{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/aug/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/aug/02/consolidated-fund-appropriation-bill-1", "section": "consolidated-fund-appropriation-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide,\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "at one of the great things needed was the colonisation of our own country. Many parts of Scotland wanted colonising. 1456 Millions of money were wasted each year in foreign countries which should have been saved for the benefit of Scotland, and to enable Scotsmen to live in their own country. The main roads wanted attending to and the steamboat service to be developed. New harbours were required. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/03/plural-voting-bill", "section": "plural-voting-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "g of our electoral system, he should be content, because in his opinion our present system of representation was an accumulated patchwork, composed partly of a little conviction, partly of a little concession, and partly of a little cowardice. Some hon. Members seemed to believe that this Bill was introduced by him with the delibeerate purpose of inflicting an injury upon his political opponents. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/03/plural-voting-bill", "section": "plural-voting-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "f the varieties of franchises, and of the machinery provided for registration, will continue to be considerable. That was the opinion of an expert on this question. It had been said in the course of these debates that this was the first occasion on which a disfranchising measure had been placed before the British Parliament for many years. There was certainly a precedent in the reign of Henry VI. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/03/plural-voting-bill", "section": "plural-voting-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They will not do that.", "preceding_text": " of the partial remedy now proposed. While he would not himself presume to lay down any policy, he thought it was desirable that they should have some guide as to how far they were to go in regard to the question of redistribution. As a Cambridge man he would like to say a word on University representation. He never could believe that the Conservative Party would desert University representation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/03/plural-voting-bill", "section": "plural-voting-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " reform in a serious way? The Bill in its pre sent form was absolutely unworkable. The hon. Member for Buckinghamshire had said that he was not in love with the Bill, though he was in love with the principle of it. No one had supported the Bill in toto as it stood. Why had they not? The Bill was introduced in the spring, and it was practically an open secret that it would 665 not he gone cm with. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/03/plural-voting-bill", "section": "plural-voting-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Buckinghamshire had said that he was not in love with the Bill, though he was in love with the principle of it. No one had supported the Bill in toto as it stood. Why had they not? The Bill was introduced in the spring, and it was practically an open secret that it would 665 not he gone cm with. [Cries of \"No.\"] Then that was a mistaken view. It was the view held on the back benches "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/11/mr-walter-longs-speech-in-dublin", "section": "mr-walter-longs-speech-in-dublin", "cue_text": "NATIONALIST cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "ment of opinion shall not appear. The hon. Member who has put the Questions on the Paper is entitled to ask the Attorney-General what course he proposes to take or whether any further action will be taken in the case. That is perfectly legitimate. § MR. T. L. CORBETT (Down, N.) Has your attention been called to the fact that the Judge who tried the case made most severe comments to the jury? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/11/education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "section": "education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member—\"Quote.\"", "preceding_text": "which seems so appalling to the Prime Minister and so strange and terrible to the Minister for Education, can be defended point by point out of their own speeches. This wickedness which the Lords have committed they committed at their instigation. the Lords have founded themelves on the utterances of the 163 most responsible Minister for all the broad principles at the bottom of their Amendments. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/11/education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "section": "education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: What did you do with the clause?", "preceding_text": "is available. That, I infer, is almost the wickedest thing the Lords have done. Well, I listened, with a sympathy, which grew ultimately from mere repetition into weariness, to the interminable speeches made to me during the Bill of 1902 on the hardship suffered in the single-school areas by the parents of children who did not happen to approve the religious education given in that single school. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/11/education-england-and-wales-bill-3", "section": "education-england-and-wales-bill-3", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "ho knew something of the West Riding were aware that that was not the case in Huddersfield. They knew that in Huddersfield at the opening of the schools there was the singing of a hymn and the reading of a passage from Scripture and the Lord's Prayer. All of those pro- 224 ceedings were very devoutly carried out, but he did not think that anybody could contend that that was religious instruction. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/11/education-england-and-wales-bill-3", "section": "education-england-and-wales-bill-3", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ion which the State had no right to sanction. No one had any objection to the teacher getting £10 or £20 above 228 his usual salary, but he did strongly object to that money being paid for the purpose of getting him to profess a certain faith. He believed it was a fond fallacy of some members of the Church of England that by these means they were increasing the number of adherents to their faith. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/dec/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/11/education-england-and-wales-bill-3", "section": "education-england-and-wales-bill-3", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ld be doing a great injustice to those people who believed in denominational teaching if they did not stand firm by their Amendments and maintain the position they had taken up. Two great cardinal principles appeared to underlie the speeches of hon. Members opposite. One of them was a 244 very strong hatred of the House of Lords and the other was an equally strong hatred of the Church of England. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "section": "education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "cue_text": "\" Oh. oh,\"", "preceding_text": "selves; and for this reason, that in the agricultural districts children might be allowed to leave school in the summer months to earn a few shillings at work upon the land. The children enjoyed it; it benefited the parents; and the fanners liked it. It was found that when the children got beyond the age of twelve and thirteen years and were sent to work on the land, they were absolutely useless. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "section": "education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "cue_text": "\" Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "hool in the summer months to earn a few shillings at work upon the land. The children enjoyed it; it benefited the parents; and the fanners liked it. It was found that when the children got beyond the age of twelve and thirteen years and were sent to work on the land, they were absolutely useless. [\" Oh. oh,\"] What they were being taught in the schools was useless to them for working on the land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "section": "education-england-and-wales-bill-2", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: There are very few in some counties.", "preceding_text": "aid that he agreed with the last speaker. He had been for many years on the governing body of a county secondary school to which a number of children came with minor county scholarships from public elementary schools, and were then helped on by means of major county scholarships to the University. The hon. Member for Northampton was perhaps not aware how much had been done by county scholarships. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/musical-copyright-bill", "section": "musical-copyright-bill", "cue_text": "cries of \" Order \" and \"Chair.\"", "preceding_text": "1906 → Commons Sitting → NEW BILLS. MUSICAL COPYRIGHT BILL. HC Deb 16 July 1906 vol 160 cc1452-88 1452 § Considered in Committee. § [Mr. EMMOTT (Oldham) in the Chair.] § (In the Committee.) § Clause 1:— § MR. BYLES (Salford, N.) hoped the Committee would permit him briefly to make one or two general observations before he moved the Amendment he had on the paper, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/musical-copyright-bill", "section": "musical-copyright-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": ".\" [\" Divide.\"] He proposed to take this 1461 one division so far as he was concerned. He wished to say that he had as much sympathy with the suffering composer under the present law as any Gentlemen around him, but there was one thing he would not consent to, even if he stood alone in the House of Commons, and that was to menace the liberties which had been fought for and won by our forefathers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/musical-copyright-bill", "section": "musical-copyright-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Deal with their licences.", "preceding_text": "in the step by which a conviction was sought to be secured. § MR. T. P. O'CONNOR said there were 5,000 or 6,000 summonses taken out by the Musical Copyright Association and only 278 were served. § SIR JOHN WALTON said those engaged in the trade were perfectly well aware of the character of the music they were selling. They were persons against whom no civil proceedings could be brought. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/musical-copyright-bill", "section": "musical-copyright-bill", "cue_text": "Some HON. MEMBERS: The Noes have it.\"", "preceding_text": "f a hawker were asked to go to the police station and if he could show to the inspector that he was a respectable man, and had a good answer to the charge, he did not think he would be detained in custody. He, therefore, trusted the Committee would refuse the Amendment. § Question, \" That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the clause,\" put. 1470 THE CHAIRMAN The \" Ayes\" have it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/musical-copyright-bill", "section": "musical-copyright-bill", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \" The Noes have it.", "preceding_text": "e man, and had a good answer to the charge, he did not think he would be detained in custody. He, therefore, trusted the Committee would refuse the Amendment. § Question, \" That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the clause,\" put. 1470 THE CHAIRMAN The \" Ayes\" have it. [Some HON. MEMBERS: The Noes have it.\"] THE CHAIRMAN called upon the Home Secretary to move the next Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/musical-copyright-bill", "section": "musical-copyright-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical OPPOSITION laughter.", "preceding_text": "the Irish Members would vote in favour of the clause. § MR. CREAN said that the great majority of the Irish Members were opposed to anything approaching coercion in Ireland. And they objected to these additional powers being given to the police in Ireland. How many times had they come to this House and opposed the action of the police in using their weapons against the people of the country? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jul/16/musical-copyright-bill", "section": "musical-copyright-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \" Order.\"", "preceding_text": " exclusion of Ireland from the operation of a Bill applicable to the rest of the United Kingdom. He had no particular interest in this Bill; but what he and his friends asked for was that the Government should not give more power to the police for coercion work in Ireland. They were dealing with men who had created crimes in Ireland, and why should they give them facilities to create more crimes? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jun/22/land-tenure-bill-1", "section": "land-tenure-bill-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "e in the Bill, but time was limited, and they could not have everything they desired. Having regard to that fact, he would appeal to his hon. friend to withdraw the clause and allow the discussion on the Bill to proceed. § MR. MUNRO FERGUSON, in deference to the wishes of his hon. friend, asked leave to withdraw the clause. § MR. SPEAKER Is it your pleasure that the clause be withdrawn? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jun/22/land-tenure-bill-1", "section": "land-tenure-bill-1", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ct; MR. PIKE PEASE (Darlington) expressed himself in favour of the landlords of the country being given an opportunity to give notice to their tenants before the Bill came into operation. As a. matter of fact a considerable number of landlords had given notice to their tenants in consequence of the introduction of the Bill, and it seemed to him that others should have the opportunity of doing so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jun/22/land-tenure-bill-1", "section": "land-tenure-bill-1", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ime—not to some—but to all landlords to re-arrange their tenancies before the Act came into operation. He hoped the promoters of the Bill would see their way to accept either the Amendment now before the House or some other Amendments which had been suggested, and would have a similar effect. If they did not, personally he would have to take up an attitude of uncompromising hostility to the Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jun/22/land-tenure-bill-1", "section": "land-tenure-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No,\"and Members rose on both sides to continue the debate.", "preceding_text": "at was going to help them get their Bill through. They were wasting time in resisting an Amendment which was fair and just, and they were deliberately determined to do a gross injustice to a considerable section of the community. § Mr. SOARES rose in his place and claimed to move, \"That the question be now put.\" § MR. SPEAKER said he thought the House was prepared to come to a decision. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jun/22/land-tenure-bill-1", "section": "land-tenure-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No\" and \"An addition.\"", "preceding_text": "ds of the preamble to which the Party opposite were taking exception. They were that — It is expedient in the interest of good husbandry that better security should be made for the capital and labour invested by tenants in the cultivation of the soil. § LORD HELMSLEY indicated dissent. § MR. SOARES said it was to that proposition that objection had been taken 547 and an Amendment moved. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jun/29/land-tenure-bill", "section": "land-tenure-bill", "cue_text": "\" Oh! \"", "preceding_text": "andlords. 1296 He was not surprised at that after hearing the speeches from both sides of the House to-day. He could quite understand that a tenant who, for political reasons, had offended his landlord, and got notice to quit, should prefer to leave his case in the hands of the landlord, because he knew that the power of that landlord might be used against him when he applied for another holding. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/jun/29/land-tenure-bill", "section": "land-tenure-bill", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: In Wales.", "preceding_text": "uch accusations or insinuations as had fallen from the hon. Member for the Newton division. The hon. Member had said that the landlords of the country only desired to rob their tenants. He understood him to say that they 1297 took good care that the tenant should be robbed of his improvements. He repudiated that statement; he thought it was grossly unfair. Where was the cry against the landlords? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "r own judgment might lead them to decide upon. But the question might very properly be raised as to the cost involved either to the State or to the local education authorities by this new undertaking. He thought that all Members, especially those who had been associated with municipal life, would be ready to recognise that the rates were already more than many of the local authorities could bear. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ost of carrying out the proposals of this Bill might be a difficulty for them, but, looking to the magnitude of the evil, great as the money burden might be, it was the duty of the nation, cost what it would, to remove this stain. He himself estimated that it might cost, if the full provisions possible under this Bill were adopted, between £12,000,000 and £15,000,000 a year to carry oat the work. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ed world the closest form of Collectivism it was possible to create—the collectivity of the family bound together by the ties of service and affection. He laid stress on the word \"service,\" for service led to affection. It was the little services that the mother tendered to the child that created and strengthened the bond of parental affection. They were proposing to put a stop to those services. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "to the child that created and strengthened the bond of parental affection. They were proposing to put a stop to those services. [Cries of \"No.\"] But it was a fact. They were proposing, when a family was poor, to take one child or two children if they liked, out of a family and say, \"We will make you comfortable, but your brothers and sisters, your father and mother—they may go on in their hovel.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You need not tell us that", "preceding_text": " lower wages. A faw days ago the House passed a strong Resolution in favour of the extension of the Truck Act , but to-day they were actually proposing a new form of truck. They were proposing to give the employee food for his children in lieu of wages. The laws of competition being what they were, they would not be able to resist the tendency to lower wages. He was one of those antiquated people "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It would be better fed.", "preceding_text": "the inevitable effect of destroying trades unionism. Trade unions depended on those members of the working classes who were strong enough not only to stand alone but to help their fellows. But the effect of this Bill would be to create a body of working men who, instead of helping their fellows and standing alone, would be sponging upon their fellow workers. What would be the effect on the child? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear,\" from the LABOUR Benches, and cries of \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "eason to interfere. § MR. HAROLD COX said he was sorry he was not making his argument clear to his hon. friend, but he was pointing out that if they were to give meals they must also give boots and clothing. Then they must begin to ask under what conditions the child lived, what kind of rooms it slept in, was it washed before it was put to bed, and did it 1419 sleep in a decent cot at night. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh\"", "preceding_text": "that mankind enjoyed. AN HON. MEMBER Is that in the Bill? § MR. HAROLD COX It is a consequence of the Bill. They had got, he said, to think in all these social problems of where they were drifting. His hon. friend the Member for Merthyr Tydvil was far sighted enough to see where he was going, but there were a great many Members on both sides of the House who did not see where they were going "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ven him a very new conception of the character and fibre of the working classes of this country. If the case for this Bill was made out, they were bound to believe that there existed in this country a large number of men and women who had sunk into such a state of indifference and of sullen apathy a to be unmoved not by their own sufferings but the sufferings and starvation of their own children. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical laughter from the LABOUR Benches.", "preceding_text": "to pry into the private lives of the people in order to ascertain whether on a particular day a certain child could be described as underfed? It seemed to him that if they were to carry out the proposals in the Bill they would inevitably set up a system of inquisition which, if he had any knowledge of the working classes in this country or in any other country, they would much resent and deplore. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical \"Hear, hear\" from the LABOUR Benches", "preceding_text": "ng the Second Reading of this measure. The fundamental objection to the Bill was its absolutely socialistic character from beginning to end. He thought that nobody would deny that. He held that all the well-known dangers which were known to adhere to all forms of socialism applied in a particularly virulent form to this measure. It might be said that he did not know much about the working classes—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Time.\"", "preceding_text": "ich obtained across the Atlantic? One of the speakers had quoted a statement by a former member of the House—Mr. Samuel Smith—to the effect that 10 per cent, of the children of this country were underfed, badly clothed and badly housed. Surely that was a matter for serious reflection which should be taken to heart by right hon. Gentlemen opposite. He would like to be allowed to read one sentence. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/02/education-provision-of-meals-bill", "section": "education-provision-of-meals-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Reserve it till next Thursday.", "preceding_text": "a statement by a former member of the House—Mr. Samuel Smith—to the effect that 10 per cent, of the children of this country were underfed, badly clothed and badly housed. Surely that was a matter for serious reflection which should be taken to heart by right hon. Gentlemen opposite. He would like to be allowed to read one sentence. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Time.\"] Were hon. Gentlemen afraid to hear it? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/merchant-shipping-acts-amendment-no-2", "section": "merchant-shipping-acts-amendment-no-2", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Life is too short.", "preceding_text": " HAVELOCK WILSON said he was afraid he should have to trouble the House at some considerable length in regard to this Bill. He very much regretted that hon. Members on both 1113 sides of the House failed to avail themselves of the opportunity of reading the various Blue-books that had been published with regard to the reports of different Committees which have inquired into the shipping question. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/merchant-shipping-acts-amendment-no-2", "section": "merchant-shipping-acts-amendment-no-2", "cue_text": "Cries of \"To take out his degree\" and \"To prove his efficiency.\"", "preceding_text": "ceed eight or nine months. The House had heard a lot about the cook. Considerable amusement was caused last week when this Bill was introduced with regard to the cook who was no cook at all. In the first place he did not know why the right hon. Gentleman proposed that they should wait until 1908 for this cook. He would like his right hon. friend just to note that. Why should they wait until 1908! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/merchant-shipping-acts-amendment-no-2", "section": "merchant-shipping-acts-amendment-no-2", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " because steamers were wilfully lost in order to recover insurance. He had not heard anything of that kind lately, but he should like to point out that the shipowners with regard to that load-line had suffered under a very great disqualification in competing with foreign ships; and what had happened? First, a load-line was imposed upon shipowners which was far beyond what was required for safety. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: A record production.", "preceding_text": "hich had been introduced was that both hon. Members insisted with the utmost vehemence that it was to the wicked 1159 Sugar Convention that the rise in price during last year was due. He would only put this question to the hon. Members—if the Sugar Convention caused the rise in the price what was it that caused the fall? What had occurred in the interim to suspend the operation of the Convention? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And so he will.", "preceding_text": "at he viewed with a certain amount of astonishment the position of a large number of Members on the other side of the House. He did so because they were never tired of declaring how much reverence they attached to the doctrines of Mr. Cobden. They never seemed to be out of the influence of that great man. Ever since his death Mr. Cobden had exercised a sort of mental fascina- 1160 tion over them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "wer to a Question put by the right hon. Baronet the Member for Forest of Dean, said that no decision taken before September, 1907, could be effective and the matter had not yet been considered. The truth is, that the agitation against the Sugar Convention having served its immediate purpose, the Government are becoming conscious of the fact that the case against the Convention is a very thin one. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the Ministerial benches: They are.", "preceding_text": "fectionery to this market are Switzerland and the United States. The latter use for confectionery nothing but by-products of sugar which are not affected by the provisions of the Convention, and Switzerland, while it imports sugar which has already paid duty, never grants a refund of that duty on exports. Therefore there is no reason why the confectionery makers in this country should be injured. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "der what has to be done. With regard to the merits of the question, the noble Lord's figures were absolutely wrong. The noble Lord seemed to think that this Convention had steadied prices. He really could not have studied the volume of prices during the last two or three years since the Convention and compared it with previous prices. As a matter of fact, it was very steady before the Convention. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The war.", "preceding_text": "ar it was 6,800,000. Now, that is not going down, at least according, to the usual methods of computation. That is going up by 1,300,000. But the worst of it is that while cane production is growing in every colony except ours, and beet production is growing enormously, we are not getting the full advantage of it. Why is that? We are told that the Convention did not interfere. What did interfere? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " ignorant exaggeration I give the flattest possible contradiction. There has been no such loss on the part of this country, and there has been no benefit to other countries in consequence of the Convention. Anyone would think who heard the speech of the hon. Member for Ashton that we had lost money, and that it had inured to the profit of some other country. Nothing can be further from the truth. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "t assured that, so far from losing employment, there will be a great addition to the employment of the people of this country. The statement has been made that thousands of workmen have been thrown out of employment in the confectionery trades as the result of the Convention. While accepting the sincerity of the hon. Gentleman who made that statement, I say there is no foundation whatever for it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/the-sugar-convention", "section": "the-sugar-convention", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh\"", "preceding_text": "The statement has been made that thousands of workmen have been thrown out of employment in the confectionery trades as the result of the Convention. While accepting the sincerity of the hon. Gentleman who made that statement, I say there is no foundation whatever for it. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh.\"] All the statistics show that, on the contrary, those trades have, on the whole, greatly increased "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ke three months to communicate with Malta. § MR. HALDANE said it had always been the custom to allow a longer time in those distant parts, and they had strictly followed precedents in the clause they were now discussing. § MR. FORSTER said he did not wish to take up the time of the Committee but he did want to know particularly what the right hon. Gentleman intended to do in the matter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Name, name.\"", "preceding_text": "anding in Amendments at the last moment. § MR. CLAUDE HAY said that surely in common fairness, if he was unable to hear the words of the Chairman owing to the interruption of hon. Members opposite, if he handed in an Amendment at the Table in due time and gave proper notice— THE CHAIRMAN I may state that the hon. Member actually spoke upon the clause itself before he handed in his Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": ", you did. § MR. CLAUDE HAY asked the hon. and gallant Member for the Abercromby Division if he was going to vote with him this year. A common soldier knew no more than the man in the moon what the provisions of the Army Act were. This subject had been the sport of Parties in this House for a long time, and he was anxious that it should be removed from the arena of Party politics altogether. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL Interruptions.", "preceding_text": "t it was not for the unfortunate man who suffered this ignominy. This Act allowed the continuance and gross injustices of all the worst forms of Russian autocracy, and he for one was prepared to sit up all night until the Secretary of State gave definite declarations that he would 1198 organise courts-martial—upon such a basis that gross outrages of this kind could not be perpetrated on soldiers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_text": "izens. He did not forget that a great many reforms were wrung out of the Government at all-night sittings. He regretted that the Act referred to was not fully recited, because there was no other way of understanding it. They ought to fully 1199 understand on behalf of the working men whom they professed to represent whether under the Army Act with or without regulations flogging could take place. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "199 understand on behalf of the working men whom they professed to represent whether under the Army Act with or without regulations flogging could take place. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"Divide, divide.\"] He did not think there ought to be any attempt to prevent the discussion of such an important matter simply because hon. Members opposite had not read the Army Act and did not know anything about it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "ortentous memorandum made any real stride in advance in dealing with the punishment of young men who, for some small offence or other, were committed to military prisons. What would these youngsters know of the Army Act ? THE CHAIRMAN Order, order! We not are dealing with the memorandum at the present time, but with Clause 4. § MR. CLAUDE HAY submitted that the memorandum explained Clause 4. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: How did he pay for it?", "preceding_text": "etic reply to their appeals. He was glad that the Secretary of State for War had promised to have this matter carefully looked into, and he hoped he would be able to do something to alleviate the lot of the soldier. COLONEL HERBERT said he had commanded a regiment, and during that time 1236 no man ever had anything but a good, substantial breakfast, and he never paid for it out of his own pocket. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: That is out of his own pocket.", "preceding_text": "ped he would be able to do something to alleviate the lot of the soldier. COLONEL HERBERT said he had commanded a regiment, and during that time 1236 no man ever had anything but a good, substantial breakfast, and he never paid for it out of his own pocket. [An HON. MEMBER: How did he pay for it?] He paid for it out of the sums which had accumulated on the co-operative system in the canteen fund. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/mar/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/mar/27/army-annual-bill", "section": "army-annual-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_text": "one or two o clock made up for an inadequate breakfast taken at six or seven o'clock in the morning, after which the soldier had to undertake hard work and fatigue, he was sorry to say that he could not agree with him. § MR. MORTON did not think the British soldier should have to depend on charity for his breakfast, it was a scandal and a shame that any such course should have to be adopted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/may/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/may/17/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And the bar.", "preceding_text": "fined to the smoking-room. Then the smokers annexed in turn the ladies' dining-room downstairs and part of the dining-room upstairs; and these unfortunate Members who did not smoke almost felt that it was an act of generosity on the part of the smokers to allow them to dine there. There was, however, one place which they had always found a harbour of refuge, and that was the library of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/may/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/may/17/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "or their part, wished to set the hon. Gentleman an example of toleration in which the hon. Gentleman's speech was conspicuously lacking. If it would in any way contribute to the hon. Gentleman's comfort and leisure in which he could prepare his speeches, he, for one, would offer no opposition to setting apart a room in which he could eat rotten apples as a stimulant before he addressed the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/may/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/may/17/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": ", not because he did not think that more smoking accommodation was required, but because it was clear from the evidence that there were other rooms in this building that could be utilised, and he suggested whether it was not worth while on the part of the First Commissioner to take a little more time for consideration and, if necessary, reappoint the Committee of Inquiry to which he had referred. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/may/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/may/17/class-i", "section": "class-i", "cue_text": "Some OPPOSITION laughter.", "preceding_text": "the total number were pensioners, and whether he would consider the advisability of utilising the services of pensioners as far as possible. He thought the House should set a good example to other employers of labour by giving a preference where possible to Army and Navy pensioners. § MR. JOHN O'CONNOR (Kildare, N.) said that anything which affected the House must be interesting to Irishmen. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/may/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/may/17/the-aliens-bill", "section": "the-aliens-bill", "cue_text": "Cheers.\" [An HON. MEMBER: The sooner the better", "preceding_text": "me guarantee was given that the provisions of the Bill would be made workable and serviceable the Bill would be allowed to go through. That being so, he could not see that 743 any objection could be taken to those who sat in another place carrying out what they conceived to be their duty and rejecting the Bill. If hon. Members desired to abolish the House of Lords, that was an intelligible policy—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/may/25/sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-ireland-bill", "section": "sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You did not include Bangor.", "preceding_text": "ponsible in this House for a Bill to provide for the closing of the public-houses on one day of the year—Christmas Day—but the Government of the day insisted in putting into that Bill the bona-fide traveller clause; and he knew that a greater curse had never been imposed than by that clause. He was told that the suburban districts of the large towns were reeking with drunkenness on Christmas Day. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/may/25/sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-ireland-bill", "section": "sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It is not necessary.", "preceding_text": "ing in Ireland. Anyone who had experience of life in big cities must know that if such a state of things were set up it would be a menace to the public welfare. It had been said that there was no demand in the City of Dublin for this concession, because there was no marketing after nine o'clock. But anyone who had experience of Dublin knew that there was a great deal of marketing after that hour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/may/25/sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-ireland-bill", "section": "sale-of-intoxicating-liquors-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_text": "sect; MR. SLOAN rose in his place and claimed to move, \"That the Question be, now put,\" but Mr. Speaker withheld his assene, and declined then to put that Question. § Debate resumed. § MR. J. P. NANNETTI , continuing his Speoch, said it was not right that individual feelings on such a momentous question as this should be allowed to overrule the opinion of the representatives of Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/26/question-of-privilege", "section": "question-of-privilege", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Read the letter.\"", "preceding_text": "t out the particular paragraphs to which he takes exception. It would be unusual to call upon the Clerk at the Table to read an article if the House does not eventually take proceedings upon it. Perhaps the hon. Member will read the particular paragraphs to which he objects. § * MR. RIDSDALE I think the letter as a whole really calls for the attention of the House more than extracts from it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/26/plural-voting-bill-procedure", "section": "plural-voting-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Three days.", "preceding_text": " in his place asking for these exceptional powers has always given to the House. When we consider in more detail how he is treating the House as regards time, the astonishment, and, I am bound to say, the indignation at the way we have been treated in this matter increases instead of diminishes. I will explain why I say so. He is giving only two days to discuss this Bill instead of three or four. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/26/plural-voting-bill-procedure", "section": "plural-voting-bill-procedure", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide.\"", "preceding_text": ". He agreed, and if anyone consulted election agents and returning officers, he would find that in their opinion the proper working of the Bill was impossible. What he complained of in the Resolution was that a great many of the Amendments which hon. Members had put down, including one by himself, would never be reached, discussed, or even divided upon. That was a great hardship to the Opposition "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/26/plural-voting-bill", "section": "plural-voting-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not?", "preceding_text": "ee grounds to which he had referred he urged the Government to accept this Amendment. § * THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir JOHN WALTON,) Leeds, S. said the hon. Member for Rye had given the real reason for the Amendment when he described a voter who delayed until the last moment making up his mind in which constituency he should vote in order that his vote might carry the greatest political weight. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/26/plural-voting-bill", "section": "plural-voting-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "ll had been law before the last general election, what would his position have been if he had voted in one place whilst having two qualifications? Nobody could say that he had done it intentionally, but he would have found, unless some such Amendment as this had been accepted, either that he was disqualified from voting, or if he had gone and voted he would have been liable to be put into prison. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/30/town-tenants-ireland-bill", "section": "town-tenants-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh\" and \"Why?\"", "preceding_text": "be made to debates which had taken place during the same session on another matter, however cognate it might be. § MR. CHARLES CRAIG said he bowed to that ruling. Another reason why they should not read the Bill a third time was that they had only discussed six of the sixteen clauses on the Report stage. He dismissed the Committee stage altogether, because that stage was practically a farce. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/30/town-tenants-ireland-bill", "section": "town-tenants-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "NATIONALIST cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "ies of pin pricks. Such proposals would not draw the teeth of Lord Clanricarde. § MR. THORNE (West Ham, S.) We want to stop his rent. § LORD R. CECIL said they might succeed in enraging a wild beast but they would not kill it by such methods as they were now proposing. All the Acts dealing with this subject which had been passed for Ireland had done no good; in fact, they had done harm. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/30/town-tenants-ireland-bill", "section": "town-tenants-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What was the rent?", "preceding_text": "he end of their leases the money they had invested would be swept away. In a place where he carried on business he took from the lord of the manor a lease of an old warehouse which was practically disused. He could only get a lease for forty years, and he built on the site a property worth £5,000, which in another twenty years would go to the lord of the manor, who had not provided a stone of it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/30/town-tenants-ireland-bill", "section": "town-tenants-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical MINISTERIAL laughter.", "preceding_text": "tting value of the property would be increased. As everyone who had had to do with surveyors when making a valuation knew, one would make a low valuation for the one party and the other would make a high valuation for the other party. The only result of the Bill would be, besides benefiting the lawyers, to feed the desire for spoliation, which he was sorry to say was rife just now in the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1906/nov/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/nov/30/town-tenants-ireland-bill", "section": "town-tenants-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers-from the LABOUR Party.", "preceding_text": "an. It was ruinous to the man who gained an advantage at the moment, and ruinous to the man who lost by it. It discouraged all enterprise. Did hon. Members opposite think that people who had got anything were going to stand quite idly by and see their property taken from them? He knew, as a matter of fact, that during the past six months-enormous sums of money had been sent abroad for investment. "}