{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/dublin-reconstruction-emergency", "section": "dublin-reconstruction-emergency", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_text": " regard to a security for the Treasury there was no step in the transaction, from the application for the loan to the examination of the title and the decision as to the amount which might be advanced, in which the corporation was not ready to submit every one of its acts to the supervision and ultimate control of the Local Government Board. § Sir E. CARSON May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/dublin-reconstruction-emergency-1", "section": "dublin-reconstruction-emergency-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": "ions which he intends to introduce into the Bill, and in regard to which the hon. Member for North Dublin (Mr. Clancy) appears to know more than we do, having had the benefit of confidential interviews, the result of which he has communicated to the House. § Mr. CLANCY I have given no information with regard to confidential interviews. I would be very sorry to dishonour myself in such a way. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/dublin-reconstruction-emergency-1", "section": "dublin-reconstruction-emergency-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_text": "ing a house and insert a clause in the mortgage that the money should not be called in for thirty years. That Clause is in the Bill to which the House is now asked to give a Second Beading. I do not think that most banks with which I am acquainted would agree to insert in their mortgage deed such a rate of interest as that at which the corporation would be enabled to borrow money under this Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "section": "clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_text": " it was almost impossible that we could contemplate a General Election during the course of the War. At any rate, if it was not impossible it would certainly be a very great calamity, and hon. and right hon. Gentlemen in all parts of the House agreed with that. Yet we are asked to draw the conclusion that we ought to make a law that there must be this calamity within twelve months, war or no war. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "section": "clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "mely, four months. May I point out to the hon. Member who moved this Amendment that the extension by ourselves of? our own life is a very serious proposition? Bit is only the absolute exigencies of the I War that can justify it, if it can be justified at all. § Sir S. COLLINS There are no other reasons. § Sir E. CARSON In point of fact, at the present moment we hardly represent anybody. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "section": "clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "end several hours on other matters that are not nearly so important as this during, that month. I do not see why there is any inconvenience in bringing up the matter again in the month of March. I would suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that we might come to a compromise, and if that date is inconvenient, let us make it five months and extend the life of this Parliament until the 31st February. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "section": "clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_text": "e have to try to arrive at is a date which if he had to have an election will be at least disturbing to the country. § Mr. LEIF JONES You can have an election when you like. § Major ASTOR But there is a point surely which is confusing to hon. Members opposite. They seem to think that if we extend the life of this Parliament six or eight months we must of necessity have an election then. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "section": "clause-1-further-prolongation-of-present", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One!\"", "preceding_text": " in this House. They are deciding off that bench how long they ought to be able to remain in office, without the renewed authority in regard to the powers which they exercise. This Motion ought really to be left to the House itself, and the Government ought really not to take any part in the Division. I think that six months is a very reasonable time. What is the difference between six and seven? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/clause-1-amendment-of-law-and-procedure", "section": "clause-1-amendment-of-law-and-procedure", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Where is your leader?\"", "preceding_text": "re they would die on the floor of the House before they allowed English time to be applied to Ireland. To-night I find all those notices have disappeared. Therefore, when I hear all these threats I do not attach any importance to them. Their threats are now useless. They are a discredited party. Everyone knows it. Their power is gone. They are mere automatons. Their very leader has deserted them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/clause-1-amendment-of-law-and-procedure", "section": "clause-1-amendment-of-law-and-procedure", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One of them was a donkey!\"", "preceding_text": "learned Gentleman advise me? § Mr. J. H. CAMPBELL I think the obvious answer would be that if his right is taken away under this Bill, and Sir William Goulding's Committee does not consider his claim good, then he has no redress. That would seem necessarily to follow. But the hon. Member must really be under a mistake as to the facts about these two horses which he has quoted more than once. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/17/time-ibeland-bill", "section": "time-ibeland-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"Sun time\"", "preceding_text": "ful. I desire to say a few words in reference to this Bill which will be of a practical character. Before the passing of the Summer Time. Act I thought there was a great deal to be said, and I still think there is a good deal to be said, in favour of the assimilation of English and Irish time. It is called \"English\" time, but it is no more English time than it is any other time. It is God's time. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the Scottish papers!\"", "preceding_text": "r Dundee (Mr. Churchill) is going to open the discussion, and that he is likely to make a speech of considerable importance, which will, of course, receive the attention which it deserves alike from His Majesty's Government and from the Press. Therefore it is probable that the speeches which are raised by less important Members will not receive the attention in the public Press which they deserve—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "se in favour of two days' Debate on the Adjournment Motion, and that the opinion of the country was not in favour of it. We know perfectly well that the country has not been consulted upon this matter, and therefore nobody can say what the country thinks about it. With regard to the House itself, it is quite evident that there is a considerable amount of opinion in the House in favour of two days—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/progress-of-war", "section": "progress-of-war", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " Doctors make mistakes. They make some very regrettable mistakes. An HON. MEMBER The Insurance Act ! § Mr. LLOYD GEORGE Even under the Insurance Act they sometimes give certificates when they ought not to do so. Hon. Members must have heard of very good doctors making mistakes. They examine the chest and the constitution, and it may be that they fail to discover that there is anything wrong. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/progress-of-war", "section": "progress-of-war", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER interposed a remark.", "preceding_text": "statement made by the hon. Member for Blackburn about what has happened since the Military Service Act was passed being a proof that it was based on fraud and deceit—I forget what the other words were. On that matter I can only call my memory to my aid. On the contrary, the number of men who have come in under the Military Service Act already is most substantial. They are of a first-rate quality. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/progress-of-war", "section": "progress-of-war", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " held at the beginning of the campaign, and that in itself is a great achievement. He has lost his tide. At first he had three or four countries which were unprepared when he was 2557 prepared. He had France not fully prepared, and yet the best prepared of all and the most highly organised country in the alliance was still in a sense unprepared. Russia also was unprepared, and Britain had no Army—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/air-service", "section": "air-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on ! Go on!\"", "preceding_text": "sing their replies and attacks upon me. They can have this Report if they want it: Considering these statements and examining Mr. Hannay closely as to the veracity of his accusations, he invited me carefully to go through the construction of this engine with him, and the facts and figures submitted to me were so astounding as to be almost unbelievable. I do not want to trouble the House too long. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/air-service", "section": "air-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "sonal matter, that I have had much more experience of the Flying Corps than the hon. Member, particularly that part of it which chiefly uses these engines. Obviously he is misinformed. § Mr. PRINGLE made an observation which was inaudible in the Reporters' Gallery. § Major BAIRD What is the hon. Member's qualification for making that statement? § Mr. BILLING The hon. Member says he—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/air-service", "section": "air-service", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": " East Herts. § Major BAIRD What I said was what were the hon. Member's qualifications for speaking as an expert. § Mr. PRINGLE I am not. § Major BAIRD I do not minimise for a moment the question whether the engine is good or bad, because it would be a scandal to send men up habitually to do work with bad engines if you can send up better ones. But we do not do anything of the kind. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/railway-adshnisthation", "section": "railway-adshnisthation", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_text": "the Government cannot accept the Motion to adjourn the Debate which has been moved by my right hon. Friend opposite. I am sorry I did not hear the case made by the hon. Member for Derby (Mr. J. H. Thomas), but I have been in the House the whole day, and it seems to me evident that there has been as ample time 2636 as has ever been taken on any other occasion for the discussion on the Adjournment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/railway-adshnisthation", "section": "railway-adshnisthation", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: Oh!", "preceding_text": "ons for another few hours, and to have a very long Sitting. The other one is whether it is not possible to give a few hours tomorrow, consistent with the Adjournment to-morrow. The Colonial Secretary might perhaps consider whether it would not be possible to continue the discussion) tomorrow, if there were a general understanding by hon. Members, not to prolong the Debate then beyond three hours. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/aug/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/aug/22/railway-adshnisthation", "section": "railway-adshnisthation", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEB: Five!", "preceding_text": "long Sitting. The other one is whether it is not possible to give a few hours tomorrow, consistent with the Adjournment to-morrow. The Colonial Secretary might perhaps consider whether it would not be possible to continue the discussion) tomorrow, if there were a general understanding by hon. Members, not to prolong the Debate then beyond three hours. [HON. MEMBEBS: Oh!] Well, three or four hours—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/dec/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/dec/04/linen-industry-ulster", "section": "linen-industry-ulster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": " the workers back again into employment in order to avoid paying the extra wages? Can the hon. Gentleman also say whether it is inconsistent with industrial progress in the linen trade that a decent living wage should be paid? Colonel CRAIG Is the hon. Gentleman aware that many of these mills are actually kept running at a loss? § Mr. DEVLIN With reference to them industrial situation in the—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/dec/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/dec/04/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thursday!\" Other HON. MEMBERS: \"Monday !\"", "preceding_text": "tion of the Government takes place, it will involve no departure in any shape or form from the policy we have announced and pursued since the beginning of the War; and if anybody entertains the idea that there is any question of a change of policy, I can assure him he is entirely mistaken. As regards the question as to what particular day we should adjourn, I leave that to the sense of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/dec/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/dec/04/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "ve announced and pursued since the beginning of the War; and if anybody entertains the idea that there is any question of a change of policy, I can assure him he is entirely mistaken. As regards the question as to what particular day we should adjourn, I leave that to the sense of the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Thursday!\" Other HON. MEMBERS: \"Monday !\"] I think, on the whole, Thursday will be better. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/dec/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/dec/04/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_text": "raised by the hon. Gentleman opposite, the first business to come before the House, whether it meets on Thursday or Monday, will be the Vote of Credit, and therefore there will be an ample opportunity of discussing any topic any Member can raise. I think, as far * as I can gather views from the somewhat confused and chaotic consonance of voices, that, on the whole, Monday appears to be preferred. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/dec/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/dec/04/clause-8-transfer-of-officers", "section": "clause-8-transfer-of-officers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " Member will agree with me that in substance the point was dealt with by a discussion which took place in Committee. Mr. BARLOW I would ask the indulgence of the House in the matter. This is the first opportunity that I have had of moving it. § Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER It is my mistake, and I cannot do more than apologise to the hon. Member. Mr. BARLOW May I move it by the indulgence of the House?—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/dec/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/dec/04/greece-1", "section": "greece-1", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Was there ever such a Government?\"", "preceding_text": "at? Can hon. Members not picture to themselves the ruinous effect on the prestige of the three Allied Powers, throughout the whole of the East, of this performance? We proposed to rescue the Balkans, to redeem the East, and to defeat Germany, and we are defeated by King Tino in the streets of Athens, and obliged to return from there under the escort of a Greek guard ! Was there ever such a farce? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/dec/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/dec/04/greece-1", "section": "greece-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Several minds.\"", "preceding_text": "led and many are wounded, and British soldiers, and French soldiers as well, are led back through the streets of Athens under the escort of Greek soldiers. Really! Has ever such a humiliating thing happened to a great Empire as the condition of our soldiers in the streets of Athens within the last few days? Why does not the Government make up its mind, I may say that it has got a mind to make up. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/old-age-pensions", "section": "old-age-pensions", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "s it not possible to persuade the Treasury to grant £2,500,000, which would practically minimise the hardship from which these old age pensioners are suffering at the present time? § The PRIME MINISTER It would cost a great deal more than that. § Mr. OUTHWAITE Has the attention of the right hon. Gentleman been called to the fact of the gigantic profits declared by the shipping companies—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/old-age-pensions", "section": "old-age-pensions", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "y minimise the hardship from which these old age pensioners are suffering at the present time? § The PRIME MINISTER It would cost a great deal more than that. § Mr. OUTHWAITE Has the attention of the right hon. Gentleman been called to the fact of the gigantic profits declared by the shipping companies—[HON. MEMBEES: \"Order!\"]—and could he not further tax those profits to bear the cost? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That will be worse than before!\"", "preceding_text": "ave got before us a case where in another matter an enormous cost had to be borne by the public in consequence of a Commission of that kind calling in assessors. I suggest that if the Government will accept my Amendment very little change will be necessary in the Bill, for you will only have to leave out the words \"Railway and Canal Commission\" and insert \"Defence of the Realm Losses Commission.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "t. May I ask the hon. Member this? He has a house which he desires to let. The house being empty, he does not pay rates. Does he contend, because that house which he used to let at £500 a year is empty and because he cannot for the moment find a tenant, and does not therefore pay rates, that the Government have a right to come down and take it and pay no rent at all? That is exactly the position. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \" No.\"", "preceding_text": "day because they want consideration. I will think over what are the best words for the purpose. § Sir G. TOULMIN I hope that the Solicitor-General will think over those words very carefully. It is rather dangerous to make a promise of that kind, in view of the great importance of the subject. I think the Committee is forgetting 756 that all the Departments are under the control of this House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_text": "e DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN (Mr. Maclean) Does the hon. Gentleman (Mr. Boyton) wish to withdraw? § Sir G. CAVE I accept the Amendment of the hon. Gentleman. I would rather accept the Amendment as it stands, and if there is more to be done we can do it on Report. § Sir F. LOWE May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to insert the words he promised 770 to accept with regard to compensation or otherwise? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " it certainly is not appropriate to endeavour to put it into an Act like this. We are passing an Act for temporary purposes, and an Act that has simply to do with occupation arising out of this War. It would be exceedingly inconvenient, and very unjust, to put this particular Amendment into this Act—— HON. MEMBERS Why? Mr. RUTHERFORD When people have no opportunity of adjusting their assessments. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " property to-day, under existing conditions, and with the existing state of the law to the amount generally at which it happens to be assessed at the moment, having regard to the fact that the assessment is to-day levied upon the annual letting value to the tenant, seems to me to be entirely wrong. I hope in the interests of the general principle of endeavouring to put this matter right some day. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We will!\" and \"What about Lloyd George?\"", "preceding_text": "p such large questions, with so many complications of matters which when they have come before the House have taken days to discuss, that any hope of getting this Bill, which is intended to meet an entirely temporary state of affairs arising out of the War, would be seriously prejudiced, if the Amendment is pressed. § Dr. ADDISON I hope my hon. Friend behind me will not press this Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " that is what would take place unless the landlord did not really care what happened to his property. It is said that the landlord ought to be willing to hand over his property below its ordinary value, but is the landlord the only person who is being benefited in this country at the present time, and is it not a fact that the landowner has probably made greater sacrifices than any other persons? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no! It is acquisition of land!\"", "preceding_text": ", whatever your theories may be about the taxable value, is an actual loss—— § The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN I would remind the hon. Gentleman that the Subsection to which he refers has been struck out. § Mr. McNEILL I knew it had been altered, but I did not know in exactly what way. In any case, I thought the sense was exactly the same. The meaning is, at any rate, to give compensation for loss. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_text": "ection to which he refers has been struck out. § Mr. McNEILL I knew it had been altered, but I did not know in exactly what way. In any case, I thought the sense was exactly the same. The meaning is, at any rate, to give compensation for loss. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no! It is acquisition of land!\"] I understood it was to be compensation for loss or damage. That is the purpose of the whole Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rent!\"", "preceding_text": " of the period of occupation. The occupation may be extended for any period not exceeding five years if the Government Department can prove to the Railway and Canal Commission that it is in the interests of the State that they should occupy the land or the premises for a certain period not exceeding the five years. How in the world can my hon. Friends introduce the question of basing compensation—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/17/clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "section": "clause-1-continuation-of-possession-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After the War?\"", "preceding_text": "War Office. There will be many cases arising of clearing up at the end of the War where it will be desirable or convenient for certain of the stores to be transferred. There are all kinds of storehouses occupied at present by two or three Departments, and in some cases it may be very convenient that the whole thing should be carried on by the Ministry of Munitions and in others by the War Office. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/20/commissions-of-inquiry", "section": "commissions-of-inquiry", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When necessary!\"", "preceding_text": "me representative of Australia. Those seem to us to be objections to entrusting these inquiries simply to Select Committees of the House of Commons. I think that they will generally be felt in the country. We think further that the inquiring bodies, whatever we may call them, Committees or Commissions, should be small bodies. They should certainly have power—they must have power—to sit in secret. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jul/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jul/20/commissions-of-inquiry", "section": "commissions-of-inquiry", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Since when? \"", "preceding_text": "r. But as far as supplies are concerned, the base was in India, and the Commander-in-Chief there was responsible for those supplies. Now I come to the present arrangement. When he was short of anything he asked the War Office here to supplement his deficiency, and, after going into the thing very carefully, I can say, without hesitation, that every requisition that he sent home has been honoured. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Italians!\"", "preceding_text": "ng all the harm they possibly could, and it was not until the War had been on for eighteen or nineteen months that they were actually interned. I would like further figures from the Home Secretary. I got some yesterday and they are rather startling, even though they are qualified by the statement he made that a large proportion of them are Czechs, Poles, Italians, and people from Alsace-Lorraine. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_text": "with that which I wish to mention, and the right hon. Gentleman, I think, cannot know of their existence. The first is, that in the Press Bureau there is a typists' supervisor named Mr. A. V. Anderson, through whom all documents, however confidential they may be, are passing. This man's real name is Heydenreich, but with the permission of the Government he changed it three months ago to Anderson. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ely criticising the Government and asking where the \"unseen hand\" is. I can only suggest that if this is a fallacy, and I am sure every Member hopes and prays that it is, that the Government ought to deal with it, and the Government ought to crush such statements appearing as have appeared. I will mention the three papers. There is the \"Financial News,\" \"John Bull,\" and there is the \"Daily Mail.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " the age of fourteen. Of that total of 75,000 there have been repatriated, or in certain special cases, principally of women, allowed to go to other countries, 21,000 in round figures, leaving 54,000. There have been interned of that 54,000, 32,000, leaving, therefore, 22,000 uninterned still in this country, and those are the people with regard to whom the cry has been raised, \"Intern them all.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMEERS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_text": "d probably allow exemption in these cases. If we deduct these 1,500 aged people—I have no figures as to those exempted on the ground of serious disease —there remain 6,500, and that is the real figure to which I would ask the Committee to give their attention. When the country is told that there are 22,000 alien enemies at large, everyone imagines 22,000 able-bodied active German or Austrian men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " it? § Mr. MACDONALD I am sure the hon. Baronet does not want to misunderstand me. What I said was that unless we dotted the i's and stroked the t's of everything the right hon. Gentleman said then we might be brought before a magistrate. § Sir F. FLANNERY Quite right. § Mr. MACDONALD I have no objection. § Sir F. FLANNERY If there is no offence then you will not be convicted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": " one in the House can for a moment be otherwise than sorry to hear of a ridiculous seizure of harmless literature, but that seizure has taken place in the course of an effort to put a stop to literature of a much more serious kind. My hon. Friend has said—he was pretty strong in his words—that anyone ought to be punished who took any course which was really to 1104 the disadvantage of the nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_text": "ty who had secured exemption from the tribunal under the Military Service Act before this trial took place. When it was known that Mr. Davies was going to speak for these men the military representative Mr. F. B. Smith, a local architect, called on Mr. Gibson Davies and told him that if he dared to speak a word in defence of these conscriptionists the certificates of exemption would be cancelled. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have shaken it!\"", "preceding_text": "rd in defence of these conscriptionists the certificates of exemption would be cancelled. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] I hope that the Home Secre- 1112 tary does take a serious view of a matter of this sort. I hope that there will be a public inquiry into the matter, because if that sort of thing is going on we are going to shake the whole foundation upon which British justice has rested in the past. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Invented!\"", "preceding_text": "to take the opportunity of congratulating the Home Secretary upon the great public service he has rendered to-day by dissipating the cloud of misapprehension and misrepresentation with regard to the attitude of the Government and of the officials generally of the Home Office towards this question. I think he is to be congratulated on having exposed the many mares' nests which have been discovered—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " because the Home Office at the present time is understaffed, and this is true pretty well of other Departments. You send a lot of men to the War instead of getting capable men who could do the work. You might get a lot better men than myself, but I am perfectly certain that, incompetent as I am in many directions, I could do good work for the Home 1149 Office. But you might get a lot better men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_text": "ime connected with drunkenness. We have got all the dangerous aliens interned. Why do we want so many police as before? People go to bed early, and when they do not go to bed early it is broad daylight, so there is no danger of committing any serious crime in the dark. Why, then, do we need so many police? I never see a policeman even in the quiet and rural district in which I live but I see two. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twice!\"", "preceding_text": "man. § Mr. BRACE My hon. Friend has dwelt particularly on the question of the police, and he was very anxious that something should be done to reduce the expenditure upon the force under the control of the Home Office. I notice he spoke particularly about the police who thought it part of their duty to look after the lights, and I gather that the hon. Gentleman had been caught by the police. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/jun/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/jun/29/internment-of-aliens", "section": "internment-of-aliens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "hink that nobody who is a naturalised German, at all events during the War, ought to be allowed to change his name to an English name. I understand he has a right now. That is where you get piqued, because you cannot keep track of them. If a German in England changes 1160 his name to Jones or Robinson it does not change his nature, for though he may have a Christian name he is really German bred. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/08/daylight-saving", "section": "daylight-saving", "cue_text": "An 318 HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_text": " For the greater part of the year these men get up in the dark. That is not a very pleasant thing to do. But during the summer, or at any rate during a greater part of the summer, they have the advantage of getting up more or less in the light. My hon. Friend below the Gangway and the hon. Baronet say, \"Oh, no, you are not to do that; you are to get up practically all the year round in the dark.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/08/daylight-saving", "section": "daylight-saving", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_text": "ed by this measure. He said that there would not be so much artificial light used, and then, almost in the same breath, he went on to use the argument which was advanced in the old days, that there would be an hour extra for amusements. If you have an hour extra for amusements it means you go to bed at the same time as now, and therefore you will have to burn just as much artificial light as now. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/08/daylight-saving", "section": "daylight-saving", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "down, and I think if he went into the merits of the Bill he would come to the conclusion that it would be a very good thing even from his point of view. With regard to the advantages of playing cricket in the light, there is no doubt a great value in that, but the right hon. Baronet did not 324 think it would be a good thing to smoke. Well, we can smoke in the dark as well as we can in the light. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/08/daylight-saving", "section": "daylight-saving", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Discharge them!\"", "preceding_text": ". It is a question of the number of men that are now employed giving us that useless addition of sixpence per week, or whatever the sum is—the men who are now employed carrying coals to the gasworks or to the various power stations of the electric light companies and on the various services which are now being wasted and ought to be saved. That is the aspect of the matter that appeals to my mind. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/08/daylight-saving", "section": "daylight-saving", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put forward!\"", "preceding_text": "at the Government should make the time synchronise with the time tables which the railway companies have already issued for the month of May. § Mr. H. SAMUEL I think my hon. Friend misunderstands the proposal. The trains will run exactly at the times in the time tables. Mr. WILSON What will be the position of men in munitions works who have to go an hour earlier when the clocks are put back? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/08/publication-of-cabinet-proceedings", "section": "publication-of-cabinet-proceedings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS dissented.", "preceding_text": "he most disgraceful maner, if they were in fact supplied, by some Cabinet Minister in breach of his oath. I endeavoured to preface my observations on this particular case by saying that I would not take the line that I am taking unless I am satisfied that the meaning of this Order is that the Cabinet Minister and the journalist should stand in the dock together. I understand that to be the Order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "and the Third Reading of the Military Service Bill on Monday. That, of course, assumes that the Committee stage will be got through, to-day. The Prime Minister, I suppose, is aware of the fact that a considerable part of this Bill has been considered in. Committee after eleven o'clock at night, and if the Committee stage is to be finished to-day it means that the House will have to sit very late. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes they do\" and \"You do not!\"", "preceding_text": "that the Committee stage will be got through, to-day. The Prime Minister, I suppose, is aware of the fact that a considerable part of this Bill has been considered in. Committee after eleven o'clock at night, and if the Committee stage is to be finished to-day it means that the House will have to sit very late. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] The \"hear, hears\" come from Members who do not sit late. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"!", "preceding_text": "mittee after eleven o'clock at night, and if the Committee stage is to be finished to-day it means that the House will have to sit very late. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] The \"hear, hears\" come from Members who do not sit late. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes they do\" and \"You do not!\"] The point I want to put is this: A great many very important parts of this Bill have been very inadequately considered. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"You were not here!\"", "preceding_text": "day as the Report stage if the House does not agree. I think, therefore, I speak the-mind of hon. Members who act with me when I say that we shall not consent to take the Third Reading and the Report stage on the same day. § Mr. LOUGH On that point, may I ask the Prime Minister whether he remembers that the House sat till four o'clock this morning, and that it sat very late the night before? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/business-of-the-house", "section": "business-of-the-house", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " It is, I think, almost contrary to the promise that my right hon. Friend gave, and— § Mr. SPEAKER This is not a time for a speech. The right hon. Member had better ask a question, and not make a speech. 933 § Mr. LOUGH Certainly, Sir. May I ask the Prime Minister whether, in view of the recent late sittings, he will see his way to give a little further time to this most important Bill? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " who was sent out from Dublin, expressing his gratitude to members of our party there who held the country districts. The only stronghold of Sinn Fein there was captured by the hon. Member for East Limerick when the insurrection broke out; he took all the rifles from them, and took charge of them, and reported the matter to the military governor of the county, and the constabulary were withdrawn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not!\"", "preceding_text": " is to put an absolute and a final stop to these executions. You are letting loose a river of blood, and, make no mistake about it, between two races who, after three hundred years of hatred and of strife, we had nearly succeeded in bringing together. What was said in the House of Lords last night by one of the bitterest Unionists in Ireland, and one of our most implacable enemies, Lord Midleton? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " in the country. When we complain, what is the answer? We must rely upon the well-known high character of Sir John Maxwell, and that is the sole protection that any man in Ireland has for liberty or for any of the ordinary rights men are supposed to 942 enjoy in a civilised country. Talk about the well-known high character of Sir John Maxwell—I confess that I never heard of him before in my life. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "rs. The country must be strengthened and re-established beyond their powers of injury. Much nonsense is likely to be written in newspapers and talked in Parliament about the restrictions of martial law in Ireland. The fact is that martial law has come as a blessing to us all. For the first time in many months Dublin and large areas in the provinces are enjoying real security of life and property. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "d is wanted in the Army. He was asked his name, and the college he had studied at, and the British officer in command grossly insulted him and refused the permit. He bore a name that was suspect, and please God he will never trouble to join the British Army. He had to retire insulted from the place. I do not put that forward for a moment as a personal grievance, because it is nothing of the kind. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_text": " make no complaint of it at all—was called up. The officer looked at him, and, being a kind-hearted man, he said, \"What on earth am I to do with you?\" The boy said to him, \"Shoot me, for I have killed three of your soldiers.\" That may horrify you, but I declare most solemnly, and I am not ashamed to say it in the House of Commons, that I am proud of these men. They were foolish; they were misled. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You stopped them.\"", "preceding_text": " were foolish; they were misled. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] § Major NEWMAN Now you have shown your hand. § Mr. DILLON Did I ever fail to show my hand in the House of Commons, or to conceal anything? I say I am proud of their courage, and, if you were not so dense and so stupid, as some of you English people are, you could have had these men fighting for you, and they are men worth having. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the hon. Member for Cork.\"", "preceding_text": "of Commons, or to conceal anything? I say I am proud of their courage, and, if you were not so dense and so stupid, as some of you English people are, you could have had these men fighting for you, and they are men worth having. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You stopped them.\"] That is an infamous falsehood. I and the men who sit around me have been doing our best to bring these men into the ranks of the Army. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "r a vehement protest against the language used last night by the Home Secretary (Mr. Herbert Samuel). What did he say? The revolt was marked by several cold-blooded deliberate murders of policemen and soldiers, and the Government would have been guilty of unpardonable weakness if they had not meted out stern penalties to those who had been blood-guilty. 947 I say that is very scandalous language. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ch I said: The rebellion had resulted in the death of a considerable number of gallant young British officers and soldiers. And I went on to say: There had also been some cold-blooded murders, and the Government would have been guilty of unpardonable weakness if they had not meted out stern penalties to those who had been blood-guilty. § Mr. DILLON I do not think that improves the quotation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mete out justice.\"", "preceding_text": "some cold-blooded murders, and the Government would have been guilty of unpardonable weakness if they had not meted out stern penalties to those who had been blood-guilty. § Mr. DILLON I do not think that improves the quotation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] According to the language the Home Secretary is now using, he thinks it is the duty of the Government to revenge the death of British soldiers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Evidently you wish they had succeeded.\"", "preceding_text": " and prove that he is a murderer, and then do what you like with him. But it is not murderers who are being executed; it is insurgents who have fought a clean fight, a brave fight, however misguided, and it would be a damned good thing for you if your soldiers were able to put up as good a fight as did these men in Dublin—three thousand men against twenty thousand with machine-guns and artillery. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Absolutely!\"", "preceding_text": "hat kind, which reflected very severely on the subsequent conduct at her own house of British officers and soldiers, I confess I cannot believe and I do not believe. Is it fair, is it just, to read out an ex parte statement of that kind, which there has been no possibility of testing by any kind of cross-examination or rebutting evidence, and to ask the House to accept it as true? It may be true. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_text": "the fact that the shooting of those men in cold blood in Dublin was suggested publicly so long ago as last October by the hon. Member for Water-ford. On him and on his colleagues is the guilt of those innocent lives, in conjunction with the occupants of that Treasury Bench who fled when I rose. The murder of my friends is not a becoming subject for the Speaker of the House of Commons to smile at. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_text": "S: \"Order!\" and \"Withdraw!\"] In the New York \"World\" of last October appears an interview given to a representative of that journal in this City by the hon. Member for Waterford, who expressly, in this paper which I hold in my hand, suggests that the leaders of the Irish Volunteers ought to be shot. Here I have it in black and white, and where is the Member for Waterford to support it or deny it? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/continuance-of-martial-law", "section": "continuance-of-martial-law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fifty?\"", "preceding_text": "t the Irish Volunteers who put that opinion to the test have been shot in cold blood in order to show the world that Ireland is the one bright spot in the British Empire. At Question time the Prime Minister did not deny that last Saturday morning a number of men, estimated at about fifty, were at the Royal Barracks in Dublin, put standing with their backs to the wall, and shot dead in cold blood. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/clause-9-transfer-to-reserve-under", "section": "clause-9-transfer-to-reserve-under", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "nsiderable power of recommending the withdrawal of certificates. § Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS Quite impossible! § Mr. ANDERSON Oh, no! I do not quite know under what circumstances these men are to be kept by the employers. I want to be assured on that point. As I understand, the men are to be brought back from the Army and given for the time being to private employers to carry on important work. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/clause-9-transfer-to-reserve-under", "section": "clause-9-transfer-to-reserve-under", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ld\" issue definite instructions and regulations, making it clear, as far as possible, that these men were used from the standpoint of national need and national safety, and that no private employer ought to take-advantage of the present circumstances; for private profit or private ends. 977 § Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS The hon. Member opposite (Mr. Anderson) is one of the leaders of the Labour party. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/new-clause-exemption-on-the-ground-of", "section": "new-clause-exemption-on-the-ground-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "hat the opportunity of the adoption of work of national importance is not to any extent largely used, and that the fact is ignored that many of these people object altogether to military control over the service they are called upon to render. I am very glad to find that, generally speaking, there has been no tendency to attack or condemn the tribunals. It is quite true that their decisions vary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/new-clause-exemption-on-the-ground-of", "section": "new-clause-exemption-on-the-ground-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " Bedfordshire (Mr. Cecil Harmsworth) made a very interestiing speech, in which he concurred with those who realised the difficulties, and said he was not prepared —I am very glad to hear it—to vote for this particular Amendment, but ended his speech by saying that the Government must find a way out. Through all the speeches it really is the same thing—the Government has got to find their way out. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/may/11/new-clause-exemption-for-members-of", "section": "new-clause-exemption-for-members-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_text": "itting on this side of the House, he would get whatever he asked. If, on the other hand, he came before a tribunal presided over by the hon. Member for Leicester (Mr. Ramsay Macdonald), who sits beside him, then he would get very short shrift. The hon. Gentleman would certainly send him into the ranks, whereas, if he came before a tribunal of which I was a member, his exemption would be settled — "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"What about freights!\"", "preceding_text": "it which he got. Since the combine came into operation that difference, which represented the intermediary charges between the price paid to the producer and the price obtained from the British consumer, has gradually risen from between £4 and £5 to £6, £7, £8, £10, £12, £14, and at the same time the price paid to the native producer in West Africa has declined. That has actually been the result. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"They are not!\"", "preceding_text": " Does my hon. Friend imagine for a moment that the French people would wish a rule to be made 273 which would let in all the Germans in order that their one firm might be saved? It is not an honest argument. § Mr. STEEL-MAITLAND If the hon. Member thinks, he will realise that I have not questioned his motives and I am sure he will not want to question mine. Our objects, I hope, are the same. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Will you accept that?\"", "preceding_text": " not an honest argument. § Mr. STEEL-MAITLAND If the hon. Member thinks, he will realise that I have not questioned his motives and I am sure he will not want to question mine. Our objects, I hope, are the same. [An Hon. MEMBER: \"They are not!\"] The Motion might perfectly well have been drawn to exclude neutrals only. If it was wanted to exclude neutrals only, why was it not so drawn? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\" \"German!\" \"Neutral!\"", "preceding_text": "at strikes mo as somewhat humorous in this question of West African trade—I say it with all sincerity—is that, while that has been absolutely our rule and guide throughout to the best of our judgment, we have been criticised, first of all, by some Members on this side for sacrificing Nigerian interests to British, and now by Members on the other side for sacrificing British interests to Nigerian. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "ons of sale are any guide, are certainly unexceptional, and I do not see, from the conditions of sale, that there is any danger in selling a trade mark which consists of anything so simple as three circles in a square, or three squares in a. circle, or anything of that sort. On that I dare say the person who becomes the owner will put his initials, or will by some other method indicate his trade. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER interrupted, and was understood to say that it was not very profitable.", "preceding_text": " not pay for the upkeep of the Army and Navy; whereas the Liverpool merchant has to pay. Therefore I do not think that he should feel aggrieved because, as it happens, there is a very big margin of profit at Liverpool at the present time. Ten pounds a ton is a very profitable business for him in gathering his kernels from the people of the villages of the interior and bringing them to Port Lagos. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question !\"", "preceding_text": "r they be Liverpool merchants or not, are doing anything wrong, by all means let the Government deal with them. I do not for one moment stand here to bolster up any monopoly or to advocate that any mercy or leniency should be shown to people who are taking advantage of the War unduly to enrich themselves. But again I would submit this has nothing to do with the question we are to-day considering. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pollock!\"", "preceding_text": "hink that the course which I have indicated to the right hon. Gentleman might be a happy means of escape from a critical and delicate situation. Sir H. DALZIEL It has been a most remarkable Debate this afternoon. One of its characteristics has been, that although we have had a large number of speakers, not one speaker has ventured to defend the policy and the position of His Majesty's Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_text": "timation that any such proposal was in their mind in a letter about a fortnight ago, which intimated to us that the subject was going to be brought up in Parliament—in fact, the two came together, the intimation that they were considering such a proposal and that it was to be brought up in Parliament. I do not for a moment, and my hon. Friend did not, make any attack upon these African merchants. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/08/sale-of-enemy-property", "section": "sale-of-enemy-property", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with the question?\"", "preceding_text": "ide, accused us over and over again of that policy. They said that we aimed at putting a Chinese wall round the British Empire. That was repudiated by everyone of us who took any part in that policy, and by no one so emphatically as by Mr. Chamberlain. I do not expect any of my hon. Friends here to agree with me, but I wish to say what my view on that question was and is. I believed and I believe—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/15/appointment-of-food-controller", "section": "appointment-of-food-controller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ed efforts to attract the attention of the Government to the importance of this question. I do not know what the state of things is in the whole country. I think that it varies from county to county. I do not know whether the Government have had any reports in considering the problem of agriculture. I 833 do not know whether they have actually got full returns from the farms all over the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/15/appointment-of-food-controller", "section": "appointment-of-food-controller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And beer!\"", "preceding_text": "the whole of the luxurious use of sugar must be cut off if we are to make any appreciable effect upon the amount of tonnage employed in the carriage of sugar to this country and upon our foreign exchange. § Sir E. CARSON Will the right hon. Gentleman say what is the luxurious use of sugar? § Mr. RUNCIMAN Confectionery. There is an enormous amount of sugar used in certain forms of bread. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/15/appointment-of-food-controller", "section": "appointment-of-food-controller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Skimmed milk?\"", "preceding_text": "e to destroy any food within these islands. The next power we wish to have is that of prescribing the purposes for which an article shall or shall not be used. Here let me take the case of milk. Our advice is that the best use we can make of milk is not to give it to pigs, and we propose at once to issue an Order under the Regulations to put a stop to that practice wherever it may be resorted to. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/15/appointment-of-food-controller", "section": "appointment-of-food-controller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does it apply to Ireland?\"", "preceding_text": "In some of the smaller commodities there are already a good many transactions which come under the head of cornering or something like it. § Mr. KEATING Are you taking power to deal with the cornering in maize? § Mr. RUNCIMAN This will cover every sort of article—wheat, maize, potatoes, currants, rice, everything. If there is any sort of cornering, the Government will have power to act. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/15/appointment-of-food-controller", "section": "appointment-of-food-controller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Artificial prosperity!\"", "preceding_text": "n place. We have talked as if the Government and the country were in a great emergency. That is a most unfortunate attitude for us to take up. Here we have gone through two and a half years of the most extraordinary War any nation has ever had to deal with and most classes of people are better off than they were before the War started. It is wonderful how the country is going through this period. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/15/appointment-of-food-controller", "section": "appointment-of-food-controller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why have they not done it in the past?\"", "preceding_text": "xpected to produce the reasonable quantity of food that the country requires from its home food area. When you see large areas of land in this country woefully neglected, growing couch, thistles and every sort of weed, you are entitled in times like these to say that the men who are holding that land in trust for the nation's needs must use their utmost endeavour to produce what the nation wants. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/15/appointment-of-food-controller", "section": "appointment-of-food-controller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So are we!\"", "preceding_text": "uction of the country. At least that is how it appears to me. People talk about the law of supply and demand, but the law of supply and demand is a commercial law. In these matters, however, we are not dealing on the commercial scale, we are not on the commercial level, but far above it. That is, of course, the reason why it is possible, in time of war, to fix maximum prices. Germany is doing it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/15/appointment-of-food-controller", "section": "appointment-of-food-controller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "that you arc offering them to ship their foodstuffs to this country. § Sir A. MOND I beg to move, \"That the Debate be now adjourned.\" § Mr. RUNCIMAN I suggest that this Motion shall be agreed to only on the understanding that it will not cause any delay in the procedure which we think necessary for getting out our Orders. If that is the general understanding I shall offer no opposition. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/22/registry-of-deeds-ireland", "section": "registry-of-deeds-ireland", "cue_text": "Registry of Deeds (Ireland) (Fees),—That the Treasury Order, dated the 30th day of October, 1916, relating to Fees in the Office of the Registry of Deeds, Ireland, ought not to be in force.", "preceding_text": "rarr; 1916 → November 1916 → 22 November 1916 → Commons Sitting → ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Registry of Deeds (Ireland). HC Deb 22 November 1916 vol 87 c1426 1426 70. Mr. HAZLETON asked the Prime Minister whether he will give time for the discussion of the Motion standing on the Order Paper in the names of the hon. Members for East Cork, St. Stephen's Green, and North Galway? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/22/clause-17-publication-of-true-names-etc", "section": "clause-17-publication-of-true-names-etc", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"It 1514 would increase the cost.\"", "preceding_text": "vertisements\" he would accept the other words. Another compromise is to accept \"advertisements,\" and to withdraw all the others. § Mr. PRETYMAN I have been through the whole matter. \"Advertisements\" would include advertisements for employés in the columns of a newspaper. Is it suggested that a man advertising for an employé should put all these particulars in the advertisement? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/22/national-insurance-temporary-employment", "section": "national-insurance-temporary-employment", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not include Ireland?\"", "preceding_text": "ited reference to Ireland, and probably would have very little effect there. Therefore, no great objection was anticipated so far as Ireland is concerned. I have not consulted the Irish Board of Agriculture, but the name of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture is on the back of this Bill. In regard to the Irish Department, I regarded this Bill as having a very limited application to Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/contractors-exemption", "section": "contractors-exemption", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "an objection to fighting? 133 § Mr. FORSTER That he is a member of the Friends' Ambulance Unit. § Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE Is the hon. Gentleman aware that this man is not a member of the Society of Friends? § Mr. FORSTER I had forgotten that. Mr. FABER Does he derive any profit from the contract? § Mr. FORSTER My information is that he is not a director. Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE rose—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/soldiers-dependants-dublin", "section": "soldiers-dependants-dublin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "no means whatever? § Mr. FORSTER Yes. I hope that there will be no delay. § Mr. HOGGE Is the hon. Gentleman aware that this is the duty of the Statutory Committee, and that therefore it does not depend on whether a Pensions Board is set up or not? § Mr. FORSTER What I have said is that I hope that this will engage the attention of the new Pensions Board. § Sir HENRY CRAIK rose—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/roumania", "section": "roumania", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO, no!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "he Government as to the policy which should be followed in support of Roumania? Mr. BONARLAW It would not be in the public interest to answer the questions put by the hon. Member, but he may rest assured that every assistance possible is being given by the Allies to Roumania. § Mr. PRINGLE Would it not be possible to have a Secret Session in which we could get full information on this point? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/winter-crops-ireland", "section": "winter-crops-ireland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they working together?\"", "preceding_text": "rtment do not consider desirable. 151 § Mr. SCANLAN May I ask whether the various Departments having charge of land in Ireland, such as the Estates Commissioners, the Congested Districts Board and the Local Government Board, are at the present time applying themselves to the question of whether more land can be brought under tillage in Ireland? I believe all those Departments are doing that. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/clause-3-manner-and-particulars-of", "section": "clause-3-manner-and-particulars-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " that kind. It applies merely to the one registration. Mr. DENNISS I beg to second the Amendment. Mr. CHANCELLOR What I was trying to say on the previous Amendment applies exactly to this Amendment unless it does not come under Clause 17. Under Clause 17 all this registration information has to be circulated with a memorandum sent out by the firm, and I assume that means every advertising medium. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/clause-3-manner-and-particulars-of", "section": "clause-3-manner-and-particulars-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That would not be permanent!\"", "preceding_text": "business of W. H. Smith and Son. I am afraid it would further involve temporary businesses. It often 220 happens that there is a great deal of temporary business done where some show or other is being held and people set up a temporary business. Is that a branch or not? W. H. Smith and Sons may set up a bookstall at a particular station for some special circumstances and then it may be withdrawn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/clause-17-publication-of-true-names-etc", "section": "clause-17-publication-of-true-names-etc", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not very much!\"", "preceding_text": "e these particulars, and the Contract Clause would clearly enable that firm to examine the Register. If a person sent for goods without giving these particulars he would commit an offence under this Clause, and he would have to use his real name. I think we can hardly do less than that. I propose to meet my hon. Friends who object to business letters, and I think this is a very great improvement. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/clause-17-publication-of-true-names-etc", "section": "clause-17-publication-of-true-names-etc", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not so!\"", "preceding_text": "mbers of commerce, personally I think it would be a very grave mistake to legislate on the representation of any particular body in this country. In a very large number of cases to my knowledge the chambers of commerce do not represent all businesses, and there are hundreds of businesses outside the chambers of commerce, which generally represent one or two leading firms in a particular district. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/clause-17-publication-of-true-names-etc", "section": "clause-17-publication-of-true-names-etc", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, they do!\"", "preceding_text": "shop to buy such an article will look at a show card having printed on it the names of all the partners in the firm before they will buy? I say that that suggestion is ridiculous. You had better have the names of the partners on the scissors or the knives themselves. Anyone acquainted with business in shops, and I have some knowledge on the point, will say that people never look at the show card. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/mr-bertrand-russell-1", "section": "mr-bertrand-russell-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "me equally harmless topic is really to try and delude the House of Commons. Why was this main fact suppressed by the hon. Member who has just spoken in the name of Liberalism—that Mr. Bertrand Russell has been prosecuted on his own admission for publishing and organising the distribution of a pamphlet appealing to the people of this country not to carry out the terms of the Military Service Act ? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/mr-bertrand-russell-1", "section": "mr-bertrand-russell-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Attacking the Government!", "preceding_text": "ndignant at his treatment, and I will show him this document.\" Let him say then if this is the sort of speech that in the middle of a great war upon which the life of this country depends we can permit this gentleman to deliver in prohibited areas? It is full of statements of a most scandalous character, attacking the country and attacking the motives with which the country has gone into this War—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/nov/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/nov/28/mr-bertrand-russell-1", "section": "mr-bertrand-russell-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_text": "is the sort of speech that in the middle of a great war upon which the life of this country depends we can permit this gentleman to deliver in prohibited areas? It is full of statements of a most scandalous character, attacking the country and attacking the motives with which the country has gone into this War—[An HON. MEMBER: Attacking the Government!] I beg pardon, not attacking the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/10/modification-of-the-lands-clauses-acts", "section": "modification-of-the-lands-clauses-acts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: '.' Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_text": "fit, there is also to be compensation for loss. I desire to know whether in dropping this paragraph and abandoning the principle of betterment the Government also propose to abandon the principle of worsement? § Sir G. CAVE I am sorry I did not allow the right hon. Baronet (Sir F. Banbury) to develop his argument. I thought that hon. Members were agreed that the paragraph should be left out. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/10/modification-of-the-lands-clauses-acts", "section": "modification-of-the-lands-clauses-acts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_text": " paragraph and abandoning the principle of betterment the Government also propose to abandon the principle of worsement? § Sir G. CAVE I am sorry I did not allow the right hon. Baronet (Sir F. Banbury) to develop his argument. I thought that hon. Members were agreed that the paragraph should be left out. [HON. MEMBEBS: '.' Hear, hear! \"] Then I do not know that I am called upon to defend it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/disturbances-in-ireland", "section": "disturbances-in-ireland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it was.\"", "preceding_text": "irs is such that I do not carry every detail in my mind. Mr. HAZLETON Is it not the fact that in the statement by Mr. MacNeill, read in this House, it was stated that a Sergeant Jones was a party to this proposal 91 with Major Price, and that if he were brought before him Mr. MacNeill could identify this sergeant? § Mr. DUKE I do not think it was so stated in the statement read in the House, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "ntention of making a speech going into the details of the matters which have just been put before us by the Prime Minister, but I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without expressing on my own behalf the feeling, which I am sure the whole Committee will re-echo, of deep sympathy and affection which we felt towards the Prime Minister in the circumstances in which he has had to make his speech. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ightly so. The fact remains that the mercantile marine is left without a proper production of ships to make up for the wastage. It will surprise the House when I tell them that since the beginning of the War until recently—not up to the present day, but until recently—after allowing for all the new tonnage which has been built, which is not much, we are 4,000,000 tons of gross tonnage to the bad. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_text": "d to Ireland, and there are many who are opposed to it; therefore I will not raise the Irish question. I would point out, however, that we have an unlimited reservoir of the finest fighting material in the world who do not require compulsion, and that does not require a Military Service Act to bring them into the fighting line. They are only too anxious to volunteer to fight for King and country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, dear no!\"", "preceding_text": "ce, and we should therefore be glad to charge cost price for any goods supplied. We have plenty of trade for the time being but would gladly, at any moment, put approximately, I thousand of our staff on to work for the Government if desired. That letter was written on the 10th August, 1914, six days after the War broke out. One would have imagined that the War Office would have made some inquiry. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": " paper as a man who looks at you and talks more like an American business man than any other Englishman in public life. He was now speaking real United States. I did not know that that was the language they learnt at Carnarvon, but we live and learn. Are we all very anxious that at a moment of great and supreme crisis our statesmen should be looking and talking like typical American business men? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"IS he? \"", "preceding_text": "of war to reduce your enemies. If you have them in that, for us, happy condition, so far from taunting then: about it, let us at once, if we can, take steps to accept their disinclination to go on. We are fighting, we are told, to a finish. Yes, but what is the finish? Surely the finish has come, or will come, when our enemy is ready to concede to us the objects for which we entered upon the War. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1916/oct/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister", "section": "statement-by-prime-minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Chinese?\"", "preceding_text": "the natives and who know their language. I hope the Secretary for War will realise the importance of this point. It is suggested that a lot of natives might be brought over from the mines, but I hope we shall not send out anyone from this country to get them, as it would be far better to communicate with such companies as De Beers, who would be able to choose the best kind of men for our purpose. "}