{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/apr/25/london-and-north-western-railway-bill-by", "section": "london-and-north-western-railway-bill-by", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "e of forbidding statutory corporations to make contributions out of their funds towards political contests. Of course, he could give no pledge with regard to the time when it would be introduced. They had a few things to deal with this year already, and he was afraid the deliberations upon them were likely to be rather prolonged. He trusted his hon. friends would consider that to be satisfactory. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/apr/25/london-and-north-western-railway-bill-by", "section": "london-and-north-western-railway-bill-by", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " He could not see how the right hon. Gentleman was going to draw the line nor how he was going to deal with the greater evil of political pressure brought to bear by railway companies upon their servants. He entirely agreed with what had been said as to the intolerable situation that would arise if the Amendment of the hon. Member for the Elland Division were carried. It was a monstrous proposal. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/apr/25/london-and-north-western-railway-bill-by", "section": "london-and-north-western-railway-bill-by", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Yes, it does.", "preceding_text": " the throat we shall require you to vote the way we want you to.\" That was analagous to the position taken up by the hon. Member for the Elland Division. The matter should be dealt with by legislation, and not in the way proposed by the hon. Member. The mere fact that this company came to the House for fresh powers did not give the House the right to force upon them what his hon. friend proposed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/apr/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/apr/25/london-and-north-western-railway-bill-by", "section": "london-and-north-western-railway-bill-by", "cue_text": "Cries of, \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "another matter, be sent upstairs to a Committee. The House not being vindictive ought, he thought, to accept the withdrawal of the railway company and allow the Bill to proceed. He ventured therefore to appeal to the House, not on personal grounds in the least, to allow that course to be taken. He held that the London and North Western Railway Company had acted fairly and honourably by the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/small-landholders-scotland-bill", "section": "small-landholders-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "ne. It would be out of order and quite unnecessary to discuss the merits of the Bill now, but was there a single human being who had read the measure who doubted in the first place its importance, and in the second place the fact that it ran directly in the teeth of every sound principle of land legislation ever held, so far as he knew, by any serious school of political thinkers in this country? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/small-landholders-scotland-bill", "section": "small-landholders-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Half-an-hour.\"", "preceding_text": "led, and, if he might use the expression, meticulous consideration? It was true of himself that he did not attend the deliberations of the Committee with much regularity, but he heard a good deal of the enormities which were said to be carried on in secret there, so he thought he would visit that chamber of horrors; and the half-hour he spent there was occupied almost entirely by English Members. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/small-landholders-scotland-bill", "section": "small-landholders-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Closure.", "preceding_text": " of Parliamentary time. He said frankly that the object of the new procedure was to get rid of Committee stage in the House, and the Government believed that was to the advantage of careful legislation. Complicated details of measures of this kind could be much more freely, thoroughly, and effectively handled under the comparatively informal conditions of the Standing Committee than in the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/small-landholders-scotland-bill", "section": "small-landholders-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "earchings of heart, and because they found it extremely difficult to answer the arguments put forward by the Opposition. With regard to the question of finance, the Prime Minister had criticised the interference of English Members. He wished to say that a great deal of the information upon which the Prime Minister 1594 and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had based their speeches was not accurate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/small-landholders-scotland-bill", "section": "small-landholders-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "rt stage to deal with, or at all events to reconsider, thirty different points, some of which were small, while others were of first-class importance. It was the action of the Opposition which led to this result. In the first place it led to the insertion in the Bill in Committee of several Amendments of first-rate importance. And yet they were told that the measure had been adequately discussed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/small-landholders-scotland-bill", "section": "small-landholders-scotland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It is the Long Vacation.", "preceding_text": "e Government proposed to take any one of the three allotted days either on a Friday or a Saturday which would only give them five hours. He begged to move. § SIR F. BANBURY seconded. When this Bill was before the Committee they were deprived of the services of hon. Members who were lawyers, and if the Report stage was taken on a Friday those hon. Members would still be engaged in the Courts. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "section": "non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cheers.", "preceding_text": "ith any such proposal. The plan which he suggested would do justice and hurt no one, except that it would, no doubt, injure the effective carrying out of this mean and paltry form of persecution. He was asking the right hon. Gentleman to do that which was very much against human nature, for the President of the Board of Education had spent many hours in the last Parliament in denouncing this Act. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "section": "non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "rusted Mr. Deputy-Speaker would ask the right hon. Gentleman to withdraw it. § MR. McKENNA May I ask whether, when an hon. Gentleman charges me with 1636 refusing to fulfil my duty in protecting the weak against the strong, I am in order in informing the hon. Gentleman that he is talking nonsense? *MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER I certainly do not think that \"nonsense\" is a phrase that ought to be used. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "section": "non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_text": "hrase that ought to be used. [Cries of \"Withdraw.\"] § MR. McKENNA In deference to your ruling, sir, I withdraw. § *MR. LANE-FOX said that in the case he had mentioned the action of the right hon. Gentleman justified him in saying that they had every reason not to trust him in the matter because he did not fulfil his responsibility and failed to protect a man who required his protection. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "section": "non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": " had been largely the practice in Wales. He thought he could prove why it was necessary that hon. Gentlemen should act speedily. The whole essence of the revolt he had alluded 1638 to was that there should be a series of protracted delays. § MR. MCKENNA asked if the hon. Member was in order in proceeding to enter into this question, because he would, not have an opportunity of answering him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "section": "non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the MINISTERIAL Benches: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "hire was, the first local education authority in which the Defaulting Authorities Act was put into operation, but on other grounds. The question was urgent and important because it was an illustration of the attitude of the Board of Education on these matters. Wherever a voluntary school made any lapse in the exact requirements of the Board of Education, every opportunity was taken to destroy it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "section": "non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER on the MINISTERIAL Benches: Denominational schools; there are no voluntary schools.", "preceding_text": "exact requirements of the Board of Education, every opportunity was taken to destroy it. [An HON. MEMBER on the MINISTERIAL Benches: Hear, hear!] The hon. Gentlemen said \"Hear, hear,\" and that was the embodiment of the Nonconformist conscience. Did the hon. Member desire that every advantage should be given to the county council schools and that no relief should be given to the voluntary schools? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/05/non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "section": "non-provided-schools-in-merionethshire", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "al education authorities to pay the salaries of the teachers. In his own county of Anglesey, and in the Division which he represented, they had come to an understanding on the education question, and there was no cause to grumble. Let hon. Gentlemen opposite come and help them to deal fairly with these schools, and all these teachers would be paid. Let them not stand on a mere quibble of the law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/the-secretary-for-scotland", "section": "the-secretary-for-scotland", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Stirling Burghs) Ministers are like other men, and not always infallible, and sometimes are mistaken in their estimates. § VISCOUNT TURNOUR Can the Prime Minister ensure that Ministers shall be present when Questions relating I to their Departments are asked? § Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN I do not think that such absence often occurs "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "section": "small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Portsmouth.\"", "preceding_text": "as those gentlemen whom they had to deal with by legislation. The right hon. Member for East Worcestershire had said he was certain there were no villagers so nervous as to think of the results which would follow an agitation for small holdings. The right hon. Gentleman did not display much knowledge of the subject. It was exceedingly dangerous at times for any villagers to take a prominent part. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "section": "small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "gitation for small holdings. The right hon. Gentleman did not display much knowledge of the subject. It was exceedingly dangerous at times for any villagers to take a prominent part. [Cries of \"Portsmouth.\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite quoted one case where a Liberal landlord had been indiscreet, but how many cases were there where the friends of hon. Gentlemen opposite had been more than indiscreet. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "section": "small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They have a present demand.", "preceding_text": "e demand and how was it to be ascertained? He thought the Government were proposing to put a difficult duty on the Commissioners. § * MR. LEIF JONES said he would give the right hon. Gentleman a definition of a prospective demand. He would suggest that a prospective demand was not very different from a present need. Barefooted children constituted, he thought, a prospective demand for boots. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "section": "small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh.", "preceding_text": "sing the meaning of the words \"prospective demand.\" The hon. Member for the Appleby Division had put it in a most interesting way when he said that when children were barefooted there was a prospective demand for boots. He himself would put it that there was an actual demand for boots. He would say that where a young man and a young woman got married there would be a prospective demand for boots. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "section": "small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": ". STANLEY WILSON (Yorkshire, E. R., Holderness) thought the right hon. Gentleman had given no answer 852 at all to the arguments in favour of the Amendment, and even after the speech of the hon. and learned Solicitor-General the Government had not made out the slightest reason for the retention of these words. The hon. and learned Gentleman told the House that \"prospective\" was a very vague term. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "section": "small-holdings-and-allotments-bill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_text": "given to political associations under cover that it was payment for the work they did in the spread of small holdings. He thought words could be introduced to make it possible for the Commissioners to co-operate with the associations, while not leaving it in their power to pay them. § MR. MADDISON (Burnley) said the right hon. Gentleman had assumed that all these associations were political. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/educations-administrative-provisions-bill", "section": "educations-administrative-provisions-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "f the Local Government Board. The object of the clause was to give the same rights to counties as to boroughs. That might be all very well in its way— § * MR. SPEAKER The Amendment proposed by the hon. Member does not make the Bill read. § Mr. HARMOOD-BANNER said that unfortunately he had been obliged to draft his Amendments on the old Bill before the Committee Amendments were inserted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/educations-administrative-provisions-bill", "section": "educations-administrative-provisions-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " was provided for out of public money there should be some representative of the local authority to see to the administration of it. The committee or managing board of any of these schools would welcome the presence of the mayor or some competent local representative to assist them in the administration of these valuable institutions. § MR. GEORGE WHITE asked leave to withdraw the Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/educations-administrative-provisions-bill", "section": "educations-administrative-provisions-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_text": "epartment shall, provide for medical inspection.\" That was what he wished to be done in this Bill. They ought to give them this power before forcing them to take an over-zealous or mistaken step. The right hon. Gentleman might reply that he was going to have a medical department at the Education Department. He would like to know if that matter had been laid before the Chancellor of the Exchequer? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/qualification-of-women-county-and", "section": "qualification-of-women-county-and", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: And borough councils", "preceding_text": " situation, namely, that women should not be qualified to sit as mayors of boroughs or as chairmen of urban district councils. § MR. JOHN BURNS Women can now be chairmen of parish, rural, or urban district councils, or boards of guardians. § MR. WALTER LONG said that in that case the only effect of the proposal would be to extend the right of women to act as chairmen of county councils. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/qualification-of-women-county-and", "section": "qualification-of-women-county-and", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why?", "preceding_text": "ir deliberations was never brought before the House. It was quite possible that it should be appropriate in the case of small rural or parish councils, but where there were large councils like that in the City of Liverpool—with 120 members—quite as many as sat during many of the discussions in the House of Commons he did not think it was at all a proper thing to include women amongst the members. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/qualification-of-women-county-and", "section": "qualification-of-women-county-and", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not?", "preceding_text": "t women on city councils. He could not understand the President of the Local Government Board, with his experience of municipal councils, asking city councils to take this on their shoulders: and, added to that, the possibility of women becoming mayors or chairmen of county councils was a greater wonder to him still. Let them imagine a lady taking the position of a mayor of a city council! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/qualification-of-women-county-and", "section": "qualification-of-women-county-and", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: Why not?", "preceding_text": "cension of men to co-opt them. That was one of the two principles they wanted to establish, and they congratulated the Government on having had the good sense and good taste to bring the matter before Pailiament this session even though it was rather late. They had established the principle, and they were determined that married women should be brought within it, but not necessarily in this Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/aug/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/aug/12/qualification-of-women-county-and", "section": "qualification-of-women-county-and", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "ls or mayors of boroughs. The right hon. Gentleman had told them that the Government proposed to delete it because women were now eligible to become chairmen of boards of guardians and district councils, but he had not given one instance in which that prerogative had been exercised. Under this Bill a woman might become mayor of a town and ex-officio she would be the chief magistrate of that town, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "ry fairly a resolution passed by the Wesleyan Conference. He very heartily concurred in the tribute of admiration which the hon. Member paid to that body, but when he went on to say that by assenting to the principle of the Bill the Wesleyan Conference proved what was the religious sentiment of the country in regard to it, with all respect to the hon. Gentleman, he thought that was going too far. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "o make this law at all workable, they had to provide some loophole out of the difficulty which would compel a clergyman of the Church of England from marrying such persons. But they must not conceal from themselves the fact that in introducing for the first time two different kinds of marriage, they for the first time established that the State had one standard of morality and the Church another. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "rnment last session passing a Bill with almost unanimous assent on both sides to recognise such marriages. But the argument still remained that these marriages were lawful in a large number of foreign countries, as well as in the Colonies, and that we ought to follow suit. Personally, he did not like the argument of following suit. He thought this country was quite capable of deciding for itself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: Look at the divisions.", "preceding_text": "d keep house for him. That was the whole position. Were they to treat the wife's sister as being in the same position as the husband's sister? Was she his sister or not? If she was, she 1163 could without objection go and keep house for the man as she did in many cases. He was sceptical as to the public demand. He did not think that the condition of the House showed that there was a large demand. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: The whole nation married them.", "preceding_text": "here was no strong case for the Bill, and in spite of the utterance of John Bright, who was usually very dogmatic in his opinions, which had been quoted, he contended that very strong arguments could be urged against the Bill. We must have some regulation of the marriage law; it could not be left entirely to human instinct. The Royal family of Egypt, the Ptolemys, used to marry their own sisters. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "An Hon Member: Common sense.", "preceding_text": "n every case except that of the deceased wife's sister. It was not proposed to allow a man to marry his stepdaughter or his niece, or a stepmother to marry her stepson or a woman her nephew. Therefore it was proposed to make a solitary exception to that principle upon grounds which had no support except from the people who desired the change. He thought the number of these people was exaggerated. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: Common sense.", "preceding_text": "governed the law of marriage. He quite admitted that underlying this question there was a fundamental difference of opinion, but hon. Gentlemen who relied upon what they called common sense took, he thought, a view which if carried into effect would be disastrous to the country. They really took this view—that because a man and his sister-in-law were not connected by 1165 blood they should marry. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "Several Hon. Members: Here.", "preceding_text": "MR. SHACKLETON (Lancashire, Clitheroe) On these (the Labour) Benches. 1185 § *MR. TALBOT Then why was it that they had never had petitions from them in favour of the Bill? He himself had presented many petitions from working people against the Bill. Where were the public meetings in favour of it? Where was the Member who could stand up and say that he had been returned to vote for this Bill? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/feb/22/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "An Hon Member: What was the 1188 date?", "preceding_text": "serving of the greatest consideration and to be received as an authority of the greatest weight. It was not a Commission filled with advocates, but the duties of the inquiry were entrusted to men outside the House of Commons who were experts and impartial. It was a great example of how a Commission should be formed. He would just like to tell the House the names of the Members of this Commission. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/01/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "s given them in their election contests as a result, and in consideration of their promises. He was informed that an agent of the League, meeting one of those hon. Gentlemen in the lobby, reproached him bitterly for having forgotten his promise and asked him why he had supported the Government. The answer of the hon. Member was, \"I had no option but to do it. Whiteley told me to do it and I did.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/01/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ture in saying hon. Members on the Opposition Benches had changed their views almost as quickly as they had changed their seats. The right hon. Gentleman now found there were two, and probably if a division was taken he would find there were a few more, who had not. The hon. Member who moved the Amendment was not a Member of the House in 1904, and therefore he was sincere in moving his Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/01/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Name!\"", "preceding_text": "s he was only quoting the hon. Gentleman opposite. He was rather surprised that that hon. Member now in a high position should have enunciated such sentiments. He was informed by an hon. friend behind him that there was only one occasion in the annals of the House on which a certified lunatic took part in a division, and the division in which he took part was in support of an ad valorem tea duty. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/01/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: After the election.", "preceding_text": " His own taste in such matters was simple, and he thought they were. But he would point out that this was the reason why the Anti-Tea Duty League had dispensed with the services of their highly energetic and capable secretary, who was immediately responsible for those posters, and who had probably in some cases issued them without first submitting them for assent to those who directed the League. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/01/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER, \"Not in Ireland.\"", "preceding_text": "ingdom. That was a real Irish grievance. It did not depend on any assumption of separate entities, and a comparison of the relation between them. It meant that there was a relatively poor population in Ireland, and under the system of taxation—which, although the balance between direct and indirect taxation during the last thirty years had been enormously shifted from indirect to direct taxation— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/01/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not?", "preceding_text": "referential treatment within the Empire; it would only prevent our giving less favoured treatment to Russia than to other foreign nations. What was the most-favoured-nation treatment which we received in Russia? It was the result of the 431 tariff negotiations of other Powers. The concessions which they secured for themselves became ours by reason of our having the most-favoured-nation treatment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/01/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ead of taking a narrow and selfish view he hoped the Government would look at the question from the wide and Imperial standpoint embodied in the Amendment. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had said that very little tea was now grown in our Colonies. § MR. ASQUITH I did not say so. § MR. T. L. CORBETT said he was glad to hear that denial. The right hon Gentleman did not always state facts "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/01/finance-bill-1", "section": "finance-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No; tea.\"", "preceding_text": "d had referred to him very pointedly, and perhaps he would be allowed to say this, by way of explanation. The hon. Gentleman had repeatedly stated that no protest had been made from the benches below the gangway against the permanence of these taxes, except by way of interruption. The hon. Gentleman was not present that afternoon, or he would have heard him protesting very strongly on this point. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/12/high-court-of-justice-kings-bench", "section": "high-court-of-justice-kings-bench", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It would not have been true.", "preceding_text": "ss was created; and the result had been entirely satisfactory to the commercial classes. In 1899 the House decided that the Chancery Division was hopelessly blocked. He supposed that upon that occasion there were lawyers in this House who might have criticised the action of the Judges. There might have been lawyers who said that the appointments of the Chancery Judges were political appointments. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Ministerial cries of \"Why?\"", "preceding_text": "hat they were prepared to give reasonable consideration to the great question at issue, but it was impossible for the right hon. Gentleman with his hands tied to do anything. The complaint was that the Government decided the question without discussion. They were all agreed that raw material should be admitted free; that was admitted by tariff reformers as well as by right hon. Gentlemen opposite "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": ",974,000 tons of coal and 7,239,000 tons of iron, while in 1905 she produced 121,298,000 tons of coal and 23,444,000 tons of iron. The United Kingdom, in 1880, produced 146,060,000 tons of coal and 14,591,000 tons of iron, tons of coal and produced 236,129,000 whereas, in 1905, 18,026,000 tons of iron. He wanted to know if hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite thought that exports were the test. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. Member: It is not true.", "preceding_text": "tes under her system lot in between £200,000,000 and £300,000,000 worth of goods Coming to the figures with regard to emigration in the different countries, he found that in 1894, the amount of emigration was in Germany 26 per 10,000 of the population. In l903 it had fallen to 6 per 10,000. In England, however, in 1894, the figure was 9.7 per 10,000, but in 1903 it had increased to 34 per 10,000. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "f German goods reached us through Holland and Belgium. It was a fair trade exchange that tariff reformers were asking for and it was that fair trade exchange that the Colonies were prepared to give us, because for every pound of stuff that we bought from them they bought a pound of stuff from us. Hon. Gentlemen opposite suggested that the Colonies wanted to get something out of the Mother Country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/finance-bill", "section": "finance-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh ! \"", "preceding_text": "ty were asked he would say that if one went into the money market and tried to sell £1,000,000 of Consols, he either could not do it, or he would depress the price of Consols to such a point as to start a panic. But if the Government went into the market and tried to borrow £20,000,000 on Consols or any other Government security they would be imperilling the whole commercial fabric of the nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " with a view to enabling the British Army of occupation to evacuate Egypt. The present Duke of Devonshire, the Marquess of Hartington in those days, declared that the limit for the continued occupation of Egypt might be set at six months. Instead of that, the British Army of occupation had been twenty-four years in Egypt, and there was not the slightest talk or mention of evacuating that country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, shame,\" and \"With- 862 draw.\"", "preceding_text": " of evacuation which he was ordered to do, he had made Egypt into a British province, occupied by an Army which could not for a moment be withdrawn? If Lord Cromer was to be rewarded in this way because he had not carried out the policy of evacuation, but because he had made Egypt into a British province, that could only be characterised as false and fraudulent in the face of the civilised world. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member on the Opposition Benches: And everything else.", "preceding_text": " hold of England on Egypt—then something was done which undoubtedly was fraudulent in the eyes of the civilised world. He noticed that the Prime Minister in his eulogy of Lord Cromer had spoken of the manifold benefits which he had conferred on the Egyptian people in every direction. He quite admitted that Lord Cromer had certainly regulated and put upon a sound basis the finances of the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "He quite admitted that Lord Cromer had certainly regulated and put upon a sound basis the finances of the country. [An Hon. Member on the Opposition Benches: And everything else.] The hon. Gentleman above the gangway said, \"Everything else.\" He challenged that statement in every way. Apart from public works and finance, Lord Cromer's work in Egypt had been singularly unsuccessful and unfortunate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "staken. The Prime Minister had talked of imposing the ways and methods of civilisation on the Egyptian people. He maintained that educated Egyptian people were quite as civilised and as well 863 entitled to form a sound view in regard to their country as Englishmen were in regard to their country. He insisted again that Lord Cromer's policy in regard to the Egyptian Army had been a total failure. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "he old Egyptian National Assemby. The emancipation of the fellaheen, the abolition of forced labour, the rehabilitation of finance, and the purification of justice—every single item in Lord Cromer's programme of reforms would have been carried out by Egyptian Ministers, but, as things stood, they had been partially fulfilled by a foreign administrator. He would not keep the Committee much longer. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "nd that was the evidence on which the House went in supporting the Foreign Secretary. The judicial Report of the special Court abandoned that position completely. He asked the Foreign Secretary to hold out some hope of release for the men still in prison. What was the Government going to do with Egypt in future? The suggestion had been made that it should be annexed and treated as a Crown Colony. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "e denied that elementary right by the Government now in power. All our constitutional politics were a mockery and a sham while they made no serious attempt to grapple with this problem. He warned hon. Gentlemen opposite that if this policy was persisted in there would not be only one electoral change, but they might look forward to the day when all the front bench would be occupied by Socialists. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Nationalist cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " he say that before the 881 assault on these officers took place a woman and two men had not been shot? § Sir EDWARD GREY Oh, yes, Sir, I do. An officer began to shoot pigeons. He was then mobbed. He stopped shooting pigeons directly he found that there was any objection. He was mobbed the people took his gun from him, and after he had been mobbed and the gun taken from him the gun went off. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "An HON. Member: \"Let them pay him.\"", "preceding_text": "etired from his post he would receive a larger pension. But the Government have preferred that there should be special recognition on a very special occasion, and, instead of coining to the House for any special provision in the way of pension, they decided to propose a grant to Lord Cromer, and to limit the sum to £50,000. Surely, of all men, it may be said that he has created wealth for others. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Interruption and cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "that the language used in these panegyrics could not possibly be the ultimate verdict of history. They often heard expressions used in debate as to what the verdict of history would be. History was not ultimately written by front benchers, nor were the estimates of what constituted great men, which were so freely proffered in the House, the estimates by which they would be regarded in the future. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "as impossible on account of the coinage. But penny stamps did exist. But on the other hand the right hon. Gentleman had alleged that in every department of Egyptian administration there was a vast improvement. He ventured to think that the right hon. Gentleman did not look with sufficient minuteness into some departments of Egyptian administration. He did not go so far as hon. Gentlemen opposite. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Renewed cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_text": "improvement. He ventured to think that the right hon. Gentleman did not look with sufficient minuteness into some departments of Egyptian administration. He did not go so far as hon. Gentlemen opposite. [Cries of \"Divide!\"] He had listened to a great deal of irrelevant eloquence on the other side of the House, and he did not propose to abandon his opportunity of stating his views on this subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jul/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jul/30/supply-1", "section": "supply-1", "cue_text": "Continued cries of \"Divide!\" during which the hon. Member's remarks were inaudible.", "preceding_text": "m of government, of which the natural result was such an abuse of justice as that afforded by the Denshawi affair. To denounce the grant in face of such a position was to strain at a gnat and to swallow a camel. No matter what a man's abilities were—and those of Lord Cromer had been on some grounds over-estimated—no man could act as an autocrat without suffering deterioration in several respects. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/03/business-of-the-session", "section": "business-of-the-session", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "thout much difficulty into law. Then I come to Bills dealing with small holdings and valuation in Scotland. As to the first of these, it is before the Scottish Standing Committee, and I can only hope that the hon. Baronet the Member for the City of London and his associates may not find it absolutely necessary to give to the greater part of the Bill that minute examination which has been devoted— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/03/business-of-the-session", "section": "business-of-the-session", "cue_text": "Mr. BALFOUR: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "ve been supposed, I should think, by any one that we should be content to acquiesce in the position of affairs which was left by the action of the House of Lords at the end of last session; and therefore this announcement that in the very earliest session available to us we will deal with this question on broad lines, which will be our own lines—this announcement cannot give rise to any surprise. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/03/business-of-the-session", "section": "business-of-the-session", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION laughter.", "preceding_text": " or in practice. Therefore, I do not doubt there may be a good deal of united feeling in the matter. But at all events, whether or not we receive support from the side of those who have been impressing upon mo the desirableness of acting speedily, we propose, as soon as we have made a very little further way with the essential business of the session, to bring forward a Resolution on the subject. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/03/business-of-the-session", "section": "business-of-the-session", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh\"", "preceding_text": "the very first occasion a statement is made about it, it turns out that the Government do not propose to present it and have not had even time to prepare it? When the Government put this measure first in the King's Speech by way of showing their enthusiasm in the cause of temperance reform, if they had not the Bill drafted at that time, they were not treating the Sovereign as he should be treated "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/03/business-of-the-session", "section": "business-of-the-session", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No\"; \"Not printed.\"", "preceding_text": "re or less in the background, to go through before the House rises, during the months of July and August, I suppose September, and not improbably far on in October. Of those Bills how many are drafted? The House of Lords Resolution we have not seen; the South African Loan Bill we have not seen; the Eight Hours Bill we have not seen; the Scottish Land Valuation Bill —has it reached Second Reading? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/03/business-of-the-session", "section": "business-of-the-session", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: How many of them are there?", "preceding_text": "s most lamentable that this backward movement should be made upon this question. One word upon another subject before I sit down. I rejoice extremely that the Government are going promptly to fulfil the promises made at the beginning of the session with respect to the evicted tenants by giving the Estates Commissioners powers to take land compulsorily in order to restore these men to their homes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/03/territorial-and-reserve-forces-bill", "section": "territorial-and-reserve-forces-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Not one.", "preceding_text": "earer and stronger representation of their views a Civil member, advised by the Director - general, was to represent them at the War Office. He did not think that any auxiliary officer in the House would be satisfied with that, and he believed that if his hon. friend's Amendment had been proposed by the Government not five Members on the other side of the House would have been found to oppose it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/03/territorial-and-reserve-forces-bill", "section": "territorial-and-reserve-forces-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. The Member for Dover is a soldier.", "preceding_text": " stress and difficulty— 403 although it might not suit the right hon. Gentleman's hook at this particular moment to acknowledge it—he did more tangible things for the Auxiliary Forces than all the generals or others who had had charge of those Forces before him. He could not deny it. It did not matter whether they had a civilian or a soldier representing the Territorial Force on the Army Council. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/07/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "l was not clear in regard to the guardianship of the children, and that was certainly a point which should 972 be provided for. He did not believe it was possible to deal satisfactorily with the Bill by way of Amendments. He thought the Government themselves ought to put in a new claues to deal with this point. The law officers of the Crown ought to let the House know their views on the question. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/07/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: He is not a member of the Committee.", "preceding_text": "took as little part in it as they possibly could. Without desiring to say anything offensive, he must say that they gave as little assistance as they could to the Committee in considering the Bill. The Government marked their sense of aloofness during the whole of the proceedings by practically not attending the Committee at all. The Chancellor of the Duchy was there, he thought, on one occasion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/07/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "\"No, no,\" and cheers.", "preceding_text": "te, that it was not fair to convoy the impression that the Church of Rome had no opinion on this question, and that the opinion of the Church had to be interpreted through the private Members of the House who belonged to it. The argument was that the Christian Church was not in favour of allowing these marriages on moral grounds. To that objection ho answered that the Church of Rome allowed them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/07/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Yes, there is.\"", "preceding_text": " their rapidity. For the moment there might be an apparent body of support in Scotland for such a measure, but he knew that there was a deep.feeling against attempting to tamper with the ties of the marriage bond. He had endeavoured to the best of his ability to ascertain what was the opinion of Scotland. There was no evidence of any ardent enthusiasm for this proposed change in the marriage law. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/jun/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/jun/07/marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "section": "marriage-with-a-deceased-wifes-sister-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": " again, meant the children of the then living wife. Let them suppose further that that wife died and his brother married his deceased wife's sister. He had the strongest possible objection to mar- 1012 riages with a deceased wife's sister, and even after the Bill was passed would regard children born of these marriages as illegitimate, and would not desire a penny of his property to pass to them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/mar/14/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Tuesday.\"", "preceding_text": "ed to move the Speaker out of the Chair on Civil Service Estimates, and take the third reading on the Consolidated Fund Bill . The business in the following week would depend a little on circumstances, but he hoped that the Motion for the rising of the House for the Easter recess might be made on Wednesday, the 27th inst. He would propose that the House 255 should reassemble on Monday, April 8th. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/mar/14/navy-estimates-1907-8", "section": "navy-estimates-1907-8", "cue_text": "Interruption 290 and laughter.", "preceding_text": "ould make sure that when we went to war we should not do so without allies. It was an altogether vain idea that we were for ever to rule the sea. We could be very happy if we were a little humble. Holland, Norway, Sweden had not a two-Power standard; nor had France and Germany, and yet they were happy! The two-Power standard was a barbarous idea, contrary to all the teaching of modern philosophy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/mar/14/standing-orders", "section": "standing-orders", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: A Radical Government.", "preceding_text": "per rate which Parliament has determined upon.\" It was true that there had been a change in the value of money, but how long was it going to last? Were they going to make the alteration because there had been a rise in the value of money? Personally, he was inclined to 315 think that dear money would last for the next two or three years. He thought there were other circumstances to be considered. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/mar/14/supply-28th-february-report-1", "section": "supply-28th-february-report-1", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: What wars?", "preceding_text": ", although they were commensurate with the number of Indian troops after the Mutiny. He urged upon the Government that, having regard to our present policy in India, as we were not now making the aggressive frontier wars that we did a few years ago, and, having found in the Ameer of Afghanistan a safe and sure ally, were not likely 325 to embark upon them again, this large Army was not necessary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/mar/14/supply-28th-february-report-1", "section": "supply-28th-february-report-1", "cue_text": "Opposition cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "ch matters Labour Members were as much alive to the interest of the country as hon. Members opposite, but he wished the Government to remember that every man in the Army had to be kept by some man working outside the Army. Not one of their soldiers earned his breakfast or a button on his uniform. Someone was working in the mill or in the mine to provide, the uniform and the meals for the soldier. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/02/class-ii", "section": "class-ii", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about the Barrow?", "preceding_text": "ry would never be thoroughly drained. Five millions was a very large sum, but doubtless the benefits of such a scheme might more than recoup them for a large part of the expenditure. But on such a big question as that, involving a sum of £5,000,000 or any large sum, it would be quite improper to commit the Government. The Bann, however, had one of the first claims on any sum that was to be spent. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/02/supply-civil-services-and-revenue", "section": "supply-civil-services-and-revenue", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "of what the hon. Members representing Ulster thought of this deliberate spoliation and robbery, by which money had been filched away from the labourers in the north simply because they were Unionists. § MR. BIRRELL Is it in order for the hon. Member to impute motives? § MR. T. L. CORBETT said that it was no doubt only in order to impute motives when one happened to be outside the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/02/supply-civil-services-and-revenue", "section": "supply-civil-services-and-revenue", "cue_text": "\"No,\" and \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "lster Members had never defended the action of certain local authorities in refusing to build cottages, but had brought pressure on thorn to spend the money at their disposal. The Government had deliberately said that, because local authorities had not spent the money at their disposal in the North of Ireland in every case, they would punish the labourers for the fault of those local authorities. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/08/ways-and-means-24th-april-report", "section": "ways-and-means-24th-april-report", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And the Scottish.", "preceding_text": "vings after thirty-five years' service, and when they came back it was quite impossible for them to take part in public life, unless they had private resources, and they were, in almost all cases, owing to age and other circumstances, unable to earn any money in England by means of 255 other pursuits. He submitted that the Irish, English, and Indian Civil servants were deserving of consideration. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/08/rural-depopulation", "section": "rural-depopulation", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": " what might be the subject under discussion. Reference had been made to the breakdown of the Act of 1892, but one of the chief causes of that breakdown had not been mentioned, namely, that the landlord element in the county councils, an element so strongly represented, had hitherto regarded it as no part of their interest to insist on a larger number of small holders being brought on to the land. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/08/rural-depopulation", "section": "rural-depopulation", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "probably nearer 22s. a week. To-day the wages in that particular district were less than they were thirty-five years ago. In addition to the causes of depopulation in rural areas to which he had referred he would emphasise the fact that landlords could considerably improve existing conditions if they ceased to regard their estates as possessions which enabled them to lord it over their labourers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/revenue-departments", "section": "revenue-departments", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: What about about old-age pensions?", "preceding_text": "ster-General would get a larger revenue in the end. While the Department was one of which the country might well be proud, it was a Department in which reforms were as necessary now as when his hon. friend the Member for Canterbury commenced his campaign twenty years ago. If the Postmaster - General would throw off the shackles of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in this case, and it could be done—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/revenue-departments", "section": "revenue-departments", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": " but to send one across the Channel from Dover to Calais cost2½d. One could send a lette across the United States to British 408 Columbia for 1d., but if it was stopped on the way, say at New York, it cost 2½d. In reforming such anomalies as that he knew they would have no trouble with the Postmaster-General if it were not for the permanent officials who hampered and controlled him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/revenue-departments", "section": "revenue-departments", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: It ought to be double.", "preceding_text": "dd something to the Exchequer in relief of taxation elsewhere; and (2) to provide a certain amount to be spent every year in postal improvements. He thought the Chancellor of the Exchequer had allowed a very liberal sum for various improvements by granting £350,000 a year extra out of the revenue of the Post Office, and he considered that that was a very substantial contribution to postal reform. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/london-county-council-electric-supply", "section": "london-county-council-electric-supply", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " Progressive London County Council and was denounced in the most unmeasured terms at the last election. 435 It was now promoted by the new Moderate County Council. He was bound to say that it was with avowedly different intentions that the majority of the present Council desired that this Bill should go to a Second Reading. It was with a view to passing over the undertaking to private enterprise. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/london-county-council-electric-supply", "section": "london-county-council-electric-supply", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "gton. The former realised that there had been a County 447 Council election, but the latter seemed to think for the moment that he was addressing an audience on the issue which was before the constituencies in that election. He did not think that it was the business of the House now to go into the question of the merits or demerits to any extent of private trading as against municipal enterprise. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/london-county-council-electric-supply", "section": "london-county-council-electric-supply", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": " municipal enterprise. [MINISTERIAL cries of \"Oh, oh.\"] Hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway and hon. Gentlemen opposite were now very indignant with another Assembly because it interfered with the mandate which was given to them at the last General Election. They were now setting themselves up as a House of Lords to obstruct the action of the deliberately chosen members of the London County Council. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/london-county-council-electric-supply", "section": "london-county-council-electric-supply", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " duty was to obtain from Parliament powers which would enable them to make the best bargain they could in the interests of London. He had been afraid that the majority on the County Council might try to make some arrangement with a particular company, and that would be distinctly bad business. What they had got to do was to get the powers, and then try to get competition from different companies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/london-county-council-electric-supply", "section": "london-county-council-electric-supply", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": " a County Council which was Progressive, and it is now being promoted by a Moderate Council. I am glad the majority of London Members have taken what I would call the more temperate and more sensible view, and have decided to support a Bill which they themselves have framed. That is, I think, a very wise decision, and I am surprised they should have hesitated at all, because it is their own Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/london-county-council-electric-supply", "section": "london-county-council-electric-supply", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "he majority of London Members have taken what I would call the more temperate and more sensible view, and have decided to support a Bill which they themselves have framed. That is, I think, a very wise decision, and I am surprised they should have hesitated at all, because it is their own Bill. [An Hon. MEMBER: No.] The hon. Member for Bethnal Green says it is not the Bill they framed, but it is. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/london-county-council-electric-supply", "section": "london-county-council-electric-supply", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "he price before they went to the County Council. Many of the local authorities had already got electrical plant; were they going to allow a great trust to come in and practically scrap that plant, leaving the authorities to bear the burden of the rates? They had just heard from the President of the Board of Trade the same old official arguments. There had been no change of Government in his life. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1907/may/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/may/09/london-county-council-electric-supply", "section": "london-county-council-electric-supply", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide, divide\"", "preceding_text": " to be a subsidiary sub-section of the Bill was now to be made its main feature. The right hon. Gentleman would have been much better advised if he had suggested to the House that, as this was not the Bill of the present promoters, it would be much more reasonable and much more intelligent to refer the Bill back to them so as to enable them to bring up next year a measure based on their proposals—"}