{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/07/debate-on-the-address", "section": "debate-on-the-address", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_text": "en regularly in the habit of requisitioning, at fixed prices, material absolutely necessary for the Army during the War. In this case it is an attempt to prevent excessive prices for the civilian population. That is an object, at all events, that will commend itself to the majority of the people. I ask the House not to come too quickly to the decision that a mistake has been made in regard to it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/07/debate-on-the-address", "section": "debate-on-the-address", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_text": "an object, at all events, that will commend itself to the majority of the people. I ask the House not to come too quickly to the decision that a mistake has been made in regard to it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"] My right hon. Friend asked me what new acreage had been put under plough. I am sorry to say that until further information is received it is impossible for me to give that information "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/07/debate-on-the-address", "section": "debate-on-the-address", "cue_text": "A RIGHT HON. MEMBER: \"He was a lawyer!\"", "preceding_text": "ntry may rest assured that the work will be adequately and completely finished. It is one of the curiosities of this War that two of the most notable achievements so far have been done by soldiers who are also politicians. In the case of General Botha, I suppose he was more a soldier than a politician. In the case of General Smuts his whole tone of mind was more that of a civilian than a soldier. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/07/debate-on-the-address", "section": "debate-on-the-address", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Comic Cuts!\"", "preceding_text": "s going to be? It is in the interest of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that there should be the most absolute clearness on this matter, and that that should be done with the utmost possible delay. My hon. Friend (Mr. D. Mason) has suggested a very interesting question as to whether newspapers have to be regarded as essential industries or are to be placed on the schedule of forbidden industries. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/19/ministry-of-munitions", "section": "ministry-of-munitions", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "m being called up? § Mr. KELLAWAY The agreements that have been entered into with the protected industries will protect them. In this practical world there are many things done which are not absolutely perfect. I have no doubt whatever that there are defects in regard to machinery of this kind, which covers the whole country and has to be administered by fallible human beings like ourselves. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/19/ministry-of-munitions", "section": "ministry-of-munitions", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "n who are of military age. That fact has been made a ground of criticism against the Ministry in this House. § Captain A. SMITH If that is the case, will the hon. Gentleman tell us whether the tribunals have had instructions in regard to accountants? § Mr. KELLAWAY I am quite satisfied that no tribunal would take an accountant for military service if he was a fully qualified accountant. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/19/criminal-law-amendment-bill", "section": "criminal-law-amendment-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you apply it to the men?\"", "preceding_text": "ht to be devised for them. It is perfectly useless to impose fines of 40s. when they are convicted. It is almost useless, I believe, to subject them to imprisonment. There might be some hope if, for a considerable period, they were received at some institution where they might be under influences which might possibly redeem them, or you might apply the reformatory system to this particular class. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/28/personal-explanation", "section": "personal-explanation", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "nging about the change in the Regulations, not for the benefit of the Service or for the securing of a better system, but in order to obtain for himself this great honour. I read the speech most carefully, and I listened with the utmost attention to it, and the impression formed on my mind, and I think on the minds of any hon. Members who were present, was that it was an attack upon Prince Louis. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/feb/28/house-of-commons-sale-of-intoxicating", "section": "house-of-commons-sale-of-intoxicating", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and laughter.", "preceding_text": "has been going on in this House? Business as usual, drink as usual! How can we reconcile those two things? We cannot reconcile them with our consciences. It is impossible that outside this House certain restrictions on drinking are put upon the public in general, and that we, the elect, the leaders, in a way, of the people, we who ought to hold up a great exemplar, are to go on drinking as usual. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/captain-keevil", "section": "captain-keevil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "stion which asks whether an inquiry-has been held? § Major BAIRD I said I had nothing to add. § Mr. HOGGE Is the House of Commons not entitled to an answer to the simple question—I do not ask the result—whether an inquiry has been held? § Major BAIRD Of course, we cannot make an official inquiry into the case of every man killed at the front. § Mr. BILLING I should like to say—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "t is to get every side of public opinion in the constituencies represented, no large minorities left out, and good men chosen by the constituencies. Let me give an illustration. We do not want men like Mr. Lincoln, the German spy, who was put up by one party for Darlington some years ago, and who could not have got in under a proportional representation system at all. They would not have had him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "estion of women's suffrage and proportional representation cut right across party lines. The reasonable thing, therefore, is to accept the decision of the majority. The Conference suggestion as the basis of compromise is, on the whole, an exceedingly good one, and the acceptance it has met with in this House indicates that. Personally, I am prepared to accept it entirely except on this one point. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He voted for it!\"", "preceding_text": "al conditions, in Denmark and some of our own Colonies and, I think I am right in saying, in some of the cantons in the Swiss Republic. I would remind my right hon. Friend that two oil three years ago the Government, of which I was a member and the head, felt constrained to adopt it in the Home Rule Act for self-government for Ireland. I am not quite sure whether my right hon. Friend resisted it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hide-bound!\"", "preceding_text": "nt a sweeping party majority; there is no advantage in it whatever. It does not produce the best kind of legislation or the most stable kind of legislation, and from the point of view of the conservative-minded man, I do not care whether he sits nominally as a Liberal or nominally as a Conservative. Some of the passages of my right hon. Friend's speech just now might have been uttered by the most "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Wales?\"", "preceding_text": " CHAMBERLAIN This Bill issues from the Speaker's Conference. Did the Speaker's Conference think that this scheme was right? Did they think that our present system was open to all the objections that we have heard to-day? Did they believe that this new system would cure it? If so, why did they confine the cure to a few selected spots? Is there no minority anywhere except in Glasgow and Birmingham? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ninety votes!\"", "preceding_text": " for the time being shall be strong, so that the Government of the day shall be effective. I have seen it said somewhere that a careful calculation shows that on a due allocation of Members to votes the Parliament which met in 1906, when I sat one of a small minority, would have been a Parliament where the balance between the two sides was only thirty-eight or forty votes, or something like that. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "moment. I think nothing will have a better effect on political education and political life than to give up this chase of the wobbler. It has been said that small cliques have no influence at elections, but, in my opinion, that is simply one of the greatest delusions imaginable, because the small clique has more influence now in a constituency than it would have under proportional representation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was before he was born.\"", "preceding_text": "er thing after a few years to do away with it. I therefore ask those Members of the House who flatter themselves that they are in favour of democratic government, and I ask those Members who in their constituencies have used the phrase—and I expect there are not many who have not done so—which I believe was originally coined by the present Prime Minister, \"Government of the people by the people.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fourteen!\"", "preceding_text": "do not believe that anybody 1243 knows, not even the warmest friends of proportional representation, what will be the practical effect of its working in the constituencies. My right hon. Friend said that he thought it would tend to increase the power of the caucus. I certainly agree with him. You will have a great many candidates. In some cases you will have nine or eleven I do not know how many. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "d, and still believes, that system has existed for the last five years. My right hon. Friend says. \"No poor man will be able to stand under the changed conditions which you propose to introduce.\" I reply to him, \"No rich man will be rich enough to stand if you once introduce proportional representation for the country as a whole.\" I do not pretend that will be the result of this small instalment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"What about London?\"", "preceding_text": "of this Committee stands. Is it or is it not your object that the House of Commons should 1248 be, as exactly as the necessary electoral adjustments permit, representative of the country? Our position is a very simple one. We say it is right, so far as electoral adjustments allow, at any given moment the House of Commons should exactly represent the country. What is the position of our opponents? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/04/clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "section": "clause-15-modification-of-method-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why is Wales not included in this Bill?\"", "preceding_text": "s a final condemnation of the existing system that the combined wire-pulling of both parties in London has been able to defeat this proposal so far as London is concerned. Who is there in the House of Commons who would pretend to justify a system under which, in the last two Parliaments, or almost in the last two Parliaments, not one single Conservative representative for Wales was in this House? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/enemy-air-raids", "section": "enemy-air-raids", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "sing the House for the last two minutes, at which time you rose and proposed the Adjournment of the House. I see no mention of that Adjournment, which was moved automatically, at eleven o' clock under the Rule. I see no mention, furthermore, of what is much more important even than that. I rose on the Motion for the Adjournment, and continued my remarks on this matter of urgent public importance. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_text": "ing at the place where the muck heap stood in the previous year and it will be seen that no corn has grown on that because it is over manured. It is quite true we owe something to the man who will increase production by spending more money on the land. He is a man who has been making something out of the land in days gone by, he is one of the rich people this House does not care about protecting. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If found out!\"", "preceding_text": "farms, selected haphazard, and see whether the entry corresponds with the sworn statement of the man in question, I have no doubt we shall prevent frauds on any extensive scale. I am quite sure the farmers of this country, though they are very willing to do the Government where they legally can—and they often can; there are a hundred ways—do shrink from an illegal step which is severely punished. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " of Agriculture will reconsider his decision, which, if I may say so, has been a little too hastily taken. I am sure he will startle a great many of the farmers, who had thought that they were going to proceed under this scheme without any such condition as this attached to it. § Mr. DENMAN May I suggest to the Committee that it is better to leave out the words now that we have the assurance—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " Food now has the power to requisition at the minimum prices as fixed by this Act all home-grown supplies of wheat and oats. The Ministry of Food has no such power to requisition at these prices. As this Amendment contains an untrue statement of fact, is it in order to move it? § Mr. GARDNER You said, Mr. Whitley, that the words are declaratory. Are they declaratory of anything in this Bill? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_text": "s of oats; and is it right now that you should insert a proviso that all the additional crops we have produced this year may be commandeered? Under the Defence of the Realm Act the Irish farmer was compelled to cultivate his land and produce an extra 10 per cent., and now you tell him that you are going to commandeer his crops at a fixed price, while the English farmer is not treated in this way. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "m. The Amendment says that we shall not interfere with the Food Controller commandeering wheat at 60s. We cannot interfere with him in his price. I appeal to the Mover to withdraw his Amendment. He has produced a discussion on what I think is an entirely false basis. I daresay he wanted to do it. He has delayed the Committee for at least an hour and a half, and I dare say that he wanted to do it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Parliamentary pledge is worthless!\"", "preceding_text": "essence of this proviso: Obviously you cannot limit the power of the State to commandeer for national purposes. This proviso is merely a recital of what the Prime Minister said. You cannot limit the power already given to the Food Controller. This Amendment does not add to or take from those powers. It simply recites their existence, and you read into it the Prime Minister's pledge to Parliament. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "no doubt as to the other side of the bargain being carried out. We want to make sure as to what this Amendment means. As it reads, to the man in the street, and I may say to the farmer, the Food Controller's attention is at once called to the fact that he may requisition under minimum prices. That may not be at a price which the wheat and oats cost to grow. Even last year they cost more than 60s. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jul/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jul/11/clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "section": "clause-1-payments-to-growers-where", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " four years. I think that would be a very great misfortune, but it is one which people are thinking of as a serious possibility. What would be the position of the farmers then? Does anyone mean to say that if in 1920 the War was still going on the farmer ought to be compelled to sell his wheat at 45s. and his oats at 24s.? If this Amendment has any effective meaning at all, that is what it means. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/08/exemptions", "section": "exemptions", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "ation On his behalf, although technically out of date, if such application is lodged within seven days after the date of the notice calling the man up for service. This concession is being embodied in a circular letter to tribunals, which I am informed is on the point of issue by the Local Government Board. Mr. CHANCELLOR This is a very important matter. I understand, by the Military Service Act —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-6-qualifying-period", "section": "clause-6-qualifying-period", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_text": "d would have inquiry made into the position of some of these people. § Sir G. CAVE I really do not think there is very much in these points. The Debate turns on circumstances which are of a special character. Persons may be compelled to leave their homes by order of the military authority, but the persons so compelled to leave are sometimes suspected as to whether they are desirable persons. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-7-right-of-person-registered-to", "section": "clause-7-right-of-person-registered-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"May be? I hope she is!\"", "preceding_text": "usiness qualification. § Mr. RAWLINSON Why not? § Mr. DICKINSON I object so mush to second votes that I do not see why a woman should come in under a system to which I object. The point, of course, is that the woman gets her vote for her place of business. Why does she get it? Because she occupies that business place, and therefore she has got a vote. She may be living with her husband. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-7-right-of-person-registered-to", "section": "clause-7-right-of-person-registered-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, but only two!\"", "preceding_text": "r in the place where she has her business qualification. My own personal view is that that is sufficient, and I do not feel inclined towards the Amendment put down by the Home Secretary. I have, however, a very strong objection to the Amendment before the Committee because under it if a man has two or three or four business qualifications he is to be able to give two business qualification votes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-7-right-of-person-registered-to", "section": "clause-7-right-of-person-registered-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_text": "a way which the Conference never recommended and never intended should be done. § Lord H. CECIL The speech of the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. H. Samuel) has succeeded in convincing me that this Amendment ought not to be accepted either now or on the Report. Observe how the matter stands. The House has departed from the recommendations of the Conference by rejecting proportional representation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-7-right-of-person-registered-to", "section": "clause-7-right-of-person-registered-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_text": "even after debate, if it appears to him during the Debate that it is not in order. I have exercised that power in certain circumstances, but I do not feel called upon in the present circumstances to do that. If, however, the Committee is at all willing to accept my advice, I will repeat what I said before, that it is clear that this Amendment depends upon the decision of the House upon Clause 1s. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ll be qualified for the Parliamentary franchise in spite of the general provisions of the Bill. § Mr. R. McNEILL I do not rise to express, any dissatisfaction with what my right hon. Friend has done, but I must express some surprise and say that I feel some amount of apprehension on behalf of my right hon. Friend himself. What has he done? At a time when the House might have been counted out—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not worry about it!\"", "preceding_text": " crime, and that you must do everything you possibly can to deter men from sinking into poverty and must drive them into thrift,\" is embodied time after time in famour Orders and memoranda sent down from Liberal Ministers at the Local Government Board to the various boards of guardians. Therefore, my only apprehension is that there may be some remnant of that Liberal doctrine left in the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "rs and memoranda sent down from Liberal Ministers at the Local Government Board to the various boards of guardians. Therefore, my only apprehension is that there may be some remnant of that Liberal doctrine left in the country. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not worry about it!\"] I am so afraid when it comes to be known what he has done in an expansive moment whilst there was practically nobody here—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the hon. Member for Blackburn?\"", "preceding_text": "p a little circumscribed, ignorant, uninstructed, dogmatism of their own, many of these men being, so far as we can judge 313 from what we have heard in the House and what we read in the papers, almost half crazy, and, so far as I can remember, not one of them a man who has had any past record established to claim to be accepted as either a leader of thought or a guide of conduct in this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are there any?\"", "preceding_text": " I am quite correctly analysing the situation, and I am pointing out that you are proposing in this Amendment to put the penalty upon the man who, claiming the right which the Act of Parliament gives him, shows that he is really entitled to that protection, while you are not imposing the disability on the man who claims to enjoy this privilege and is detected as fraudulent in attempting to do so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were not fighting the Germans then!\"", "preceding_text": "ave always had it. They 326 have had it, indeed, on very much easier terms than the terms of the Military Service Act , because all they had to do was to make a declaration before a magistrate and they got it. Nobody hitherto in our institutions has suggested, since first the Quakers got political and public rights, that they should be deprived of their rights because they took advantage of that. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "udice it in repeating it. I think 327 it will be the common opinion of everybody who heard that argument that it could not have been put with greater persuasiveness. I feel bound to put this consideration. We shall make a very grave mistake, even in this time of trial, if we reverse the good principle that people are to have their votes, if they are qualified, without reference to their opinions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would!\"", "preceding_text": "mbers, if they took the risk of imperilling the whole prospects of this Bill, by accepting a provision of this kind. We have had proposed to us the other course of leaving this matter to the House. I never think that the most courageous course to take, and after all what one does and has to consider is this. Supposing we took that course and supposing the House. as it might, adopted the Amendment—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_text": "roughout to this Debate. My own opinion in regard to the conscientious objectors has never been concealed. I have no sympathy with them. I do not believe in them. In my judgment I do not think the conscientious objector is on the right side. But I believe the Government, on this occasion, has taken the right view. Having taken that view, I hope my hon. Friend opposite will withdraw his Amendment. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU ask him?\"", "preceding_text": " been concealed. I have no sympathy with them. I do not believe in them. In my judgment I do not think the conscientious objector is on the right side. But I believe the Government, on this occasion, has taken the right view. Having taken that view, I hope my hon. Friend opposite will withdraw his Amendment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"] Yes, I hope he will. It is within his province to do so. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " appeal for the protection of the law in the Courts of the land. If he was deprived of appealing to the Courts for protection, that is one thing, but to prevent him from having a vote is another, and I venture to appeal to the House of Commons—this old institution which has been the Mother of Parliaments and the protector of freedom—to reject this Amendment. I hope my hon. Friend will withdraw it—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/26/clause-8-provision-as-to", "section": "clause-8-provision-as-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They took their lives!\"", "preceding_text": "onscientious scruples to enable them to face a long term of imprisonment rather than upset their consciences. It is something to be proud of even to produce martyrs of this sort as well as martyrs on the battle field. In the time of Queen Mary I am not aware that the Catholics deprived the Protestants of votes, nor in the time of Queen Elizabeth did the Protestants deprive the Catholics of votes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/27/enemy-air-raids", "section": "enemy-air-raids", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That does not arise!\"", "preceding_text": "h and 22nd instant to the hon. Member for East Edinburgh. The answer to the last part of the question is in the negative. § Mr. BILLING Might I ask the Leader of the House if he will make a definite and final statement as to whether it is or is not permissible for individuals occupying official positions to give information of approaching raids, because it is either necessary or unnecessary? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/27/america-aeroplanes", "section": "america-aeroplanes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "nce and information; and, if so, when these were dispatched or, if it is not proposed to assist the American Government in this matter, will he state the reason why? § Major BAIRD I have nothing to add to the answer which I gave to the hon. Member on this matter on the 24th of May. § Mr. BILLING This question is addressed to the Prime Minister, and I must ask the Prime Minister to reply "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/27/clause-12-appeals", "section": "clause-12-appeals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_text": "y recollection of what occurred at the Speaker's Conference agrees with that of the hon. Member for Hammersmith. If this Amendment is carried revising barristers will practically have to be appointed for all constituencies. If that occurs, and the work falls off, as it certainly will under the simplification which this Bill will effect, then I suppose that the question of compensation will arise. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/28/ministry-of-munitions", "section": "ministry-of-munitions", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four!\"", "preceding_text": "ey have got a Labour Department of 594 the Ministry of Munitions, and that they have now got, since the Ministry of. Labour was formed, a new Labour Department in the Admiralty. An unfortunate trade union executive, dealing possibly with men employed both on munitions work for the Army and on naval work for the Navy, has got or may have-to deal with three separate authorities for labour purposes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/28/ministry-of-munitions", "section": "ministry-of-munitions", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ey may be called on at any time to join an artificer unit if the Army needs them. They will not be called up for service in Line regiments. The Schedule—a formal document—says this: Men who are released from Admiralty, War Office or munitions work, or from railway work shops, will be posted to Line regiments, if \"they do not possess the qualifications required for the technical units in the Army— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/28/ministry-of-munitions", "section": "ministry-of-munitions", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And brewers, too!\"", "preceding_text": "ay it has behaved during the War. It has raised several battalions of troops and its ships go out and, unfortunately, some go down and there is never a murmur. I am informed that there has only been one case of conviction for treating since August of last year in that town. I should like to know whether there are any teetotalers on the Liquor Control Board. I understand there are two teetotalers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/28/ministry-of-munitions", "section": "ministry-of-munitions", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "deration,\" because when I was on those benches opposite the one thing, above everything else, I disliked was to hear a Minister say that a matter was \"under consideration.\" I have, however, got to say again that this matter is \"under consideration.\" But I have found out that it does not mean that no action is being taken. \"Under consideration\" is a convenient phrase which may cover doing nothing. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/jun/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/jun/28/ministry-of-munitions", "section": "ministry-of-munitions", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Not formally!", "preceding_text": "id \"We cannot do it. We may agree with you and go before the Commission and say we agree to your claim; and the Commission will probably fix that price, but it is by no means certain.\" There is no power under the Defence of the Realm Act or this amending Act for spending money in purchase without going to the Whitehouse Commission. Why was it submitted to the Commission? It was submitted to them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/sir-john-jellicoe", "section": "sir-john-jellicoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "irst part of each of these quotations and omitted the proviso from each. I read the first quotation in full yesterday. I am sorry that I did not read the second, because it enforces the misrepresentation caused by the leaving out of the proviso in this as in the former case. § Mr. LYNCH Following upon that reply, which I think the House will agree bears out substantially all that I have said—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/parliament-and-local-elections-no-2-bill", "section": "parliament-and-local-elections-no-2-bill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " know he is engaged in very active propaganda in favour of peace. I do not quite know what his position is in this pacifist organisation, but we do know he is very active and that he speaks in this House in a direction contrary to that which his constituents desire. I believe there are others, but as I have not accurate information myself I do not want to make myself responsible for those others. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/parliament-and-local-elections-no-2-bill", "section": "parliament-and-local-elections-no-2-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" They are!\"", "preceding_text": "ownstairs. On the resolution of vote of confidence or not, the meeting voted for me, and there were only six dissentients. That shows that one has only to put matters plainly before the electors, and state the facts of the case, and I, for my part, believe that I have a majority of my Constituents in my favour. There are lies being told about those holding my views giving assistance to the enemy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/parliament-and-local-elections-no-2-bill", "section": "parliament-and-local-elections-no-2-bill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_text": "lf. The hon. Member for Hanley is not opposed to some machinery by which a by-election might under certain circumstances be fought, but if the hon. Member for Hanley really is so desirous that Members who do not represent their constituencies should subject themselves to by-elections, why does 268 he not persuade his hon. Friends who evidently do not represent the opinions of their constituencies—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/national-war-aims-committee", "section": "national-war-aims-committee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ssential to counteract that. Whether the Government is going the right 302 way about it in bringing the matter before the House of Commons it is not for me to say, but I think that it was an honest thing on their part to do. They could have spent any money they wanted on this propaganda without coming to this House at all. They have absolute power to use the Vote of Credit in any way they please. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/national-war-aims-committee", "section": "national-war-aims-committee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does it represent Ireland?\"", "preceding_text": " be it £1 or £100,000, under the head of secret service or in any of the manifold ways in which money can be secured. We have come frankly down to this Committee and asked it for this Token Vote to carry on a campaign which is essential for the nation. The Vote has the unanimous support of the National War Aims Committee, which represents all parts of the House except a few hon. Members opposite. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/national-war-aims-committee", "section": "national-war-aims-committee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "sidizing.\" We are proposing to entertain the distinguished Americans who have come over here. When we send speakers, or when any Britishers go to the United States, they are treated in a manner which, I regret to say, the Old Country has never reflected 307 towards Americans, or even towards Colonials, until the present War. This Vote will test the feeling of the House of Commons towards America. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/national-war-aims-committee", "section": "national-war-aims-committee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, not the Irish Members \"", "preceding_text": "d, I would not have been associated with the matter at all if it had been carried on in such a way as to be absolutely ineffective, in my view, for the object for which it was formed. § Mr. GULLAND Will the right hon. Gentleman read the other part of my letter? § Sir E. CARSON I will do so. That is not merely my opinion. Members of the 315 Committee represent every quarter of the House— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/national-war-aims-committee", "section": "national-war-aims-committee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "tlemen who went to South Wales and thought they had stopped the strike did nothing of the sort. I know South Wales pretty well, and if those gentlemen did anything they set the miners more against the Government than they were before, and to say that any of those who went down there for the War Aims Committee helped in the slightest degree to get the miners to vote on the right side is moonshine. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/national-war-aims-committee", "section": "national-war-aims-committee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "I make no apology for opposing the Vote. § Mr. MORRELL It is a remarkable fact that in this Debate, in which we have had expressions of opinion from all parts of the House and from persons who take the most profoundly different views with regard to the War, we have not yet had a single speech in support of the Government except from the gentlemen who are themselves members of this Committee. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/national-war-aims-committee", "section": "national-war-aims-committee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ote for Secret Service, no Token Vote is used, The actual amount of the Vote for Secret Service during the War is stated in this House and is voted. Why is it necessary to bring forward this Token Vote to-night and to pretend that it is in the interests of the country and to prevent news getting to our enemies? I do not believe a word of that explanation. I desire to be helpful to the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/13/national-war-aims-committee", "section": "national-war-aims-committee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "l him so far as he represented me as having been engaged in some treasonable business, to quote his own words, in stirring up strife, and, to quote his own words, in engaging in conduct which should be rewarded by penal servitude—I say all those statements are false, and that if he now repeats those statements so far as I am concerned he is repeating lies, and statements that he knows to be lies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The usual Memorandum!\"", "preceding_text": "as important to France and to Great Britain as it was to Germany. Germany understood that in time. Unfortunately, we did not. Who are \"we\"? Apparently the Allied Powers, including Great Britain. Why did we not understand? It was not apparently for want of conference and want of consultation. A sentence or two afterwards my right hon. Friend tells us that he went to Rome and submitted a Memorandum—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "new to me—it is a revelation to me—that the value and importance of a battle or a campaign can be gauged by kilometric scale. What is the implication of language like that? The suggestion surely is—and in that sense the language has been universally understood—that British blood and British bravery—and when I say British I, of course, include our Overseas Dominions—has been relatively squandered. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it not?\"", "preceding_text": "In 1915 Lord Kitchener proposed it, almost in the very terms in which I recommended it in Paris. That was in 1915, and I have no hesitation in saying if his advice had been carried out—I admit there were difficulties then, and it is easier to do it now than in 1915—but if his advice in 1915 had been carried out by all the Allies, I say, without any hesitation, we should have been further forward. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about Russia?\"", "preceding_text": " purely for political or personal reasons, are disseminating distrust and jealousy of France in the breasts of Englishmen? I say we ought to stop that business. Since I have been in this War I have striven to get not merely co-operation between Allies, but something more—friendship, goodwill, comradeship. I have 906 done my best to make those people our friends. That is the secret of our success. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "speech in Paris. § The PRIME MINISTER I beg the hon. and gallant Gentleman's pardon. That shows that my hon. and gallant Friend is criticising something he never read. If he will only look at it, he will find that there is an allusion to the Navy and the command of the sea there. § Sir H. MEUX I am in the recollection of the House that the Prime Minister to-day did not mention the Navy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a speech!\"", "preceding_text": "nd cowardly because he could not answer them. What was the cause of these attacks? Because he would not support mad schemes, such as entering the Baltic Sea and attacking the coast of Flanders. The Prime Minister told us that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Dundee (Mr. Churchill)—I am sorry to have to mention his name, because he is not here—had nothing to do with this written-out letter. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "An HON. Member, dissented.", "preceding_text": "Conference was to be plenary, absolute, and decisive. To-day the Staff which is attached to that Conference is not, as in the Resolution—and I would remind the right hon. Gentleman of this—to have at its disposal all the documents, all the papers, all the information possessed by the Allies, to be supplied actually to the Conference, but it is merely to have a collated version of the information. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": " has any knowledge. The Chancellor of the Duchy is overburdened with looking after the revenues of the Duchy. The President of the Local Government Board has to square the insurance agents regarding the Ministry of Health, and the Minister of Pensions is so busy thinking of the answers to the conundrums propounded to him by my hon. Friend (Mr. 954 Hogge) that he also is incapable of answering it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "o Members only have really whole-heartedly supported the Prime Minister. One of those was the hon. and gallant Member for Maidstone, who, of course, upon the subject that he really does understand—that is, naval policy—does not support the Prime Minister at all. It is very remarkable, I think, that in a Debate like this, begun on a day when we were told that the Government might be in some danger—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/19/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on!\"", "preceding_text": "gns of repentance, I, as a good Christian, greatly welcome the signs; but, instead of showing any signs of repentance today, he speaks in the pride of sin, and in the confidence that there is no judgment to come. I am surprised and disappointed with the House of Commons that it does not see through the miserable subterfuge which has now been palmed off upon it. I shall not go into the real issues—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/27/mercantile-marine-1", "section": "mercantile-marine-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Order, order.\"", "preceding_text": "vantage? § Sir L. CHIOZZA MONEY I think my hon. Friend can hardly be aware of the fact that nearly the whole of the cargoes that come to this country are under Government control, and are carried at cost price, therefore the consumer on the whole obtains the advantage of the Blue Book rates on goods carried at cost price. § Mr. HOGGE Why do prices rise then? § Mr. HOUSTON How is it—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/27/clause-1-confirmation-of-agreement", "section": "clause-1-confirmation-of-agreement", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "the Amendment, I am sorry, and I will keep within it. I thought, inasmuch as it was a question of imposing the terms of an agreement upon people who have never agreed to it, that I should be in order in referring to Regulation 9 G. § The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN I have given the hon. Baronet considerable latitude, and I hope he will observe my ruling. § Sir C. CORY Certainly. I will again repeat—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/27/clause-1-confirmation-of-agreement", "section": "clause-1-confirmation-of-agreement", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Order! \"", "preceding_text": "has been read out. § The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN I cannot have that discussed in any event, and I must make it quite clear that there is no conflict between the ruling of the Speaker and that of the Chairman of Ways and Means. 1928 § Sir C. CORY I will not pursue that further. There appears to be a difference in their interpretation, at any rate, and it has been referred to over and over again. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/27/clause-1-confirmation-of-agreement", "section": "clause-1-confirmation-of-agreement", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No ! \"", "preceding_text": "rotect himself from any possible deficiency. There is, first, the general fund that is to be created by the 15 per cent. excess profits; and, in the second place, there is a provision made in Clause 21 which seems to me to give to the Coal Controller the power to impose a levy. § Mr. PRINGLE Only by agreement. § Mr. ADAMSON I thought it gave to the Controller the power to impose a levy. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1917/nov/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/nov/27/colonel-monteagle-browne-1", "section": "colonel-monteagle-browne-1", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "altogether accurate advocate lie has had a very forcible one. On previous occasions I explained exactly why dismissal had taken place, or removal from the Service. I was corrected when I used the word \" dismissal,\" because an officer can only be dismissed by sentence of a court-martial. Lieutenant-Colonel Monteagle Browne was removed from the Service because he refused to send in his resignation. "}