your own Departments and in the Royal Arsenal. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/class-iv", "section": "class-iv", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "tion in which those who were hostile required that it should be modified. He did not think anybody would challenge that statement. Seeing that there was only a short interval to be bridged over, they had decided to provoke quarrels with the local authorities which they knew would not be in existence in a year or two because they would come to an end whenever the present Government came to an end. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/class-iv", "section": "class-iv", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cheers.", "preceding_text": "n in that condition for two years, until they could make other provision. They said nothing about making alterations. We insisted on their making these changes, and they were made. The material fact was that the local authority insisted on the managers making the changes. But when they came into possession themselves they asked the Board to allow the premises to remain as they were for two-years. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/class-iv", "section": "class-iv", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER : But they are", "preceding_text": " would have an arduous task in replying to the parts of the speech which did not reply to themselves. It was perfectly right and constitutional that the hon. Member should attack the Secretary to the Board of Education, but it was quite unusual, and he thought quite un-Parliamentary, to mention by name the permanent Civil servants of the Crown who were not responsible to the House for their acts. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/class-iv-1", "section": "class-iv-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : That is impossible.", "preceding_text": "he same thing was said by hon. Gentlemen opposite about the Agricultural Rating Act , but it had been renewed several times since that prediction was made, and he ventured to say that the Education Act would continue in force even after His Majesty's Government had ceased to exist and had given way to a Government which might be better but would probably be much worse than the present Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/class-iv-1", "section": "class-iv-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the OPPOSITION Benches: And you go on voting for them.", "preceding_text": "se very young children were excluded from the public schools. In his judgment, infants of tender years should be taught under the care of trained nurses in a creche where their deficiencies and deformities could be recognised and treated. The Board of Education, with its usual lack of courage 1267 and disregard of public opinion, went on I paying grants for these children under five years of age. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL ironical laughter", "preceding_text": "ht it desirable that the senior clerk should endeavour to develop more distinct enunciation of the various important proposals that came before the House. § MR. SPEAKER I must ask the hon. Member to address himself to the Bill before the House. § MR. FLYNN said he was endeavouring to explain, but for the hubbub of hon. Gentlemen opposite, that this was an Expiring Laws Continuance Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "f the case, from going into the schedules. Why should Parliament meet year after year, and session after session, and adopt a hotch-potch system like this? It was an inartistic system. It simply enabled the Government to drag on its existence from month to month, and when they did not know what they were going to do to reform these old laws, they put them into the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/aug/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/aug/01/second-reading", "section": "second-reading", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "t they did not know the first principles of the British Constitution. They had come there that night for another purpose than to discuss the Expiring Laws Continuance 1290 Bill. His point was that such a Bill ought not to be necessary. It was an anachronism and it was a scandal to continue these old Acts in this slap-dash fashion—Acts like the Peace Preservation Act , and the Sunday Closing Act . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "NATIONALIST cries of: \"So did Pigott\"", "preceding_text": " pursued to the bitter end and that Sir Antony must be removed from his post in Ireland. He was glad to say that they had demonstrated that to several of their colleagues, and he was also glad that they had by that time by the justice of their cause enlisted the sympathies of a considerable portion of the London Press. He had no hesitation in saying that they owed a debt of gratitude to The Times "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"When?\"", "preceding_text": "ve admitted as much. Holding these strong convictions, we at least, will cordially support the Amend ment. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR The speech o the right hon. Gentleman has beei studiouslv moderate in tone, but I think 854 nevertheless, that among all the speeches I have heard from him in recent years it is probably tne most important, in view of the issues which are to be put before the country—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "nsible to the House, not a member of the Cabinet, not a member of the Government, and nevertheless having 859 the power and the right to initiate great schemes and policies about which the Cabinet had never been consulted. § MR. DILLON Will the right lion. Gentleman publish the letter containing the terms of the appointment? § MR. A J. BALFOUR I am stating what I believe to be the fact. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "mber of the Government, and nevertheless having 859 the power and the right to initiate great schemes and policies about which the Cabinet had never been consulted. § MR. DILLON Will the right lion. Gentleman publish the letter containing the terms of the appointment? § MR. A J. BALFOUR I am stating what I believe to be the fact. [\"Oh, oh!\"] I am stating what obviously must be the fact. "}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ting what I believe to be the fact. [\"Oh, oh!\"] I am stating what obviously must be the fact. [\"Oh!\"] Does anybody—can anybody believe after the description I have given of the inevitable relations between the officials and the Government—[\"Oh, oh!\"]—does anybody believe that a Government would be so insane as to allow policies to be initiated in their name on which they had never been consulted? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "o allow policies to be initiated in their name on which they had never been consulted? [\"Oh, oh!\"] The proposition has only to be stated for its absurdity to appear. § MR. DILLON I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but the Chief Secretary said he would be desirous that the letter should see the light. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Then let the hon. Gentleman ask the Chief Secretary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " never been consulted? [\"Oh, oh!\"] The proposition has only to be stated for its absurdity to appear. § MR. DILLON I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but the Chief Secretary said he would be desirous that the letter should see the light. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Then let the hon. Gentleman ask the Chief Secretary. [\"Oh, oh!\"] I see no reason why the letter should be published. "}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh! \"", "preceding_text": "es the right hon. Gentleman call Sir Antony MacDonnell a liar? § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Sir Antony MacDonnell was mistaken. [\"Oh, oh!\"] Is that an impossibility? No man in the House has greater admiration than I have for Sir Antony MacDonnell's administrative achievements; but he is not infallible, and in this instance he made a mistake, and in consequence the Lord-Lieutenant believed erroneously "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and \"Produce the letter.\"", "preceding_text": " Antony MacDonnell was mistaken. [\"Oh, oh!\"] Is that an impossibility? No man in the House has greater admiration than I have for Sir Antony MacDonnell's administrative achievements; but he is not infallible, and in this instance he made a mistake, and in consequence the Lord-Lieutenant believed erroneously [\"Oh, oh! \"]—erroneously that my right 861 hon. friend did know of this Home Rule project. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "eously that my right 861 hon. friend did know of this Home Rule project. [\"Oh, oh!\" and \"Produce the letter.\"] I am not criticising either Sir Antony MacDonnell or Lord Dudley in this matter, but I am stating what occurred. One hon. Member asks if I call Sir Antony MacDonnell a liar. He is very fond of making suggestions of that sort, and occupied an hour and a-half this afternoon in making them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ame thing. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR dissented. § SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN The right hon. Gentleman said that though the Irish electors were advised to vote for the Tory candidates they did not do so. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR The right hon. Gentleman will know, if he takes any trouble, that the fact whether the Irish vote goes with you or against you is tolerably obvious from the canvassers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION laughter.", "preceding_text": "de boast not untruly, of the courageous loyalty with which they have served the Unionist Party. We cannot flatter ourselves that the battle in which they have taken so creditable a part is a battle which is over. But I look forward to its consummation without anxiety and without fear if, and if only, the great Party which has ranged itself in favour of the Union remains undivided and undisturbed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/feb/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/feb/21/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Try it then.\"", "preceding_text": "le a part is a battle which is over. But I look forward to its consummation without anxiety and without fear if, and if only, the great Party which has ranged itself in favour of the Union remains undivided and undisturbed. [OPPOSITION laughter.] Hon. Gentlemen laugh when I describe it as a great Party. It has hurled them to defeat in the past; it will hurl them yet again to defeat in the future. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jul/11/aliens-bill-1", "section": "aliens-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER Why not?", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman's speech to which he took exception. He would call the attention of the Committee to the fact that the Amendment opened up a very wide question. If they were to exempt persons born in the United Kingdom what were they going to do with persons born in Canada? If they were to accept an Amendment of this kind they must apply it to all persons born in any part of His Majesty's dominions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jul/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jul/14/education-scotland-bill", "section": "education-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "ill was brought in last year. MR. SCOTT DICKSON said the position of the Government was not one of complaint against the existing school boards, which had ably discharged their duties, but they recognised that the situation had changed, and that the time had come when they must adapt their educational system to the needs of the country. Hon. Members opposite could not even agree among themselves. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jul/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jul/14/education-scotland-bill", "section": "education-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "sition taken up last year. On the contrary, public opinion in Scotland was immensely in favour of the Bill, and there would be very great dissatisfaction if a Bill, which the vast majority of those interested in education in Scotland believed to be a long way in advance of anything that now existed or had heretofore been proposed, was endangered or lost by reason of the discussions in this House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1905/jun/05", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1905/jun/05/fiscal-policy-the-colonial-conference", "section": "fiscal-policy-the-colonial-conference", "cue_text": "much laughter", "preceding_text": "onth of June, 1906. Now, by that time His Majesty's Government will be half-way through the sixth year of their term of office. I find that of fourteen Governments since the year 1837 only two have reached the full limit of six years; and, therefore, it seems to me not unreasonable to say that by the month of June, 1906, according to all human probability, we shall be within a measurable distance "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1905/jun/05", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1905/jun/05/fiscal-policy-the-colonial-conference", "section": "fiscal-policy-the-colonial-conference", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " delivered by Mr. Chamberlain on Saturday last, and he took exception to that speech as differing widely from the speech delivered by Mr. Balfour at the Albert Hall. I do not know that I have collated the two speeches with the same care that the noble Duke has bestowed on them. But I confess it seemed to me that Mr. Chamberlain had taken his description almost textually from Mr. Balfour's speech. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION laughter.", "preceding_text": "ome of them have been called before the Committee, but I am not sure whether others have and the Committee have indulged in reflections. which found their way into the speech of the hon. and learned Gentleman this afternoon, on the conduct of the Government. Why have we, who were always available to give evidence, never been I allowed to place before Sir William Butler's Committee and the country—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers.", "preceding_text": "State who appointed Sir William Butler's Committee, could also dictate what evidence was to be called? Is it his view, after such a long experience of administration, that on appointing a Committee you should proceed to tell the Chairman what witnesses he should call? This is a serious indictment, and I am on my defence before the House on the charge of alleged incapacity and want of supervision. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not?", "preceding_text": "; MR. BRODRICK I recognise that, but it does not affect my point. There were returns sent to the Quartermaster-General showing that at one moment there were 200 days supplies, and that at the next moment there were 180 days supplies, but the returns we wanted, and the returns I ordered, were returns showing the persons concerned in the transactions. These were the returns which were not rendered. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Did you know they were not rendered?", "preceding_text": "es, but the returns we wanted, and the returns I ordered, were returns showing the persons concerned in the transactions. These were the returns which were not rendered. [An HON. MEMBER: Why not?] These are the returns which were noticed in the War Office Minute. These are the returns which Sir William Butler says, and I believe rightly says, would have gone to stop a process which we all regret. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh\"", "preceding_text": "nguage he did, thought he was only dwelling on the malpractices of certain contractors. I think it is quite possible that it never occurred to him that such a Report, so obviously lacking in all that goes to make a fair starting point for 133 Parliamentary discussion, would have been seized upon by the Opposition, and that it would have been used for the purpose of prejudicing a judicial decision—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "by his own evidence. The vague way he answered questions, and his forgetful-ness on all material points, showed that he was no more capable of managing that matter than one of His Majesty's Ministers. A most extraordinary procedure took place. Meyer took all the stocks of oats at £127,000. He took them over under contract, having previously entered into a contract to sell back what he had bought. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Answer, Brodrick.\"", "preceding_text": ", the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for India received monthly statements up to the had of October, 1902. He asked for the continuance of those statements, but he did not get them. Will the right hon. Gentleman still, fuse to tell the House, who gave him the money for the supplies and who has a right to ask what he had done with the money, why those statements were not made monthly? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Brodick.\"", "preceding_text": "ort this demand especially when 186 they are told by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer that £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 should have come back to the taxpayers, but did not. Why was it that the right hon. Gentleman did not insist upon getting a monthly statement as to the condition of our stores? § MR. A. J. BALFOUR I am going to speak later on; perhaps the hon. Member will allow me to reply. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "R. MCKENNA If the right hon. Gentleman does not intend to disclose the name of some unknown person who he alleges is responsible he ought to have accepted the responsibility himself. He is the responsible Minister at the head of the Department, and if he accepts the advice of a junior officer he ought not to shield himself behind the name of that junior. The right hon. Gentleman is the guilty man—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentlemen opposite want to turn us out of office. The hon. and learned Gentleman could not wholly avoid these dangers. He was scrupulously anxious, I am sure, to attack nobody but those who could defend themselves in this House; but no such anxious scrupulosity animated the hon. Gentleman who has just sat down. Observe the inevitable dilemma in which hon. Gentlemen place us upon this bench. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "ht hon. friends was to blame, if the fact be that adequate precautions were taken by the late Secretary of State for War and that the present Secretary of State for War has done his best to get at the root of the scandals, or alleged scandals, with which we are dealing, what possible defence can be made except that the blame which does not attach to them does attach to some of their subordinates? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers.", "preceding_text": "d up by more than one speaker this afternoon as having advocated a policy injurious to the British taxpayer, intrinsically unjust, because it suited the African trader and, as I understood the allegation, because it suited those great contractors who have been made the special object of attack this afternoon. § MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.) He is a Member of Parliament—a Member of the House of Peers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "connected with Lord Milner's refusal to take over the stores. What is true of the attacks 193 on Lord Milner is surety equally true of the attacks on General Lyttelton. What has General Lyttelton to do with the terms of this Motion? The hon. Gentleman can answer for himself now. Why did he attack General Lyttelton? § MR. MCKENNA I never mentioned General Lyttelton. I mentioned nobody's name. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers.", "preceding_text": "R I was in the House. § SIR JAMES WOODHOUSE He would have known that the attack I made was against the Government for the appointment of an officer to supervise the administration in South Africa of these contracts and sales of stores who, upon his own evidence, to which I confined my quotations, proved his incompetence for the position. My charge was against the Government, not against him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What was the number of the enemy?", "preceding_text": " one can compare these with the magnitude of the task which my right hon. friend successfully carried through. Consider the difficulties of the South African problem, the mere size of the country over which operations were carried on, which we are all apt to forget, the distance from home, the enormous strength of the Army engaged, incomparably greater than was ever sent from these shores before. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": ". § SIR ROBERT REID I did not say that. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR I certainly got that impression from what the hon. and learned Gentleman said, and it is, of course, an easy platform charge that goods were sold at such and such a price and bought at such and such another price, the second price being much higher than the first. Of course that may be a most excellent financial transaction 199 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No !\"", "preceding_text": "ommittee. \"No, Sir; I never said that, and no one would think that any such opinion would be, expressed by anyone who had any knowledge of the subject whatever. But what I do say is that when a Departmental Committee is appointed, it is the business of the head of that Department, or some one acting on his behalf, to watch the proceedings of the Committee, to consider the evidence taken before it "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " any other purpose than to have this matter probed to the bottom, but we found him day after day opposing to the very end the proposition to make the inquiry effective. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR I do not think a Royal Commission has ever been, appointed so quickly. § SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN None may have been appointed so I quickly, but even this might have been appointed more quickly still "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/jun/26/south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "section": "south-africa-sales-and-refunds-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cheers", "preceding_text": " existence by the Exchequer and Audit Act the machinery by which the control of Parliament over expenditure is maintained, and who devoted his life to exalting instead of debasing the power of this House. But if you will take a Party view of this matter, then let us put aside this obsolete and used-up House of Commons. Let as go to the country. While wear? here, powerless in the lobbies as we are "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/railway-directors-on-select-committees", "section": "railway-directors-on-select-committees", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "hairman of an Indian railway company should not disqualify him from serving on a Committee on an English Railway 1382 Bill. I am therefore not prepared to take action on that ground. § *MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the hon. Member for Wandsworth is not only Chairman of an Indian railway company but Chairman of a second railway company, and the London agent of a third? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/railway-directors-on-select-committees", "section": "railway-directors-on-select-committees", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": " not prepared to take action on that ground. § *MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the hon. Member for Wandsworth is not only Chairman of an Indian railway company but Chairman of a second railway company, and the London agent of a third? [Cries of \"Order!\"] I would also ask whether, in view of the fact that there are no less than seventy-six railway directors in this House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/navy-estimates-1905-6", "section": "navy-estimates-1905-6", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It's brutal.", "preceding_text": "e thought he need not say any more in defence of a 1419 system which was admitted to be universal. He believed it was beneficial. He could only repeat that if any case of undue severity were brought to the notice of the Admiralty it would be investigated as the hon. Member for Dorsetshire had suggested. § MR. LYELL Would you give publicity to the birching? § *MR. PRETYMAN said he would. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/navy-estimates-1905-6", "section": "navy-estimates-1905-6", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " not remain in the King's service. He was quite content to place this matter before the public in its present light. At the present time boys could be caned for almost any offence, such as smoking, having soiled tunics, not being able to swim and being disrespectful to superiors, and boys had been known to attempt suicide for fear of these punishments. Those were everyday occurrences in the Navy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/navy-estimates-1905-6", "section": "navy-estimates-1905-6", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "d for, mischief as the others? What were the records of the Army which had brought disgrace on that branch of the service? His complaint was that the very class of boys who were subjected to this torture and indignity, the shame of which sometimes lasted through the life of a poor wretched creature, was the class least capable of making their complaints heard or bringing them under public notice. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/navy-estimates-1905-6", "section": "navy-estimates-1905-6", "cue_text": "Interruption and laughter.", "preceding_text": " same rights and treatment as they themselves were. A man of that kind could manage a ship and its crew, including the boys, without 1440 submitting them to this degradation. Until this system of punishment was abolished, and discipline and order maintained by kindness on the part of the commanders, they would not have a Navy which carried satisfaction and pride into the cottage homes of England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/navy-estimates-1905-6", "section": "navy-estimates-1905-6", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " the whole tendency of our legislation was against this form of punishment. He was not going to say that for boys up to the age of sixteen it ought to be eliminated altogether. He would not for a moment put it so high as that. He remembered some years ago an hon. Member introducing a Bill into this House to legalise the punishment of flogging for men guilty of offences towards women and children. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/the-closure-of-supply", "section": "the-closure-of-supply", "cue_text": "cries of \"Read\"", "preceding_text": "we are asked to embark on the discussion of this long, unprecedented, and complicated Motion without seeing it until the morning of the day on which the discussion is to be inaugurated. In the interest of the proper conduct of public business I would ask the right hon. Gentleman to give a little more notice of this absolutely unprecedented Motion. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR The Motion is a long one "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/the-closure-of-supply", "section": "the-closure-of-supply", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Why not read?\"", "preceding_text": "is long, unprecedented, and complicated Motion without seeing it until the morning of the day on which the discussion is to be inaugurated. In the interest of the proper conduct of public business I would ask the right hon. Gentleman to give a little more notice of this absolutely unprecedented Motion. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR The Motion is a long one [cries of \"Read\"], but it is not complicated. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/the-closure-of-supply", "section": "the-closure-of-supply", "cue_text": "Cries of \"You are driving it, \"and \"It is intolerable. \"", "preceding_text": "about further notice? § MR. A. J. BALFOUR Time is going on. What pledge can I get in return with regard to the management of business. § MR. JOHN REDMOND All I can say to the right hon. Gentleman is that this attempt to drive the House without any notice will not result in the saving of time. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR I have no desire to drive the House more than is absolutely necessary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/the-closure-of-supply", "section": "the-closure-of-supply", "cue_text": "Interruptions from the MINISTERIAL side.", "preceding_text": " any notice will not result in the saving of time. § MR. A. J. BALFOUR I have no desire to drive the House more than is absolutely necessary. [Cries of \"You are driving it, \"and \"It is intolerable. \"] The hon. Gentleman can give no pledge as to the course— § MR. JOHN REDMOND The Prime Minister has made a rather pointed appeal to me, and I submit that I am entitled to answer that appeal. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/the-closure-of-supply", "section": "the-closure-of-supply", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order\"", "preceding_text": " answer. Thanks to the enterprise of my hon. friend, we are now in possession of the terms of the Motion. This is an absolutely unprecedented Motion, and the right hon. Gentleman will find his task cut out to prove the contrary when he comes to move it. I suppose, Mr. Speaker you cannot even have seen such a Motion as this before. Times have been when Speakers would have intimated pretty strongly "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/the-closure-of-supply", "section": "the-closure-of-supply", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Order\"", "preceding_text": "re now in possession of the terms of the Motion. This is an absolutely unprecedented Motion, and the right hon. Gentleman will find his task cut out to prove the contrary when he comes to move it. I suppose, Mr. Speaker you cannot even have seen such a Motion as this before. Times have been when Speakers would have intimated pretty strongly [Cries of \"Order\"] to the Leader of the House of Commons "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/14/the-closure-of-supply", "section": "the-closure-of-supply", "cue_text": "Laughter and interruption on the MINISTERIAL side.", "preceding_text": " which had already been given to the clerks. He understood that the Prime Minister gave a distinct pledge that the terms of the Resolution should be given to the House that day. The manner in which the right hon. Gentleman fulfilled that pledge was to say that the Resolution would be presented with the Parliamentary Papers in the morning. Was it not intolerable that at ten minutes to one o'clock— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/31/local-authorities-qualification-of-women-1", "section": "local-authorities-qualification-of-women-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Ladies sat upon the school boards.", "preceding_text": "to limit that choice and the freedom of the electors in this respect to show why women should be excluded. § MR. HERBERT ROBERTSON said that argument appeared to him to amount to the contention that everybody ought to be eligible unless they could be shown incompetent for the post. § MR. BRYCE Not quite that. § MR. HERBERT ROBERTSON said that was practically what it amounted 65 to. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/31/local-authorities-qualification-of-women-1", "section": "local-authorities-qualification-of-women-1", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "cted by the borough councils and the county councils was of a very trivial nature. He disagreed with the hon. Member altogether. He considered that it was of a most important character. During the last 77 thirty years the municipal debt of the country had risen from somewhere about £90,000,000 to over £400,000,000. Were women economically likely to reduce that expenditure? His experience of women—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/31/local-authorities-qualification-of-women-1", "section": "local-authorities-qualification-of-women-1", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "a very trivial nature. He disagreed with the hon. Member altogether. He considered that it was of a most important character. During the last 77 thirty years the municipal debt of the country had risen from somewhere about £90,000,000 to over £400,000,000. Were women economically likely to reduce that expenditure? His experience of women—[Laughter]—he might not be so fortunate as his hon. Friends—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/mar/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/31/local-authorities-qualification-of-women-1", "section": "local-authorities-qualification-of-women-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " character. During the last 77 thirty years the municipal debt of the country had risen from somewhere about £90,000,000 to over £400,000,000. Were women economically likely to reduce that expenditure? His experience of women—[Laughter]—he might not be so fortunate as his hon. Friends—[Laughter]—but he had a certain experience with women, and he believed that, as a rule, they were not economical. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/08/the-markyate-motor-car-accident", "section": "the-markyate-motor-car-accident", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": " of the chauffeur who on Saturday last was committed for trial on a charge of having killed a child, and for whom absolutely insufficient bail has been accepted. Will steps be taken to secure that the man shall not abscond from the country? § MR. AKERS-DOUGLAS The magistrates in their discretion have accepted bail. I have no power to interfere. § MR. SWIFT MACNEILL Of course he has not. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/08/education-scotland-bill-3", "section": "education-scotland-bill-3", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No\"", "preceding_text": "roposal was to give the local authorities £100,000 and take the balance. The measure would, therefore, give to the local authorities as much as they got when the Act of 1892 was passed, and all the Department proposed to take was the increment of £63,000. He was bound to say that, having regard to the source and origin of the fund, and that the money was originally devoted to educational purposes—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/08/education-scotland-bill-3", "section": "education-scotland-bill-3", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "inspection at all commensurate with that cost. There must be an enormous number of children for whom no such inspection was necessary at all, but if they were going to set up a general system of anthropometrical examination of the children and they were going to do that twice a year the cost would be large. They had 800,000 children in Scotland, and supposing 1225 it cost 2s. 6d. a head each time—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/08/education-scotland-bill-3", "section": "education-scotland-bill-3", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear! and \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "Bill as introduced it was proposed to take the whole of the money. Representations were then made both by county and by burgh councils, and, as a result, Lord Dunedin intimated that he was prepared to say that he would not take more than the surplus over the £100,000 for education. He thought that concession was accepted by many representing both the counties and the burghs as fair and reasonable—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/08/adjournment", "section": "adjournment", "cue_text": "Loud OPPOSITION cries of \"Forty-two\"", "preceding_text": "for Hackney had now fled, like his chief the Prime Minister. Might he ask Mr. Deputy-Speaker for his ruling on the point raised. He did not know of a single precedent for it in their whole Parliamentary history. He was sure that the gentlemen at the Table would instruct Mr. Deputy-Speaker. MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER counted the number of hon. Members present and, declaring that there were only thirty-six "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/11/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "at was taking place at the present time in our expenditure at Hong-Kong, where until quite recently an enormously increased expenditure was justified to the House in respect of transactions which were taking place in China. The northern station of Wei-hai-Wei had been abandoned. All these arguments had been pressed on the House in much detail, and now suddenly a reduction took place at Hong-Kong. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/11/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And colliers.", "preceding_text": "d the view that at the beginning of a war—the most dangerous moment—the Fleets would have to be employed in guarding across the sea the men and machinery to these naval bases. He called that not a frank abandonment of the old conditions. How did the right hon. Gentleman think the Fleet would like to have to convoy these garrisons, dockyard men, and machinery in the event of the outbreak of a war? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/11/class-ii-1", "section": "class-ii-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Jointly.", "preceding_text": "ge standing Army in the future?\" There were other possible complications which had not been mentioned in the debate. He wondered how many people recollected that we had guaranteed the integrity and independence of half the smaller States in Europe— Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Portugal. In fact there was hardly a small country in Europe that did not depend for its existence on our guarantee. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/26/sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-sunday-bill", "section": "sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-sunday-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "sure that the country was yet ripe for entire Sunday closing, but it was ripe at any rate for a limitation of Sunday hours, and therefore he gladly supported the Second Reading of the present Bill. § SIR FREDERICK BANBURY (Camberwell, Peckham) said his hon. friend who had just sat down appeared to have developed an argument which showed that he was only a half-hearted supporter of this Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/26/sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-sunday-bill", "section": "sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-sunday-bill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER—Excessive drinking!", "preceding_text": "ty were caused by excessive drinking. But insanity was not always caused by beer-drinking. § *SIR JOSEPH LEESE (Lancashire, Accrington) 25 per cent. of it is. 1574 § *MR. COCHRANE stated that quite recently one of the greatest experts on insanity had said to him, \"I am coming to the conclusion that drinking is not so much the cause of insanity as that insanity is the cause of drinking.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/26/steam-engines-and-boilers-per-sons-in", "section": "steam-engines-and-boilers-per-sons-in", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Does that prevent accidents?", "preceding_text": " the qualification required by the Act was to be a penalty of forty shillings for the first offence, and ten pounds for the second offence. Far heavier penalties were imposed under the present law in connection with the working of machinery at mines. He would remind the House that the Workmen's Compensation Act contained provisions which operated very usefully in the direction of securing safety. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1905/may/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/may/26/steam-engines-and-boilers-per-sons-in", "section": "steam-engines-and-boilers-per-sons-in", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: A good argument for the Bill.", "preceding_text": "ecessary in one who had the control of engines and boilers, and this was especially true in the case of mines. Accidents from over-winding were now very few. This was partly because of the precautions which the discoveries of science had enabled mineowners to adopt, and partly owing to the fact that great care was always taken to see that those in charge of mining operations were fully qualified. "}