{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-11", "file": "debates1919-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baacdd846fcfb7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-11a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "he representatives of this country will follow the same course as the representatives of every other country, and provisionally sign the Treaty at the Peace Conference. The Treaty will undoubtedly then be placed upon the Table of the House for ratification. I believe constitutionally there are parts of the Treaty which must be placed upon the Table of the House by the Constitution of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-11a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-11", "file": "debates1919-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baacdd846fcfb7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-11a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The consumer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ing else to live upon. They are small people. It is not invested in big sums as a rule. What has happened since the war? Owing to increases in one thing or another—increases of wages, curtailment of the hours of labour and increased cost, of material—we have added £90,000,000 to cost, of running the railways. Where is the fund of profit there? It is all gone. Who is to make it up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-11a.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-11", "file": "debates1919-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baacdd846fcfb7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-11a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There is a theory that one way of providing employment is by reducing the hours of labour, so that there will be enough work to go round at the same wages. Reduce the hours of labour to what is legitimate and what is fair and possible, but to reduce the hours of labour merely in order to create employment for exactly the same wage is the one way to make unemployment over the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-11a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-11", "file": "debates1919-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baacdd846fcfb7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-11a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"False economics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " that there will be enough work to go round at the same wages. Reduce the hours of labour to what is legitimate and what is fair and possible, but to reduce the hours of labour merely in order to create employment for exactly the same wage is the one way to make unemployment over the whole country. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I should have thought that that stood to reason. That is really so elementary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-11a.77.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-13", "file": "debates1919-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6f0f987864f9e483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.264.9", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LAND SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I believe that is being considered. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will put down a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.264.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-13", "file": "debates1919-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6f0f987864f9e483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.325.14", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "ling about it. It is only asking the House of Commons to say in direct language that the minimum wage shall be the average of the class. If my right hon. Friend today will give us a clear promise that the mines shall be nationalised, that the Eight Hours Act shall be amended, and that the Minimum Wage Act shall be amended, it will, I am certain, encourage the Miners' Federation of Great Britain to", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.325.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-13", "file": "debates1919-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6f0f987864f9e483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.325.14", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "ions can give to us by the creation of the international labour charter, under which uniform conditions will prevail in the industrial world, whether the workmen be upon the Continent or in this country. No one knows better than the leaders of organised labour in this country that the real test of the prosperity of an industry is its output or production. I wish the employers recognised that also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.325.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-13", "file": "debates1919-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6f0f987864f9e483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HoN. Member: \"Four hours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "out it, but someone must be responsible. The Government must be responsible. When men and women realise this and tell their friends, can you wonder at the discontent and unrest that exist? But the most significant omission from the Prime Minister's causes of unrest was that of profiteering. I us examine the mind of the working man and woman standing last year in queues waiting for margarine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-13", "file": "debates1919-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6f0f987864f9e483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is a pious opinion!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what hon. Members are asking for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-13", "file": "debates1919-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6f0f987864f9e483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.347.4", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, oh!\" and laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "just rejected at the General Election. We are not going to give way to that. I claim for Parliament that our work here should have a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, and this Amendment is not giving Parliament a fair opportunity. We have heard of proposals that the land should be nationalised, but that means that the returned soldier would never have a chance of owning the land of his country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-13", "file": "debates1919-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6f0f987864f9e483", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.347.4", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody owns it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "[Hon. Members: \"Oh, oh!\" and laughter.] Hon. Members laugh, but that shows that they do not understand their own proposals, and it seems to me a pity that they do not understand them. If you nationalise the land, of course nobody can own it, and the soldiers coming from the War who desire to own land will be obliged to go to Canada and Australia, where they encourage the private ownership of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-13a.347.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-17", "file": "debates1919-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b10dce90d057e8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Straight away?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "ready to say now that what my right hon. Friend intended was this—and I myself said it in introducing the Bill—that in spite of the fact that there are strong arguments in one direction, the disadvantages are greatly outweighed by the advantages in the other. I hope that the House will now give us the Second Reading of the measure, and that they will then allow us to go into Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-17", "file": "debates1919-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b10dce90d057e8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "AERIAL NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "r made under this Bill, it would be possible for the Secretary of State to take away the right of any man to prevent flying over his own land. Of course that matter must be dealt with. At the moment the law undoubtedly is—I do not want to press the legal point of view—but the position undoubtedly is that a man who owns a piece of land or house owns the air above it right up to the sky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-17", "file": "debates1919-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b10dce90d057e8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "AERIAL NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOOREBRABAZON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOOREBRABAZON", "preceding_text": "n this subject more from the commercial side rather than from the military point of view. We welcome any Bill and will help any Bill such as this which does allow civilian flying, for that is a great thing which we want, and want quickly. We must recognise and this House must realise, however, that we are giving to the Government a blank cheque in aviation, for that is what this Bill really means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-17", "file": "debates1919-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b10dce90d057e8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: Is it not profiteering?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": " this House was in treaty—I understood him to say—for buying the house now inhabited by another Member of this House, or something of that sort. He did not quire undertake to say that he was accepting the responsibility of preventing him buying it. That is the question with which you are really confronted, and which is quite other than that of the Restriction of Rent and Mortgages Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-17", "file": "debates1919-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b10dce90d057e8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Does it extend to Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "ny rate. It is quite evident that in any rural district that means a very large measure of assistance. In wealthy areas it would not mean quite so much where the yield of a penny rate is a big figure. However, throughout the length and breadth of the country, it would mean a large and generous State contribution to houses, and it is very definite and precise. Every authority now knows where it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-17", "file": "debates1919-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b10dce90d057e8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is necessary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "ve one specific instance as showing the kind of steps we are taking. We have surveyed every brickyard in the country. We have sent in a return of all the men who are wanted to start these brickyards, and where they are short of machinery. For all these men that are wanted we have applied to the Demobilisation Department, and I may say we are making ourselves a continual nuisance to that Department", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-17a.707.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that Mr. Tiarks is rendering valuable assistance to Sir Charles Ferguson, the Military Governor of Cologne?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "preceding_text": "Knowing the state of public feeling with regard to enemy aliens, does not the hon. and gallant Gentleman think it would have been advisable, to select a British subject without any alien blood in his veins as being far more likely to give advice which would be in the best interests of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.729.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.734.5", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give a promise that he will make it retrospective?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "preceding_text": "It has the appearance of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.734.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.757.2", "colnum": "757", "heading": "MEMBERS' SEATS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Would you Sir, kindly give a definite ruling as to whether or not the rule \"as to remaining in the precincts of the House\" must be abided by?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.757.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "ompromise I am prepared to offer is this: I think six months, even from the point of view of those who have advocated the change, is rather short, especially if the six months be from the date of the election. I am, therefore, prepared, if it is the general wish of the House, to agree, on behalf of the Government, without a Division, to accept this Amendment if a time limit is made of nine months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major H. BARNES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. BARNES", "preceding_text": "I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "preceding_text": " in favour of the Bill as it stood. My belief is that if the right hon. Gentleman had maintained the position which the Government took up when it brought in the Bill, they would have had as large a majority against every one of these Amendments as they had in favour of the Second Reading. By accepting the Amendment they have rendered the Bill futile and absurd as a permanent piece of legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"More than you have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": "against the Government by men who, when they changed their positions and came over on to the Government Benches, complained because those who were facing them were following their own example in wasting the time of the House and preventing legislation. The Noble Lord (Lord H. Cecil) made a very interesting speech. I would not term him a mediæval, because I think he has some progressive views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is done here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "House the practice that is followed in some localities of allowing Members to attend these Committees even when they are not members of the Committees themselves? That is to say, if a certain number of this House were on the various Grand Committees, it is possible that other Members might like to be present to hear discussions which are taking place, and in some local authorities that is allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. JONES", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member; \"Is that why you support them\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. JONES", "preceding_text": "e that it was not a Bill of very much consequence. Take a measure like the Coal Mines Bill Should we ever have had that Bill through this House, or would it have been so good a Bill, if it had not gone to Committee? As a matter of personal interest, I may say that I got infinitely more publicity in my Constituency and elsewhere when that Bill was before the Standing Committee than I ever got here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-18", "file": "debates1919-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "3a6ea22eb8807929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And Mr. Asquith!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " bear some of the brunt of making this decision. Lastly, I want to associate myself with the remarks which fell from the Leader of the Labour party in regard to short speeches. The long speeches, I am going to say quite frankly, come from the two Front Benches. No Member of the two Front Benches during the last few years has felt it consistent with his dignity except the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-18a.887.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LADY SUSAN TOWNLEY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "On the point of Order. I submit that if, instead of a lady being concerned, it was a gentleman who was concerned, it would be equally wrong to bring a gross charge like this against an individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.919.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.931.9", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA (PROPAGANDA).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will you provide insurance premium for Members who are engaging in that propaganda?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I have already answered a question which is exactly the same as that of my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.931.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.935.8", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is it fair that the ownership of cottages should be used against people applying for old age pensions?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman prepared to say if that Committee will be a Select Committee of the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.935.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1018.5", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "e. They will send their Bills upstairs to Grand Committees, and practically close the House of Commons. I think it would be most inconvenient to Members themselves. We have often heard people complaining of the week-end habit of the House of Commons, because it adjourns early on a Friday in order that Members may go down to their constituencies. But this proposal will produce a mid-week-end habit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1018.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1018.5", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"But Committees will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " will produce a mid-week-end habit. [Laughter.] It is rather difficult to find words to express one's meaning in this respect, but it will introduce a habit of the House of Commons not sitting on these two days in the middle of the week. It may be only gradual, but remember appetite grows upon what it feeds upon, and after a few years the House of Com- mons will not sit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1018.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I regret that the Leader of the House has met the proposal of my right hon. Friend with what amounts to a direct negative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They can come in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " official record at all, and the Minister is to give an undertaking that a private note will be taken but no official record. I press that as showing how important it is that at any rate there should be an official record which may be consulted by all Members of the Committee and by the public. There is another point which is very important. What record is there for the great Press of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "common ground that the Press will be admitted to these Committees. The Press, in accordance with its usual practice, will exercise its usual discretion, and will take up a matter as occasion offers, will cherish it so long as convenience serves, and will drop it as soon as the decline of popular interest, or the rise of new excitement, seems to suggest. Secondly, there is an official report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is a lawyer's argument!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "have never yet seen a Minister moved one iota by bringing up his pledge in the Official Report. I will tell the right hon. Gentleman what has happened on the Home Rule Bill and the other Bills which I have sat out hour after hour in this House. Whenever you get up and tell a Minister \"you promised so and so,\" and refer him to the passage in the Official Report, he says, \"That is not what I meant.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The hon. Member for West Fife!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I do not think we should leave this matter where the right hon. Gentleman has left it. We are indebted to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Peebles (Sir D. Maclean) for having raised this question of whether a record of the proceedings upstairs is necessary or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-19", "file": "debates1919-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0c207cfcb18e83c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Major NEWMAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Ten minutes! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NEWMAN", "preceding_text": "ences in point of time. There is also the Kangaroo Closure, and an artful Member, whose Amendments have been passed over, will try to get them in by artful and controversial speech, which will mean a mere waste of time. If there is the nine minutes' rule for speeches only ten minutes can be wasted. I suggest that as one of the reasons why this comparatively small Amendment should be carried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-19a.1054.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-20", "file": "debates1919-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "a0bc24fcf166bda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1127.5", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPIRITS (FURTHER SUPPLIES).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir EDWARD NICHOLL", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman know that, even when a doctor's certificate is granted, the poor people cannot get the brandy or whisky?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-20", "file": "debates1919-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "a0bc24fcf166bda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL ISSUES COMMITTEE (RECONSTITUTION).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will there be any new restrictions on the issue of shares for considerations other than cash?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "I cannot say that, but I am very glad to make the Noble Lord acquainted with the fact that the Stock Exchange are in full accord with what has been done. Now that I have the opportunity, I should like to pay a tribute to the Stock Exchange for the loyalty with which they have supported the Government during the whole period of the War in regard to this matter of the issue of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-20", "file": "debates1919-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "a0bc24fcf166bda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1242.2", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Go home!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "s, but I think that makes the thing worse. What is the proposal? The House may have sat in the afternoon with 300 or 400 Members present, and is to be adjourned until a quarter-past eight if an urgent Motion has been brought forward in order that two or three Committees may continue to sit upstairs at which probably 150 Members will be present. What are the other 250 Members to do in the meantime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-20", "file": "debates1919-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "a0bc24fcf166bda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "r, could give the other plan a trial. But it is not our intention to utilise the proposal which is suggested in this Amendment unless we find the other proposal breaks down. I see no reason whatever why the House should not agree to this Amendment, unless on the assumption that everything the Government is doing is with some vicious object—I do not think it is the view of the majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-20", "file": "debates1919-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "a0bc24fcf166bda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And for Scottish business!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "the Report stage, that is two days. I will take the Vote for the Navy, which will take two more days, making four; and two for the Air Force, making six days. That takes up six days out of the twelve, and it only leaves six days for the publicity required for the Foreign Office, the Board of Trade, the Board of Education, Colonial Service, the Home Office, and the whole range of the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-20", "file": "debates1919-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "a0bc24fcf166bda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE RULES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "man on that Committee? I now come to my third Department, on which I feel even more strongly, namely, the Foreign Office. I said the other night, and I repeat, that I regard it as dangerous to entrust the decision of peace or war to a single man or to two or three men, whether they be called Kaisers or Cabinet Ministers. Is not that a proposition which commends itself to the judgment of every man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-20a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MUNITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of setting up a Committee to hear the various eases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INFLUENZA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "In the event of it being found that the spread of the disease is due to insufficient food and clothing, will the hon. Gentleman make efforts to provide sufficient food and clothing for the poor that cannot get them to-day?", "preceding_speaker": "Major ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1383.7", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "May I humbly suggest you make a beginning by reducing the number to six first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1383.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "Several Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "anent in their effects. They are demands in respect of wages, of hours, and of conditions. The first is a demand that the wages of the miners should be put up by 30 per cent. With regard to hours, they demand that they should be reduced from eight to six, which is not a reduction of 25 per cent., but of two hours taken off the working hours. It is a reduction of one-third in their effective hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Ten per cent. would not affect it very much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "That is not an answer to my question. I can understand that spirit of comradeship, but at the same time I should like to ask, on their responsibility—those who are acquainted with the business—whether they are quite confident that the figures I have given are not correct about the effect on the iron and steel trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " Member is correct, but, if he be, he can state that fact before a court of inquiry, and no doubt that will be evidence in support of the miners' claim. The other answer is this. They say: Even if it were correct, that is no answer to a legitimate claim for improving the standard of living among the miners. Well, it is, up to a point, If the miners were paid starvation wages it would be no answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1462.5", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Let him go back to the miners in Wales and talk to them; go back to Glamorgan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member will bear in mind that this is my first experience as a speaker in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1469.0", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT EDWARDS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What more do you want than that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT EDWARDS", "preceding_text": " and say definitely that the miners of this country were never consulted before their delegates in conference assembled and their executive formulated their demands. It is perfectly true that when the Government gave a qualified refusal to those demands the conference then decided to take a popular vote of the members in the country, and the members have supported the conference and the executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1471.0", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "So they have!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "ke no dictation from anybody or any section of delegates or conference, however important they may be in the mind of the right hon. Gentleman. I venture to suggest that on the merits of the thing the right hon. Gentleman opposite rather gives his case away. He says: \"Why should the Government have this inquiry into wages and hours at all. They have sufficient data that will enable them to decide?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Whose fault was that?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "w of our sitting round the warm fire and not thinking of the coal-getter. I wonder if it is realised that during the winter there have been many homes without any fires because of the shortage of coal, and that there are thousands upon thousands of people who are paying 120 per cent. increase upon their food but whose income has decreased instead of increased, because they have got a fixed income?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Three shifts!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e of the captains of industry, is going round to my branches. I understand that he was at one of my branch meetings last night—Lord Leverhulme—explaining how it was that six hours was necessary. I want you to try to visualise the minds of the working classes when they hear a great employer of labour explaining to them how even in their industry six hours is sufficient for them to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"So did everyone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "veryone recognises that on both sides. There must be a case for investigation on that, but I am quite sure that if the Prime Minister would say clearly what his views on the question are it may tend to help the situation. In any case I think it will be a mistake to say, \"Will the miners of the country, who only a few months ago fought so nobly, and they did fight nobly, risk all for sixteen days?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "That is a question to be inquired into. If my right hon. Friend proposes to inquire into that matter, the Miners' Federation would be prepared to take part in such an inquiry. Allwe want is the granting of the principle. I say the same about the nationalisation of the mines. Grant the principle of nationalisation, and we will agree with him to have an inquiry into the reorganisation of mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The State.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. HARMOOD-BANNER", "preceding_text": "k you are committing a foolish deprivation of all your children's future in saying that they are to become children of the State, with miserably reduced salaries, instead of having the ambition of being such as your fellows are, and ruling the country and the State. On the other question of nationalisation, which, I think, is a very strong one, who is going to find the capital to sink these mines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1510.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1514.2", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. HARMOOD-BANNER", "preceding_text": "The State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1515.2", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "l that we ask for will be established—would it not be better to avert this terrible catastrophe of a national stoppage by conceding the principle now and going into the minor details afterwards? It has been said that the ringleaders in the Miners' Federation are driving these men like a flock of sheep. Thousands of men, 600,000 in round figures, are not to be led like a dog to the slaughter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "of the Miners' Executive Committee at the present time. Therefore, I have taken part in all the deliberations that have been going on in connection with these questions that are involved in the Bill now before the House. I want to remind the House that we are asked by the Prime Minister, and also by a good many right hon. and hon. Gentlemen, to hold our hands for another sixteen or seventeen days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "ant to ask the Government why there has been delay since the9th January to the present time, and why they have not pressed their Departments to act quicker than they have acted? Should the miners have to put into effect the strike notices which are expected to terminate on the 15th March, I believe that the country will not put the onus of that on the miners, but on the Government of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "is absolutely showered upon us. Every speaker has got up and said that he believes that the miners ought to have some of these things, and the way they dispense their sympathy to us is to compel us to a Court of Inquiry. Those who are the lifeblood of the nation and who produce its most vital raw materials are to be subject to strict inquiry as to what are to be the conditions of their employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-24", "file": "debates1919-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "bbaf600ace1bd0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "aid that he believes that the miners ought to have some of these things, and the way they dispense their sympathy to us is to compel us to a Court of Inquiry. Those who are the lifeblood of the nation and who produce its most vital raw materials are to be subject to strict inquiry as to what are to be the conditions of their employment. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"] Hon. Members say, \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-24a.1535.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1552.2", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — M. NABOKOFF.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has no right to make a statement like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1558.5", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I regret I am not in a position to do that. If students were released apprentices would have to be released—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1558.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1651.2", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Major NEWMAN rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1651.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Not at all!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "ethod of working the mines as they are worked to-day. Again, there has not been that development of machinery in the mines as would have been the case had the mines been held and worked by the nation. We realise that. I hope in the course of a week or two we shall see shorter hours established for mines, but I hope further we shall see a greater shortening of hours than the six hours now proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "ted, that during the stress of the last four and a half years, that the Government have realised that as private enterprise had broken down, altogether, it was absolutely necessary to secure some form of State control for the mining industry and other industries. As I have listened to the Debate I have had the feeling that this House has in some degree got out of touch with public opinion outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "ries. I argue, and I think quite reasonably argue, that the existence of that huge vote does prove that there is a very solid body of opinion in the country in support of the nationalisation of an important industry like this. The fact is that commercial men in this country realise, no less than other classes realise, that the real truth is that private enterprise utterly collapsed during the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "Private enterprise failed during the War. We are prepared to admit that those things which have been State controlled have not been controlled in the best possible manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "dments ought to be treated and discussed. Probably to-morrow hundreds of thousands of workmen, including a large number of miners, will turn to see what the Government have had to say officially through the mouth of the Home Secretary on this Amendment,definitely asking that the Commission should not be empowered to investigate the question whether or not the mines should become national property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "e of them. Coal is the foundation of practically all our other industries, and of all our great commercial undertakings. It is a commodity so socially necessary that we feel that it ought to be socially owned and controlled. I venture to say that if public opinion were sounded on this specific question it would be shown to be overwhelmingly in favour of making the mines the property of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "favour of making the mines the property of the nation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I grant that the country has been quite recently consulted, but I submit to hon. Members opposite that if they had definitely told the electors in their constituencies that they would not vote in favour of the nationalisation of mines they would, at least, have had increased difficulties in getting returned to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "ber in the Labour party or, at any rate, among those who are not members of the Labour party in this House but who are behind those members in the country. This agitation very largely proceeds not from the responsible leaders of labour opinion, not from those who represent Labour in this House, but from a certain body of extremists who hold views which are as much opposed to nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "of affairs which would satisfy the community. We therefore think the time has come when there ought to be not simply control but ownership by the nation, so that the mines may be worked by the nation for the benefit of the nation. We, as miners, are not putting this Amendment forward simply in order that the mines shall be worked under the control of the mine-workers for the benefit of the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-02-25", "file": "debates1919-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "49744e5d4cdf68d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY COMMISSION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "On these two points?", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "s which he cannot foresee, and there is nothing foreseeable in his mind to prevent his doing so—he is prepared to give an undertaking to the Government, and he permits me to give that undertaking to the miners and mine-owners of the country and other industries, that on this condition, he will guarantee that the Report will be in the hands of the Government at some hour on the 20th of March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-25a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-26", "file": "debates1919-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "19565ec295679f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAR DECORATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "Would it be possible for the word \"Staff\" to be printed on all ribbons given to all Staff officers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-26", "file": "debates1919-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "19565ec295679f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1748.3", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAR DECORATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And about 1,000 Orders of the British Empire!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that several Distinguished Service Orders and Military Crosses have been awarded to A.D.C.'s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-26", "file": "debates1919-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "19565ec295679f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1754.7", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' SEATS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LOWTHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LOWTHER", "preceding_text": "I thought it was no use being here at half-past six, but I was here at half-past seven this morning. I saw a big queue, and that is the reason I asked the question. I wish to ask your ruling about it. Is it not your wish that hon. Members who have established a claim in past Parliaments to their seats?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1754.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-26", "file": "debates1919-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "19565ec295679f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1820.1", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Shortt)", "cue_text": "Several Hon. Members: \"No, no; a new Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Shortt)", "preceding_text": "e result of that is that the Government propose to set up a Ministry to maintain for the two years during which the receipts are guaranteed the whole of the control which they had during the course of the War, and at the same time to give them powers during these two years to consider the whole question, to consider it with the assistance of the Committee of this House which is still in existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-26", "file": "debates1919-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "19565ec295679f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1832.1", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Queen Elizabeth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " soon as we can. But in one respect I have always felt that my right hon. Friend was in a privileged position, in that he showed us the fence of difficulties, while some of us have to find our way over that fence. Certain parts of the Poor Law are extremely intricate, and as an illustration of that I may mention that we shall have to deal with Statutes going back as far as the reign of Queen Anne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-26", "file": "debates1919-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "19565ec295679f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1839.0", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "terests to operate against great public measures which are urgently needed in the interest of the nation as a whole. Having made these somewhat general remarks, let me say a few words on the Bill itself. I quite agree with my right hon. Friend that it is sweeping. I must say I gasped—I do not know whether with astonishment or relief—but certainly he swallows the Local Government Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1839.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-26", "file": "debates1919-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "19565ec295679f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1891.0", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "atisfied with the present method of licensing medical practitioners. This is a matter of vital importance to the public, and they have a right to claim that those responsible for the health of the nation should be competent to carry nut their task, not only at the time of qualification, but also during the whole period of practice. Something in the nature of re- fresher courses might be organised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-26a.1891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-02-27", "file": "debates1919-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbba0b1c95a49c61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-27a.1940.4", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — METHYLATED SPIRITS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Try the whisky!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I have not tried methylated spirits, and I do not therefore know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-02-27a.1940.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "I thought this was a war to end war!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I thought we had given up war!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Subsidised inefficiency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "rs who are blocking the promotion of younger and more brilliant men to retire on the same pension terms as they would receive if they served out the full period of their engagement—and from the national point of view these unsuitable men ought to be allowed to go for any money spent in hastening their retirement on pension would be well expended for securing increased efficiency of the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "e House the other day when the Prime Minister told us in tremulous tones, with a great deal of emotion in his voice, that the policy which had been gradually forced upon the Government in Russia was to leave things alone, and, in his own words, to let the fire burn itself out. That is totally inconsistent with the policy of keeping a force in Russia for the purpose either of guarding stores—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are not the only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "roubles and grievances, thinking that the now Member can accomplish more than any of the other people have ever attempted to do. We have an enormous task before us, and we are trying to accomplish as much of it as we can. Possibly we may fail, but it is better to fail trying than not to try at all. Consequently, as soon as I was elected for the Forest of Dean I received an avalanche of complaints.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Major HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HURST", "preceding_text": "nd in France. It was not only his first court-martial, but his first offence. He was tried for alleged drunkenness after hours of duty, and six people swore that he was sober, and one man swore that he was not. The one man who swore that he was not sober happened to be an officer, and he was convicted. The sentence inflicted was reduction to the ranks, and one year's imprisonment with hard labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On a coupon!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "aised again. Europe is \"an armed camp returning to the old conditions \"because the right hon. Gentleman has asked for an Army of sufficient size temporarily, and only temporarily, in order that we may secure to some reasonable degree the fruits of victory. I, Sir, am a Labour man. Hon. Gentlemen may laugh, but I am a Labour man returned by a Labour Constituency, and I voice Labour in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you object to it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "ussing to-day a large Estimate of money which I have no objection to vote, and although I differ on many subjects from a great many hon. Members I believe in my own country, right or wrong. After all, we want to see where we are going, and it is the fact that the pay of the soldier in the Army of Occupation has been advertised by my right hon. Friend without the consent and approval of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How can you tell?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend says they have never been asked to. I quite agree. But what we want to know from this side of the House is, will they ever be asked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "o release those war worn territorials in India and elsewhere, when we have formed these units and put them out, we will open the doors to the Army of the Rhine for service in the Armies of Occupation, which can be taken on for one year at a time, and in every case the maximum rate we are now paying is the rate which will rule for all trained soldiers, veteran war-time troops. Do I make that plain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.177.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "It is the system.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. SMITH", "preceding_text": "The Court—not the court-martial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-03", "file": "debates1919-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f0e19ee34584407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.182.2", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [FIRST ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to rise at this late moment, but there is one question that has not been touched upon by any of the debaters—that of the apprentices, and it is of such vital importance that I must raise it—of appentices, and of those young men whose education has been interfered with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-03a.182.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.222.7", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TAXI-CABS (DRIVERS' OBLIGATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "They are carried out now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.222.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL ISSUES.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that what is permissible for two or three individuals to do in their private capacity they will be permitted to do in their corporate capacity?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "No. I should like to do nothing better, but I am afraid I could not do that. I want to give a much greater latitude for the issue of new capital for business development at home, but I do not think I could take off all restrictions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "s home he is still within the range of time in which he would have been an apprentice had he never been to the War, he does not begin to get the advantage of the scheme until after the period of his ordinary apprenticeship would have been exhausted, and, so far as the age is concerned, he does not begin to get any advantage until after the age of twenty-one in England and twenty-three in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALFRED HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALFRED HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ties. All jobs of this sort in my works are reserved for the men who cannot be put to a trade. In respect to disabled men lost legs makes the thing more difficult, because such a man must not be kept standing—he cannot be a fitter—but there are many jobs that he could be put to. There is, for instance, certain machine tool work. I trust I am not boring the House with all these details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Lord Mayor!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "e community. It has been said that the constitution of this body is more democratic and more broadly based than the Harbour Trusts of Cork and Dublin, but on the Port and Docks Board of Dublin—an institution which I should be the very last to defend—there are representatives of the Corporation of Dublin. There are no representatives of the corporation upon the Harbour Trust of Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He is ex officio! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "emocratic and more broadly based than the Harbour Trusts of Cork and Dublin, but on the Port and Docks Board of Dublin—an institution which I should be the very last to defend—there are representatives of the Corporation of Dublin. There are no representatives of the corporation upon the Harbour Trust of Belfast. [An Hon. Member: \"The Lord Mayor!\"] The Lord Mayor is there by co-option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And one other!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "s Board of Dublin—an institution which I should be the very last to defend—there are representatives of the Corporation of Dublin. There are no representatives of the corporation upon the Harbour Trust of Belfast. [An Hon. Member: \"The Lord Mayor!\"] The Lord Mayor is there by co-option. [An Hon. Member: \"He is ex officio! \"] The corporation is allowed to select one man, the Lord Mayor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you suggest that they should be co-opted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "us drawbacks and the difficulties placed in their way, commercially and otherwise, have sprung to posts of commercial and industrial eminence in that city, yet not one of them is considered fit to be elected to this body. There is just as much chance for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle as there is for a Catholic to pass into the sacred precincts of the Harbour Commissioners of Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ould be co-opted?\"] If the Commissioners were wise, that is what they would do. There would be no need to make a protest against the exclusion of the representatives of 100,000 of the population if they were co-opted. Note the intolerant spirit of this body! Although they have the right of co-option, they would not co-opt a Catholic on that trust. You may ask me, What has religion to do with this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. I hope the House will favourably consider the representations which my hon. Friend has made. The manner in which the Belfast Harbour Board has discharged its duty is a matter of notoriety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "f a harbour board to think that it has not to deal with other people besides the shippers, and with other things besides the shipping. It has to deal with the interests, with the wages, with the safety to limb and life of the large messes of people who are concerned in its working, and who do perhaps as much to its working as even the prosperous and wealthy commercial gentlemen who form the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-04", "file": "debates1919-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "278df2005fd21343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "sses of people who are concerned in its working, and who do perhaps as much to its working as even the prosperous and wealthy commercial gentlemen who form the board. [Hon. Members: \"More.\"] Hon. Gentlemen are English, and they do not understate cases, which an Irishman always does, and therefore I hold that every man who shares my opinions—and I cannot imagine any man contesting them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-04a.343.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is that part of the question which asks whether this force is in favour of the restoration of the monarchy correct, and are we now fighting for the restoration of the monarchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is that part of the question which asks whether this force is in favour of the restoration of the monarchy correct, and are we now fighting for the restoration of the monarchy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] May I ask for an answer to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.382.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "preceding_text": "d all other parts of the country. That is a prospect which I, personally, should not contemplate with equanimity. I believe that the more this problem is thought out the more it will be realised that there are only two alternatives for the State in such a case. It must either take entire control of a particular industry or it must leave it entirely alone. I believe that there is no half-way house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Without Orders!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "preceding_text": "overnment by hon. Members sitting opposite, they would have been forced to come to the same conclusion, so far as it was a problem for dealing with unemployment, that this Government has come to; that the quickest way to deal with it was to put those factories into the hands of men who could most easily and rapidly make use of them for increasing the productive capacity of this country as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Piecemeal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "preceding_text": "easing the productive capacity of this country as a whole. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Without Orders!\"] Reference was made to the suggestion that some of these factories might be bought by trade unions and co-operative societies. I understood my hon. Friend spoke with certain disrespect of that proposal. I regret it. I believe that there is a possibility here of providing a means of solving some questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.515.3", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ch a rush that it was impossible for all the Members who desired to take the oath on that occasion to do so, and the consequence is that in view of the ruling to which I have drawn attention hon. Members who were unfortunate enough not to be able to be sworn in on the first day the House opened will be paid one day's salary less than those who were fortunate enough to be sworn in on the first day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "reased by something like 120 per cent. and in the case of Labour Members that makes a very serious in-road into their salaries, although it may not seriously affect a large number of the Members of the present House of Commons. I understand that the present House of Commons possibly consists of as wealthy a body of men as ever represented the constituencies of this country in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.518.4", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "I except the hon. and gallant Member opposite, and I say that those who were here representing Pacifists, Syndicalists, and Anarchists, when they found themselves defeated promptly said, \"We will now resort to the direct method,\" meaning the weapon of the strike to enforce whatever might be their claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.518.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " complain—as being restored to France, but I ask any hon. Member of this House if, twelve months ago, you had told an English audience that, in addition to Alsace and Lorraine, there was to be other territory called, for frontier purposes, the natural boundary of France, could you have got a volunteer to fight in this War, or could you have maintained the prestige of this country as a whole?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And safety!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "s!\" and \"No!\"] Of course, I do not want to quarrel. Hon. Members are as much entitled to their view as I am to mine. I put this proposition: If that were so, why was it that, throughout the whole four years of this War, the one great appeal made to our people was not to add any territory to any country, but merely to make it a fight for justice and right as against any Imperialistic consideration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.549.5", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "d away by passion, bitterness, or hatred, or by our own personal feelings, forgetting that we can create a situation that will render peace permanently impossible. For that reason I have taken part in the Debate. I again repeat, I may not have contributed to the popular side, but I have contributed to what I believe to be the side of the British working classes and what they are thinking of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.549.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Political opportuneness!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": " hon. Member on the benches opposite. What did I find in my Constituency in Scotland? I was not strong enough at the early meetings on the question of indemnity and reparation, and the same thing applies to the adjoining constituency to my own, and I had the whole thing out there. The meetings would hardly listen to me because I was taking the line put forward by the right hon. Gentleman opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-05", "file": "debates1919-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7ebec259cb21eee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "of bankruptcy and starvation, and to talk about making France secure by grabbing territory when the whole world is getting less secure through indebtedness and starvation and through the utter incapacity of civilisation to stand up against the losses of the last four and a half years, seems to me to be inviting anarchy in the midst of this country. I do not want to see civilisation entirely upset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-05a.553.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "preceding_text": "he fruits of victory assured to this country. If we fail to make secure the results of the War, I think we shall be guilty of treachery to all those who took a share in the efforts and sacrifices of the last four years. I would like to reply to one or two hypothetical cases of comment. I believe there are many, some anyhow, who think that compulsory service should have ceased on the Armistice day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.671.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\" when the emergency is past, the need is past.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "e United Kingdom. The first question I am going to talk about is Conscription. You have got the usual attempt made to frighten the electorate, and one of the most effective means of doing so is to say that the Government mean to keep up a great Conscript Army in this country. It is not true. The Military Service Act was passed in order to meet a great emergency. When the emergency is passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.675.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "12; The Act will lapse, and there is no intention to renew it. On the following day the Prime Minister went further. In reply to a correspondent he said: You send me a cutting from to-day's \"Daily News\" to the effect that a vote for the Coalition is a vote for Conscription, and you ask me if this is true? My reply is, that it is not only untrue, but it is a calculated and characteristic falsehood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the French Army?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "an nature being what it is, the very men who would be prepared to remain in the Army under a voluntary enlistment system will be the first to grumble because they are being kept in the Army against their will. In the second place, a Conscript Army has not the same esprit de corps , and you cannot depend upon the same loyalty to duty and whole-heartiness of service as you can from a Voluntary Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.681.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "r as the great bulk of the population were concerned, they were told that the people who had won the War were the Government. The Prime Minister, in dealing with this question at Bristol, said: You have got the usual attempts made to frighten the electorate. One of the most effective means of doing so is to say that the Government mean to keep up a Conscript Army in this country. That is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is the War over?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Then that means that we are not proceeding with this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Then that means that we are not proceeding with this Bill. [An Hon. Member: \"Is the War over?\"] The hon. Member will have his chance, and can speak later. The Prime Minister did not stop there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "roceeding with this Bill. [An Hon. Member: \"Is the War over?\"] The hon. Member will have his chance, and can speak later. The Prime Minister did not stop there. [An Hon. Member: \"What is the date?\"] This is the Bristol speech on 10th December. The Prime Minister did not stop there. He said: The Military Service Act was passed in order to meet a great emergency. When that emergency is passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ay that while he is getting large numbers of men to volunteer he is not getting sufficient. Can you wonder at it, when the man at present in France can take up the daily newspaper and see that, with all the advancement already made, with all the additional promises of the Government, he is to-day offered for his services to the country 5s. a week less than the Government pay to the man unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Wait a moment! Take the single man who to-day is in the Army. Let it be observed that the overwhelming mass that will be covered by this Bill will be the younger men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.692.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.692.2", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You said a single man would receive 5s. a week less than unemployment pay. Prove that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " is your answer, unless you are prepared to say, \"Yes, because I am compelling you to do this job I am prepared to pay you, and see that you do not suffer because of your absence.\" That is the logic of the whole case. If it is argued that the soldier ought not to be paid, say so, but let the soldier know. Do not argue it under the guise of something else. Do not pretend one thing and mean another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.692.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "en. But whether they be single or married, I am laying down this general proposition, that you have no right to compel a man to fight for you at a less wage than he can earn in ordinary civil employment. In other words, unless that principle is admitted you immediately say that you agree with sweated labour. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] You may not like it put in that way, but that is what it amounts to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is £3 a week an average wage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ary civil employment. In other words, unless that principle is admitted you immediately say that you agree with sweated labour. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] You may not like it put in that way, but that is what it amounts to. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] If I can earn£3 a week in civil employment, and you compel me to remain in the Army at 30s., you may call it what you like, but you are robbing me of 30s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.692.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no, a temporary thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ectly clear. For four years the nation has been fighting militarism. For four years the people of this country were asked to give their blood and treasure for the destruction of militarism. Four years ago the Central Powers were conscript countries. After four years we find ourselves to-day in a position of passing a Conscription Act which makes us a conscript country—enables the sons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"All pledged against the Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ill he and his Friends would go and tell the people of this country something that would make them very angry, and that we should be very sorry for. The right hon. Gentleman has an absolute right to tell people of this country anything he chooses. But this House is filled with Members who all represent great constituencies, who are all fresh from contact with enormous democratic electorates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And always will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ave drawn attention to the danger of suspicion being aroused in the working-class mind and the distrust of politicians which is universal. I say it is better to let us have it all out now. Let us honestly tell the country what we are up against. Ask them to help us to face it, as they have always shown themselves ready to face any necessity that has come along before in the course of the struggle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pay them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "g a voluntary Army to take the place of the Army on the Rhine before peace is signed, and there is no possibility of organising forces to relieve the Territorials in India before peace is signed, and there is no possibility of getting a garrison for Malta or Gibraltar before peace is signed, and those fortresses would be absolutely undefended if we were prevented from taking this necessary action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It cost thousands of lives!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ch numbers and such quality that they would have no need at all to put this proposition before the House they have to-night. Here is another argument I venture to submit. In 1915 this country was admittedly in a state of grave danger, and in the middle of that the Government of the day did not hesitate to wait until the force of facts almost impelled them to make those proposals before Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ntary basis. Why cannot that attempt be made? I venture to say you will not carry the people of this country with you in this measure until you have exhausted such a proposal as that. They will think, rightly or wrongly, that this is a measure which has been rushed on them, and that you have ulterior objects, which are not at all unconnected with a permanent measure of compulsory military service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "not carry the people of this country with you in this measure until you have exhausted such a proposal as that. They will think, rightly or wrongly, that this is a measure which has been rushed on them, and that you have ulterior objects, which are not at all unconnected with a permanent measure of compulsory military service. [Hon. Members: \"No!\"] Do not make any mistake about it—they will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.714.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "So it is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "edge of no Conscription? The Prime Minister was very angry during the election, because of the statement in the \"Daily News\" which has been quoted, to the effect that \"A vote for the Coalition is a vote for Con- scription.\" He felt this so keenly that he retorted with a flat denial. That has already been quoted. He said: It is not only not true, but it is a calculated and characteristic falsehood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "ure office. I am afraid to-night that we shall find that the machine will be at work. We shall find that most of the Members to whom I have referred, or nearly all, having received the coupon will be obliged to deliver the rations. We shall see to-night whether their conscience or the coupon is to prevail. Some of them may take refuge, probably a large number will, in abstaining from the Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.721.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "#8212;I say it frankly—I shall have more respect for the Member who boldly goes forward than for the man who weakly abstains; because this is a great and a vital issue, and a Member of Parliament ought to be able to make up his mind upon it and take a stand one way or another. The Liberal Coalition Members are in a great dilemma. If they vote for this Bill they are false to their principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "they are! If they vote, against then they can be accused of breaking their contract under the coupon. Whatever they do they break faith. It is a pitiable and humiliating position, but they have brought it on themselves. They themselves are to blame. Quite apart from the fact that this Bill is a grave breach of the Government election pledges, it is also a breach of President Wilson's fourth point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.722.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": " Wilson's fourth point. [Laughter.] Why do hon. Members laugh? These points have all been endorsed by our Government, and the Allied Governments on the signing of the Armistice. They were really a condition of the Armistice terms. What is this fourth point? That adequate securities shall be given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "I say in view of that fourth point and in view of the Prime Minister's declaration during the election as to the policy of the Government to be urged at the Peace Conference, it should be emphasised again and again that Conscription must be abolished in all the countries signing the Peace. We are standing now at one of the gravest moments of history. Upon our actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.722.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "e Government will propose another Conscription Bill, and will justify it by similar arguments to those used to-day. Thus there is the gravest danger of Conscription being permanently fastened on the country, and this despite the fact that we have been told again and again that this was to be the last war. It was the War to end war. It was a war to end militarism. Now the War is over and won—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.722.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Win, not won, the War!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "That observation is very interesting. The War is not over, then? The hon. Member on the opposite side of the House probably went down to his constituents and asked for support for the Won-the-War Government—for support for the man who had won the War and saved the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.723.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": " required. You cannot get away from the fact that a Conscript Army is a sweated Army. This is a Bill to secure cheap soldiers and to secure them in much larger numbers than is necessary. A large number of the men to be got under this Bill are to be used for the Army of Occupation, and this despite the fact that the Prime Minister, during the election, said that there must be no Army of Occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.723.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Quote!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.724.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.724.4", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What did he say?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "He said it at Bristol on 11th December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "are to be inadequately paid, yet all the time, as I have said, the Government will be paying 5 per cent. interest on £8,000,000,000 of debt, mostly to older men who have not been fighting in the War, but in many cases have made huge profits out of the War. Then you talk about equality of sacrifice! The Prime Minister perorates about the vital necessity of justice and fair play to all classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": "o described in vivid language how for five days and five nights that Army advanced and retreated but never broke, and they were without food and without water, and he intimated to me that it was the greatest Army the world has ever known. I am proud of that Expeditionary Force, and I declared that I would never again support a system that sent my fellow countrymen to be murdered as those men were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"When the other man, puts his coat on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": "e late Member for Hanley, I think were his colleagues. Certainly they co-operated with him in thwarting the business of this House. This place knows them no more, and I can quite well understand the hon. Member's feelings of pride in being the only solitary Member who has been returned as representing that band. As I understand this Bill it is merely a matter of terms as to when this war will end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "o believe that nothing could be finer for this country than to have a Labour party with a great hold on the community, and that it should be able to put its case equally with any other combination, of men in this House. But if the Labour party brings forward this Amendment purely for the purpose of gaining votes, they are going to keep back the day when they will hold that position in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.738.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Conscript the profiteers who did nothing during the War.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "osition looks more clear and we are calling up new men for the Army. I would ask the Labour party, if they rely upon the patriotism in the country to fill the voluntary Army, would they be prepared to agree to the introduction of Conscription to cover the deficiency between the volunteers and conscripts? They give us no alternative, but we are entitled to ask what is their position on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "e Labour party are not going to suggest that we should be the first to render ourselves naked to a possible future attack! We must be perfectly certain that other countries are going to do the same. That is one of the reasons why it is essential, if you are going to stop Conscription, that you should have a force sufficient to see that the Germans are not able to destroy the ratification of peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.740.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Certainly not.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "abour party if they can conscientiously go into the Lobby against this Bill unless they have some concrete proposals to put in its place. If they are prepared, as apparently hon. Members were this evening, to leave India absolutely denuded, to leave Mesopotamia without troops, to leave Palestine, to remove the great police forces which will be necessary for a time from all these territories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a necessity!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": " with a breach of good faith, but I do believe that they are making a terrible blunder on this occasion. I am as convinced as I am of my own existence that they are underrating gravely the feeling of the country on this matter. I travel about a good deal among the people. I know at first hand what the bulk of the people feel on this matter. Conscription was a hateful necessity, but it was hateful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"We must have some security!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "ced as I am of my own existence that they are underrating gravely the feeling of the country on this matter. I travel about a good deal among the people. I know at first hand what the bulk of the people feel on this matter. Conscription was a hateful necessity, but it was hateful. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a necessity!\"] It was a necessity, but there is no necessity after the ratification of peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.744.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We shall all be dead before then!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "day, it must inevitably be true when 30th April, 1920, comes, and if you are going to extract the last penny, as some hon. Members have declared is their intention, from Germany, even to the extent of thirty-five years, you may have an Army of Occupation extending over a period of thirty-five years, and these thirty-five years would give you an excuse to come again to this House from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.759.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh, oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": " and their home administration. I am not speaking about generals, or officers, or soldiers in the field, but the military authorities at home, who have given Parliament and the people of this country vast cause to complain, in their lack of foresight, in their vacillation, and in their general administration from the beginning of the War, when they did not give the voluntary system a chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": "I did not wish to labour that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.762.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.762.4", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "How could they help it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": "I did not wish to labour that point. [Laughter.] But as I have been challenged I will say—and if I am out of order perhaps the Speaker will recall me to the point—is it not the fact that they did not avail themselves to the full of the enthusiasm of enlistment in the first six months, but discouraged voluntary enlistment by taking the men into empty camps, by lack of equipment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": " that pledge. If the pledges made by the Prime Minister and hon. Members sitting on the benches opposite were carried out to the full this Bill would not have been introduced into the House to-day. I want to try and analyse the position from a common-sense point of view. Let us take Russia. Is there anything happening in Russia to-day that did not happen in there previous to this War breaking out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "sitting on the benches opposite were carried out to the full this Bill would not have been introduced into the House to-day. I want to try and analyse the position from a common-sense point of view. Let us take Russia. Is there anything happening in Russia to-day that did not happen in there previous to this War breaking out? [Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"] I know something about Russia. I have been there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "nt to Siberia. That took place in times of peace, when the plutocrats and aristocrats dominated Russia. The same thing is taking place in Russia to-day, and the people who have been oppressed and tyrannised for centuries are simply going through the same trials as they went through in times of peace. They used to kill and murder each other in times of peace; they are doing exactly the same to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": " unrest, I kept all my members in the steel trade at work in order to provide shells and munitions for the boys at the front. I, therefore, played my part during the War, and if my country goes to war again I will take my coat off again to assist my country. But we were a peace-loving people. Our boys went out in order to defeat and to destroy militarism in Germany. You have succeeded in doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "fore, played my part during the War, and if my country goes to war again I will take my coat off again to assist my country. But we were a peace-loving people. Our boys went out in order to defeat and to destroy militarism in Germany. You have succeeded in doing it. [Hon. Members: \"Not yet!\"] But, after destroying it in Germany, you are introducing a Bill to establish Conscription in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "t to make is a reply to the right hon. Gentleman with regard to the Regular Army. I had the audacity to interrupt him when he was drawing a picture of what would happen if we did not do this. He has a vivid imagination in addition to many other qualities. He pointed out how if we did not agree to this someone was going to pick up every coaling station of the British Empire the day after to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "Very well, then. These are men of the Regular Army now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Increase the wage!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "We have tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.779.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-06", "file": "debates1919-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b279bdd6e4eeb8b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY AND AIR FORCE SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Industrial conscription.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "lutely without a British Army at all, which is what this proposal would mean, if it were adopted? That is the fact. On the day peace is ratified every soldier in India will have the right to ask for his discharge, and we cannot refuse to give it. I can assure hon. Members it is really fighting a shadow. That is all. They are afraid that this means the thin edge of the wedge for Conscription—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-06a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-07", "file": "debates1919-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d14e2586f8dd69b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD Of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD Of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)", "preceding_text": "ses than these in which a limitation of the 10 per cent. may be desirable. I have had suggestions made to me to the following effect. There are cases in which the landlord has failed to make proper repairs, cases in which the tenant has suffered through the landlord's neglect, and it was put to me that in such cases it would be unjust to allow the landlord to claim an additional 10 per cent. rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-07", "file": "debates1919-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d14e2586f8dd69b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS WHITTAKER", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Budget!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS WHITTAKER", "preceding_text": " If you do nothing you will find there are landlords who will inflict hardship and injustice upon their tenants. If you prevent the levying of a reasonable increase in rent and a reasonable increase in interest on mortgage you will do injustice to others. This trouble is not the result of the War. It has been aggravated and accentuated by the War, but it existed before the War. It dates from 1909,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-07", "file": "debates1919-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d14e2586f8dd69b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS WHITTAKER", "cue_text": "Mr. Tyson Wilson: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS WHITTAKER", "preceding_text": "ce of it knows that that is so—that is, if you buy it from a builder in the ordinary way. As a matter of fact, anybody who has knowledge of this subject knows that the rents of houses are too low in normal times. They do not get an adequate return upon the investment. They do not take into adequate account the costs, the outgoings, arid the losses which are involved in owning house property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-07", "file": "debates1919-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d14e2586f8dd69b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROWLANDS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No, no—£100!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROWLANDS", "preceding_text": "ll gets into Committee much alteration will have to be made, and that he will be prepared to accept practical Amendments which will put it in a practical manner. I think the right hon. Gentleman said that the Clause in connection with proceedings in County Courts should apply in all cases. I am informed that under certain conditions cases of contract over £50 could be taken in the High Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-07", "file": "debates1919-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d14e2586f8dd69b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED YEO", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Yes it has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED YEO", "preceding_text": "I desire to say a few words on this matter. I am not sure whether the Bill covers the question of the 10 per cent. which the landlord is still to be allowed to ask for in regard to the increase of the rates. I do not think that has been put before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-07a.849.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "an opposite also said that there will be very little building in the next eighteen months. This Bill, so far as it operates at all in that direction, will discourage building. It will not tend to increase building. If the right hon. Gentleman's Amendment were carried, the only effect would be that you would have very much less building for the next five years than you might possibly get otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. YEO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. YEO", "preceding_text": "I want to see the Bill got rid of, and the next Order of the Day taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is that a new house?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "ent is an insult. I will say for the information of the House that one letter which I have received gives particulars of the bill which has been paid by the landlord in question for repairing a house. I do not know that this is what hon. Gentlemen call making a fortune out of house property. The house is let at 6s. 6d. weekly, and the bill for repairs paid within the last three weeks was £20.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILSON", "preceding_text": "tenant in increased rates. 7.0 P.M. I am moving this with the object of getting it made quite clear by the Government what their intentions are with regard to the increase of 10 per cent. The learned Attorney-General was not quite clear in his explanation of what the original Act said. He suggested that the 10 per cent. increase allowed would be an increase on the rates as well as on the net rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1214.2", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Say it stinks in the nostrils!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "Exactly, if the State will buy it at the market price, I am in favour of it. But I am speaking of something now of which I really know. If tomorrow someone comes into my office and inquires about house property, what answer can I give him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1218.2", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. M'LEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. M'LEAN", "preceding_text": " the more that we use it, but during this War the landlord has upset the economic theory and has shown that the more you use a house that is produced by labour the more valuable it becomes. The more that has been received by some of them has not been because houses have increased in value but because houses have become more scarce, and because they have been able to put a monopoly value upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1218.2", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. M'LEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And I say No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. M'LEAN", "preceding_text": "g this War the landlord has upset the economic theory and has shown that the more you use a house that is produced by labour the more valuable it becomes. The more that has been received by some of them has not been because houses have increased in value but because houses have become more scarce, and because they have been able to put a monopoly value upon them. [An Hon. Member: \"No!\"] I say yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1218.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1246.3", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "For houses empty or occupied?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": " a house on payment of a premium by the prospective tenant or accepts such a premium or any person who pays a premium in order to obtain possession of a house shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £20. To such an extent has this evil gone that we have offers openly made in the advertisement columns of newspapers of sums of £5 and £10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-11", "file": "debates1919-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "168b353f39bc00f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question put, \"That those words be there added.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-11a.1248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-12", "file": "debates1919-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9ec3ec17b3009d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-12a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "ce to the growing difficulty of dealing with the number of starred questions on the Paper. I understand from your ruling that without an alteration in the Standing Orders it is impossible to extend the time for answering these questions. The point I desire to put to you is, whether the Clerks at the Table could be invested with the discretion to unstar such questions as, on the face of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-12a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-12", "file": "debates1919-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9ec3ec17b3009d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-12a.1344.3", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [4TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " rise in the rates of pay of civilians, and that reacted upon them in the increased price of food on their wives and families. They were not making big profits; they were risking their lives daily in their ceaseless vigil in the North Sea or the Channel, or they might have been swooping mines in the Heligoland Bight. But undoubtedly there was at the end of last year grave unrest in the Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-12a.1344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-12", "file": "debates1919-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9ec3ec17b3009d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-12a.1344.3", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [4TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"There was no grave unrest!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ice of food on their wives and families. They were not making big profits; they were risking their lives daily in their ceaseless vigil in the North Sea or the Channel, or they might have been swooping mines in the Heligoland Bight. But undoubtedly there was at the end of last year grave unrest in the Navy—[HON. Members: \"No, no!\"]—and that grave unrest was aggravated by the publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-12a.1344.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-12", "file": "debates1919-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9ec3ec17b3009d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-12a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [4TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are more reasons for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "d men. It will be within the recollection of Members who were in the Parliament of five or six years ago that I divided the House on the Naval Estimates on that very point. I regret, however, that on that occasion I did not receive the support which I had anticipated from Members who sit on the Opposition benches. But I am glad to see and to know that they have changed their views since that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-12a.1388.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-13", "file": "debates1919-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3bc753cddc9894f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-13a.1607.2", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS DOUGLAS PENNANT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Now I have got an answer to my question. There is no charge. The right hon. Gentleman, with more readiness than my Noble Friend, has answered directly and plainly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-13a.1607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-13", "file": "debates1919-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3bc753cddc9894f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-13a.1607.9", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS DOUGLAS PENNANT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-13a.1607.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-13", "file": "debates1919-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3bc753cddc9894f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-13a.1607.9", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS DOUGLAS PENNANT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was never made!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " no, let us get a little further before we commit ourselves to an inquiry. Let us know the accusation. Let us know what the crime is, who the criminal is, and who is the accused person against whom that crime is brought. I should like to say, in support of what my right hon. Friend said, a word about Lord Weir. The charge of malice or corruption against Lord Weir is dropped. I do not wonder at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-13a.1607.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-14", "file": "debates1919-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "c71e6f60bb8d85e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-14a.1627.3", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I do not think that will add anything to the strength of the words at all. Of course, if it includes it, it is bound to include it in particular. But if you say \"especially\"you do give a direction which, I am sure, the majority of the Committee desire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-14a.1627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-14", "file": "debates1919-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "c71e6f60bb8d85e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-14a.1627.5", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "I really do not think that this is a matter on which we need occupy a great deal of time, and if my right hon. Friend presses it I shall be quite willing to accept the word \"especially.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-14a.1627.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-14", "file": "debates1919-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "c71e6f60bb8d85e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-14a.1627.5", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "eat deal of time, and if my right hon. Friend presses it I shall be quite willing to accept the word \"especially.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I do not think hon. Members altogether appreciate what is proposed. It was suggested that the words \"in particular\" should come after the word \"including,\" and I am now suggesting that instead of the words \"in particular\" the word \"especially\" should be inserted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-14a.1627.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1761.7", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERIC GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The consumers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERIC GEDDES", "preceding_text": "ng to do with them myself—where goods for Northern markets were deliberately influenced to a Southern port in order to get the haul over the railway, and goods for Southern markets were deliberately influenced to a Northern port—things that were identical in quality and everything else. That kind of thing is going on all over the country. That is a waste of movement. Who pays for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1761.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1761.7", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERIC GEDDES", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Remember that this week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERIC GEDDES", "preceding_text": " kind of thing is going on all over the country. That is a waste of movement. Who pays for that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"The consumers.\"] The community pays, and it is no blame to the agencies concerned. They try to do the best for themselves. That is their business. The community pays, the consumer pays, and the transport workers pay, because they do not get paid enough. It is in that way the money goes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1761.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will come!,\" and \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "No; I am not including shipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1779.2", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "he two years we must endeavour to lift the \"dead hand\" which is on development. We must endeavour to help it, and help it along heartily, while we are considering the question. At the end of two years, the powers under Clause 3 lapse, and we shall have to come back to the House. It was proposed to take any permanent action by Order in Council. That Order in Council would be discussed in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1779.2", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "must endeavour to help it, and help it along heartily, while we are considering the question. At the end of two years, the powers under Clause 3 lapse, and we shall have to come back to the House. It was proposed to take any permanent action by Order in Council. That Order in Council would be discussed in the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It was thought that it would afford reason- able facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1779.2", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "er Clause 3 lapse, and we shall have to come back to the House. It was proposed to take any permanent action by Order in Council. That Order in Council would be discussed in the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It was thought that it would afford reason- able facilities. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] But, in view of the fact that there is undoubtedly a strong feeling in the House against that procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1779.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1781.0", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The private traders are shouting.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "Council. That Order in Council would be discussed in the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It was thought that it would afford reason- able facilities. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] But, in view of the fact that there is undoubtedly a strong feeling in the House against that procedure—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"]—the Government will now amend Clause 4, eliminating the procedure by Order in Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1779.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1782.2", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is it the same with regard to Scotland?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "It will be a branch of the Ministry here. All local matters of purely local interest will be dealt with there. If matters of great importance have to be discussed, it will be the intention of the Minister, or the senior high technical officers, to go over to Dublin to discuss them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1783.0", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I want to be quite clear about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1783.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1785.0", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What is the date of that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "He stated the policy of the Board as follows: But your policy in the Harbour's Department has not been to manage harbours directly, but when you cannot avoid it you do so? That is so. We do not think it right that we should do it; that is our policy. That is the American policy of masterly inactivity? No, it is rather the policy that things can better be done by those on the spot. That is my case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1797.0", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And steel works too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "easons I have given, namely, no standardisation and the privately-owned wagons—that the Government's own estimate of saving in 1916 was that 700,000,000 train miles were saved. I would ask this House, when we are talking about the difficulty of the collieries, to remember that there is hardly a day in the year in South Wales but that some pit is not stopped because of the shortage of wagons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1860.2", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It was clear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have made that clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-17", "file": "debates1919-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d1c4862f5e7d920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1860.2", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Get it though!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "d Reading, I shall vote for it, but I am certain that the whole House will be very anxious to examine with the most scrupulous care every Clause, and indeed every two or three lines, of this Bill in Committee. I venture to suggest that it is another Bill which ought to be taken in Committee of the Whole House. I made, that remark with regard to another Bill, and I make it with regard to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-17a.1860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1891.4", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman cause inquiry to be made into this allegation before British money and British arms are used to support General Denikin in his barbarities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1891.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1947.14", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Free trade in transport!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " be given to any individual—powers which I should hesitate to give to a board, and I have been brought up in the school which believed that competition is the soul of business and that, if you want your goods or your passengers carried cheaply, rapidly, and well, it is very desirable to have a competitive method of transport rather than that you should leave it in the hands of any one board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1947.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "After solicitation?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "a copy of this resolution, either to the Home Secretary, or to the Prime Minister.\" County councils to the number of thirty-two have passed resolutions in the sense I have indicated, so have eighty-six town councils, ninety urban district councils, and 119 rural district councils. Thirty-two of the great county councils of this country have passed resolutions against the road Clauses of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDWARD CARSON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDWARD CARSON", "preceding_text": "he tell us? He told us that at the present moment the railways of this country were being run at a loss of £100,000,000 a year, as much, when I came into this House more than a quarter of a century ago, as it took to run the country. What has caused the deficit? The deficit has been caused by the increase of wages and the increase in the price of coal, which again means the increase of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDWARD CARSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chepstow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDWARD CARSON", "preceding_text": "u will have the same deficiencies in a very short time as regards the other undertakings which are to be handed over to the right hon. Gentleman by this Bill. I heard the right hon. Gentleman yesterday talk of economy—economy when you work undertakings by the Government! Let us not delude ourselves about it. Where is the instance of economy in anything that was ever worked by the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"In Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "to raise it. Someone said in Glasgow the other day that this was an investment for the rich citizens of Glasgow. But I say that while we have £7,000,000 invested by 16,000 investors, 10,000 of these are for sums of £300 and less; and in reply to those who would say that we are extravagant or inefficient, I may say that we have been able to borrow money at less than the Government itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.1983.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Thirteen hundred millions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE", "preceding_text": "ness matter which can only be dealt with as a definite proposition setting out the full value and the conditions of acquisition, etc. No doubt a very big saving would be effected as a result of undivided control while the convenience in many respects would be improved. I do not consider that the Minister controlling the railways of this country, representing capital as they do of, I suppose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2033.0", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "e every time. Our local municipalities in all these districts maintain their tramways, and they have to pay the whole cost of the maintenance of the roads within the outer rail. And not merely within the outer rail, they have also to pay for the maintenance of the roads for 18 inches each side of the outer rail. What does that mean? The railways do not have to take such charges on their shoulders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2033.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2033.0", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "EMBERS: \"Yes!\"] Yes! Only the other day you had to appoint Commissions from this House to inquire into the miserable failures you have made in the management of the coal mines. The Mines Commission is a proof of the magnificent success you have made of private industry. You have made a profit; out of what? Out of the misery, out of the tears of the women who are the most unable to help themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2033.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order!\" and \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I was surprised, as a new Member of this House, not having the experience all the Members have had, and thinking that things were just what they seemed, when I heard the Debate on Conscription last week, that it was absolutely essential, in order that we might maintain the victory which we have achieved, to keep the men in. the Army compulsorily longer, so that the victory might finally be sealed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2042.0", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What quantities?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "stance I was going to give. You have two stations at Southampton, the dock station and the town station. When supplies arrive at the Southampon Dock Station they have finished their sea journey so far as London is concerned. Butter, cheese, and bacon from Southampton Dock Station to London is 6s. 6d. per ton. Bacon, cheese, and butter from Southampton Town Station, 700 yards away, is 20s. per ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2047.0", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "for Liverpool said that if he chose the Minister could take such steps as to start building a second Great Northern Railway, which would make it impossible to give the House the opportunity, such as we have given it, of deciding these big questions of the permanent use of those means of transport. In theory that is true, but you must give even Ministers credit for a certain amount of common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-18", "file": "debates1919-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "077bb9437a689e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2047.0", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "which he can put his cargo on the quay that would suit him just as well as if he had to put it into trucks, which would make a tremendous difference in the transit interests of the country. I do not for a moment deny that the Dock Trusts have been well managed; but what are they afraid of? Do they suppose that my right hon. Friend is going to try and manage everything from his office in Whitehall?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-18a.2047.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-19", "file": "debates1919-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5eac111484f6b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-19a.2121.10", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "eans a few score of extra officals appointed. Then there are many new offices coming into the field. They will all have to be staffed and manned. As was well said by my right hon. Friend the Member for Peebles (Sir D. Maclean) the other day, and it was echoed in all parts of the House, what we want in this country is production; but does any official or Government Department ever produce anything?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-19a.2121.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-19", "file": "debates1919-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5eac111484f6b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-19a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "The Regulations of the Board of Trade generally preventing free export of our cotton and other goods to foreign countries—to China, to India, and other places of that description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-19a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-19", "file": "debates1919-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5eac111484f6b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-19a.2174.3", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Almost all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I think I will wait until the list is ready before it is published, because some associations who were asked to nominate have not sent in all the names. Objection has been taken that a number of these are manufacturers. It is quite true they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-19a.2174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-19", "file": "debates1919-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5eac111484f6b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-19a.2174.6", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "s subcommittees, will have an opportunity of calling anybody who is a special expert, either as merchant, manufacturer, retailer, on whatever the conditions in that trade are, to be heard if they have not got on their own body men sufficiently expert to go into the details of that particular branch of trade. That is the position of the Committee, and I hope very much that it will get to work soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-19a.2174.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-20", "file": "debates1919-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7df697e6ab6d900a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-20a.2382.1", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. and gallant Friend does not appreciate that this is a Debate on the Consolidated Fund Bill. I am not going into the Irish policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-20a.2382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-21", "file": "debates1919-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a0bd4a34f7686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2421.3", "colnum": "2421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "preceding_text": " to hear one hon. Gentleman after another on the other side getting up and contradicting each other when dealing with labour problems. They say that they represent the workers. Our view is that we represent the workers just as much as they do. The only difference between us is that they are not united on a single political question, whereas we in our little group are. We know exactly what we want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-21", "file": "debates1919-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a0bd4a34f7686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2435.1", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M'LEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M'LEAN", "preceding_text": "nd women who are signing these unemployment books, asking if anything can be done in the way of finding them useful employment, so that they can say they are really living as men and women and doing their duty by the community. We know that this is not being found. One hon. Member said that the industrial unrest is causing certain captains of industry to hesitate about embarking in new industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-21", "file": "debates1919-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a0bd4a34f7686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2437.0", "colnum": "2437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Robert Home)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Robert Home)", "preceding_text": "rmony. Reference was made to the present state of unemployment in this country, and, indeed, the figures of the number of people at present in receipt of unemployment donation are very grave and disquieting. The hon. Member for Burnley stated that the Labour party had never wished for the unemployment donation—indeed, as I understood him, he thought that we would have been better without it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2437.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-21", "file": "debates1919-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a0bd4a34f7686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2450.1", "colnum": "2450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is irrelevant enough, anyhow!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "o has just spoken. I have been accustomed to meetings where irrelevancy is put down very quickly, and I am not going to take up the time of this Assembly by talking irrelevancy. I would recommend the hon. Member, if he wants the doctrines that he has been preaching carried out, namely, that each man should be his own employer, to read the history of the Lane Expedition from Australia to Argentine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-21", "file": "debates1919-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "e78a0bd4a34f7686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2450.2", "colnum": "2450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": ", we have got to contend with the whole world. There is tonnage being built in Japan and in America, and if we were to order tonnage at the present time we do not know what the cost would be, and after we had got them it would be impossible to run them without a serious loss. I have passed through many periods and very few of prosperity, but a great many of adversity. When freights are poor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-21a.2450.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.106.6", "colnum": "106", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "A very bad month.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "d, and there will be a new register in October which will be perfected about the end of November, for appeals generally go to the Court of Appeal at the beginning of November, and by the end of November the new register will be perfect, and it is desirable when you are introducing this measure that the election should take place upon the new basis. The first election will therefore be in December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.109.7", "colnum": "109", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "preceding_text": " My objection to this Bill would be very largely removed, or at any rate I should look upon it from a different point of view if it were applied to the whole of the United Kingdom. That is the real basis of the opposition which we on these benches propose to give to this Bill. It seeks to impose upon us differential treatment, and we do not see why we should be made the subject of this experiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.109.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "I was elected on proportional representation.", "preceding_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "pplied to the whole of the United Kingdom. That is the real basis of the opposition which we on these benches propose to give to this Bill. It seeks to impose upon us differential treatment, and we do not see why we should be made the subject of this experiment. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] Would the hon. Member like his particular constituency to be made the subject of this particular experiment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.109.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "hat is the object, I take it, of this Bill, and not to give a bigger representation to Protestants or a bigger representation to Catholics. The true cause of the opposition which is being shown by Ulster Members is no doubt a desire for what I believe to be an unattainable uniformity between Ulster and this country. They do not really deal with the merits of proportional representation in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take the other provinces!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "enth of the population, it has only about one-fortieth of the representation. Owing to the War, it is impossible to get recent figures of the rest of Ireland, but the latest that I could get show that in Munster, out of a total of 227 county councillors, there were only two Unionists. That is to say, there was only 1 per cent. of representation, as against 15 per cent. of the estimated population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.121.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Which goose?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "n between Belfast and Barcelona. I should not like to make the same comparison with a city of bombs and Bolshevists. The Members for Belfast have been coming here for years, complaining and screaming that they represented an oppressed minority. They do not like now to experience the same thing for themselves, but I suggest to them that what was sauce for the goose ought to be sauce for the gander.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "land as in the rest of the United Kingdom. If that rule had been made applicable during the last century what a different history there would have been in Ireland. But no, the same standard has never been administered to Ireland as to Great Britain. Majorities in Ireland have never counted. A powerful minority from the north-east corner of that country has been able to clog the wheels of progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "orth-east corner of that country has been able to clog the wheels of progress. [Laughter.] It is all very well for hon. Members to laugh. They know as well as I do that every great measure of public reform that was ever proposed in this House for all classes in Ireland, especially for the working-classes, has been opposed by hon. Members sitting upon the benches opposite, or their representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.130.5", "colnum": "130", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "ne point I was most anxious, above all others, to make on rising was that we have had neither hand, act, nor part in bringing this Bill into the House. Having been brought into the House it is a question for us as to what action we shall take upon it. In all problems, and in all con- siderations of the Irish problem, we upon these benches have always given the greatest consideration to minorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.130.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.132.5", "colnum": "132", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "if it was proposed that the Land Act of 1903 should not apply to Ireland because it was not applied to this country? I wonder what they would say if they went to their constituents, especially the rural Members, and said that the Agricultural Labourers Acts should not be applied to Ireland because they were not applied to this country? Their answer may be, \"Oh, but we want them applied all round!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.132.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.134.5", "colnum": "134", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sligo understood it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "Well, if these words have nothing to do with the work, this is the only part of the Bill in which I can find anything about proportional representation. I do not claim to have any special ability in relation to this, or anything in relation to proportional representation, but I never have understood what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.134.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-24", "file": "debates1919-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "249989fc4930f610", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the medical officer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "The county surveyor is the only case to which he can point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-24a.145.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Limited Power of Increasing Rents during the Extended Period.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "e to accept that Amendment on three grounds—on the ground of authority, on the ground of equity, and on the ground of expediency. The authority was a Committee of experts who presented an all but —though not quite—unanimous Report. There was in the Hunter Committee a minority of two members, who, I believe, were supposed specially to represent the tenants' interest in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.248.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Limited Power of Increasing Rents during the Extended Period.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "Nobody is going to be, in a general way. It is true enough that many persons are not better off, unfortunately; but, at all events, a great number of persons are better off through the War. The great bulk of the wage earners of the country have had their wages increased, equal probably to the extra cost of what they have to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.255.5", "colnum": "255", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Limited Power of Increasing Rents during the Extended Period.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": " the things he sells, and when wages have gone up! I therefore venture to think that if we do not accept this Amendment from another place we shall be doing what is not right. Of course, I know we do not like being told here by another place what we are to do, but I think there are cases where the other place is able to advise, because Members there take more care and more trouble over the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.255.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.273.5", "colnum": "273", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": ",000 men fully armed in every sense of the term. To meet that risk the Secretary of State for War is grossly over-insuring at the cost of a serious infraction of our national unity on this point. Can anyone doubt it? Wherever one turns—election results, public meetings, members' post-bags since this Bill was introduced—I am sure every hon. Member has had protests from his constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.273.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " I was in the land where I was born in!\" In order that these men may remain as the sentinels for capitalism in the outposts of Empire, in Russia and in other countries, and to collect other people's debts, we are told our men have got to fight on in order that the guaranteed interests may be found for those who invested capital. I say honestly, Gentlemen, patriotic Labour man as I have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are all against it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ey won this War that they had finished with Conscription. They did not believe that it was a post-dated cheque on the bank of futurity for which they fought. They believed that we were out to win a victory for democracy, and, whether our Friends opposite like it or not, militarism is the very antithesis of democracy, and we democrats are out to fight all the time and every time against militarism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": "f going back to my Constituents and telling them that in the present circumstances, in the outlook we have over the world at the present time, we should be false to our duty to our constituents to refuse to take the steps which the Government now ask us to take. I am sorry the Opposition are taking this course, but, after all, it is only an attempt to get a stick with which to beat the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "g regard to those pledges, which were taken up by all hon. Members who support the Government and advocated by them. Hon. Members opposite may not have received many letters, but if they had gone down to their constituencies since and had spoken with regard to their votes on this particular matter, they would have found already that this resentment exists and will continue to exist in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WHITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WHITE", "preceding_text": "er gets, 48s. a week if he is single, and 79s. if married. I have yet failed to find any man who is getting anything like that, even with the separation allowances. Pay your soldier on the same rate as you pay your munition worker, then you will get your Army in no time. Make the conditions of life easier for the men who have done so much for us. Abolish tyranny and bullying on the barrack square.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been done!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "re in any ordinary question between capital and labour. If there was a dispute about how much the employers ought to pay, or about what hours the men ought to work, and so forth, I go even further than the hon. Gentleman, and say that I do not think it is at all within the region of proper action that troops should be employed, and I do not believe the military authorities would contemplate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.318.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman do that?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " think it should be by an Amendment to this Bill or by application to any particular class of soldier. I think a measure should be brought forward defining the duties of the soldier in relation to other citizens as a separate Bill, and that that should apply not merely during the currency of this Bill and to particular soldiers, but to all soldiers, and permanently, as part of the law of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.320.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.323.4", "colnum": "323", "heading": "IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Not all of them!", "preceding_speaker": "Major NEWMAN", "preceding_text": " the production of revenue, and to the employment of labour. The luck of the ballot has given me one of the few opportunities the Back Benches enjoy of pressing the Government, not so much as a private Member but as a citizen, on its policy on a vital point. Members who were returned last December to support the present Government were returned by a vote which altogether cut across old party ties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.323.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No, not from Russia—moderate.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "It was outside the Empire, anyhow. We took an immense figure from Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "89;d. per day. How are you going to compete against charges like that, we are asked. We need these tariffs, we are told, because of competition with America, which pays bigger wages than we do. What does it all mean? I ask myself as a plain man, do we need tariffs because of low wages or because of high wages? Evidently one or the other must be wrong, or the country is wrong from beginning to end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "ought before us by the Government for discussion, it is absolutely essential that some machinery should be suggested for keeping those industries under the very strictest national control, and securing that the profits for carrying them on should come to the nation, and not go to any sets of private and interested individuals. We have said that kind of thing before. We shall go on saying it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-25", "file": "debates1919-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b78c00985434ecb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do to ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "and, I am afraid, very much disappointed those who brought forward this Motion. I do not wonder the Government hesitates. There is a great deal about which to hesitate. It is a dreadful thing to contemplate what hon. Members who move this Motion do contemplate with the utmost cheerfulness, namely, beginning our new relations with our new Allies by putting on duties against the goods they send out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-25a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-26", "file": "debates1919-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7400cb702df4aa2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "w as to the exact date, I certainly will follow the Secretary of State for War. May I point out that so far from the Bill indicating, as somebody suggested, that there is an ulterior motive to carry on Conscription or compulsory service beyond what is necessary, there is, if I have read it rightly, a Section in this Bill providing that, if possible, it shall be an earlier date than the 30th April?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-26", "file": "debates1919-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7400cb702df4aa2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A wrong action!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t part of a year their services will be required, after the first disappointment is over they make up their minds, they settle down, they make their arrangements and plans accordingly, and then you get steady discipline, good comradeship, and good organisation. This is not a matter of surmise or assertion, it is an ascertained fact, because since we took this action, which was strong action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-26", "file": "debates1919-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7400cb702df4aa2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stay there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I will get back to Russia, and I will be at home there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.483.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-26", "file": "debates1919-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7400cb702df4aa2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to Prolong Period of Naval, Military, or Air Force Service.)", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman give the name of any battalion where the officer does not know how many of his men have had leave?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "he Army for various purposes. I have never been able to understand—perhaps some of the military Members of the House will make us understand—how it is that the officers of a particular unit or battalion do not know how many men have had leave and when they last got leave. After all, a battalion is a small number, and I think that the officers should be able to divide it up and do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.502.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-26", "file": "debates1919-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7400cb702df4aa2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL RECONSTRUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the land?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel WEIGALL", "preceding_text": "d gallant Friend last week, having had the evidence that I have had before the Milk Committee as to the ravages of this disease, whether anything was proposed to be done? The position at present means this, that in every single one of the herds that is producing the one essential food for our women and children the output is diminished by 40 per cent., thus sending up the price to every one of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-26a.528.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "s, and incidence of the tax, allowances and reliefs, administration, assessment, appeal and collection, and prevention of evasion, and to report what alterations of law and practice are in their opinion necessary or desirable and what effect they would have on rates of tax if it were necessary to maintain the total yield. I think hon. Members will desire to know the constitution of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.587.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ng last, and as far as the eye could reach there were works, miles of trenches, railways, forests of poles, and the whole thing in full swing. In spite of all these efforts, it was admitted in another place yesterday that there is no reasonable probability of that vast undertaking being ready for the purposes for which it may be necessary, because that is not even settled yet, until December next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.642.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not live there; they come by railway!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "em. As we have all this stock on our hands, are we going to put it up to pubilc auction and sell it at break-up value, as the permanent Government officials would have done? They would not have had the enterprise to take up a scheme of this kind. Of course, it is hard lines on the people who live in the aristocratic section at Taplow and other places, to have these workmen coming into their midst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or given away to some hon. Members!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "his very important matter, whether any portion of the 80,000 vehicles of which we are possessed should be repaired before sale in the Government depot so far as its resources will go, after dealing with the current maintenance of Government mechanical transport; whether on the one hand these vehicles should all be sold in the condition in which they are now, or handed over for repair to the trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any relation to the shepherd?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "arts at home in this country, to which must now be added those of the great depots in France which are coming back on top of us as the winding-up proceeds, and these make up the total to £15,000,000. Lastly, the House will have read in the Debate in another place about the old man of ninety-two who is receiving £4 a week. I have been searching for this aged man of ninety-two all the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why set up a Committee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "ould not be an entirely good precedent that we should take the attitude that when we had decided to settle this thing in a particular way that our decision should be simply thrown aside because of action in another place. All that my right hon. Friend said—and he said it with my full approval—was this. We do not think there is a primâ facie case for this inquiry. That is our view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that there is to be a Committee appointed, no matter how the House of Commons votes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " thing which does not frequently happen, but it never was so earnestly placarded as has been the case this afternoon. So far as I can gather, and I am only now dealing with the question from the point of view of procedure and precedent, because there is a domestic quarrel amongst members of the Tory party, between the Unionists in the House of Commons and their friends in the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "hmen, and although I have no doubt that physical exercise is good for us all, I object altogether to be compelled to engage myself in a physical operation for not the slightest justifiable reason. The right hon. Gentleman ought to have said to the House, \"There is no justification for the appointment of a Select Committee.\" The Minister for War has spoken for an hour and twenty-five minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have appointed a Select Committee!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "t as ever, and it may or may not be, according to the intelligence of the person who was listening to him, that there should or should not be a Select Committee appointed. But that is for the Government to say. If there ought not to be a Select Committee appointed they should say so; but they say that because the House of Lords has declared that there must be a Select Committee, there must be one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to say I am afraid all this is due to my having expressed myself very badly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I can only intervene for a moment by the permission of the House The Question, Mr. Speaker, which, you will put from the Chair is this: \"That this House do now adjourn.\" That was moved from the Government Benches. Those Members who wish to support the Government view, that there is no need for a special inquiry, will, of course, go into the \"Aye\" Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "GOVERNMENT MOTOR WORKS, CIPPENHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "May I say again that I think this has been complicated and that I am responsible for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.692.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We will send them along.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "There is no restriction on wood pulp. If that is what the hon. Member meant, he was misinformed. I should like to know what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.727.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-03-27", "file": "debates1919-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67043646c552edc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.746.8", "colnum": "746", "heading": "IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "la the right hon. Gentleman aware that several mills in the country are being shut down at the present time?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "I do not think there in anything I can add on the question of paper. The Government, in taking their decision, acted upon the best advice given, and in the recognised public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-27a.746.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-28", "file": "debates1919-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "9cb5acb6ec5b990a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-28a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Or one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ithin a few millions. Further, I ask my right hon. Friend to consider this matter. It would not be in order on this particular Resolution to make a Motion to enlarge the figure of £250,000 mentioned in the remarks of my hon. and gallant Friend opposite, but surely the Government can say that when the next Resolution is reached it will indicate some figure, say, two millions or three millions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-28a.820.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.862.4", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Will this most admirable principle, sanctioned by Parliament, be applied to England and Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.862.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY, AND AIR FORCE SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "preceding_text": "our power to win this War. We desire to remain their friends. We desire to help them to win the peace. But a different course was adopted, and we were forced into a position of antagonism we did not desire to take. So there came the General Election, in which we were forced into this narrow, small minority with which we are trying to stand for all that we believe to be the liberties of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY, AND AIR FORCE SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "preceding_text": ", it is not fair to charge the farts as though they were such as the Government had no association with them. In regard to many of the difficulties, it is the Government, by their action in the General Election, who have produced them. Of course I know, from what has happened this afternoon, and from what happened on the Second Reading, what will happen when we go into the Division Lobby to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY, AND AIR FORCE SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "preceding_text": "ernment had no association with them. In regard to many of the difficulties, it is the Government, by their action in the General Election, who have produced them. Of course I know, from what has happened this afternoon, and from what happened on the Second Reading, what will happen when we go into the Division Lobby to-night. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, I know; you will vote us down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY, AND AIR FORCE SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "preceding_text": "t there were not intimidated by the sneers of the Germans, and we are not going to be intimidated by your sneers either. It seems strange, perhaps, to hon. Gentlemen that a minority in this House should dare to raise its head and stand for what it believes to be freedom. We have been sent here for a definite purpose, and are going to fulfil the purpose for which our constituents have sent us here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY, AND AIR FORCE SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wee Frees!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE THORNE", "preceding_text": "that a minority in this House should dare to raise its head and stand for what it believes to be freedom. We have been sent here for a definite purpose, and are going to fulfil the purpose for which our constituents have sent us here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we!\"] We are not pledged to the Government; we are pledged to our constituents. They have sent us here as free men, to freely speak our minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.923.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY, AND AIR FORCE SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "gthening our position as our negotiations advance, we weaken our position, to such an extent that it may be even at the eleventh hour Germany will be prepared if not to resist to the end, at all events to prolong the agonies of war. The very men who think they do without this necessary preparation are the very men who, above all others, I believe, wish to get out of this War the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL, MILITARY, AND AIR FORCE SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "seless thing of all, and it will be nothing but a trap for the unwary to allow themselves to be beguiled by these broad theories when there is no force behind them. These are the men who say, \"Let us get rid of Conscription and the necessity for large armies and extended armaments.\" Will you be in a position to do this if once you let your whole organisation fall to pieces, as it undoubtedly will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.939.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Was that a sentence by court-martial?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "preceding_text": "e. He was sentenced to twenty-eight days' field punishment No. 1. I wrote to his commanding officer as his mother, who was broken-hearted, came to see me and described the punishment he was undergoing. Eventually he was reprieved to the extent that he was sentenced to nine months' detention instead of the twenty-eight days' field punishment No. 1. I contend that that was an unjustifiable sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you sure it was nine months' detention?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "preceding_text": "d, came to see me and described the punishment he was undergoing. Eventually he was reprieved to the extent that he was sentenced to nine months' detention instead of the twenty-eight days' field punishment No. 1. I contend that that was an unjustifiable sentence. [An HON MEMBER: \"Was that a sentence by court-martial?\"] I cannot tell you how it was done; all I know was that he was sentenced to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain A. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. SMITH", "preceding_text": "fers to officers. I can only say at once we know it does not. Many hon. and gallant members of this House have seen a good deal of service in this War, and they know as well as anyone how officers have contravened the Army Regulations and how they have encouraged men to do it time after time during this War, and they have escaped; but when the men have been caught they have been severely punished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ishment laid down, for I shall most certainly in my own Constituency, if I am not satisfied with Army Regulations and Army conduct, criticise those Regulations and that conduct, though the Act may provide a punishment of two years' imprisonment. Every politician who goes before a bench of magistrates of an opposite political complexion from his own is in danger, if this Clause remains in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "from that of those hon. Gentlemen who have spoken before me. To me, as an advocate of a national citizen Army, a soldier has equal rights with every other citizen in the State. He should not be subject to special laws which do not operate against his civilian comrade, and if he breaks the law, he should be subject to the same punishment and the same kind of trial as any other subject of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "id not want. He then went to the extent of organising an army for the purpose of resisting an Act of Parliament passed by this House. What, then, is the use of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen getting up and talking about obedience to the law, discipline, and the recognition of authority if those who are in high places, when it does not suit their purpose, become the principle advocates of rebellion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": " the Army against their will are guilty of these offences? Will you go to your constituencies 2 I am not a lawyer, but I will meet any of you in any of your constituencies and argue the case out before the common citizens of this country, who, after all, are our masters. We have not come here by our own consent, but because the people have sent us. Possibly they made a mistake in sending me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are shot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "y they made a mistake in sending me—[HON. MEMBEES: \"NO!\"]—but I want hon. Members—I made a mistake the other evening in calling them gentlemen—to realise the fact. The argument has been put forward this evening that we must maintain discipline. How is it that this discipline does not apply to those in authority in the Army? How many officers have been tied to the gun wheel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-03-31", "file": "debates1919-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ebb749709d150454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know what you are talking about! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": " evening in calling them gentlemen—to realise the fact. The argument has been put forward this evening that we must maintain discipline. How is it that this discipline does not apply to those in authority in the Army? How many officers have been tied to the gun wheel? [An HON. MEMBER: \"They are shot!\"] They get shot at when anyone sees them, but they are missed more often than they are seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-03-31a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-01", "file": "debates1919-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "6a803fc92434e396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-01a.1057.5", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUBERCULOSIS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Does this apply to soldiers in Ireland suffering from tuberculosis?", "preceding_speaker": "Major ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I think the civilian tuberculous people have a far longer waiting list than discharged ex-soldiers. This question only refers to ex-soldiers. The Local Government Board is taking every step to try to encourage the provision of institutional treatment for the population at large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-01a.1057.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-01", "file": "debates1919-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "6a803fc92434e396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-01a.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is it not possible out of these profits to make refunds to those people who have had their property destroyed by aircraft prior to the date on which their policy was put into force?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "The Government have made a considerable amount out of this, but they have had to pay for aircraft defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-01a.1070.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-01", "file": "debates1919-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "6a803fc92434e396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-01a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will he have power to veto it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "charge of the Department, that that representative of the Treasury will be entitled to go in and see all these Estimates and all the proposed expenditure, and to take the matter over and discuss it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, of course, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if necessary, will consult the Government, having regard to the necessary expenditure for the year. So far so good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-01a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-01", "file": "debates1919-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "6a803fc92434e396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-01a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "SCOTTISH BOARD OF HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "he proposed to take the various powers under Clause 4 which follow the English model, I have not much to say, except to press this point upon the right hon Gentlemen. In the English Bill, at any rate as it left the House, it was not proposed to take within the scope of the measure the powers of the Home Office. I have not followed what occurred upstairs, and I do not know whether that was altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-01a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "He said so!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "If the man was discharged unfit before 1916 and then rejoined after 1916, does the right hon. Gentleman regard that as continuous service and entitling the man to his discharge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Yes, but if there is a difference of opinion as to whether these people are insurrectionary Russians or Bolsheviks between American troops and Japanese troops, can we have an assurance that British troops will cooperate with the Americans and not with the Japanese?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1256.4", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will it be withdrawn or repealed before the election?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The Clause only stands for one year. It can be re-examined and rediscussed in the light of the circumstances as we find them then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1256.5", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not say so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " for employment under the Army Council. I imagine that hon. Gentlemen opposite have thought that that might contemplate the enrolment of a large body of civilians under the Army Council for the purpose of strike-breaking or something like that. We have never contemplated anything of the sort. These words are intended to apply to Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps and to the Women's Royal Air Force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1256.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up, we cannot hear a word\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Judging this discussion from its outset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. DALZIEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. DALZIEL", "preceding_text": "The Committee will be grateful to my right hon. Friend for realising the opinion of the vast majority of the Members here I must say I am sorry he did not make the withdrawal with a little more grace if I may say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Major HAYWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HAYWARD", "preceding_text": "That is so, but the men do not appeal. Very few of the men know about the powers of appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY JONES", "preceding_text": "d it is estimated, even if the production were increased to 400,000,000 tons per year, that, theoretically, the field would last 350 years. It seems to me only logical that Germany should pay part of her indemnity to the Allies by drawing upon her superabundant stores of coal. It may be urged that English coal-owners and miners would object to German coal replacing English coal in neutral markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She will be again !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "0,000 will do. But I will cut off £16,000,000,000, because we are talking in such big figures that the whole thing is getting ridiculous. The hon. and gallant Gentleman said that in 1914 a German authority calculated that Germany was worth £15,000,000,000 and that she had an annual income of £2,000,000,000. If she was worth £15,000,000,000 that was when she was a going concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "24,000,000,000 with the other. I am entirely in sympathy with the hon. and gallant Gentleman, but at that time Germany was a united people, with the entire population working on an economic basis. What is her capital of £15,000,000,000, in 1914, worth to-day? Where is her £2,000,000,000 a year income? Does anyone suggest that she is at this moment on an economic basis producing anything?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "nt Gentleman, but I do not see how we are going to collect £24,000,000,000. Is it really considered, and is it the idea of the House that, having endured what we have endured for nearly five years, we really have the purpose of taking over a people of the greatness of Germany—a people of nearly 80,000,000—by putting in a receiver and leaving him there, if need be, for fifty years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "e House that, having endured what we have endured for nearly five years, we really have the purpose of taking over a people of the greatness of Germany—a people of nearly 80,000,000—by putting in a receiver and leaving him there, if need be, for fifty years? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] I am glad to see that is the idea. I say it is physically impossible, and I say it is morally wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the electors say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "y five years, we really have the purpose of taking over a people of the greatness of Germany—a people of nearly 80,000,000—by putting in a receiver and leaving him there, if need be, for fifty years? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] I am glad to see that is the idea. I say it is physically impossible, and I say it is morally wrong. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I will say why it is morally wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An international commission!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ifty years against an enemy country is, to my mind, an idea of a world in absolute ruin. All the Allies want indemnities paid. We have heard it said, \"Let us present the bill.\" To whom shall we present the bill? To the Chancellor of the Exchequer for Germany? His position is not a very secure one. We are told that there was 100 millions in gold. That has all come out month by month in buying food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " proposal. Then we hear about the coal mines. The proposal is, \"Germany has coal: make the German workmen hew the coal and send it abroad for our own credit, or send it here for our use.\" When the hon Member suggested it, and said that the mine-owners and miners would like it, I replied that I expected that. We should be getting an indemnity paid while we should be ruining our own mining industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-02", "file": "debates1919-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "05ea4523f8e8db7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1339.2", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "INDEMNITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "Lieutenant-Colonel C. LOWTHER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Member's pardon. It is precisely what I said. I said he put the debt at £8,000,000,000 and that the Germans must obviously have the means to meet it, and therefore we can wipe oh this £3,000,000,000 from the £25,000,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-02a.1339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1437.7", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "May I ask, in view of the very heavy programme the right hon. Gentleman has indicated, whether there is any possibility of concluding the Second Reading of the Housing Bill on Monday if we suspend the Eleven o'clock Rule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1437.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1437.8", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I will be quite ready as far as the Government is concerned to consider that suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1437.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "Rule because they cannot, owing to the opposition of hon. Gentlemen opposite, give Ireland unity under a single Legislature? If that be the case now, it was the case on 9th February, 1918, and if it were not true then it is not true now. The Prime Minister must have thought it true then or else he would not have pledged himself and his Government to the unity of Ireland under a single Legislature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1459.3", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Three!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": " I say one word about the Convention itself, because there was a great deal said about the majority having arrived at certain conclusions, and it was asked why did the Government not act upon the majority report. What are the facts? Go back to the history of the institution of the Convention. The Convention was merely an attempt to bring together two parties in Ireland who had been at loggerheads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1462.4", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "ers who enlisted in the Southern provinces, but apparently all the soldiers and sailors who enlisted in the Army and Navy of Irish birth in all the rest of the world. A very large number of Irishmen who have joined the forces both in England, and Scotland, and in the Dominions, are soldiers who, so far as politics and religion are concerned, are much more in sympathy with the Ulster point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1462.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1471.3", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"46,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "robably 414,000 at the present moment, and growing every day. This House will hardly believe in a great industrial centre of that kind filled with those great working classes, who, I venture to say, have proved to be as worthy citizens of the Empire during the War as any others in the whole United Kingdom, and who contributed out of their population without any Conscription 42,000 or 43,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "Is it a sectarian college?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1481.4", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that all the colleges in this country are sectarian too?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "I am not complaining that it should be sectarian; I am very glad it is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1481.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1489.4", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "He had not fair representation!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "But you were not a member of the Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1489.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "He is not an Ulster man!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "o not want it! I put it to any English Member: \"Would you want equality if you could get domination?\" That is what exists to-day. Here in England you get the blame of misruling Ireland, whereas many of our rulers are Members from Ulster and occupy all the high places, and are provided with the various emoluments. You have the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He is a member of the Ulster Unionist party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1489.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " the separate and distinct treatment of Ireland I can call as eloquent witness to this view, the Member for Bury-St.-Edmunds (Lieutenant-Colonel W. Guinness), who said the other night: Ireland differs from England in race, in temperament, and in social organisation, and that difference must be reflected in the legislation suitable for that country. England's meat is in many cases Ireland's poison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or of Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "hon. Member must touch every sympathic heart. The only parallel which I can find for his case is that of Joseph in Egypt. There has been a good deal of talk to-night with regard to Irish nationality. I hate to have to prick a fairy bubble, but truth forces me to say that Ireland never was and is not to-day a nation. You might as well speak of Lancashire or of Middlesex or of Yorkshire as a nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A great many are present in Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "ood deal of talk to-night with regard to Irish nationality. I hate to have to prick a fairy bubble, but truth forces me to say that Ireland never was and is not to-day a nation. You might as well speak of Lancashire or of Middlesex or of Yorkshire as a nation. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Or of Scotland.\"] Well, Scotland has a great many of the characteristics of a nation which were never present in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did others!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "f the Empire. It is only necessary to follow the movements of the Sinn Fein conspiracy from 1903 until the present day to see that their one aim was to overthrow Great Britain. Roger Casement, a gentleman who had been heard of and who was> the beau ideal of the Nationalists for some years, was knighted in 1911. At that time Roger Casement had already entered into traitorous relations with Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the gun-running?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "of and who was> the beau ideal of the Nationalists for some years, was knighted in 1911. At that time Roger Casement had already entered into traitorous relations with Germany. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So did others!\"] The hon. Member, I presume, refers to Ulster. The first relation we had with Germany was on the 1st July, 1916, when, for the first time the Ulster Division broke through the German ranks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the German rifles?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "sement had already entered into traitorous relations with Germany. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So did others!\"] The hon. Member, I presume, refers to Ulster. The first relation we had with Germany was on the 1st July, 1916, when, for the first time the Ulster Division broke through the German ranks. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the gun-running?\"] We had relations with Germany on several occasions like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Irish majority,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "bsence of the Sinn Fein representatives, he will be able to stop talking and get to business. Much bitterness has been aroused in the past by raising unrealisable hopes, and I trust he is going to say at once that Ireland is not going to get Home Rule, or anything else, as a reward for rebellion. We have to make up our minds what reason there is for change in Ireland so as to satisfy Irish unrest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1530.0", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What for?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "great many of us have been interrupted in our speeches. He paid no attention to the interrupter. I do not know whether or not he was able to hand his speech to the Press. However, he made no complaint. Within ten days of this occurrence, at a late hour at night, three men were hauled out of their beds, brought under arrest before a magistrate, and subsequently sentenced to six months' hard labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-03", "file": "debates1919-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "205c405033316038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1532.0", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: For heckling!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ts which become so distorted when once they cross the Irish Channel. He referred to one outstanding example of malpractice and incompetence on the part of the Irish Government in a case which occurred the other day in the town of Newry. He tried to frighten the House into consternation by telling us that three men for asking questions at some political meeting were sent to six months' hard labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-03a.1532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-04", "file": "debates1919-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2203dfef97159d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WHITE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WHITE", "preceding_text": "s done for many years, she is entitled at last to have that sex disqualification removed under which she has suffered too long. I can imagine, too, that there would be some difficulty if we got lady Members of Parliament. I can imagine that it would be rather more difficult—it is merely a pleasantry—for Mr. Speaker to pass over a lady and call on some of us mere men to speak in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-04", "file": "debates1919-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2203dfef97159d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1582.0", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. COOTE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. COOTE", "preceding_text": "to hasten slowly in this matter, because we shall have on a day not far distant the complete emancipation of women, when they will be placed upon an equality with men and will be recognised as such by the State? In the meantime, I would ask the promoters of this Bill whether womenfolk are treated on the same terms as men in trade unions? Have they the same voting power and the same representation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-04", "file": "debates1919-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2203dfef97159d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1582.0", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. COOTE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes; they do it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. COOTE", "preceding_text": "plete emancipation of women, when they will be placed upon an equality with men and will be recognised as such by the State? In the meantime, I would ask the promoters of this Bill whether womenfolk are treated on the same terms as men in trade unions? Have they the same voting power and the same representation? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] Will trade unions permit women to take a man's job in industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-04", "file": "debates1919-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2203dfef97159d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1604.2", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": " your weaknesses, but everything we can humanly do to compensate you for your natural handicap we shall be prepared to do; at any rate, we will impose no further burden upon you.\" I have been asked if I would like to see a woman Lord Chancellor. No. So far as I am concerned, I acknowledge that I am an ordinary male with the prejudices of a male, and I would not like to see a woman Lord Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-04", "file": "debates1919-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2203dfef97159d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "re not divided into those two categories and I do not suppose that there is any hon. Member in this House practically who is opposed to the provisions of the Bill. What has been said in opposition seems to be really irrelevant to the terms of the Bill. It has been pointed out that women are still subject to certain disabilities. But we are all agreed in favour of the removal of these disabilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-04", "file": "debates1919-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2203dfef97159d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1621.0", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, by the Home Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "ct justice of Clause 1, notwithstanding the very entertaining remarks of my hon. and gallant Friend behind. I can also see a reason for Clause 3, the principle of which is not so recondite as he suggested. I also recognise that Clauses 1, 3, and 4 are certainly only in line with the general pledges given by the Government at the Election, though I do not remember any pledge in respect of Clause 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1621.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-04", "file": "debates1919-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2203dfef97159d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of Experiments upon Dogs.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Baronet ought to be accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-04a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House in order to call attention to a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, \"the critical situation of our troops in Russia and the urgent importance of either relieving them or of entering into negotiations with the Russian Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1653.5", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Circulate it! The following is the statement referred to: — The Return as to the Parliamentary and local government electors which was recently issued shows for each constituency the number of naval and military voters on the first Parliamentary register under the Representation of the People Act. The total number for the United Kingdom was 3,900,135. This number would probably not differ ma", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Major Astor)", "preceding_text": "May I ask the indulgence of the House for this rather long answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1721.3", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Irrespective of cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " and all that sort of thing, and finally the complete scheme. We propose to do away with that necessity, and to have authority to sanction the site, and secondly, the general laying out of the site, and thirdly, the provision of the houses, so that an authority, without waiting for the complete details of the whole scheme, can have the site sanctioned and can go ahead on that and prepare the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1721.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1737.7", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether this applies to cement works?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "We have a special organisation to deal with these cases, and it is very important to get these men out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1738.0", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twenty years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "re they will be open for inspection by local authorities and other persons. It is suggested that you might save from £250 to £300 by putting up a hut instead of a house, the former to be used as a temporary dwelling. That is an inside figure. It is a great deal less than it would cost to build a house. But the life of a wooden dwelling is very much shorter than the life of a brick house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1740.0", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "he question, I will now allude to the acquisition of the land and the cost of it. I frankly say that I am disappointed with the provisions in the Bill, because we must look forward to a time when this great system of new housing will be on an economical basis, or it ought to be, because otherwise you are going to make the houses of the country as much a charge on the State as the Navy or the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "the notes which I have prepared, and speak as though I were addressing the men that I am used to addressing. From 1907–8 to 1912–13 the provision of new houses of a rental of less than £20 per annum decreased under the beneficent rule of a Liberal Government by 135,000 compared with the previous six years. I want the right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down to take note of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. DAVISON", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. DAVISON", "preceding_text": " a reversal of the verdict of the election of last December. If we care to do so, we can do it most effectively by a method which I would be the last man to advocate. But let me remind hon. and right hon. Gentlemen that the Labour party do not intend to tolerate a perpetuation of the conditions of housing that have existed in this country during the last twenty years. That is not said as a threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1749.0", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": " but rather with the pleasure born of the consciousness that at last the Government had found a Minister who had been able to diagnose the cause of the congestion in housing. I understand that the explanation of those who advocate the taxation of land values is to be found in the common belief that congestion in housing is caused by ground values. It never has been, it is not now, it never can be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1749.0", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "ntry they would agree with me. One hundred years ago our housing conditions were bad. They are bad to-day. At that time land for house property was given off at a nominal rate. I speak as a Scotsman, and one representing a mining constituency, and as one who is in intimate contact with mining people and is well qualified to speak as to the mining conditions in my own country one hundred years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-07", "file": "debates1919-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "60311781c1847817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1763.0", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATEMENT BY DR. ADDISON.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "t the same time you take the rates off the houses, and you transfer your rating assessment from the full value of the land and buildings together on to the unimproved value of the land alone, whether built on or not, then, without adding a penny piece to the expense of property, if you untax the houses, thereby making them cheaper, and put the tax on to the land, and thereby make it cheaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-07a.1763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-08", "file": "debates1919-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "a2524cdb89a95064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-08a.1902.2", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. WALTERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The cost of labour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. WALTERS", "preceding_text": "I do suggest that the cost of building will considerably decrease as compared with the present cost, within the next five or six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-08a.1902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-08", "file": "debates1919-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "a2524cdb89a95064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-08a.1929.0", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": " this housing problem, and in future, whether this Bill be the best means or not of doing it, the local authorities, compelled and assisted by the Government, shall take this great problem in hand. That being so, I am not at all alarmed by the argument that it may mean the death of private enterprise. Private enterprise in connection with the housing question stands tried and hopelessly condemned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-08a.1929.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-08", "file": "debates1919-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "a2524cdb89a95064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-08a.1987.0", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ASTOR", "preceding_text": "een; or else, as I understand, there are advocates for putting the supervision of the scheme in the hands of the Ministry of Labour. It is quite evident that if these contributions were given to women who are in employment, irrespective of their wages, it would have a direct bearing on the problem of unemployment. At the present moment industry alone bears the burden of bringing up a man's family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-08a.1987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-08", "file": "debates1919-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "a2524cdb89a95064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-08a.1996.3", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you propose?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "s to be entitled, no matter what her means, as it does not stop at widows' pensions, it does not stop at any payment given to those who require assistance to be useful citizens of this country, and it is a matter of great principle. I am not expressing the slightest lack of sympathy with the right hon. Gentleman's intentions. I appreciate and sympathise with them, but I am only pointing out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-08a.1996.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2160.0", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "our cause and who would be murdered, and worse than murdered, by the Bolshevists if we were to evacuate that territory. I believe that the pro-Bolshevists in this country and in this House are a mere handful, although they are noisy. The Dutch Minister in Petrograd has, I believe, gauged the feeling of this country more accurately than hon. Members who have supported the Bolshevists in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2158.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2160.5", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "It was a dirty remark to make!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "I only said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2160.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2160.7", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Then withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "I am not accusing anyone here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2160.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2167.3", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "t fear of contradiction—anyone who has been in touch with matters since the Armistice, cannot do other than wish, whatever may be the result of Peace, that nothing will arise that will interfere with or weaken the friendship of the United States and this country. No one can pretend that so far as the United States is concerned—you may argue if you like she ought to have come in before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2167.3", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ir war record justifies this House, or any Member of it, in assuming that they are enemies of the country. The record of each of these men proves conclusively that they have not only the confidence, but the same confidence that hon. Members in this House have in them in view of their record during the War. That, at least, entitles them to the confidence of the people of this country at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2167.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.2", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The record of this Debate will speak for itself. Does not the Resolution itself imply a charge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.4", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member allow me to point out that he has had experience in labour negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Then we are to understand, Mr. Speaker, that the object of this Motion is to strengthen the hands of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Then we are to understand, Mr. Speaker, that the object of this Motion is to strengthen the hands of the Prime Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] That is the clearest admission of what I suggest, and, that being so, the Prime Minister will be able to appreciate the full situation. It must either mean that the Prime Minister requires his hands strengthening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "that the object of this Motion is to strengthen the hands of the Prime Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] That is the clearest admission of what I suggest, and, that being so, the Prime Minister will be able to appreciate the full situation. It must either mean that the Prime Minister requires his hands strengthening. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] If he does, it means that he is getting weak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "sion of what I suggest, and, that being so, the Prime Minister will be able to appreciate the full situation. It must either mean that the Prime Minister requires his hands strengthening. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] If he does, it means that he is getting weak. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Or if it does not mean that, it means that the Prime Minister himself requests that his hands be strengthened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.6", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Try again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "d, that being so, the Prime Minister will be able to appreciate the full situation. It must either mean that the Prime Minister requires his hands strengthening. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] If he does, it means that he is getting weak. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Or if it does not mean that, it means that the Prime Minister himself requests that his hands be strengthened. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.8", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "That being so, and it is generally agreed it is not the latter, I accept the former as the position. I again repeat that the danger of the Debate is that this House is suspicious of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.8", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " that the Prime Minister—according to reports—comes back, or intends to come back, to make a statement to this Parliament. If that is the general position so far as the people of this country are concerned, I ask whether the only construction put on this Resolution would not be that there is a feeling, at least, that the Prime Minister is not as strong on this matter as he ought to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2169.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "I intervene in this Debate because during the part of the discussion which I had the first opportunity of listening to it seemed as though those who are responsible for the Resolution before the House were anxious to score a political victory against those whom they assumed to be their opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": " character denoting the policy that the Government of this country should assume in connection with the Russian embroglio, but what is the proposition before the House? It is purely a negative that the Government must not do certain things, but there is no suggestion as to what the Government of this country should do. If you are going to interfere in the internal affairs of another country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": " in connection with the Russian embroglio, but what is the proposition before the House? It is purely a negative that the Government must not do certain things, but there is no suggestion as to what the Government of this country should do. If you are going to interfere in the internal affairs of another country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Yes!\"]—I venture to suggest gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "d, and the same arguments that apply to the reign of Lenin and Trotsky by the rule of the bullet and the bayonet, also apply in other connections. And some hon. Members of this House, who the other evening applauded vigorously the declaration of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, that 40,000 troops were necessary to keep 4,000,000 people in subjection on the other side of St. George's Channel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With honour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "o not want to go to. So far as we are concerned, we have heard nothing from our friends upon the other side which gives us any reason to hope that they have any ideas about Russia, except that they are very anxious to get into it and do not know the way to get out of it. As far as this Resolution is concerned, those of us who belong to the Labour party are anxious to see peace as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "son to hope that they have any ideas about Russia, except that they are very anxious to get into it and do not know the way to get out of it. As far as this Resolution is concerned, those of us who belong to the Labour party are anxious to see peace as soon as possible. [An HON. MEMBER: \"With honour!\"] You have sent plenipotentiaries to Paris and now you want to tie their hands behind their backs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no,\" and \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": " as soon as possible. [An HON. MEMBER: \"With honour!\"] You have sent plenipotentiaries to Paris and now you want to tie their hands behind their backs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] The practical effect of the proposition to-night is this, that they must not do certain things, but you may be compelled by necessity within a fortnight's time to accept the very things which to-night you say you will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pulpit\" and \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "nt plenipotentiaries to Paris and now you want to tie their hands behind their backs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] The practical effect of the proposition to-night is this, that they must not do certain things, but you may be compelled by necessity within a fortnight's time to accept the very things which to-night you say you will not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no,\" and \"Never.\"] Not again my dear friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Address the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "fect of the proposition to-night is this, that they must not do certain things, but you may be compelled by necessity within a fortnight's time to accept the very things which to-night you say you will not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no,\" and \"Never.\"] Not again my dear friends. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Pulpit\" and \"Order.\"] I should have imagined when I addressed you as friends that I was not talking to enemies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": " of the House of Commons, that you have a policy of your own and not a mere policy of negation? You want indemnities; you want Russia to be left open to the possibilities of international complications of even a graver character than already exist. The spread of Bolshevism in Europe depends upon the spread of starvation in Europe. Hon. Members of this House are supporting the policy of starvation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ound very fruitful ground. The best way in which we can defeat Bolshevism is to provide for the people of Eastern and Central Europe means whereby they can provide for the starving populations in those great countries. Have we proposed anything up to now that will improve the situation? Bolshevism in this country! We know where that Bolshevism exists; we know the people who are responsible for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A duty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "e starving populations in those great countries. Have we proposed anything up to now that will improve the situation? Bolshevism in this country! We know where that Bolshevism exists; we know the people who are responsible for it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"] If you are so clever you ought to have discovered them: I am no secret service agent, and I have no responsibility for what may happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "erica becoming a great military Power, and we shall have Eastern Europe allying itself with the Bolshevists. Because I have learned a good lesson at the feet of some hon. Members who have identified themselves with the Russian democratic movement in days gone by, I do not want to aid those who would sooner see Czardom on the throne again than see the Russians capable of managing their own affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "lesson at the feet of some hon. Members who have identified themselves with the Russian democratic movement in days gone by, I do not want to aid those who would sooner see Czardom on the throne again than see the Russians capable of managing their own affairs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"] Names have been mentioned of Gentlemen who have declared themselves in favour of the restoration of the Monarchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-09", "file": "debates1919-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "95f1a9060594fb85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ose who would sooner see Czardom on the throne again than see the Russians capable of managing their own affairs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"] Names have been mentioned of Gentlemen who have declared themselves in favour of the restoration of the Monarchy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"] Admiral Kolchak is one. He declared publicly that he was in favour of the restoration of Monarchical Government in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-09a.2179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-10", "file": "debates1919-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "119467798d579dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2275.2", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "preceding_text": "#8212;that is the amount which the land if sold in the open market by a willing seller might be expected to realise. I cannot help observing that since the Bill was printed that proposal has excited at least two criticisms, and I will say a word upon each of them. In the first place, it is said on the one hand that the phrase \"a willing seller\" ought to be followed by the phrase \"a willing buyer.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-10", "file": "debates1919-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "119467798d579dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2349.0", "colnum": "2349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One class only?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "it?\" \"He got it from his father.\" \"And how did he get it?\" And so it went back, until at last the noble lord said, \"I suppose the first one got it by fighting for it.\" \"All right,\" says the pitman, taking off his coat, \"I will fight you for it.\" I think there is a feeling abroad among the people of this country to-day that they have during the last four or five years been fighting for this county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-10", "file": "debates1919-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "119467798d579dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2366.0", "colnum": "2366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "r use of adjectives than I have ever heard him use in this House before. What, after all, does it come to? He pities very much the poor taxpayer who is to find this money, and he is apparently desirous of relieving the taxpayer, which means every individual in the country bearing his or her fair share, at the expense of one unfortunate class which happens to hold one particular form of investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-10", "file": "debates1919-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "119467798d579dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2374.3", "colnum": "2374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two? Special Paper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "ion of law he may state at case for the opinion of the High Court, or at the request of the parties he may state a case for the opinion of the High Court, but if the High Court itself requires him to state a case, that is to say, upon an application which may be made to the High Court, then he must do so. The case stated in that way comes before two experienced judges of the King's Bench Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-10", "file": "debates1919-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "119467798d579dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2379.0", "colnum": "2379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": ". But, when we consider to what this inflation is due; that it is due not solely to the War, but to the action of Government Departments in paying an inflated price for grain, for wheat and for oats, in order to induce the farmers to plant more; that it is due to the inflated price of those foodstuffs which come from the land, inflated, in order to encourage production, by a Government Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-10", "file": "debates1919-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "119467798d579dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2382.2", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "ding to the letter but according to the spirit which was involved in what he said—that the Cabinet is considering at the present time the larger measures of reform which, in my view, are so absolutely essential to the welfare of the country during these years of reconstruction, I do not think that it would be right to press this Motion to a Division, and I therefore ask leave to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-10", "file": "debates1919-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "119467798d579dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2389.0", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Transfer of Powers and Duties to and from Board.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "rand Committee. Therefore those Members should have had the opportunity to move Amendments on Report, but they had not the opportunity unless they were very rapid of putting Amendments on the Paper. Under those circumstances I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that it is reasonable to ask that we should not take the Report to-night and that it should be put down, if necessary, for Thursday next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-10a.2389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-11", "file": "debates1919-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "98dba3e342174722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-11a.2445.0", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "SMALL LANDOWNERS (SCOTLAND) ACT (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "s placed at the disposal of the Board of Agriculture for the creation of new holdings became quite ridiculous. It was hopeless to expect that with that amount, or even double that amount, anything really effective could be done. The result of the decision in that case was that the amount of money paid for the part of the estate taken for small holdings was as much as the value of the whole estate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-11a.2445.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-14", "file": "debates1919-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f32de93f178cf0a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2500.5", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Was it sent to the various Government Departments as well?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "It has been sent to all those whose names we had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-14", "file": "debates1919-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f32de93f178cf0a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2579.1", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "LAND SETTLEMENT (FACILITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "s the alternative? We have either got to do it and \"lump\" the cost or to put off redeeming the pledge, which I think the House and the country would not tolerate for a moment. The cost has greatly increased. Hon. Members opposite, I know, will say that it is because you are buying land too dear, and they will ask, \"Why do not you buy cheaper?\" I agree that land has gone up in value to some extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-14", "file": "debates1919-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f32de93f178cf0a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2582.0", "colnum": "2582", "heading": "LAND SETTLEMENT (FACILITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "lmas in the following year. Therefore, we enact in Clause 2 that during the emergency period we may enter into possion by merely giving fourteen days' notice. There and then a council may enter into possession and begin equipping the small holding at once. I am quite aware that this provision for entering after only fourteen days' notice has caused a certain amount of alarm among existing tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-14", "file": "debates1919-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f32de93f178cf0a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2590.0", "colnum": "2590", "heading": "LAND SETTLEMENT (FACILITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seven years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ning. It is not fair, it is unjust, that this great scheme of land reform should be based upon inflated war values. I suggest—indeed, I think my right hon. Friend the Member for Camborne (Mr. Acland) has already made the suggestion—that there is no reason why the land which is required cannot be compulsorily leased for a term of years and at the end of that term, say, five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-14", "file": "debates1919-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f32de93f178cf0a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2613.3", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "LAND SETTLEMENT (FACILITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. WINFREY", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. WINFREY", "preceding_text": " compulsory powers, but the majority get the land by voluntary means, and if they continue to adopt that policy how long are they likely to be in getting sufficient land for the purposes of this measure? It is now six months since the Armistice, and if the county councils can get any appreciable quantity of land in sight before Michaelmas they will have to give the occupiers twelve months' notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-14a.2613.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2695.5", "colnum": "2695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CANADIAN TROOPS (REPATRIATION).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman say what class of ship?", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of SHIPPING (Colonel Leslie Wilson)", "preceding_text": "ave agreed to place certain warships at the disposal of the Ministry for the repatriation of troops, but the question of manning them is difficult, and is under discussion between the Admiralty and the Ministry of Shipping. In any case, I may say that no difficulty is now being experienced in providing sufficient tonnage for the numbers of Canadians in the Canadian Military authorities' programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2695.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2713.8", "colnum": "2713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OUT-OF-WORK DONATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "More bullets!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary's statement, which I heard, represents the present policy of His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2713.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2758.0", "colnum": "2758", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Technical British citizens!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "re here going to our primary schools. A very large number of them have married British-born wives, and there was evidence before us that the domestic relations between the technical enemy alien and his British-born wives and children were of quite a happy description, and those wives and children will follow the fathers if you repatriate them. We want to keep all these young British citizens here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2758.1", "colnum": "2758", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Is it suggested that it is at all in our interest to export this kind of national asset? We want to keep them here. These people are safe and they ought to be kept here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2758.1", "colnum": "2758", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "restrictions sympathetically, humanely, justly administered. I quite agree. You cannot suddenly revert to the pre-war conditions. I quite agree with that. It must be done gradually, but the idea that we should give up those great and noble traditions of the past, which have, I venture to think, raised us in the estimation of mankind, and have contributed to a great deal of our material prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2770.5", "colnum": "2770", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are none of them religious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "ech of a certain departure from righteousness and a lapse from grace; but may I be allowed to correct any wrong impression, because I quite agree that in many cases he helped me against certain others in doing what was quite right. My right hon. Friend said he would like to see all German ministers of religion left in this country. He, at any rate, was in favour of their exemption from internment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2770.5", "colnum": "2770", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They ought to be in Heaven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "one of them religious.\"] Well, that is their courtesy title, and knowing what German ministers of religion, so-called, did in their own country during the War, how they advised their own followers during the War, knowing what they did in China and India to stir up intrigue and to stab us in the back, I should be very sorry to leave any German ministers of religion in this country now or hereafter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2770.5", "colnum": "2770", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Call it Dora!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "to vigorous action. This Bill has been promised a long time. It has been delayed too long. The Home Office has had it under consideration for many, many months. Mountains have been in labour, and we hoped that we should not have had the traditional mouse. We expected and we hoped that we should have seen the product of this long labour in the form of a real live child worthy of the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2774.0", "colnum": "2774", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST WILD", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST WILD", "preceding_text": " perfectly distinct with regard to the Germans for whom my right hon. Friend had so many kindly things to say. The pledge was given at Bristol three nights before the election, and the Prime Minister said I am glad the programme is accepted. We mean to go through with it. [A Voice: 'What about the Germans in the country?'] Oh, they will not be long in this country; they are going, to be fired out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2774.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2779.0", "colnum": "2779", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It does not deal with it!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST WILD", "preceding_text": "go to him and turn him out; to give our own country, for once in a way, the benefit of the doubt. The enemy alien has been spoken about a good deal. I am not sure the neutral alien is not as dangerous as the enemy alien. The House may say, \"Holding those views, why are you going to support this Bill?\" I am going to support it because I will support anything I can get which deals with the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2774.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2780.0", "colnum": "2780", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "It is all we shall get.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "preceding_text": "re. Somebody has spoken of it with a mixture of metaphor. I think it was the hon. and learned Member for York, who was talking now about the Home Secretary's baby and now about an abortion, and who rather forgot himself in the stress of his peroration when he said, \"This cannot be the fulfilment of the pledges that we gave; I cannot go back to my Constituents and say, 'This is what we have done.'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2784.0", "colnum": "2784", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Park Lane!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "preceding_text": "en introduced a Housing Bill and we are asking the Government to provide us millions of money— and quite rightly—in order that people who cannot find homes to live in and who live under conditions so well described by the Labour Members may have satisfactory housing accommodation, and all this while there are. 200,000 aliens in this country. Where do they sleep? Where are their houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2796.0", "colnum": "2796", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been deported!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "preceding_text": " into this country. We have heard of Sidney Street. The other day down in Wales we had a glorious Bolshevist, a man who went round playing a violin, and who pretended he could not speak the English-language, who got his Independent Labour party comrades to do the speaking for him, and who wrote out one of the most treacherous and vindictive speeches with a view to getting the miners to down tools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2796.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2809.0", "colnum": "2809", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ake our laws dealing with aliens rigid in the Statute at the moment when the whole world is, as one hon. Member said, in a cauldron, is not facing the great realities of the moment. The Order in Council which goes with this Bill, and which is a great part of the Bill, is now in draft. My right hon. Friend and myself regret profoundly that this draft Order in Council is not in the hands of Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2807.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2810.2", "colnum": "2810", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the Japanese?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The, Russians number 92,000, the Italians 19,000, the French 16,000, the Americans a little over 11,000, and the Swiss about 9,000. In addition there are 63,000 Scandinavians and Chinese, who for the most part are seamen having no permanent residence in the United Kingdom, but coming here at intervals in pursuance of their calling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2813.5", "colnum": "2813", "heading": "ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And he was not deported?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "preceding_text": "inded the House of the extraordinary case of de Laszlo. I was sorry he did not remind the House also of this peculiar fact, that de Laszlo was caught by the Government, in spite of the backing he had, from a letter which came from Hungary from his brother, in which his brother said he was instructed by the authorities to thank him for his fortieth report on the military situation in Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2828.0", "colnum": "2828", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "s. One of them is the urgent need for increasing this payment to the soldiers and their dependants, and the dependants of those who have died. We have just been through an election, and this question was put to every Member who was returned to this House, and they were asked whether they would support an increase of pension to these people or not, and I believe every hon. Member promised to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2828.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-15", "file": "debates1919-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "82fc6cff279648e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2862.0", "colnum": "2862", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not dealt with the question as to the date of the commencement of the mothers' pensions.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " do in the past. I believe it is by obtaining the advice and assistance of the local people who have hitherto worked upon war pensions committees, so that they shall form an advisory body for the regional director that we shall keep the locality in touch with the machine, and so save a great many of the complaints which are not unnaturally heard when pensions are discussed in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-15a.2860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2879.3", "colnum": "2879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman answer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2879.3", "colnum": "2879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman answer —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"] Does that exclude the possibility —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2936.1", "colnum": "2936", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Save you from your friends!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "enture to say that no body of men ever worked harder, and that no body of men have ever worked in better harmony. I am doubtful whether any body of men with a difficult task have worked under greater difficulties—stones clattering on the roof, and crashing through the windows, and sometimes wild men screaming through the keyholes. I have come back to say a few things, and I mean to say them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2950.1", "colnum": "2950", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Kaiser?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ound. Above all, we want to protect the future against a repetition of the horrors of this War, by making the wrongdoer repair the wrong and the loss which he has inflicted by his wanton aggression, by punishing any individual who is responsible, by depriving the nations that have menaced the peace of Europe for half a century with a flourishing sword—by depriving them of their weapon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2950.2", "colnum": "2950", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I want to say one other thing, because I am going back, if the House wants me to—unless it prefers some other choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2950.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2951.10", "colnum": "2951", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Did it do any good?", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Not at all!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2951.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2970.0", "colnum": "2970", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Noble Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2971.1", "colnum": "2971", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ce. This White Paper states, I think in two places, that the terror was the direct result of the Lockhart plot and the attempt on Lenin. That was in September. The terror was at its worst in October, and much as we must all of us deplore the excesses to which it has gone I think we ought, in fairness, to realise that during the first six months of Bolshevik rule there was no murders and no terror.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2979.0", "colnum": "2979", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " they found out it was a lie and to acknowledge it. They said that they had found out that this was merely the declaration of some obscure anarchist State in Samara. Yet we are still fed with all these stories, and they still find their place in the Government's White Paper and in the statement of this parson, who is carrying out his traditional role of stirring up hatred and dissension among men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2979.0", "colnum": "2979", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ly the declaration of some obscure anarchist State in Samara. Yet we are still fed with all these stories, and they still find their place in the Government's White Paper and in the statement of this parson, who is carrying out his traditional role of stirring up hatred and dissension among men. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] There is the story. I do not know whether the House would like me to read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2979.0", "colnum": "2979", "heading": "PEACE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And France!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "rs like the hon. Member for South Hackney (Mr. Bottomley) to get up and attack President Wilson in this House or for hon. Members to urge the Prime Minister to cease to support President Wilson in Paris and to turn round and support the French. Nothing could be more fatal than that at the present time, when the whole future of the world depends upon a real co-operation between England and America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.2979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.3015.0", "colnum": "3015", "heading": "EASTER RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "ressed that no reasoning man could take exception to. There is nothing to reply to in his speech, but there is one satisfaction. When I saw him take off the gloves, as he did this afternoon, I said to myself that the people who thought they were using him are going to be used by him. Therein lies the hopes of this country. If the people who put him into power, if the people who financed him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.3015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-16", "file": "debates1919-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "83d57235db9618ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.3015.0", "colnum": "3015", "heading": "EASTER RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The cloven hoof\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "e use of them than to allow them to make use of him, then there is indeed a bright future not only for this country, but more particularly for Labour in this country, which I predict the present Prime Minister will be leading in the next twelve months. It is easy to see the course of events which are likely to take place. The powerful Press upon which he has declared war will gradually show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-16a.3015.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-30", "file": "debates1919-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "3826b16f4538b027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-30a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (LARGER AND BETTER SUPPLY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "wers will be at liberty henceforth to brew to an average gravity not exceeding 1040 degrees in Great Britain, as compared with the 1032 degrees which is the existing limit, and with the pre-war gravity of 1050 degrees under unrestricted conditions. The average gravity of beer brewed in Ireland, which has always been higher, will remain at 1047 degrees, as compared with 1065 degrees before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-30a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-30", "file": "debates1919-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "3826b16f4538b027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-30a.215.2", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEA (CUSTOMS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I am rather looking at what is likely to be the effect of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's proposal and to what his intentions are. As I view his proposition, he is rather increasing the indirect taxation than lowering it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-30a.215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-30", "file": "debates1919-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "3826b16f4538b027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-30a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "orne also mentioned this matter as Cornwall is in the same boat. That is an instance of the folly of trying to fix prices for agriculture on a false basis. I agree with a good deal of what was said by an hon. Member opposite, but I think the instance of the labourer having been turned out of his house because he joined a union must have been a great many years ago. Possibly it was twenty years ago", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-30a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-04-30", "file": "debates1919-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "3826b16f4538b027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-30a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An Hon Member: \"Five years ago!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nwall is in the same boat. That is an instance of the folly of trying to fix prices for agriculture on a false basis. I agree with a good deal of what was said by an hon. Member opposite, but I think the instance of the labourer having been turned out of his house because he joined a union must have been a great many years ago. Possibly it was twenty years ago [An Hon. Member: \"No!\"] or ten years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-04-30a.284.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-01", "file": "debates1919-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "916e884595e46223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.389.6", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon Member: \"Six months?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "atch dog,\" he used to be called, of all the great Departments. I am afraid my right hon. Friend has grown hoarse with barking. I am certain he has made a great effort, but there are no signs of a bite in any one direction. On goes the expenditure. Turn where you like—Department after Department, still, after six months of cessation of hostilities, money has been poured out in all directions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.389.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-01", "file": "debates1919-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "916e884595e46223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. WHITTAKER", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Blockade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. WHITTAKER", "preceding_text": "hose figures that you cannot have the bigger payments we desire to make unless you have a large increase in the output. Another great need of the moment is security and reasonable certainty about trade. I would like to ask the Secretary to the Treasury what is going to be the trade policy of the Government What is it that is hanging up trade in all directions at the present time—uncertainty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-01", "file": "debates1919-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "916e884595e46223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " give them better houses, better wages, better clothes, better conditions, shorter hours, and some compensation for the tribute they pay to the common reservoir of prosperity in this country. We in Ireland are asked to bear an additional burden of £10,000,000 imposed upon us by an English Chancellor of the Ex-chequer, and by an English Parliament in which we have no direct voice or influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-01", "file": "debates1919-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "916e884595e46223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "nd gallant Gentleman smiling at me, but the hon. and gallant Gentleman smiles because of my description of the situation. I do not know whether the Prime Minister still is his Leader. He neither says \"Yes\" nor \"No.\" I would imagine that the recent by-election would have determined his mind on that point, but I know that the hon. and gallant Member means that I do use strong language in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-01", "file": "debates1919-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "916e884595e46223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "defensible. Dublin Castle is indefensible. Anybody who has anything to do with the government of Ireland is indefensible. So indefensible that they generally appoint men to be chief secretaries in Ireland who cannot defend themselves and who get out of their difficulties by throwing themselves upon the mercy of the House. Ireland outside political trouble is the most peaceful country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-01", "file": "debates1919-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "916e884595e46223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "nd above her expenditure, and what it is that we are to pay all this for. Is the army of occupation to continue there? Is trial by jury to disappear, and all forms of constitutional justice no longer to operate? Are the representatives from Ireland to have no voice in the affairs of their own country? You give us, no doubt, a formal right to come here, but that is all. We never had any power here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-01", "file": "debates1919-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "916e884595e46223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE", "preceding_text": "own that the British sugar refiners between them deal with about one million tons of sugar per year, turned out from the sugar refiners of this country. If this sugar, which is to come from our Colonies, comes in on a preference of one-sixth, and it is refined sugar, I say—and I do not think anybody will differ from me—that that will absolutely kill the British sugar-refining industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.485.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-01", "file": "debates1919-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "916e884595e46223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "their own property. I place no obstacle in his way. I do not challenge the right of married women to control their own property, and if it be the general wish of married women that each of them should be assessed separately from their husband, we can so assess them. My own conviction is that the great bulk of married women would be pretty much annoyed to be bothered with the Inland Revenue papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-01a.503.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-06", "file": "debates1919-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb038105e474e308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-06a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [9TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " not, of course, associate with that the representative of the Ministry who is sitting on the Front Bench at the present moment, but the Committee wishes its ending, and, if it did not wish that, I am sure my right hon. Friend will agree that the country wants that at the earliest possible moment. If there is any Ministry of which the country is more tired than another, it is the Ministry of Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-06a.831.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-07", "file": "debates1919-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9abd7129d36022bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-07a.906.5", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (SCOTLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, we reached an agreement with the Board of Agriculture on the basis of 10 per cent., which was understood to be satisfactory to the interests affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-07a.906.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-08", "file": "debates1919-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a70eb134577e2249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-08a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "STANDING COMMITTEES (OFFICIAL REPORT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We all have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to you, Sir, for your courtesy in offering me your Papers, but I should not like to rob you of them. None of us have ever seen any copies of the official record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-08a.1114.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is the most powerful politician in these Islands. I am one of the weakest politicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " education Grant was £2,203,104. This year it is £2,721,356, an increase of £518,252. That is £1,000,000 less for Ireland, although, according to the hon. Gentleman who introduced this Bill, Scot- land is the most magnificently equipped country in the world so far as education is concerned, and Ireland is the worst. Yet the worst gets £518,000 and the best £1,600,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": ",356, an increase of £518,252. That is £1,000,000 less for Ireland, although, according to the hon. Gentleman who introduced this Bill, Scot- land is the most magnificently equipped country in the world so far as education is concerned, and Ireland is the worst. Yet the worst gets £518,000 and the best £1,600,000. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite true!\"] Are you a Home Ruler after that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "o me, I would say let us have a strike. But we never can have a successful strike in Ireland. The only thing we can have is a rebellion. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman raises once again the standard of revolt against the robbery and confiscation which the British Treasury is pursuing towards Ireland, and the manner in which it is sucking the life-blood out of the nation financially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1239.6", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "itional burden on whisky. It was not our Chancellor of the Exchequer but your Chancellor of the Exchequer who imposed it. It is our money, no matter what it is on. I come now to the introduction of this Bill. It is perfectly true that there is not sufficient accommodation in Belfast for the Protestant children of that great city. I regret it. There is ample accommodation for the Catholic children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1239.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1239.6", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "en. [Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"] Yes, the Catholic population took the matter of building schools into their own hands, and by subscriptions they raised one-third of the building grant. Even the figures of the hon. Gentleman who introduced the Bill prove that. They satisfied the requirements of the National Board, and the National Board are satisfied now as to the accommodation for Catholic children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1239.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ng from, I think, 1917. In addition to these national schools, ample provision is made in such schools as the Christian Brothers, St. Malachi's College, St. Paul's Convent School, St. Dominic's High School, the Catholic schools at Milltown and the Crumlin School and the White Abbey, and also the various convent schools. I do not deny that considerable improvement is needed in the Catholic schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1242.2", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They would attend their own.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "e the stolen goods from Ireland and pay them back in restitution to the Protestants for building new schools for their children, and that, in my judgment, would be an honest transaction, which would' arouse none of those troubles and create none of the mischief which is bound to eventuate if you force this measure. If you carry this Bill, you will not get Catholic children to attend these schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "They have paid for their own and they attend their own. You want, us, the weak and poorest section of the community, to build our schools, to equip and maintain them, and then to contribute to a local rate to build schools for you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "They have paid for their own and they attend their own. You want, us, the weak and poorest section of the community, to build our schools, to equip and maintain them, and then to contribute to a local rate to build schools for you. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes you do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1244.7", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "have to say is that I have never had a communication of any sort of character, directly or indirectly, from any bishop or clergyman in Belfast on this question. If every bishop and priest and clerical manager in Belfast were in favour of this thing, I would be opposed to it. I would be opposed to it because, whatever you may say about the managerial system, I think on the whole it has worked well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1244.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1264.4", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Give us a chance!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M'LAREN", "preceding_text": "s of education is to give such an education as to enable the people to vote straight, and to abolish illiteracy. There is no reason why the Irish people should not rise to be as good in these respects as the Scottish people. After all, our strength does not so much come from the climate, but from our education. We think we are a very superior class of people and I think Irishmen come very near us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1264.6", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": "ich we cannot. It is the duty of the State to undertake it. We all share the same citizenship, and you should afford to us in this matter the same rights as you give elsewhere. My hon. Friend complains that we are choosing a highly inopportune moment to come forward with this Bill because now the seventy Sinn Fein Members are not in attendance. Whose fault is it that they are not here. Is it ours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1264.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1278.9", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer as to the question of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1278.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The slum-owners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "What are the facts? The bulk of the Catholic population are of the artisan class, and that being so, their rates are included in their rents. The bulk of the landlords, nearly all, are Unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1285.6", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "ing forward this matter with regard to Belfast? We do not see the slightest probability of a Bill for the whole of Ireland. Are we to go on waiting for ever? Can this House, as the custodians of the rights and the liberties of these people in Belfast, rest satisfied when it is met with the fact that to-day there are 15,000 children who never go to school in Belfast, who want to go to school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1285.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-09", "file": "debates1919-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "3f25929e30a3ef1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1294.3", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (BELFAST) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "t to talk too much about the indifference of Catholics to education, while this indictment can be made against the generosity of the people of their own creed. The schools are bad, and they can only be made better by more money; but there are several ways of getting the money, and you can get it if you will subscribe one-third of the building Grant, for then you will get two-thirds from the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-09a.1294.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-12", "file": "debates1919-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "ab1816fdabd4bead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-12a.1331.5", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT TELEGRAMS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ILLINGWORTH", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wishes it, I will have it inquired into, but I think the answer will be the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-12a.1331.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-13", "file": "debates1919-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "195dc2796802d257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-13a.1487.6", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING IN IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "s been the sole custodian of the Treasury in this House. To return to the housing. In these houses there ought to be three small bedrooms, if possible, a little parlour, and, again if possible, some sort of garden. Who can justify the conditions existing in our great urban communities when it is said that there are children up to eleven and twelve years of age who have never seen a blade of grass?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-13a.1487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-13", "file": "debates1919-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "195dc2796802d257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-13a.1527.0", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING [SCOTLAND—EXPENSES.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. YOUNGER", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. YOUNGER", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member is dealing with the matter from an entirely mistaken point of view. The extract he has read from the Report of the Commission undoubtedly states that private enterprise by itself would not meet these difficulties, but everyone knows why. Private enterprise in the matter of building was crushed by the Budget of 1909.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-13a.1527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-13", "file": "debates1919-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "195dc2796802d257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-13a.1537.0", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order; but I would rather not raise that point of Order, if by leave of the House I may speak again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-13a.1537.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1633.0", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Twenty millions in addition to the £25,000,000.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "It is in the amending proposals. I think my right hon. Friend will find it there. In the first place, there is power for the central authority to advance money to the extent of some £25,000,000, and there is further power for the central body to expend something like £20,000,000 during the transitory period while the district boards are being set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1632.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the municipality?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "That is not Parliamentary control, but the control of the Law Courts. You have the control of the Law Courts everywhere. If a man contracts to supply you with proper stuff and he does not do it, you have always got that control, but there is no Parliamentary control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why did not the Irish fight?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "ibe as self-government and self-determination is a system of government for which we have just fought successfully through the bloodiest war the world has ever seen. We have been fostering aspirations in the Poles, the Czecho-Slovaks, and other alien races, yet it is the very aspirations we have fostered in other people which we treat with intense hostility when we find them in our Irish brethren.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "Europe, a system that has not yet justified itself either in relation to the wrongs of Ireland or in relation to the wrongs of labour. I say, with regret—I am not pleased to say it and I wish it were otherwise; I am simply giving expression to an unquestionable fact—that the organised workers are being slowly but surely forced to the conclusion that Parliamentary Government is a fraud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is not aristocratic!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " [An Hon. Member: \"Who says so?\"] I think I know what I am talking about. The workers of this country are being slowly but surely forced to the conclusion that Parliamentary Government is a fraud and that the real power rests, not with the Government itself but with a compact and organised gang of aristocratic military men and reactionary political partisans by whom the Government is being swayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who published it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " a line of thought in the minds of the workers which will inevitably lead from constitutional procedure to methods of a reactionary and a wrecking character. I do not know how many Members have seen the document I hold in my hand, which is called, \"A Complete Grammar of Anarchy.\" It is a little book that has been turned down by the Irish Government and, I am told, also by the Irish military power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They will not do it.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t never to use an industrial weapon for political ends. I am prepared to go a long way with them, but suppose the working-class movement decides, after the declaration of Peace, that they will organise a week's holiday from the North of Scotland to the West of Wales, organise great monster mass meetings, and concentrate upon the issue of Home Rule for Ireland, and the policy of Conscription—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1700.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "From the people!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "o leave this House any week, and co-operate with our colleagues in the industrial world on the question of Conscription, and the government of the people of Ireland, we could create a public feeling in this country which would make it impossible for the Government to live another day. Throw down the challenge if you like and we will accept it. I want to know where the Government got their mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " in this matter of Conscription for peace time in this country. We have just about had enough of it. What I want to know from the Government is this: Are the Ulster Unionists to be allowed to paralyse the British Executive and the overwhelming majority of the Irish people, and to thwart the operations of democratic government? If not, why are the Government not carrying out the will of the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.3", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "I do not know that it is exactly the business of myself or of the Labour party to determine the exact lines upon, which this should be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.3", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You will get no reply!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " lines upon, which this should be done. [Laughter.] You get hilarious directly, but what have we been contending for? Not that the Labour party are entitled to determine what Ireland should do, but that there should be self-determination for Ireland itself, that the people of Ireland should determine for themselves. I hope that we shall not be met to-night with the usual reply from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.4", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After the rebels did it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "Irish people who dared to teach the Irish language and the Irish religion to the Irish people. I have heard him state over and over again the methods of the brutal \"Yeos.\" Talk about Prussianism strikes horror into hon. Members in this House, but I have heard of innocent children who were bayoneted and carried on the points of the bayonets of the \"Yeos,\" previous to the rebellion of 'Ninety-eight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.4", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "to the Irish people. I have heard him state over and over again the methods of the brutal \"Yeos.\" Talk about Prussianism strikes horror into hon. Members in this House, but I have heard of innocent children who were bayoneted and carried on the points of the bayonets of the \"Yeos,\" previous to the rebellion of 'Ninety-eight. [An HON. MEMBER: \"After the rebels did it.\"] But I want to forget it all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.4", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "xisted in Ireland. I am old enough to remember the Clerkenwell explosion, the mistaken raid on Chester Castle—and it was a mistake—and the smashing of the prison van in Manchester. I have a vivid recollection of that, and with my father I stood beneath the gallows when Allen, Larkin and O'Brien were swung off for a pure accident—for it was never intended to kill or murder anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1703.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And in Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "know I am speaking truly when I tell you that in my own Constituency and in my own union men with all the bitter memories I have mentioned sank them all, did not wait for Conscription, and joined the Colours when the War broke out. The old cry used to be, \"England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity,\" but that was all forgotten, when this country was in danger, by the Irish residents in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "onstituency and in my own union men with all the bitter memories I have mentioned sank them all, did not wait for Conscription, and joined the Colours when the War broke out. The old cry used to be, \"England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity,\" but that was all forgotten, when this country was in danger, by the Irish residents in England. [An Hon. Member: \"And in Ireland!\"] Yes, and in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1712.0", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel Lord HENRY CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel Lord HENRY CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "s been to destroy the constitutional movement, and project the Irish people into Republicanism and violent courses. Neither can it be denied that the condition of Ireland, just as it was seventy-five years ago in Disraeli's day, is still the bane of England and the opprobrium of Europe. It is more than the opprobrium of Europe. It is the opprobrium of Canada and Australia and of the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1715.6", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "Neither the one proposal nor the other would meet the principle laid down by the Mover of the Resolution. The argument is that you must give the Irish people all they ask. The Mover of the Resolution based his arguments on this: you must treat Ireland precisely as you would treat the Czecho-Slovaks or as the Noble Lord said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1715.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1717.2", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Ulster was offered county option.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt that a large part of Ulster would be left out under a system of partition. I under- stand that the whole of the Sinn Fein party and all those who sat on the Convention representing Nationalist opinion repudiated partition as impossible and a thing which they would not look at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1723.2", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"If it is, it will be revolution here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " not all friends, if these American soldiers had got into collision with the British soldiers and the Irish police and bloody riot had occurred? More reckless conduct I do not think any Chief Secretary could be guilty of. Make up your minds—it is one thing or the other—whether it is to be self-government in Ireland or militarism in Ireland. If it is to be militarism in Ireland, say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1726.3", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Ulster!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ever at any moment, even since I took up my present office, receded from that position. But there is a primary duty laid upon anyone who accepts the office which I have accepted. It is a primary duty, which has been asserted by every Liberal Government that I have ever known, that wherever the law is broken, whether in Ireland or in any other part of the United Kingdom, the law must be maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1726.3", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ery Liberal Government that I have ever known, that wherever the law is broken, whether in Ireland or in any other part of the United Kingdom, the law must be maintained. [An Hon. Member: \"Ulster!\"] I was really astonished to find that in the speeches of the Mover and Seconder of the Amendment there was scarcely a word about the condition of Ireland to-day. The whole Debate is a trumped-up affair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1726.3", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your Home Rule Bill was a fraud!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "own, that wherever the law is broken, whether in Ireland or in any other part of the United Kingdom, the law must be maintained. [An Hon. Member: \"Ulster!\"] I was really astonished to find that in the speeches of the Mover and Seconder of the Amendment there was scarcely a word about the condition of Ireland to-day. The whole Debate is a trumped-up affair. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] It was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1726.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "It is a provocative expression.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Certainly. It is not an unparliamentary expression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1728.2", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "eeling at the present moment in that part of Ireland that no man's life is safe who endeavours to come forward to help the Government to maintain law and order and preserve the rights and liberties of law-abiding citizens. It has gone to this miserable extent that the two white crosses that were placed at the grave of those two policemen who were murdered have been taken away in the dead of night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Why?\" and \"Thanks to you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "Everyone in Ireland knows perfectly well what happened. They are not the same law-abiding body of citizens in that district in Ireland as they are in the district of Wales which the hon. Member represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-14", "file": "debates1919-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "1312ac58a11cb8e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1731.3", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "I am an anxious inquirer, and I have been trying to find a solution myself. Can I bargain now with the approval of the Labour party with Sinn Fein? Will the Labour party, as a party, ask me, as a representative of the Government in this House, to bargain with a set of revolutionaries who are determined to have nothing to do with the British Empire in any shape or form?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-14a.1731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-15", "file": "debates1919-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c42af2bec6c39b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1862.1", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1919–20.— [PROGRESS.]", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Sugar refinery!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " of the Foreign Office at home, was too weak to stop the profiteering that went on, not by the peasants—I agree the peasants were very little better off as the result of the high prices—but on the part of the middle men, largely Greeks, and some Italians. The profiteering by these people I should think beat any profiteering that went on in any other country in Europe. It was a scandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-15", "file": "debates1919-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c42af2bec6c39b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1919–20.— [PROGRESS.]", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " Egypt and Lower Egypt. Their dead bodies were subjected to every kind of insults, and the most disgusting scenes took place, a native in one case actually drinking the blood of one of the dead men. That is vouched for. I have here a quotation from the letter of a gentleman who was in Egypt at the time, who was formerly a Judge and Chief Justice in India, and who may be regarded as a reliable man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-15", "file": "debates1919-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c42af2bec6c39b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1919–20.— [PROGRESS.]", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In this country, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "riotings stopped and the Khedive agreed to his demand as regards the Minister, Cairo would be occupied by a naval force. The Khedive gave way in ten minutes. That is an example of the way in which the situation was dealt with in those days. I know I shall be called a reactionary for what I am about to say, but I am not at all sure that a little of that kind of force is not necessary in these days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-15", "file": "debates1919-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c42af2bec6c39b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1919–20.— [PROGRESS.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "And of the Egyptians, I say with regret, nearly 1,000 have been killed, according to the information I have before me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-15", "file": "debates1919-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c42af2bec6c39b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1888.3", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1919–20.— [PROGRESS.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "That does not fall to me. There is a Commission going to Egypt, and I have no doubt it will examine into that question. I feel that it is something of an outrage on the reputation of the British soldier that there should be any need to inquire into that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-15", "file": "debates1919-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c42af2bec6c39b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1889.3", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1919–20.— [PROGRESS.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "Surely my hon. and gallant Friend, with his experience, would not expect—and I would be quite unworthy of the position—if I stood at this box and offhand pronounced what is to be the particular form of government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-15", "file": "debates1919-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c42af2bec6c39b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1905.3", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1919–20.— [PROGRESS.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e they are not the views of the military caste, for whose gallantry in warfare I have the greatest admiration, but for whose fitness for political government, especially of subject races, I have the utmost contempt. I do not except my own profession, much as I love it after seventeen years' service in it. As long as sailors will keep to the sea and soldiers to their barracks it is all right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-15a.1905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-16", "file": "debates1919-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "793096f1e2f72354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " end must realise that this is another attempt to create the system which the Socialists have tried for years to create of municipal and Government training. There is nothing in this Bill about milk, cattle, bread, or bricks—all necessaries of life. It is more than an omnibus Bill; it is a whole trainload. It means that any municipality or county council can establish any business they like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-16", "file": "debates1919-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "793096f1e2f72354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1948.1", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "when the municipal elections come round, if a section of the community are successful at the polls, on a Bill which gives them such powers as these they can offer a direct bribe to the electorate, by saying, \"If you return us to power, we are going to establish every possible trade, and for those who support us there will be certain remunerations and jobs in those different trades and industries.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-16", "file": "debates1919-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "793096f1e2f72354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1949.0", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAILWOOD", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAILWOOD", "preceding_text": "course, if they had had any experience in a competitive industry or any knowledge of business, they would not speak in the manner they do, because they would know more about their subject. We have listened to Members opposite talking about municipal trading, and one cannot help thinking that a good many of these arguments and speeches have been used in their own constituencies time and time again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-16", "file": "debates1919-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "793096f1e2f72354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about education?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "s to do a good many things, but during the Debate most speakers have confined themselves to the trading aspect; the right to undertake business. This Bill refers also to the right to acquire land for the purpose of art, science, recreation, charity, and a good many other things about which hon. Members have not spoken. We know that at present the local authorities are not invested with that power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-16", "file": "debates1919-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "793096f1e2f72354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1977.0", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "ble the local authority to do what private individuals are allowed to do without having to ask anybody's permission. Is it right that a small section of people in a town or strangers from outside can take advantage of the necessities of the people, and form a monopoly, while the citizens of the town are debarred from doing what any small section of private individuals are perfectly entitled to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-16", "file": "debates1919-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "793096f1e2f72354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "preceding_text": "the Government—a very prominent Member—made a very remarkable speech in favour of federal devolution. In the course of the discussion which followed it became evident, notwithstanding the dissent of my hon. Friend opposite, that the large body of Members gathered together in that room, something like 150 drawn from all quarters and all sections of the House, were practically unanimous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-16", "file": "debates1919-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "793096f1e2f72354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1993.1", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "preceding_text": "A vote was not taken, and it is equally competent for hon. Mem- bers to take one view as it is for me to take the other view, but having followed the proceedings closely I say that the meeting was very largely with, the right hon. Gentleman who addressed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-16a.1993.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-19", "file": "debates1919-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f3c6f3fd911786bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-19a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [11TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You are wrong.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. HENRY", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Member why the trades unions are not entitled to take these shipyards. I could understand a federation or trade union setting up a separate organisation in co-operative form to carry on industrial undertakings, but it must not be lost sight of that trade unions have unique privileges. Trade union funds are not liable to be attached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-19a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-19", "file": "debates1919-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f3c6f3fd911786bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-19a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [11TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Double ca' canny!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": " in, and as if each one was rushing to try and get his own job finished first, without respect to continuity of the work, or the real connection between one part and the other. I am very glad to report to the House that the last of the German prisoners have gone from Beachley. We have heard of the Dockyard stroke, but you ought to have seen the German stroke. It supersedes anything I ever imagine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-19a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-19", "file": "debates1919-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f3c6f3fd911786bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-19a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [11TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "knowledge of what has been discussed here this afternoon, I should like to make a few remarks. I am in a good deal of agreement with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman who has just sat down has said. I should be the last one to cast a stone at the Government for having taken too great precautions or exercised too great foresight. However, I did not come here to criticise this aspect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-19a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-19", "file": "debates1919-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "f3c6f3fd911786bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-19a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [11TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel THORNE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel THORNE", "preceding_text": "#163;2,000,000, how many millions have been wasted in other directions? It is a mere drop in the ocean. If the Armistice had not come so suddenly, and the War were still going on, the Government, if they had not carried out this scheme, would have been condemned from every side for not having had the foresight to put down a shipyard. It is an excellent shipyard, and the surroundings are beautiful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-19a.137.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.188.7", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIR MINISTRY (MOTOR- CARS).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman inquire into the large number of cars used by civilian officials of the Air Ministry?", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "I am sure that cannot be given as a serious reason. But the whole question is being considered by the Committee of my right hon. Friend the Member for the City of London. Every reduction possible will be made, but I must not be taken as assuming that it is desirable that cars be taken from officers of the Royal Air Force who have to administer large districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.188.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.192.8", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TERMS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel LOWTHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel LOWTHER", "preceding_text": "Has the Leader of the House any valid reason for giving evasive answers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.192.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "May I ask if the hon. and gallant Gentleman is aware that aged people under seventy receiving Poor Law relief often have their incomes actually reduced by receiving old age pensions?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "I would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on this subject to the hon. and gallant Member for East Bradford (Captain Loseby) on the 15th inst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ches 10s. 6d. Taking the lower incomes of £2,000 and £3,000, they have nothing less now than an 8s. Income Tax, and therefore the thing resolves itself into a hopeless position and something has got to be done. There is only one concrete proposal at present before the House and the country, and that is the proposal known as a capital levy. I want to say a word or two with regard to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.233.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": " short quotation from what he said: A country which has accumulated a large debt is placed in a most artificial situation. It is the interest of every contributor to withdraw his shoulder from the burden and to shift this payment from himself to another, and the temptation to remove himself and his capital to another country where he will be exempted from such burdens becomes at last irresistible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "o provide £10,000 by a levy on his capital to extinguish £10,000 worth of his War Loan. If you do that, you cease to pay him interest on his loan, and you cease to charge him the Income Tax which was required to provide that interest. He ceases to have his War Loan and to get his 5 per cent. interest, but he has his £10,000, which he can invest or use for any other purpose he likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "verage man who pays average Income Tax and who has an average holding in War Loan is in one farthing the worse position if a capital levy is imposed for the purpose of cancelling a capital contribution raised from him, that is the War Loan which he holds. If that is denied, it must be argued that the proposal of a capital levy is for the purpose of some destruction of national or personal capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.265.4", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Leader of the House!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ch does not provide for a capital levy. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal party in this House will not commit himself by speech to a capital levy, and I presume he will not by vote. Mr. Asquith would not commit himself by speech to a capital levy. The right hon. Gentleman who moved the Amendment explained that he did not know whether a capital levy was a good thing or a bad thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.265.4", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\" What are your arguments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " appeal in order to help you to put the finance of the country in a sound condition. I can only say that my views are unchanged. I am not attempting to argue the question again. My views are unchanged. They were not formed without consideration, and the more I study it and the more I listen to speeches which are made in support of it, the more difficult does the proposition appear to me to become.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.265.4", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "nsidered the greater dangers and difficulties of embarking on such a course at a time like this, when we have a vast floating debt which we are anxious to fund as soon as we can, and which it is essential that we should provide for within a limited time in order that we may be free from anxiety. At such a time to start an inquiry into a tax of this kind, never tried anywhere else, so far as I know", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.265.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "I think it is an extra ordinarily unfortunate thing that when this House is about to come to a decision on the great Imperial question of Preference that the right hon. Gentleman who has just spoken for the Labour party should, have used in this House, and in the presence of us all, terms which to my mind are almost insulting to the Colonies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.278.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Sir Alfred Mond)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Sir Alfred Mond)", "preceding_text": "ul to the country, to the community, and to the Empire. That, however, is not the proposal on which we are asked to vote to-night, and which is concerned in the Finance Bill. How anyone can contend that a reduction of existing duties can be an infringement of the principle of Free Trade quite passes my comprehension, because it is obviously a movement towards Free Trade and a very strong movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.285.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Well, a man would not starve on that!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": " on £2,000 a year was actually 6s. That is a fact. Between £2,000 and £2,500 the tax is actually 6s., but the purchasing power of that £2,000 to-day—I agree with the statements of hon. Members opposite on this—is no more than the pre-war purchasing power of £l,000. Therefore, when compared with pre-war taxation the sum to-day on £1,000 is on a basis of 6s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are beating the drum!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "preceding_text": "The Jingoes are on the benches opposite. Those are the gentlemen, perfectly honest gentlemen, that wave the flags.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "preceding_text": "done for us. They are quite content that certain Orders of Merit should be given to their leaders. They are quite content that there should be these demonstrations through the streets, and that we should cheer them. They are the Jingoes. We are the practical people who say, \"You ask for something. It is not much. Not only have you asked for something, but you have given something all these years.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From you! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "preceding_text": " \"Give us something in exchange.\" Although it may be a very small matter, it is a question of principle, and, speaking with all humility and earnestness, I say that the Mother Country cannot do better than answer the call of her kith and kin. who have done so much for her. I am not presuming to argue with hon. Gentlemen opposite. I am quite convinced that they are impervious to any argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "preceding_text": " say that the Mother Country cannot do better than answer the call of her kith and kin. who have done so much for her. I am not presuming to argue with hon. Gentlemen opposite. I am quite convinced that they are impervious to any argument—[An HON. MEMBER: \"From you! \"]—from me or anybody else. They are the only people who have learned nothing whatever from the lessons of the War—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": " to the way in which they developed the business, and they would have been encouraged to go on developing the business and profiteering would be entirely done away with; and if taxation were so enacted that surplus profits would come to the State and to the common good, then I suggest that much of the prevailing discontent would disappear. I desire to say a few words in regard to the capital levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": ", then I suggest that much of the prevailing discontent would disappear. I desire to say a few words in regard to the capital levy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide! \"] I hope one may say on the Finance Bill what one thinks, as this is the only opportunity of expressing our views on matters of taxation. If the Government only give one day, while in the past they gave four, five, six, or even ten days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "uestion of a capital levy, but the more I think about it the more I feel that it is, at any rate, a subject worthy of the most serious consideration. I hope hon. Gentlemen will not dismiss it without full thought and inquiry. I found in discussion lately that very many business men are in favour of it if, and this applies entirely to my own view, the capital levy is a clean cut and will not recur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "firm has liabilities, the partners are liable in accordance with their capital in the business, and in the same way in the nation each separate individual is liable for his portion of the National Debt. Then a capital levy would simply mean that he would be dealing off the mortgage which always exists upon his own fortune straight away. I am going to give three reasons in favour of a capital levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "come Tax to 3s. in the £; so that if anyone who has earned income as well as unearned income will work it out for himself he will find that if one-fifth of his capital was taken from him, but that for the future he only paid 3s. in the £ Income Tax instead of 6s., he would have more retainable income every year than he had got before the capital levy. The third reason, and it is my last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-20", "file": "debates1919-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "200996ab723490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Parliament is on its trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-20a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-22", "file": "debates1919-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "54ead31f34574ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.576.4", "colnum": "576", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "important even than the questions themselves. I would like now to address myself to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House. I know that in all these matters he is perfectly agreeable to meet the convenience and the general desire of the House, and he can easily see that in all parts of the House there is a strong desire that there should be a longer period given to questions and answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.576.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-22", "file": "debates1919-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "54ead31f34574ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "STANDING COMMITTEES (OFFICIAL REPORTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or women!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": " reporters from outside. That we have been trying hard to do, but they are not to be found. We have approached the leading newspapers, and they have nobody on their staffs whom they can spare. We have approached some of the chief agencies, and they have nobody. Therefore, it is impossible to provide suitable men for the purpose. The next best thing is to provide men as nearly suitable as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-22", "file": "debates1919-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "54ead31f34574ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST INDIA REVENUE ACCOUNTS.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair.\" This is the sixth time it has fallen to my lot to initiate the discussion on the Indian Budget, and I devoutly hope that it may be the last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-22", "file": "debates1919-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "54ead31f34574ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST INDIA REVENUE ACCOUNTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And Germany, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "preceding_text": "the Mahomedan world—on which I shall have something to say in a minute— partly to a pathetic effort, by the worst possible means, to consolidate his position on a shaky throne, partly to the emissaries of that dark and murderous doctrine which battens upon unrest, feeds on discontent, spreads disorder wherever it shows its head—Bolshevism, and the Bolshevist emissaries of Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.623.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-22", "file": "debates1919-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "54ead31f34574ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST INDIA REVENUE ACCOUNTS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why not shoot him?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Why not prosecute him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-22a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-23", "file": "debates1919-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "82f76cacf3d12478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-23a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "pounds either— It is a matter of getting animals for experimenting at a price which can be paid, as compared with a price that cannot be paid. It would cost £5 to get a suitable monkey.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th April, 1914, col. 524, Vol. 61.] Therefore, for the sake of saving £5, these gentlemen wish to subject the greatest friend man ever had in the world to these tortures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-23a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-23", "file": "debates1919-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "82f76cacf3d12478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-23a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "ostcard here in my hand. Someone, I suppose, has-taken the trouble to have it printed, and I commend it to the attention of the Government, though I do not suppose it will be necessary to recommend to the Government the advice it contains. The only argument, apparently, that those who sent the postcard have to fall back upon, is to-ask the Government to obstruct the Bill. I have known obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-23a.731.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-23", "file": "debates1919-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "82f76cacf3d12478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-23a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Would you vivisect him?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WHITLA", "preceding_text": " this House last February to take my humble part in this great legislative assembly I parted from my Irish terrier. I anticipate, like any schoolboy, the holiday we are going to get at Whitsuntide, which I hope to spend away from this sweltering heat. Then I shall be able to speak to my dog—and he can almost speak—and tell him what nonsense and rubbish I have heard on this matter here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-23a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-23", "file": "debates1919-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "82f76cacf3d12478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-23a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WHITLA", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WHITLA", "preceding_text": " on tuberculous ulcers. I wished to prepare some of this serum, and I found that I had to get Certificate A and Certificate B, and that I had to get this and that from so many people that I was so disgusted that I gave it up here and went over to a Paris laboratory, where I could work without all these restrictions. What are you doing? You have been sending the best intellects out of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-23a.762.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-26", "file": "debates1919-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d6eaf7f8c98a61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "modification of plans where it may be necessary, that as a general rule in rural districts there should not be more than eight houses to the acre and in urban districts not more than twelve. I am exceedingly anxious that the places shall be good to look at as well as to live in. I am sure we shall bear the hon. Member's remarks in mind, but I hope he will not ask us to put the words into the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-26", "file": "debates1919-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d6eaf7f8c98a61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I think the House has discussed this question of aesthetic buildings quite long enough. There is an absence of houses in the country. There are thousands of people at the present moment who cannot get a roof over their heads, and the first thing this House has got to do is to create houses. After that we can discuss the question of whether they are artistic houses or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-26", "file": "debates1919-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d6eaf7f8c98a61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WEIGALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is in the Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WEIGALL", "preceding_text": "s, because I am not certain that I shall get the work through.\" But I do not want him to stabilise and standardise this power as he does in the Clause. As on the last Amendment I made so bold as to suggest a halfway house, may I suggest a half-way house on this? It is that the local authority should have the power of being heard by the Local Government Board simultaneously with the county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.897.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-26", "file": "debates1919-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d6eaf7f8c98a61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Yes!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "I am not a member of that Committee, but if my right hon. Friend says that the Land Acquisition Bill will bring these owners who are now holding up schemes to book——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.947.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-26", "file": "debates1919-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d6eaf7f8c98a61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be too funny!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": "I am sorry my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not in his place, for we see the truth of what he said the other day on the Budget, that when any effort is made towards economy the House of Commons is the last place in which economy is supported. We have a representative of the Government and the Leader of what Opposition there is in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-26a.974.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL WAR PENSION COMMITTEES (IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that no Nationalists were invited to that meeting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1033.9", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIAN AND BRITISH WARSHIPS (ENGAGEMENT IN BALTIC).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the British ships were ordered to fire on the Bolshevik ships, and whether we are at war with Russia? May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1033.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ou proceed by inserting this Clause you allow the culprits to determine what sentence will be passed on the person in the dock. That is precisely what it means. You allow the local corporation so to arrange these wards and so to gerrymander the districts as practically to defeat the object that this Bill has in view. [An HON. MEMEBER: \"Self-determination!\"] Are you in favour of self-determination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "nd, I will accept it for the purposes of the other districts. But it will be seen that if the schemes that have been drafted by Belfast, or Derry, or Cork, or any other local authority, are not satisfactory, then the Local Government Board still has the right to interfere. That is where the rub comes in. You in Belfast can draft any scheme you like, and the Local Government Board will sanction it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "the schemes that have been drafted by Belfast, or Derry, or Cork, or any other local authority, are not satisfactory, then the Local Government Board still has the right to interfere. That is where the rub comes in. You in Belfast can draft any scheme you like, and the Local Government Board will sanction it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because you are masters of the situation; you boss the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do we not get them to withdraw this Bill, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ry, or Cork, or any other local authority, are not satisfactory, then the Local Government Board still has the right to interfere. That is where the rub comes in. You in Belfast can draft any scheme you like, and the Local Government Board will sanction it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because you are masters of the situation; you boss the Government. [Cries of \"No!\"] Yes, you do; you are their masters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Three!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ll send it up to the Local Government Board, and, of course. the Local Government Board will sanction it. If the Local Government Board say, \"Oh, we will not sanction it,\" then the hon. Gentlemen will say, \"Here we are, twenty-five of us; we threaten the Government. We will give them trouble, and we will start another rebellion.\" Then you would have two conflicting revolutionary forces in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": ", of course. the Local Government Board will sanction it. If the Local Government Board say, \"Oh, we will not sanction it,\" then the hon. Gentlemen will say, \"Here we are, twenty-five of us; we threaten the Government. We will give them trouble, and we will start another rebellion.\" Then you would have two conflicting revolutionary forces in Ireland. [An HON. MEMBERS: \"Three!\"] Who are the others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "er this Bill the ex-officio officers and co-opted officers remain, with the result that we know this anomaly of the minority possessing a majority of the county council will be perpetuated. These seven rural district councils in the county Tyrone will continue to have their chairmen as ex-officio members of the county council. Will they be elected upon the principle of Proportional Representation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So will you in turn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "I will concede that to the hon. Member. That being so, what are the facts with regard to the county council? In county Armagh the majority very properly of the people have a majority of the representatives on the county council, and they will have under proportional representation ex-officio or no ex-officio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVEKNMENT (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Labour party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " House of Commons? Had the discharged and demobilised soldiers appeared outside to wreck this model institution? What was the terrific danger that had arisen to bring these almost countless English Members, Tories and Liberals, rushing into the House? The poor old Liberals! I saw one Liberal nearly trip over three Tories in trying to get into the Lobby to vote down half a dozen Irish Nationalists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1171.8", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " let me say once again—I am tired of saying it, but I am going on saying it—the price at which you can buy the land is the basis of how these measures are going to work, and the country will not stand the burden, which the present measure seeks to impose on communities and on public utility societies, of buying land at a market price which largely represents the blood value of the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1171.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-27", "file": "debates1919-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f05038b540d6fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1171.8", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not mine!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "on saying it—the price at which you can buy the land is the basis of how these measures are going to work, and the country will not stand the burden, which the present measure seeks to impose on communities and on public utility societies, of buying land at a market price which largely represents the blood value of the War. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"]That is my opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-27a.1171.8"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-28", "file": "debates1919-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c5e809316e2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1270.4", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why find fault with the scheme if you are its father?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I admit that he may oven know more than I do, but I happened to be a member of the Civil Liabilities Committee, and happened to be the father of this scheme, except as regards the maximum grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-28", "file": "debates1919-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c5e809316e2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel L. WARD", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel L. WARD", "preceding_text": " living. That is why I appeal to the Government to do all they can. I am not asking for enormous grants, or asking them to spend huge sums of money, but I am just asking them to consider the case of the demobilised man as it comes before them, humanly and sympatheticlly. In endeavouring to put forward the case of demobilised soldiers, I have trespassed much too long on the time of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-28", "file": "debates1919-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c5e809316e2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We did not claim so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLE", "preceding_text": " have been brought before the House this Session with a view of carrying out the schemes to which the hon. Member has referred, they will see at once that the Government are attempting to redeem the pledges which they gave. There is one thing I must say, that neither he nor any Members on that side of the House have any monopoly of the desire to see justice done to discharged soldiers and sailors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-28", "file": "debates1919-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c5e809316e2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRET PARTY FUNDS.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": " in this country in order to influence our political movements. I would remind the House that the Bolsheviks are spending enormous sums of money in foreign countries. We know that very large sums have gone to Sweden. There is every belief that that money has come on into this country. If that is so, surely the people of this country ought to know which political institution that money has come to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1334.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-28", "file": "debates1919-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "8c8c5e809316e2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRET PARTY FUNDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANE-MITCHELL", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Name! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANE-MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "he man into trouble, because he probably should not have done it, but he did it. That is what happened. That is the line they were going to take up, and this gentle man of military age came back from the front, in the middle of the War. That was a curious thing. An able-bodied man, physically fit, like our Friend who moved this Resolution, throws up his job at the front and conies back. For what'!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-28a.1350.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "And the cost of living went up too !", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "Wages were growing by leaps and bounds too!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1486.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1513.2", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will you give any reason why they are being kept in Russia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The General Staff have no policy apart from the policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1514.2", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Did you expect to get any other answer?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " summaries collected over the whole of the area at that date, and it is now about four months' ago, were: Troops may be relied on to assist the civil power to preserve the public peace and to protect persons and property. They resent unofficial strikes and the effort of a section of the community to intimidate the Government and they realise their duty as citizens in repressing disorderly persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1515.0", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "May I ask whether those are opinions of commanding officers or of the troops themselves directly asked?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ief reasons why service in Russia appears to be unpopular are: (1) Suggestions in the Press of unpleasant climatic conditions. (2) Ignorance of policy to be adopted about that country. (3) Taking part in active warfare against an enemy who is, to them, undefined. (4) They do not know what the campaign in Russia is all about, or even if it is a campaign. (5) Men fear delay in their demobilisation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1514.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1516.4", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will the right. hon. Gentleman be prepared to afford facilities for trade unions to ascertain the views of trade unionists in the Army?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "There may be in the millions of people who have been dealt with. I have no doubt there are isolated cases, and I do not suppose you could name an individual hard case of which you could not show me an instance amongst those millions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1516.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1531.2", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Docs the right hon. Gentleman recollect the War Office promise in a circular that the 1914–15 men would all be demobilised before April, 1919?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t was very good. On the assumption that peace is signed in June, we shall propose to fix a definite day for the release of those 1914 and 1915 men, whom we have always meant to send home, but have never yet, owing to one thing or another, been physically able to release. We propose, on the assumption that peace is signed then, that all the 1914 men will be sent home for release by the end of June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of it. I said, subject to the exigencies of the Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1532.0", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Including Egypt?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ot remove them in the least. The House has seen what has happened in India and Egypt, and it knows the situation, and we have been releasing an enormous number of men, but I am now assigning a definite date, to which we shall endeavour by every means in our power to live up, so that if Peace is signed this month or next, at the end of June all men who joined in 1914 shall be sent home for release.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Smillie!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "onstitutional and to peaceful action, and men in the mines showed that they were prepared to forfeit a good deal of their claims, and to accept any reasonable overtures which the Government was willing to make, in order to prevent a stoppage of work. I grant that there were some few spokesmen—men whose names are not of national weight—who evidently would not have been displeased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [12th Allotted Day.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We all get those letters.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hear that, but in that case I cannot understand the letter which I have received to-day. Mr. Churchill has asked mo to inform you that as the claim put forward does not come within the terms of the enclosed Army Council instruction, it is regretted it is not possible to give other treatment in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No,\" from the Labour Benches.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "riend in regard to the subject. As far as the standpoint of the particular party to which I have the honour to belong is concerned we make no pretence about it. We fully understand the position of the Government. We know there has been a blunder. We know that a stupid official stepped in and made a great blunder. What are the facts? We were threatened with a Triple Alliance which meant revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Strike breaking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "ld have been placed, and a responsibility, the neglect of which would never have been forgiven them by the people. An hon. Member has said that had he been a civilian, had he been a politician, he would never have sent out that stupid circular. He did not even mean \"strike breaker\"; I am perfectly certain of it. It was a term that was used, \"How do your soldiers like being used in time of strike?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M'LEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M'LEAN", "preceding_text": "e passing resolutions demanding the withdrawal of our troops from Russia. Yet those troops remain. Why? What is the cause of it? The real cause is not the cause which the Secretary of State for War gave to-day. The real cause is because there is so much British capital invested in Russia, and because we want to be sure that there is a Government in Russia which will safeguard the capital invested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1558.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'Why not?'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e working classes. Hon. Members denounce the Bolsheviks, applaud every statement that is made against them, and shout down everyone from this side of the House who tries to say anything that is looked upon as Bolshevism by them. I find hon. and right hon. Members of this House with money invested in Russia. I find three Gentlemen who sit on the Front Government Bench with money invested in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We could not relieve our soldiers there.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "hon. and right hon. Members of this House with money invested in Russia. I find three Gentlemen who sit on the Front Government Bench with money invested in Russia. [An HON. MEMBER: 'Why not?'\"] Why not? Then do not let us have it said that we are there for high ideals. Tell us the right reason why you are there: to fight for your investments, as you went to war in South Africa for the goldfields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1559.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M'LEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No preferential tariff there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M'LEAN", "preceding_text": "re sending out, have the right to say they are not going to Russia. It is all of a piece with the military system now established in this country. We went into a war to end all wars. We went into a war to crush Prussian militarism. Yes, and Prussian militarism is the one commodity in the world that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has allowed to come into this country without putting a tax upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1562.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-29", "file": "debates1919-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8c4c6bc5e79c2a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\" and laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " 1918. This is 29th May, 1919. I want to ask my hon. Friend if he can tell us what that all means. Let me put to him quite a simple case. A man who has been serving in the Army, say, for three years, re-engages in the Army of Occupation. Because he reengages in the Army of Occupation he gets a certain amount of leave. He can get up to three months. If that man marries, as he frequently does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-29a.1571.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-30", "file": "debates1919-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9371cdbd6392500a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1601.2", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION FOR SUBSIDENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": " with a view to something being done. The nation is undertaking a great housing scheme, and what is going to be the position of local authorities if they are to be subjected to such damage as has occurred in past years. Some landowners do include in their leases reparation for all damage, but others do not. During the last twenty-five years it has been the custom not to put such clauses in leases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1601.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-30", "file": "debates1919-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9371cdbd6392500a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1618.3", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION FOR SUBSIDENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hook them to the moon!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "he schools there and that there was a liability to damage. I understand you are going to claim from somebody else the cost of the damage which has been incurred, and which you knew would be incurred if you put the schools there. Supposing it is possible to remedy that damage by pecuniary payment, you ought to have erected the buildings in such a manner that they would not be damaged by subsidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-30", "file": "debates1919-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9371cdbd6392500a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1618.3", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION FOR SUBSIDENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "se on a certain place where damage is likely to occur, he has to take the risk if he chooses to do it. It is said that it is impossible to find another place for the buildings, but one of the parties who are gaining by the fact that the coal is taken are the miners. The colliery owner is also responsible, but the miner is equally responsible. He is getting extremely high wages to-day for his work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-30", "file": "debates1919-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9371cdbd6392500a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1618.3", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION FOR SUBSIDENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the owners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "nd another place for the buildings, but one of the parties who are gaining by the fact that the coal is taken are the miners. The colliery owner is also responsible, but the miner is equally responsible. He is getting extremely high wages to-day for his work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Well, is he not? I should have thought from reading the evidence given before the Coal Commission that he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-05-30", "file": "debates1919-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9371cdbd6392500a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1618.3", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION FOR SUBSIDENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "en and is to be privileged to claim damages, while this new board that is to be set up is going to be in a different position and, if it chooses, to say, \"I will let you the land,\" because the Clause says: subject to such conditions…and restrictions.…as to such board may seem fit. \"I will let you the land on the understanding that you do not insist upon putting a building on it\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1618.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-30", "file": "debates1919-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9371cdbd6392500a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1626.3", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION FOR SUBSIDENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Bolshevism!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "Not renew it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1626.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-05-30", "file": "debates1919-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9371cdbd6392500a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1632.2", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION FOR SUBSIDENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "There are some \"gold mines\" there.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BAN BURY", "preceding_text": "Therefore I could express a disinterested opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-05-30a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-02", "file": "debates1919-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "59775119f594011f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-02a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE DEMONSTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "Is he also aware that, owing to the reasonableness of that answer, no strike took place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-02a.1685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-03", "file": "debates1919-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a53d05ab2b11dd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-03a.1799.0", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that if these officers are asked to meet the Empress it means that they are to be brought into the Royalist schemes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-03a.1799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-03", "file": "debates1919-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a53d05ab2b11dd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-03a.1832.1", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN PRISONERS (EMPLOYMENT ON FARMS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. SMITH", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. SMITH", "preceding_text": "May I ask if he is aware that agricultural labourers are being discharged at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-03a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-03", "file": "debates1919-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a53d05ab2b11dd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-03a.1837.4", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MISS DOUGLAS-PENNANT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No,\" and \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "( by Private Notice ) asked the Leader of the House whether the Government are now prepared, in view of what occurred in the other House last week, to agree to set up a Committee of Inquiry in respect of Miss Douglas-Pennant's dismissal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-03a.1837.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-03", "file": "debates1919-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "1a53d05ab2b11dd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-03a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERAL DEVOLUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Major E. WOOD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is at the Admiralty now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major E. WOOD", "preceding_text": "now knows what war means, and, in so far as wars are the result of bad diplomacy, every man and woman are going to see to it that they use their influence to make diplomacy good. That will mean interest in foreign policy. And there is a further consideration. I am very glad to see my right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary in the House, because I am sure he will agree with what I am going to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-03a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-06-04", "file": "debates1919-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7cae9a09bed9190f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2018.2", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "MISS DOUGLAS-PENNANT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Does not the decision of the Government mean that a Minister has the right, in the exercise of his authority, to destroy, set aside, and abrogate entirely the personal rights and safeguards which are given under the Regulations under which people are serving?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I am not the least afraid of that belief being entertained. The reasons I have given are quite sufficient. If such a precedent were established, I cannot see where it would end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-04", "file": "debates1919-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7cae9a09bed9190f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2070.3", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERAL DEVOLUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "n the eyes of the public outside. I agree that that is merely a matter of opinion and I am not prepared at the moment to do more than offer that as my opinion. There is as much evidence for it as has been offered for the statement that it is due to the lack of time. Another matter that has very largely affected the prestige of Parliament is the increasing power asserted by the Ministry of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-04", "file": "debates1919-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7cae9a09bed9190f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERAL DEVOLUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "olution with one exception, because this Resolution provides for the appointment of a Parliamentary body to consider and report upon what? A Parliamentary body to consider and report (1) upon a measure of Federal Devolution applicable to England, Scotland and Ireland. Therefore, the only method which, according to this Resolution, is open for inquiry is the method of three subordinate Parliaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-04", "file": "debates1919-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7cae9a09bed9190f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERAL DEVOLUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "e dissents. But these are the terms of the Motion. I do not think I am misinterpreting their meaning. Unless I am mistaken that means that there is to be retained in this one legislative and deliberative body the affairs of the United Kingdom—according to the Motion—and matters of common Imperial concern. That is to say: it is to be at once, or to remain, the Imperial Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-04", "file": "debates1919-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7cae9a09bed9190f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERAL DEVOLUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "islative bodies for such provincial units as wisdom may dictate. I agree with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for one of the Divisions of Belfast in thinking that wisdom will not make those units necessarily coincide with the nationalities of what used to be known as the Celtic fringe. I suppose, however, the supporters of this Motion will say, \"Well, do not go too fast; one step at a time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-04", "file": "debates1919-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7cae9a09bed9190f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERAL DEVOLUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " this matter very seriously—is really threatened from a good many quarters. Of those quarters by far the most menacing at the moment is the demand for localised or direct democracy, or what I venture to call political syndicalism or Soviet Government. That menace is, I am certain, very much less remote than a good many people are aware of and if I were not detaining the House too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-04", "file": "debates1919-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7cae9a09bed9190f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2108.0", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERAL DEVOLUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. WHITTAKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. WHITTAKER", "preceding_text": "nt and the Minister alone, and that is not good enough. It is a very serious matter. 7.0 P.M. Members of the Government are not on the Front Bench now during Debates as they used to be. When I first came to this House, unfortunately now twenty-seven years ago, the members of the Government were all on the Treasury Bench. What did that mean? That leaders of the Opposition were always on this bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-04", "file": "debates1919-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "7cae9a09bed9190f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2146.0", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "perty for twenty-five years, so this lady cannot be described as a blood-sucking landlady. Here is a case where, owing to heavy taxation, this poor widow, who used to get £130 a year from her property, is now reduced to £80 a year. I put it that this £80 ought to be £160 in order to keep her in the same position. It is that class of person who is hit harder than anybody I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-04a.2146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2295.3", "colnum": "2295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Nations !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)", "preceding_text": "responsible government, progressive realisation, realisation by degrees, by stages, by steps—and those steps must at the outset be substantial. That pronouncement was made in order to achieve what I believe is the only logical, the only possible, the only acceptable meaning of Empire and Democracy, namely, an opportunity to all nations flying the Imperial flag to control their own destinies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2295.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2315.0", "colnum": "2315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "rvices which the Indian Civil Service during all these generations has rendered to India. They have performed marvellous work. I do not think the world as a whole has ever seen anything like it. For the present, at any rate, that is going to remain untouched. The real change comes in the provinces, and on all questions which are not transferred such as law and order, and I suppose education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2315.0", "colnum": "2315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Two hundred millions !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "erful position over his Ministers under the new elective system. He has the power of veto, and what that power is we will see when the rules appear. My right hon. Friend, when he referred to the question of legislation by rule, did not know how sore a subject he was touching so far as we were concerned. The new elected chambers are to be on a limited franchise of 5,000,000 votes out of 300,000,000", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2342.1", "colnum": "2342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"America !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "n English history. It was resorted to in Russia for the Duma, and it was resorted to, I think, in Germany in certain cases, but in English history we have never had indirect election at all, and certainly any Legislature which is based upon indirect election will carry very little weight and will not have that firm root that we are accustomed to see in all the Legislatures in. the. British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2342.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2348.0", "colnum": "2348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Quite right, too.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "this Indian franchise. The real complaint I have to make against this Bill, as whittled down from the Montagu-Chelmsford Report is the enormous increase in communal and interest representation. Communal representation means that if in a mixed population of Mahomedans and Hindus the Hindus outnumber the Mahomedans by ten to one there should be special representation given to the Mahomedan minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2348.1", "colnum": "2348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "mbers in the House who can easily be got round. But for the 98 per cent. of the members of the Council, the Christian Indians, or it may be the Sikhs or Mahomedans, are a matter of no interest whatever. They have no votes. We are discussing this Bill now, and we are more influenced by the retired Anglo-Indians who have votes in our constituencies than we are by the interests of the whole of India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2348.1", "colnum": "2348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " of the members of the Council, the Christian Indians, or it may be the Sikhs or Mahomedans, are a matter of no interest whatever. They have no votes. We are discussing this Bill now, and we are more influenced by the retired Anglo-Indians who have votes in our constituencies than we are by the interests of the whole of India. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no !\"] Human nature being what it is it must be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2390.0", "colnum": "2390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "MR. MONTAGU: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": " for a long time before this House. It is, in my opinion, the most important measure, probably, of this character, that has ever been considered here. It is far more important than any franchise question of our own. What I desire to protest against this evening is what I can only describe as the method which the Government has employed of getting these reforms through almost by back-stair methods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2403.0", "colnum": "2403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide !\" and \"Agreed !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "ment. This is a matter of vast importance to India and the British Empire, and I do not think it ought to be put without the very fullest discussion by all those who have any claim to any knowledge of the Government of India and its institutions. I will be guided by the right hon. Gentleman as to whether he prefers that I should say tonight what I have to say or to give another day for discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-05", "file": "debates1919-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "b833c8725d461016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2406.2", "colnum": "2406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Holidays !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "May I point out that earlier in the evening some hon. Members felt strongly about this as they could not possibly be here this evening, having long ago made arrangements to go away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-05a.2406.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-06", "file": "debates1919-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "843e624b07118c86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-06a.2480.0", "colnum": "2480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHITSUNTIDE RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST WILD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST WILD", "preceding_text": "ffice, and I beg to draw the Home Secretary's attention to it. you want the policeman to have a career that attracts the better class man. I am not talking about the socially better class, but the man of intellect who desires to get on in his profession. In every other profession you keep the plums and prizes for the people who have succeeded. Even in my own much-abused profession there are plums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-06a.2480.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-06-06", "file": "debates1919-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "843e624b07118c86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-06a.2508.0", "colnum": "2508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHITSUNTIDE RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "And the temperate people feel it most of all.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "n should not be controlled by one small section; it is the great body of the public that ought to be considered. I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that there is an immense feeling throughout the country that these restrictions ought now to be removed, and that the workman has a perfect right to demand really good sound beer, at a reasonable price, and at the hours when he wishes to consume it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-06a.2507.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-24", "file": "debates1919-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "733fba117c34602c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.29.7", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL CONTROL BOARD (LIQUOR TRAFFIC).", "cue_speaker": "Major NEWMAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NEWMAN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say what Ministry is in charge of this Board?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.29.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-24", "file": "debates1919-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "733fba117c34602c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SINKING OF GERMAN WAR VESSELS.", "cue_speaker": "The FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Long)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Long)", "preceding_text": "l von Reuter stated verbally that he personally had given orders for the ships to be sunk, being under the impression that the Armistice had ceased at noon on Saturday. There would have been no difficulty in the German admiral circulating these orders, since he was allowed to visit his own ships for the purpose of maintaining discipline therein, and when doing so he was conveyed in a British boat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-24", "file": "debates1919-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "733fba117c34602c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SINKING OF GERMAN WAR VESSELS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not surrendered!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "May we take it then that under the terms of surrender—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-24", "file": "debates1919-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "733fba117c34602c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "I am sure everyone has listened with the greatest pleasure and a great deal of information to the very fine speech which has been made by the Deputy-Minister of Munitions, a speech which I do not think was materially improved by incursions into the field of political economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.70.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-24", "file": "debates1919-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "733fba117c34602c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "e. May I say that I think, in the name of common honesty, the very least the Government must realise is that if all the traditions of this country are to be subverted and if we are to change from the policy which we have had for seventy years to the policy advocated by the hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. G. Terrell), then it must be submitted to the country before it is adopted by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-24", "file": "debates1919-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "733fba117c34602c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"With a coupon!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " to change from the policy which we have had for seventy years to the policy advocated by the hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. G. Terrell), then it must be submitted to the country before it is adopted by this Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It was!\"] To say that it was is to imply that none of us engaged in the election except hon. Members in favour of this scheme. I went through the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-24", "file": "debates1919-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "733fba117c34602c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eye-wash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " money. That is the first point. The second point is, America owed the money. The third point is that the money was not put in America because it was a protective country which made it safer. It wag money made in this vastly richer Free Trade country, made in such abundance as to enable us to help finance a country limiting its own commercial capacity by its tariff system. That is the explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-24", "file": "debates1919-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "733fba117c34602c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Chippingham!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ing is an evil; it is proper that it should be placed side by side with the suggestion that we must protect our key industries. The hon. Member for Cippingham gave us his definition of key industries, and I respect him for it. A key industry is any industry which needs protection. A franker definition could not have been used. The hon. Member for Cippingham deserves the thanks of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-24a.148.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-25", "file": "debates1919-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "792be31900832afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-25a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND (ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "I think the Attorney-General must realise that there is very little real opposition to the Amendment before the House, and I do not think that with him the feeling of opposition is very strong. Everybody who has spoken appears quite willing that the Amendment should be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-25a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-25", "file": "debates1919-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "792be31900832afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-25a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND (ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend desires, certainly it would be more consonant with the words commonly used in judgments and, so far as my recollection goes, in the various Statutes dealing with rateable value, and so on, if he said and in such valuation regard shall be had and full consideration shall be given—\"— to any returns and assessments. That is a term I shall be perfectly willing to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-25a.266.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-25", "file": "debates1919-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "792be31900832afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-25a.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND (ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": ", in comparison with the Amendment of the right hon. Baronet (Sir F. Banbury), is based entirely upon the fact that the Amendment would have empowered the valuer to look at the returns or assessments relating to annual value. I am sure the hon. and gallant Gentleman is well aware that a valuer, in endeavouring to arrive at the true value of property, invariably inquires what is the rateable value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-25a.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-25", "file": "debates1919-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "792be31900832afc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-25a.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND (ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "re the hon. and gallant Gentleman is well aware that a valuer, in endeavouring to arrive at the true value of property, invariably inquires what is the rateable value. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"] I put it in to make it clear that it is so. Is it to be believed that one of the gentlemen to be appointed under this Bill will not be aware that he is to take that piece of evidence for what it really proves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-25a.290.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-06-26", "file": "debates1919-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1f17d32cf8d46d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is it not notorious that M. Longuet was a pro-German throughout the War?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member had been Home Secretary he would have done the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.344.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-26", "file": "debates1919-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1f17d32cf8d46d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND (ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": " necessary to incorporate Sub-section (3) as it stands in the Bill, but he put it in to satisfy hon. Members who were taking objection to the Bill as it stood. Without that Sub-section the claimant would have had the protection of the Land Clauses Acts. However, that Sub-section was put in. As the Bill now stands there is perfectly equal treatment between both the local authority and the claimant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-26", "file": "debates1919-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1f17d32cf8d46d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. McLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McLAREN", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that, having passed the Second Reading of this Bill, and this Clause having been enumerated in the Bill, there is nothing left to the House but to assent to the prin- ciple laid down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.490.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-26", "file": "debates1919-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1f17d32cf8d46d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES, IRELAND [EXPENSE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "We have listened to a very moving appeal from the Attorney-General for Ireland. What the Amendment does is to give power to the Government to spend £3,000,000 more than they are asking for for the first year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-26", "file": "debates1919-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1f17d32cf8d46d06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES, IRELAND [EXPENSE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": ";10,000,000. We are not denying in the least this money to Ireland. We are only asking that the House of Commons shall retain its control over expenditure. We do not desire to deny the housing scheme to Ireland that has been already voted to England. If he has erred at all, the right hon. Baronet has erred on the side of generosity in giving the Government £3,000,000 more than they asked for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-26a.502.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-27", "file": "debates1919-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b6f3aa7c663ded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-27a.526.7", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''No, no; nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "rnment in order to carry out the last recommendation of the Royal Commission. Now we have the Government coming down with another Office and another Minister, sending out a three-line Whip in order to cancel and render nugatory the Amendment which they themselves put into the Bill a short time ago. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right, too !\"] I say it is a breach of faith, not with me, but with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-27a.526.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-06-27", "file": "debates1919-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b6f3aa7c663ded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-27a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "hich the certificate and the Bill aim at is this: You shall not inflict suffering, essential and indispensable to vivisection upon dogs, without special permission. The Under-Secretary welcomed the recommendation of the Royal Commission and told us it had the entire support of the Home Office and the Government. The whole Government and the Home Office were unanimous in accepting this in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-06-27a.533.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-01", "file": "debates1919-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f90c08f0f9fda646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Question !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " trust my hon. Friends will accept that as a useful compromise, and I should like quite frankly to acknowledge on behalf of those Members who have been working with me, the very great courtesy extended last night by the Prime Minister and his colleagues, and I hope they will agree that in the discussion we approached this matter from the national interests and not from any sectional point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.810.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-01", "file": "debates1919-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f90c08f0f9fda646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What journal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "ere can be no confusion about that statement. It was made by the right hon. Gentleman during the first few minutes of his speech in moving the Second Reading of the Rill in this House. I listened to his speech carefully, and noted his words at the time. That I am not alone in that opinion is borne out by a leading article in the leading journal of this country which appeared the following morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-01", "file": "debates1919-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f90c08f0f9fda646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORD FRENCH'S BOOK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Weekly Dispatch !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "an undue hardship on Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien. But does it, really? Someone has said some time ago, \"Oh, that mine enemy would write a book !\" and when I read some of the books which are published by officers of the naval as well as the military service—everyone is very ready to criticise Lord French, but Lord Jellicoe has also written a book which deals with very controversial topics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-01", "file": "debates1919-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f90c08f0f9fda646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORD FRENCH'S BOOK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Antwerp !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " I am sure it is not going to end there if history comes along and will require to be informed of all sorts of facts that the public have received very erroneous impressions of during the War. Nothing has impressed me more than the number of points on which our nation has been entirely misled in regard to military and naval matters, and I dare say political matters too, in connection with the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.928.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-01", "file": "debates1919-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f90c08f0f9fda646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LORD FRENCH'S BOOK.", "cue_speaker": "An HON MEMBER", "cue_text": "They are in a box.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that as long as two years ago questions were put and answered in this House that there is a body in existence which is actually producing, and has produced, the documents, the publication of which my right hon. Friend says the Government are considering?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-01a.930.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether he has any news of the ship?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " cost of petrol, oil and gas. This figure includes the wages of crew and also one-fourth the total pay of the personnel required for handling, etc., as this latter is adequate for maintaining four airships in commission. No further airships of this class are under construction, but six of improved types have been ordered and are in varying stages of construction. Work upon them is being continued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.953.9", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS: Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman explain how a man who has been an ironmonger's assistant can have the necessary qualifications for such a position as acting-paymaster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.953.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.954.8", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Are these battalions composed of nothing but volunteers?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " been made to safeguard them in their transit through the Red Sea in the hot weather. They are starting in a week, and the ships when they get there will bring back men from India, unless the situation in India is too critical for them to be withdrawn. The first men to come home will be those from Mesopotamia who were on their way back from Mesopotamia and were stopped in India when trouble began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.954.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.958.7", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL CONTROL BOARD (LIQUOR TRAFFIC)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "Lieut.-Colonel THORNE: \"Oh, rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "The Government have come to the conclusion that some of the powers with respect to this industry hitherto exercised by the Ministry of Food may now be safely modified. The Cabinet has decided that all restrictions should be removed as to the quantity of beer which may be brewed. They are, however, of opinion that restrictions on the gravity ought to be continued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.958.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.965.5", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HAY SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "In view of the extra hay that will be available in France, in the Somme country, this year, will it be necessary to send any great quantity from this country to France?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FORSTER", "preceding_text": "I regret that my hon. and gallant Friend's suggestion is not considered feasible, as hay is required also for the Forces overseas, in addition to such local stocks as are available in the countries concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.970.8", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel C. LOWTHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel C. LOWTHER", "preceding_text": "fact that the Papers embodying the Peace Terms, which the Prime Minister hopes to lay on the Table of the House on Thursday, must necessarily be voluminous, it would not be in the better interests of the country to allow Members time for the assimilation of so lengthy and intricate a document; and, if so, whether the Prime Minister will postpone his statement until Monday or early next week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.970.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "Several Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "e. These railways have gone into the possession of the country, and are to be there on the terms of payment heretofore in force. These terms of payment are full compensation. There can be no doubt about that. That is the word which the Railway Executive use in their minutes; so that under Clause 3 of this Bill these railway companies are getting full compensation for all the loss and injury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "tmosphere against nationalisation by the opponents of nationalisation. I am afraid that the Government is likely to be stampeded against nationalisation under the impression that there is but one view in this House, unless someone comes forward to put another view. My hon. Friends and myself realise that the best way we can help the Government in connection with this Bill is to sit quiet and vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. DALZIEL", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. DALZIEL", "preceding_text": " this Bill, exactly what the position is in regard-to it. As I read the Clause the Government, through the Minister, are authorised to take possession practically of all the railways of the country. I understand that in two years the position may be that the Minister will be in control of every railway in the country. He has power under the Sub-section which we are discussing to dismiss directors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1040.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ld realise that all the wisdom and all the right in the world is not on their side of the Gangway. We who sit below the Gangway represent our constituents just as much as they do theirs. I have no objection to them speaking for their constituents, but please let them not presume to say that many other Members do not represent their constituents, and represent, too, just as many labour votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": " employé of a railway taken under this Clause will in fact differ from being a State servant. His wages will depend on the decision of The Minister, and the conditions under which he works will depend on the decision of the Minister, and I imagine that even his dismissal will depend on the decision of the Minister. What is there left? It may be said that there will be few railways taken over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-02", "file": "debates1919-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d862723a2ed425b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "stated that the Government had committed themselves to some provision of this sort, and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Cambridge (Sir E. Geddes), whom I do not wish to misrepresent, admitted that there was some foundation for that statement. When we went to a Division, the Government would not vote; they did not vote—with one exception. I am not sure whether he is in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-02a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1157.6", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLUB RESTRICTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend tell me what is going to be the action of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1157.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Then I am told, \"Oh,, yes, take them individually and they may be quite fair, but the cumulative effect is so crushing that you ought to have taken that into account.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Here, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There are three ways of dealing with that crime. One was to say, \"You tried, you failed; go, and sin no more.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And inside it too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There are three ways of dealing with that crime. One was to say, \"You tried, you failed; go, and sin no more.\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"Here, hear.\"] Hon. Members may think that that is a good way of doing it, but let us see what it means. I am not afraid of examining that. Do not let us imagine, because it looks ridiculous, that there are not people who believe in it—I mean outside this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "But it is said, \"Are you not punishing Germany for the crime of her rulers? Well, I am sorry to have to answer this, but I must. If Germany had been committed to this War against the will of her people, I say at once we ought to have taken that into account in the terms of peace. But was that so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the unity and enthusiasm of France to repel an invader on French soil. It was an enthusiasm which was at its highest when German troops were marching through Belgium. Supposing that the German Chancellor had returned from the Peace Conference with a Germanic Peace—Belgium added to the Fatherland, the mines of Briey added to the mineral wealth of the Rhineland, the British Fleet surrendered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That shows a lack of faith in the League of Nations.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "#8212;have departed, France sees herself there with only the Rhine between her and this foe which has trampled upon her ruthlessly, and torn her flesh twice within living memory. Therefore France says, \"We would like to know that you, Britain, that you, America, who helped to emancipate our soil, are still behind us if there is any wanton aggression.\" I invite the British Parliament to say, \"Yes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three pence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ny unnecessary expense that would be a first charge upon a fund in which we are just as much interested as any other country. Therefore we have had an understanding with France that the moment the German Government carry out their undertaking with regard to disarmament, the cost of the Army of Occupation shall not exceed 240,000,000 marks a year. I do not know what the value of the mark is to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the Tories!\" and \"From his Friends!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "greater necessity for unity, unity of purpose, of effort and of understanding each other than there is at the present moment, and I cannot but express my regret that, at a time when the Prime Minister was winning through the results of the War and producing this great charter of the world's freedom, we had the constant misrepresentation, pinpricking, and unfair criticism to which he was subjected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1243.7", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Major Astor)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Re-draft the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Major Astor)", "preceding_text": "do so. I asked my hon. Friends to do the same, and I want to repeat now what I said then, that if in Committee they are able to put down an Amendment which carries out their intention, which carries out what we would like to include in the Bill, we will be prepared to accept it. But we can only put into the Bill provisions which can be administered, and that is the only qualification which I make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1243.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major FARQUHARSON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You are now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major FARQUHARSON", "preceding_text": "pulation into an A1 population, and will do so if treated squarely. But it is not just for the Government to adopt this attitude; it is not wise, and I tell this House that if this policy is continued towards the medical profession by the Government, one and all, the great majority of honourable thinking men, having to fight for their living, will inevitably drift into the ranks of trade unionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1249.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-03", "file": "debates1919-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "096864ca6c50b684", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Yes, in the most and exclusive union in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-03a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Major Astor)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\" and \"You do not want one !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Major Astor)", "preceding_text": "y on this Bill and its future procedure. Hon. Members know that it is the custom when a large number of new voters are enfranchised to have a General Election. If the intention of the supporters of this Bill were given effect to, probably something like 5,000,000 new voters would be put on the register, and, according to precedents, it would be necessary to have a General Election very soon after.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ASTOR", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ASTOR", "preceding_text": "or with the position of the other Chamber or this House, but, it seems to me quite obvious—I am giving only my own personal opinion—that if this body is to consider the question of legislative devolution and the delegation to subordinate Parliaments of specific powers then the whole question of the electorate must arise. Are we to have the same electorate for the different Parliaments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "on which after all—and Members opposite, to be quite honest, must admit it—was of an artificial character, and was intended on their own statements to serve a purely temporary purpose, we have had indications, and nobody can sit in this House without seeing those indications every day, that that alliance has been strained almost to breaking point. It is inevitable that it should be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"We are in a new world !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "orary arrangement to see us to the finish of the War. I do not imagine that any of those Gentlemen who have called \"No\" would for a moment suggest that they have deserted their Liberal or Tory principles.[do not imagine that they would be prepared to say that they have discovered that those old divergencies that used to exist between Liberalism and Toryism before the War have entirely disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": "ubstantiated when you reflect what this Bill really is. The hon. Gentleman who has just spoken said that the underlying idea in this Bill was to deal generously and justly with women. He said: Is it too soon to do justice? Why exclude women? This is now a reconstruction period. We should enlist the co-operation of all women who are qualified to assist. Are all Members really in favour of that view", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes !\" and an HON. MEMBERS: \"Where would you be without them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": " generously and justly with women. He said: Is it too soon to do justice? Why exclude women? This is now a reconstruction period. We should enlist the co-operation of all women who are qualified to assist. Are all Members really in favour of that view [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] \"The assistance and help of women are imperatively needed.\" That was another of his phrases. Do hon. Members agree with that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": "o-operation of all women who are qualified to assist. Are all Members really in favour of that view [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] \"The assistance and help of women are imperatively needed.\" That was another of his phrases. Do hon. Members agree with that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes !\" and an HON. MEMBERS: \"Where would you be without them?\"] \"Their active co-operation is needed.\" Do hon. Members agree with that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": "t any means we can offer to help her to do that we should offer her. That being so, my objection to this Bill is that at the end of Clause 1 it docs not contain these words, or from being engaged in or employed in any occupation, commercial or industrial or otherwise. Hon. Gentlemen opposite will next week be putting all their force into a Bill which will exclude women from employment in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "fullest possible expression of political rights, apart from sex, for equality of opportunity, the right to govern, and the right to take part in the election of Governments, because we cannot expect to have any kind of real government if we divorce a great mass of the people from the possibility of taking part in the election of the Government. The hon. Member opposite charges us with insincerity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1297.5", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "d the hon. Gentleman opposite himself has attended conferences with that object in view—to deny the right of the women to the same increase as the men. They are both doing the same job and, according to our hon. Friends opposite, doing it equally well. If it be true that women are doing the work equally well, they are entitled to the same wages and to the same increases that the men receive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1297.6", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Labour party, do not own the factories. We are not members of the employers' associations. I belong to a union where we have 60,000 women members out of a total of 300,000. We have fought for the women the same as the men, and these people talk about us rendering lip service ! We are fighting for them every day, men and women-workers alike. There is work enough for all if all are willing to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1297.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do deny it !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "o turn women out of industries, and to make it a criminal offence to employ a woman in those industries—I am referring to the Pre-War Practices Bill, which has the enthusiastic support of hon. Gentlemen opposite. Do hon. Members deny that? Do they deny that in the Pre-War Practices Bill which they enthusiastically support it is not being made a criminal offence to employ women in industries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "mploy a woman in those industries—I am referring to the Pre-War Practices Bill, which has the enthusiastic support of hon. Gentlemen opposite. Do hon. Members deny that? Do they deny that in the Pre-War Practices Bill which they enthusiastically support it is not being made a criminal offence to employ women in industries? [HON. MEMBERS: \"We do deny it !\"] Is my statement true, or is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1299.2", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"At the same wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "We are prepared to go all the way with hon. Gentlemen opposite in this matter of political right, and we ask them to go all the way with us next week, when we shall fight for women having industrial equality as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1305.4", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBERS: \"Any number.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "what they have promised to do in regard to the other Clauses of the Bill, which deal with small matters. These other Clauses are merely like false pearls dangled before the eyes of youth. The Clause affecting the House of Lords, for instance, comes within that category; it will affect two or three women only. I do not know if hon. Members intend that more peeresses shall be created under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1305.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Let; us have one!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": ", and on the other side he has not stated definitely whether the Government will or will not at any time give these votes to the women. I suppose it has been the custom in the past for a wide extension of the franchise to be followed by a General Election. Who is asking that this franchise shall be followed by a General Election? Certainly we are not although we have no fear of a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JOHNSTONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"A very good swamp too !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JOHNSTONE", "preceding_text": " the franchise is no reason, whatever why this House should be tied and why we should continue an injustice. There is no justification of any kind for depriving of the franchise women over twenty-one years of age. If the vote is good for the man of twenty-one, it is equally good for the woman. The only argument—and it is really no argument at all—is that women may swamp the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": " come round again to-day. We in this House—and I desire quite as much as anyone to correct these inequalities. But I am going to do it as soon as there is a proper Bill brought forward in the proper quarter. I am old-fashioned to think that governing is the business of the Government. Everybody knows that there is not a single hon. Mem- ber here who thinks that this Bill is serious business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1331.3", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "elves to support a Bill of this character. In any case I would not support this measure, because I am really and sincerely anxious, now that women have the vote, that all inequalities should be abolished, and they should be placed on an equal footing with men. I hope there are others like myself who will seize the first practical and responsible opportunity coming from a responsible quarter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-04", "file": "debates1919-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8d0308568ef724c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": "ing to prophesy? I know that in my own Constituency there was a very strong feeling that the Parliament which was then being elected ought not to be prolonged unduly. It was said that it was elected mainly to carry out the Peace and the settlement that hinges immediately upon Peace. There certainly was a very strong feeling—I do not know whether it was so in other parts of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-04a.1333.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1366.4", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the Isle of Man?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel SANDERS", "preceding_text": "No; the Board of Agriculture has nothing to do with Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1366.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CINEMA INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of prohibiting the building of cinema theatres in this country by other than British subjects or British-owned companies for a period of five years?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": " an authorised capital of £1,000,000 formed to finance the erection and operation of picture playhouses, and I understand that the chairman of the company is the hon. and gallant Member for Montgomery. The matter does not appear to be one in which His Majesty's Government is called upon to take any further action, but I would point out that imported cinema films are subject to a Customs duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1379.4", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Move the Adjournment.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "What means has this House of discovering what were the causes of unrest earlier in the year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1379.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1381.4", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT MOTOR CARS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman answer the question of the right hon. Member for the City of London (Sir F. Banbury) whether these dogs were muzzled? If not, were they not breaking the law; and if they were muzzled how could they protect the cart", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1462.3", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No provision!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": " remedy, because everything would be perfect, but we must face the contingency of his orders not being carried out, of the staff making mistakes, or that other contingency almost too dreadful to contemplate, of his not remaining there for the two years; and for these reasons I submit that something ought to be done. Under this Bill there is not very much provision in favour of the ordinary trader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1462.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1487.4", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "resident in a working-class district in the East-End of London, and this Amendment which is being proposed means that the district in which I live will have claim on the road authority where these people are destroying our roads, or, at any rate, making them almost impassable. As I understand this Amendment, any kind of traffic could be put on the roads and the local authority would have no claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1487.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1541.3", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"That is all agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " by leave of the House. I take the case that the Minister is established with the authority given, by this Bill. Given the case that, in pursuance of that authority and the objects with which it is established, he finds it in the public interest to make such changes as injure the property of a particular undertaking and reduces its value, the question is are we to pay compensation for that or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "displayed through the whole course of the War. We have had enough secrecy and the War is over. We should not be burdened with a Clause of this kind perpetuating the Official Secrets Act. I know no precedent for the proposal. I have heard of Advisory Committees; but I have never yet heard of an insult to an Advisory Committee such as this. What is the Official Secrets Act? It was a wartime measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "e had enough secrecy and the War is over. We should not be burdened with a Clause of this kind perpetuating the Official Secrets Act. I know no precedent for the proposal. I have heard of Advisory Committees; but I have never yet heard of an insult to an Advisory Committee such as this. What is the Official Secrets Act? It was a wartime measure. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"] Well, the enforcing of it!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1556.0", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "It was passed in. 1911.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "he War is over. We should not be burdened with a Clause of this kind perpetuating the Official Secrets Act. I know no precedent for the proposal. I have heard of Advisory Committees; but I have never yet heard of an insult to an Advisory Committee such as this. What is the Official Secrets Act? It was a wartime measure. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"] Well, the enforcing of it! [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-07", "file": "debates1919-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba46629859bf1b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "It was a Bill passed in connection, I believe, with the question of prohibited areas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-07a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear that there is a division of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "a Financial Secretary, so in the Ministry of Munitions one of the Under-Secretaries should take the financial side and be responsible for that. This Bill is going to set up a Department with an immense amount of work, and in advance you cannot tell what that work is to be. I do say that it is not worth while, if you think the Bill is one which we ought to try, curtailing the use of the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t I should be thought to encourage the suggestion that the new Minister would be able to ramble about the country instead of attending on the Front Bench, I am afraid I for one would certainly vote more strongly in favour of the Amendment. After the great courtesy of the Leader of the House, I appeal to the House to strike this blow not only for economy, which is a point of great importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1681.2", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. ADKINS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"'Evil,' or 'change'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. ADKINS", "preceding_text": " Exchequer is that in this Bill, which carries out the arrangements for the current year, he should do nothing to give countenance to the notion that he is laying the foundation or continuing the imposition of those things which might be made the foundation for some fiscal system—that he should avoid the very appearance of evil by getting rid of the war taxes at the earliest possible moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1709.0", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "utshell, your restricted import of to-day becomes your vested interest of to-morrow. If these duties are allowed to go on for some months, we shall find it almost impossible to get rid of them, because the argument will then be used which is not used now, that under the shelter of these duties you have set up vested interests, and that people have been employed who otherwise would not be employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1709.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "onditions of a character which it has never possessed in time of war. In time of war we imposed a prohibitive tariff on the importation of motor cars. At that time we did not manufacture a motor car here, because the motor-car factories were being used for making munitions of war. Now we are imposing a tariff on the import of motor oars in order to encourage the motor-car industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " Macclesfield (Mr. Remer) credit for it. He is an out-and-out tariff reformer. What we complain about is the fraud of those Members who make a pretence that it is a Free Trade deal. The hon. Gentlemen opposite are honest enough to recognise that it is a Tariff Reform deal. Is it any wonder that the people outside regard the whole thing as a fraud and regard the Coalition Government with suspicion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1744.2", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No one knows.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": ". Is it any wonder that the people outside regard the whole thing as a fraud and regard the Coalition Government with suspicion? [Laughter.] Hon. Members are amused. The people outside do regard it with suspicion. If the people outside do not regard the Coalition Government with suspicion what accounts for the presence of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1744.5", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "The first result of this deal is that this country is definitely committed to a protective tariff. The second result is that they are committed to a policy of tying the Colonies to this country by means of a monetary consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1744.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "tion. I leave that to others. There is one aspect of the increased taxes on beer which should be borne in mind. So far as beer is heavily taxed, that heavy taxation leads the public to resort to spirits and other forms of stimulants which are not the national habit, and which, in the opinion of many competent authorities are less wholesome and desirable as drinks. Beer is the old English beverage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1766.0", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is the Liquor Control Board.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "y about the discontent that exists. Is it not a fact that public-houses have been kept closed deliberately when they have had plenty of supplies? Is it not a fact that in the industrial areas—the East End of London is the place I have in mind at the moment—there has been an arrangement between the various people concerned not to open their houses even though they may have had supplies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1764.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-08", "file": "debates1919-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6753b92f992e2bc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1774.0", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite evidently want to bring in another great Irish question. They blame us when we cannot unite to bring forward a scheme, and when we do unite they also blame us. This is not a political question at all, but a purely business transaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-08a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1815.2", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL EXPORT TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "How long are we to continue to supply France and Italy, and is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the very fact of these increasing supplies is keeping us out of other markets?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "Necessarily new supplies of coal must be found. If the coal output in this country is so low that we cannot supply the demands that continue to be made on us we must have resort to the world's supply of coal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1818.8", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether two wrongs will make one right, and if the Government did something wrong before surely that would be no reason!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1818.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1866.2", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. Member: \"It was a very important one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "are going to try and realise the fraternity of men—and we mean to do it. My hon. Friend the Member for Chippenham (Mr. G. Terrell), when he made his delightful speech in the Budget Debate, said that the General Election had given them a distinct mandate for introducing tariffs. I do not believe it turned 100,000 votes in the whole country. It was not the question at the time of the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1874.6", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We should go to war with them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "the United States to take any aggressive action, because we in two parts of our Empire came to an agreement. What about France in this connection? What docs Franco do to her Colonies in this way? Does not France give enormous Preference to Martinique, to Guadeloupe, to Senegambia, and such a Preference that we are unable to trade there in any of the articles in which they actually give Preference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1874.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1877.0", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDERICK YOUNG", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDERICK YOUNG", "preceding_text": "l Preference has, as a matter of fact, been asked for. The practical results from the proposals in this Bill may not be very great, but, none the less, it is a valuable step, and it does an infinite amount of good in establishing a true Imperial atmosphere. This Imperial Preference, once it is accepted in even the slightest form, extends much beyond the mere lettering and figures in this Schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1877.0", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDERICK YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDERICK YOUNG", "preceding_text": "jump that margin, in addition to the statutory preference, and that, I am sure, has been all bene- [...] to the manufacturing industry in this country, and was well worthy of the action of the Dominion Governments in question. It is said that this Imperial policy is hostile to the world spirit of to-day. To take that vision one escapes all the facts and looks beyond into the rainbow in the clouds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot get it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "There is a great deal to be said for Free Trade with the whole world when you can get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "There is a great deal to be said for Free Trade with the whole world when you can get it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot get it!\"] I would like to see Free Trade within the Empire to-morrow, but we cannot get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "rts are not freely opened, and opened very soon, the social condition of this country will be awful. We are confronted by the most serious conditions that any one of us has ever lived to see. There is not an article of common necessity for the masses of the people which can be produced at a price which is not abominably high. Fraud is being perpetrated from every quarter by the commercial classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": " is no difference of opinion between us. I have at the same time stated that our policy does not include a tax on food, but that does not of course interfere with the granting of a preference on any article as, for example, tea or coffee, on which for our own purposes we have imposed a duty. When I come to look at what the duties are, there is not one of them which can be called a protective duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We advocate abolition of the whole tax.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAILWOOD", "preceding_text": "rtain words from Clause 7, and that means that they are not in favour of calling this a preference on Empire products. But I have not yet heard from any hon. Member opposite that they are prepared to re-impose the extra twopence on Indian tea. I do not know that any of them are desirous of going before a working-class constituency and advocating that another twopence should be placed on Indian tea", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1918.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1926.2", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Natural, but nonexistent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I mean is simply this— and it is peculiarly valuable in view of the fact that this is going to embrace new territories—the operation of Free Trade throughout this world is as natural a law as the law of the seasons, the law of day and night, the law of the tides, and any artificial interference with that natural law will bring damage to the people who attempt to make that interference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1940.0", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "e United States. If not, why not? The President of the Board of Trade is here. It is a long time since we discussed matters with each other in Edinburgh University, where we used to sit, as we sit now, on opposite sides. He is now the President of the Board of Trade, responsible for the present and the future of the trade of this country. Has he any ideas on the subject? Has he ever thought of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1948.0", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major McKENZIE WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McKENZIE WOOD", "preceding_text": "ortunity for this country and for the Government to show what they can do to add to the dignity and the status of the League of Nations. Our fears have had some additional grounds added to them to-night by a remark which fell from one of the hon. Members who sits opposite who spoke earlier in the Debate. He said, \"What has the League of Nations got to do with the internal affairs of this country?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1962.8", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Better work!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "n chooses, give his name. He is chairman of the Steel Board in South Wales, and the position of the steel and tinplate industry, so far as we are concerned in South Wales, is a very serious one to-day—in fact, we have already appointed a commission, of which I am a member, to visit America to find out why that country is able to produce plates at a much lower cost than we can in South Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1962.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1964.0", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "law of nations. The idea of a mandate was not to embody in the Empire as our own possessions these areas over which great powers are to be given to the mandatories. I am not going a bit too far when I say that the introduction of Preference into the mandatory areas is a breach of faith. Our word has not been kept and we have a unique reputation the world over of being a nation that keeps its word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-09", "file": "debates1919-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b93cc0030ec694b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOLD", "preceding_text": "I will confine my remarks to the particular Amendment dealing with the reduction of the Sugar Duty from its present rate to one-sixth. My argument is that this Clause as it stands does mean Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-09a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2018.1", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House if the Government have yet considered increasing the time in which questions can be put?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2019.0", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Supplementaries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are seventy-one questions that have not been answered to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2019.0", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "I ask the Leader of the House if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are seventy-one questions that have not been answered to-day—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Supplementaries!\"]—and whether; considering that this is the only chance that Members have of bringing matters before the Government, he can see his way to extend the time, so that questions can be answered up to four o'clock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2019.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2074.0", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman tell us the exact meaning of \"loading gauge\"? It is a technical term.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "ons—it was difficult to justify the wholesale improvement of the loading gauge, which is probably worse in this country than in any other big country in the world. Once we get the whole of the rolling stock under the one control, so that it can go forward on the one line of improvement, it is worth while improving the loading gauge, and that will mean great economy in the working of traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And bridges and tunnels.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "It is the height and width of the vehicle which can pass obstructions on the line. It means altering station platforms, altering the entrances to warehouses, altering what is called the \"six-foot\" between the tracks, altering passing points on shortened sidings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no: !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "preceding_text": "on of railways, and that it is the stepping-stone to the nationalisation of the coal mines, and that, ultimately, they are going to nationalise the land and all forms of production from one end of the country to the other. Labour believe it. Hon. Gentlemen who, perhaps, understand this matter better than I do,, will surely agree with me in saying that this Bill is nationalisation and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not going to!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "preceding_text": "ay, and arc quite satisfied that there is nothing of that sort in it? My opinion of that is that it is another illustration of the degradation of politics which is not confined to the pressure that is used to usurp the consciences of Members of the House. If hon. Members are going to support this Bill, on what grounds are they going to oppose the possession and administration of the coal industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. FLANNERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. FLANNERY", "preceding_text": "d unable to compete with the demands upon them, traders, shipowners, travellers, workers, everybody dissatisfied, every- body badly served, as they are to-day, through lack of co-ordination and of system throughout the transport service. The argument of hon. Gentlemen would have redoubled and trebled force in favour of making this change. The only way, they would say, to make it is to nationalise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-10", "file": "debates1919-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "720e197917dd0c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2124.0", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEVENS", "cue_text": "Several Hon. Members: 'No, no; a new Parliament!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEVENS", "preceding_text": "s Bill. He said: The Government propose to set up a Ministry to maintain for two years, during which the receipts are guaranteed, the whole of the control which they had during the course of the War, and at the same time to give them power during these two years to consider the whole question—to consider it with the assistance of the Committee of this House which is still in existence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-10a.2124.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.5.4", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—[Interruption]—that delays are also caused Interruption]—by shortage of labour on the railways, and will he consider the question of making arrangements for the employment of extra labour as soon as possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.5.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir. A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "s. 2d. per ton. It does not matter to them, therefore, how much the ton costs to raise, although it does matter the number of tons that are raised. Taking the side of the men themselves we know that wages are very much up. It is freely alleged that there are men working in the industry who find they made enough in the course of the week and do not go on to make more. I think that is probably true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.80.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And many of them have not the chance\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "ity to say the same thing to their people, but because coal is the basis and principal source of our power, its shortage, and its dearness affects us more than the shortage or dearness of any other thing except bread. Therefore, I would ask every man who has influence with the miners, if they see, as they must see, and know that many of the men are not working to the limit of their capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.91.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\" and laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "-owners, and workmen, but not a word was said there as to the necessity for placing 6s. per ton on the price of coal. If the right hon. Gentleman really desired the co-operation of the mining industry towards a solution of the problem, surely the way to do it is not to come here and declare an advance of 6s. per ton increase on the price of coal, but rather to invite us to a consultation with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No trade?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "t is an entirely different one. The Committee, therefore, will realise that if our members could have been given that opportunity to produce which they were anxious to have we should not have paid out in 1917 £41,000 and in 1918 £43,000. Why were they idle? These are the replies. One hundred and fifty-seven collieries were unable to work because there was no trade, on 670 days last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"And it applies to other industries as well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "st unload their rubbish. We are going to establish our right to make the colliers unload it.\" In establishing that right the company got all the men employed by that firm out. Is that the way to increase outputs Who is responsible for that loss of 15,000 or 16,000 tons of coal there? It was very nearly a crime in face of what the right hon. Gentleman has declared to be the situation of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Government officials!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "n that nationalisation has failed. You have got the worst of two systems under the present system; you have all the disadvantages of private ownership with Government control. You had better by far have private ownership and private control than that kind of mixture. If you want to have the full advantage of nationalisation, then you must not only have Government control, but Government ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the reason?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. JONES", "preceding_text": "The absenteeism figures for the five weeks down to 28th June show a distinct improvement. They have gone down from 13 per cent. in the first twenty weeks to 11 per cent. in the five weeks in question. But I should like to point out that while the absenteeism figures have gone down the output per man has also gone down. I think right hon. and hon. Members will quite understand the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. JONES", "preceding_text": "The reason why it has gone down is this: With a fixed output, if the absenteeism is less naturally the output per man must be less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. JONES", "preceding_text": "The reason why it has gone down is this: With a fixed output, if the absenteeism is less naturally the output per man must be less. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No!\"] If hon. Members will go into that they will find that that is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "I ought to have explained that this was the position on the prices ruling and the wages paid in the September prior to the Sankey Report. But if every man who goes into the mines will produce 237 tons of coal per annum, we have a paying industry without paying 6s. or anything else additional for the coal. That is clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "That 3s. 7d. is the profit from overseas trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "rrived at by dividing the amount by the 161,000,000 instead of the 228,000,000. That is the most astounding proposition of all. Out of the 6s. that is to be paid as an increase in the price of coal 3s. 2d. is to provide wages for 163,000 miners for the next twelve months, who are not to do one single stroke of work or produce one single ton of coal. That is the proposition with which we are faced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " Let us get back to the passing of the eight hours' day. It was passed in 1908 and came into operation generally in 1909. In 1909 the output per man was 268 tons per annum; in 1910 it was 260 tons; in 1911, 262 tons; in 1912, when we had a six weeks national strike, it was 245 tons; in 1913 it was 259 tons. For 1914 the figure is obviously incorrect in this document, and I have not made use of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But you cannot get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "I will answer you quite frankly. This estimate is based on the assumption that what has been done in the first twenty weeks of this year will be done all through next year, and I will tell you what it moans for next year. Let us, instead of going on this basis of 183 tons per man, take 237 tons per man, which is the natural proper output to get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"On the contrary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "rom these benches with the full authority of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, we will stake our very existence on the fact that without any threat our men will produce as much coal per man per year as will make it altogether unnecessary for one single penny to be added to the price of coal. Do not let anybody imagine that putting on this is going to induce the miners to produce. It is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "o organise and supply the coal that will enable it to be produced at a price which does not require any increase at all to be put on. I want to make an appeal to the Leader of the House and the President of the Board of Trade to give us a chance. Why not meet the Miners' National Executive? Why not see what we can do to organise this industry? The matter of three months would be a trifling matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.122.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "But the farmer is.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "fact when the higher wages are paid they do not buy any more goods. That is the way to produce discontent. I sit for an agricultural constituency, and I am told that the wages of the agricultural labourer have risen from something like 17s. a week to 38s., but that even at that new figure the agricultural labourer is no better off and in some respects he is worse off than he was under the old one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The gold standard!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": " Committees myself, as the best means of arriving at the truth of a very delicate and very difficult economic inquiry such as this. I would prefer a small Royal Commission of exports. I believe that would have been a more satisfactory body, but; that is a matter for the decision of the Government. I venture to suggest that the real cause of the rise in prices is the great increase of the currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paper currency!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "n, but it does fit the facts more or less. You have a great increase of currency in this country, something like two and a quarter to two and a half times what it was before the War, and you have approximately a similar rise in prices. You have, I am told, in France a much larger increase. It was stated to me—I Cannot say that I had the figure officially as four times their pre-war currency,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ency has gone still higher; but I admit that the circumstances there are so peculiar that you cannot argue from that; and a similar thing, more or less, will be found, I believe, in all the countries of Europe. In America there has been a comparatively small increase. I believe there has been some, but a small increase, and practically prices are no higher in America than they were before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.136.6", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "s put down as coal for export. That means, I suppose, that 23,000,000 tons are going to be exported and 9,000,000 tons sold for bunker coal. If that is so, you have underestimated in the White Paper the profit which is going to be earned on bunker coal. The Controller has taken that amount in at 10s. a ton profit, and ho will certainly get £l profit on the bunker coal during the corning year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.136.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or miners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "rial system rest. In view of the importance of that, I think it is incumbent upon each of us to give the question under consideration our serious and earnest consideration in the course of this Debate. This is not a question on which we can afford to gamble, either with a view to securing a political advantage or to giving gifts either to royalty-owners, mine-owners, middlemen, or any other class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "ge development work can be allowed can only, they think, be decided on the circumstances of each particular case. 10.0 P.M. There the matter ends. We are facing our difficulties to-day largely in conse- quence of the failure to take those necessary precautions to keep open the working places. I know that I may be told that there was a war on at the time I put this matter before the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I will now say a, word or two about the basis of the calculation on which our proposal rests. We have heard a good deal about figures this afternoon. I am not going to attempt to deal with them in detail, but I think in a very few sentences I can say enough to convince every hon. Member of this House that we have made out an unanswerable case that this figure is required if coal is to pay its way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "n pressed upon me from the benches opposite. My hon. Friend the Member for the Erdington Division of Birmingham (Sir A. Steel-Maitland), who made a very interesting speech, said the same thing. Why not delay it? If the House assents, as it must—because all this-playing with figures does not touch the reality—if it accepts the fact that this 6s. is needed to make coal pay its way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.171.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "And recommend it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "must know we are not in a position to accept this evening. We are prepared to give our word that if he would withhold the addition of the 6s. we will undertake to set up an inquiry and co-operate for an increased output. On the question of a general stoppage the most that we can do is to lay the proposition of the Government before the conference at Keswick, if necessary to-morrow or the next day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-14", "file": "debates1919-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6b99899b84a48f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.177.5", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL OUTPUT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the lack of trust!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "We are stocking coal at some collieries. Men are not getting a full day's work. There is a want of essential material. There is a need for the pooling of wagons, for improving machinery of various kinds. These are the things which are reducing the output of coal. They are very vital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-14a.177.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "May I ask if there is any intention of limiting the price of foodstuffs of various kinds, especially linseed and oil and cotton cakes, in order that farmers may be able to produce meat?", "preceding_speaker": "Major HOWARD", "preceding_text": "In order to prevent high prices, will the right hon. Gentleman withdraw the charges which press so heavily on traders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.214.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " businesses. It was very unjust in its incidence, especially as applied to limited companies, because the shareholders might be persons who had lost a great deal in the War, and they suffered very heavily because many of them were just coming into fruition after years of capital expenditure. It was very much on the lines of the Psalmist, I think it was, who said, \"To him that hath shall be given.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "An hon. member: \"You have to buy your raw material.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": " Therefore, if you are to obtain the working capital which is necessary not only to set the industry going, but even to maintain the industry in its war conditions, you require to take out of your profits an additional sum equal to your previous working capital. In other words, merely to keep things going as they were before the War you require a very much larger profit to be made by the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He should have doubled it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": " the cost of transporting your goods, of course, goes in wages. Again and again the whole question comes to this, that we have all along the line half values as measured in money to-day. You must not speak merely of wages in half values, but of everything else in half values. My quarrel with the Chancellor of the Exchequer is that he has not removed the whole of this tax instead of one-half of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Of course we do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "iteering can be made to cease. I would add for myself that in the midst of the many difficult problems of taxation that confront us I shall not be ungrateful for practicable suggestions as to methods of raising additional revenue. There is one word I wish to say to hon. Gentlemen opposite who have announced their intention of voting against this Clause. Do they understand the effect of their vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "tablished, and it is more pressing than it has been for years, more pressing than practically any other development in education. Until something of that kind can be done, it seems to me that it might be possible for the Treasury to follow the line that I and my Friends have indicated in our Clause, and make the concession above eighteen apply only to cases where fees are being paid for education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "preceding_text": "promoting Bills than in opposing them. So far as this present matter is concerned, I want to put this very clearly: this is not a sex question in any sense at all; it is equally an injustice upon husband and upon wife. I quite realise what the Chancellor of the Exchequer is bound to say. The difficulty is this: of course, if this Clause be carried, it would mean a tremendous loss to the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "preceding_text": "or of the Exchequer, for, having made his Budget and put the Income Tax at 6s., or whatever the sum was at the beginning of the year, he may, and very likely will, say, \"It is quite impossible for me to accept the Amendment,\" which will mean the loss of a sum estimated at £1,000,000 or £2,000.000. He may quite fairly say that. If he takes that line, the only hope is that next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-15", "file": "debates1919-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "af9f7979da59c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY SCHOOL GRANTS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the principle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "n the list No.120 or No. 130, and I have not been able to put them orally, which would have enabled me to meet, if I may say so without offence, the rather vague replies that I received. I have tried to get this matter ventilated in the Press, because I believe it is important, and I have tried to raise it in Debate, but have not been successful. I believe a vital democratic principle is involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-15a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " way. Is it a fact that at the present time there are three Socialist orators in Belfast Prison for having made speeches inciting the Belfast workers to direct action in connection with industrial disputes; whether these men, comparatively humble, almost defenceless, are to go to gaol for six months; whether some of them are being forcibly fed; and whether men in high places in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.377.4", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Yes. If you call me to order for making a speech I shall obey, but you did not call me to order. What I want to ask the right hon. Gentleman is this: Really does he not think that it is bringing the law of the country into contempt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.377.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.465.10", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"May we all do that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I do not understand that, but I will look into it and perhaps my right hon. Friend will submit his Super-tax return to me quietly at the Treasury where he can get to it more rapidly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.465.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Treason felony!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "preceding_text": "ook for a moment at the terms of the Motion which is before the House. The Motion complains of what is described as the lack of any declared intention on the part of the Government to set the law in motion against the right hon. and learned Member for Duncairn. Those words assume that there is some law which both can be, and ought to be, set in motion against him. They do not say what that law is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "preceding_text": " motion against the right hon. and learned Member for Duncairn. Those words assume that there is some law which both can be, and ought to be, set in motion against him. They do not say what that law is. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Treason felony!\"] I hear the hon. Member opposite say \"treason felony.\" I will deal with that in a moment. The Motion for the Adjournment does not profess to say what that law is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "preceding_text": "General, at the moment when this question arose, was away in Paris, but since his return I have communicated to him the advice which I gave in response to the question asked me, and he entirely concurs in it. We have been asked, What was that advice? The advice which I gave, and to which I adhere, is this: that in this speech there was nothing upon which it was possible to found legal proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the calling out of the Volunteers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "erves this, that the parellel passage which the right hon. Gentleman has thought fit to put to me is not a parallel passage at all. In this hypothetical case he puts into the mouth of that miner, not a statement as to something which he himself will do upon the happening of a future event, but he puts into the mouth of that miner a general invitation to miners upon the happening of a future event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ks may be. There is one great thing, which will always carry the British people through, and it is this, if they have a deep-rooted confidence, whatever their mistakes and differences of opinion may be, in the essential earnestness of the Government of the day. Although this may be just the nice legal position, are the Government going to leave it there; is there not some step which they can take?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "not say legal evasion, but avoiding any action owing to legal advice, the people will feel and say that we have not fully done our duty. The thing cannot be left where it is. Something ought to be done, and I make the suggestion, which I have thrown out in all seriousness, in the hope that this act, which is only one of a series, reacting in this country in the next few days, and at Keswick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATSON", "preceding_text": "erate defendant is entitled to acquittal, and ought not to have an indictment lodged against him, if there is a good legal or technical defence to his case. But I should also like to add that, for my part— and I am sure the feeling is shared by some hon. Members behind me who support this Government— that up till now we are disappointed with the attitude which the Government has shown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Leader!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATSON", "preceding_text": "re the feeling is shared by some hon. Members behind me who support this Government— that up till now we are disappointed with the attitude which the Government has shown. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, many, I am sure, on this side of the House, as well as on the other, hope that before this De-bate is concluded some other expressions will be made by members or a member of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Inequality!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "l compel you by force to allow the Constituency which I represent in Parliament to remain within the Irish Parliament.\" Would that be an offence? If a Sinn Feiner stands upon a platform in Ireland and says, \"If we do not get an Irish Republic, we will organise our forces and arm and drill them, is that an offence? What does the right hon. Gentleman say? His interpretation of the law is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any amount!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": " in which he indicated that if a certain thing happened, which had not happened, at some future date he would take certain action? If so it seems to me the law is a \"hass\" and ought to be altered on the earliest possible occasion. Can he quote a single case of a man who suggested that if certain events happened at some distant future date he was going to take some action and was proceeded against?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.518.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Mr. Smile!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether, if that man had an army that he was going to call out, you would then have intervened?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR E. CARSON'S 12th JULY SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "This is playing with the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.528.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-16", "file": "debates1919-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77026cda5688d511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "A penalty.", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN (Sir E. Cornwall)", "preceding_text": "I cannot see that there would be a charge imposed by this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-16a.557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [16TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"16 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": " time an institution which was very little more than moribund. I think the right hon. Gentleman himself rather feels that there is something in that. Anyway, the State has often been had in this kind of transaction. One can only regret that an organisation which was taken over so recently as five or six years ago, and which was paying some where about 4¼ per cent. in the very last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [16TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Major HURST", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What was the event?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HURST", "preceding_text": "er firsthand information that the newspapers in India and Shanghai are in possession of news of utterly insignificant social events in this country within a few hours of their occurrence. There was one case where a social event of very minor importance was actually recorded in a Shanghai newspaper on the 27th March, at a time when they had no later commercial news from England than the 11th March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [16TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Heroes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "preceding_text": " dealt with, I am sure the Post Office cannot be adequately reformed. There is no general justification for the system. How is the system working? The Post Office work is farmed out to contractors, as it were, who are paid by commission. Just imagine in a country like ours, and at a time when our Prime Minister is talking about this country being made a place fit for human beings to live in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [16TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: ''They sleep there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "t from 4s. to 16s.— free quarters being in some cases the only remuneration. At Tynemouth 105 hours per week are worked and the total remuneration (including the value of the house, and cleaning materials, and cost of coal and light) is 10s. Chorley it is 168 hours per week; the total remuneration is 10s. I have other cases here. They have to be there at all times; they live on the premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [16TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "etting something from them a sum like £277, the Government would have taken the matter up, as it would have been their duty to do, and would have said, \"No, we are not going to allow profiteering. You agreed to take so much, and you have got to find the connection.\" I succeeded eventually in my correspondence with the right hon. Gentleman in getting this sum reduced from £277 to £4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [16TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "preceding_text": "dom that the man should make a sacrifice, so they ordered him to become a farm labourer. He willingly complied, and did his best as a farm labourer until December last. He then applied to the Postmaster-General to be restored as an expert linesman. The Postmaster-General, in his wisdom, said he could not put him back until all the demobilised postal service men were able to return to their duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.733.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "SUPPLY.— [16TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman give us the name of the girl?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEASE", "preceding_text": "de to-day. I would like to mention one case of a girl in London who went to one of the big stations and a very big bomb fell on the station within a, few yards of her. Several other people round her all went away, but she got down to her horse, stroked his nose, talked to him, got on the mail cart again, and drove away. There has been nothing more magnificent than the courage shown by these girls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "m quite prepared to admit the railway delays and all that kind of thing. But there are some which are not real. There are some which have been mentioned in this House, and by Mr. Smillie and Mr. Hodges, that are not correct. They say the shortage is caused by the shortage of pit-props. I happen to be in that business and I know that at the present moment there is no shortage whatever of pit-props.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not worth having\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "re are some which have been mentioned in this House, and by Mr. Smillie and Mr. Hodges, that are not correct. They say the shortage is caused by the shortage of pit-props. I happen to be in that business and I know that at the present moment there is no shortage whatever of pit-props. [Hon. Members: \"Oh, oh!\"] I have at this moment pit-props which I cannot sell and for which I cannot get a market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-17", "file": "debates1919-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa5ec24c9eae3615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "g\"] Yes, they are That story is eighteen months' old. There was a shortage of pit-props eighteen months ago, but I am quite satisfied that it is quite cleared away now. I was discussing this question within the last few days with an American—since my Amendment appeared on the Order Paper. He said that my Amendment was like the Constitution of the United States —it was founded on a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-17a.762.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "And shows a change of heart!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": ", whatever the terms of the reparation Clauses may be, and whatever may be the requirements from Germany, I venture to say two things. The terms are quite within the limits of justice, having regard to what the Government of Germany have done, and, further, modifications may be made in practice as Germany shows good will and gives guarantees for the due fulfilment of the terms of the Peace Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Put them on the pictures!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": "that will not be England?\" For myself, and I think I speak for the great mass of the people of this country, they ask that the Kaiser shall be tried, and they do not care a hang whether it is in London or elsewhere. All they are anxious to know is that the penalty shall fit the crime, and if that happens, the next consideration is where shall his remains go to, because they will not want him here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "MR. BARNES: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": "ecause the early disciples made the same mistake as a good many people are making about the League of Nations. President Wilson had fourteen points, but he should have remembered the fifteenth, and that is human nature, and I have not yet seen that human nature is going to be changed by the adoption of the principles of the League of Nations. I am prepared to give it all the blessings I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "nders of the world, this England that has risen so high in the fight for human freedom for the world, rise now to the same noble height in dealing with the little sister island almost at its door? It is not that you are dealing only with a little island almost at your door; you are dealing with something else; you are dealing with a race persecuted, downtrodden, landlord-ridden, robbed, plundered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let Ulster!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "st face it with courage and determination. If he finds he cannot settle it, if he finds it even beyond him, I will tell him there is a simple way in which it can be solved—a very simple way, and that is upon the declared declaration of President Wilson and others associated with us in this War. \"Let every people determine their own destinies for themselves\"—every nation,\" I should say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "and a few pounds of money. Reparation naturally goes to Northern France and Belgium. This country has really little interest in the Reparation Clause at all. The indemnities have gone. Germany must pay the bill and must pay in full, and we will rifle her pockets! All that has gone. I imagine that every Member of this House will be in some difficulty when he meets his Constituents with this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "at has gone. I imagine that every Member of this House will be in some difficulty when he meets his Constituents with this Clause. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I think so. Hon. Members might with advantage read their Election addresses. I have collated them, and I say there are not more than six Members of the House who have not explicitly pledged themselves to make Germany pay the whole cost of the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in fighting!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "preceding_text": "y. Then, again, the work of the German is well known to be admirable. We have seen a great deal of that during the War regarding great German prisoners, and it is an extraordinary tiling the amount that the Germans can turn out, whether it be piece-work or skilled labour. I much regret to say it, but I think that the German workmen can give the workmen in this country points in the amount they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "preceding_text": "out our own Dominions, and the question of Home Rule for them. He quoted President Wilson on more than one occasion, and he quoted his Fourteen Points as being points applicable to Ireland. But I should like to ask, are we able to rule ourselves, and to legislate for ourselves, or do we require President Wilson to do it for us? I think the question of Ireland is a question for ourselves to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1025.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Churchill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ery much else bearing directly on the Treaty, at any rate that I have heard in the course of the discussion, that it will be necessary for me to answer. My right hon. Friend (Sir D. Maclean) wants to know whether I stand by the declaration which I made on behalf of my colleagues and myself two or three months ago about Russia. Certainly. That is our view. We have not departed in the least from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " or 3,000,000 of people. It is the same principle, and he must know that that is the difficulty. The real difficulty is that you cannot, if he will allow me to say so, get his countrymen to face the facts. They are not satisfied with getting self-determination for themselves without depriving others of the right of self-determination. I tried to apply the principles of President Wilson to Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1050.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same in South Africa!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " apply them to Ireland if they are applied to the whole of Ireland. I deeply regret that this feud between these two nations, who are such close neighbours, between the Irish people and Great Britain, should continue. There is no feud between the nations of Great Britain—I am talking of the feud between the Celtic race in Ireland, the Celtic Catholic population of Ireland, and Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The further away you get the more justice you give!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "d, and Great Britain. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same in South Africa!\"] Yes, but South Africa is a thousand miles away, and my hon. Friend must know that there is a very great difference between the settlement of a problem a thousand miles away and a settlement between a country which is at our own door, and which is part of the organisation of these Islands. That is my answer to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1053.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide! divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "This is a somewhat important occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide! divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "ers. I know hon. Gentlemen can force this House to a Division if they make sufficient noise, but I am sure they will regret it as long as they live. This is a subject which requires at least a two days' debate. The Prime Minister has stated that judging from the speeches he had heard in the Debate the House as a whole had accepted the Treaty, but under the circumstances they could do nothing less,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "tish Empire had defeated the great military power of Turkey, and so prevented great reinforcements going to our enemies in the Balkans and on the Italian frontier. I need not embellish that argument. The historian will never attempt to alter the facts. They are over-whelming and absolutely complete. With these facts before us we must carry our minds back to the Fourteen Points of President Wilson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1067.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "t financial magnates whether we could possibly survive. At that time the President laid down the Fourteen Points, and I venture to suggest that the Prime Minister was too ready to accept them, and thereby tie his hands and the hands of his country to a certain extent, so that when he went to Paris he was not a free man. [HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, oh!\"] He had, broadly speaking, signed the Fourteen points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has stated—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"]—the names of the Commissioners. Will the right hon. Gentleman tell me that someone in Paris—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": " generally known, were called in to advise at all—gentlemen like the various great financial figures, let us say, the Rothschilds? After all the Bank of England has been very much concerned in international finance. No one suggests for a moment—certainly I never heard it suggested—that Lord Cunliffe was in any way anti-British. If that is what the right hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": " all—gentlemen like the various great financial figures, let us say, the Rothschilds? After all the Bank of England has been very much concerned in international finance. No one suggests for a moment—certainly I never heard it suggested—that Lord Cunliffe was in any way anti-British. If that is what the right hon. Gentleman said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I made no charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": " in international finance. No one suggests for a moment—certainly I never heard it suggested—that Lord Cunliffe was in any way anti-British. If that is what the right hon. Gentleman said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I made no charge. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did!\"] What was the charge I made? I made no charge that any gentleman who was anti-British had any part in that Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": ". If that is what the right hon. Gentleman said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I made no charge. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did!\"] What was the charge I made? I made no charge that any gentleman who was anti-British had any part in that Commission. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did!\"] No, I did not. What I did say was that the Government were advised by men who are interested in international finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "nder the impression that our banking system generally was one very much connected with international finance. The right hon. Gentleman has now told us that Mr. Hughes, Lord Cunliffe, and Lord Sumner were alone responsible for upsetting the decision of the previous Committee. Then I say that while one can of course accept that, it appears these gentlemen changed their opinions in a very few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should not insult the Prime Minister without reason!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "atter. All I was suggesting was that it was a commonplace statement that financiers were engaged in the great world finance system before the War. They were naturally interested in world finance rather than simply British finance. The right hon. Gentleman in his speech stated that we had great difficulties to face. I venture to suggest this is not the hour to try to stop any one stating his views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1071.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "d speak up for Ireland in this House. On this opportunity I mean to keep that pledge, and if that example were followed by more hon. Members in this House we should have straighter dealing, and England's word would be more respected in the, world. There is a third reason. I would remind you that I stand in the place of a man who is much missed in the House, and I wish he were here in my place now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1092.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Sinn Feiners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "is not made. Let the proposal be made, let the present Home Rule Act with its proper Amendments be brought up to date—mind you, I am not saying that the Amendments should not be Amendments safeguarding certain interests in Ireland—let that Act amended be offered to the Irish people by the Government, and then it will be up to the Irish people to say whether they shall accept it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "At the beginning of last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "At the beginning of last year—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"]—President Wilson laid down Fourteen Points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": " and that Peace should not be discussed on the Fourteen Points but should be arranged on them. Is there a right hon. or hon. Gentleman here who will claim that the annexation for fifteen years of the Saar Valley is not a distinct violation of the terms upon which the Armistice was signed? If that be the fact, in what respect are we better than the Germans were when they tore up the scrap of paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1113.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATY OF PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "On the question of Ireland I have only a few words to say. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I am enjoying the courtesy of the House. It is what I expected, and it is what I am getting. I believe that no international peace is possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1114.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY (DEFENCE OF FRANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I have every intention, with your permission, Sir, of moving the Motion which stands in my name, and I will very briefly explain my reasons for it No one has a greater admiration for the French nation than I have. I have probably seen as much of the French as any Member of this House. I have seen them inaction, on land, and I have been in action with them on sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1117.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-21", "file": "debates1919-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3d55e1e84f9897b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY (DEFENCE OF FRANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "g, we are taking the Second Reading of a new Triple Alliance Bill, which not only affects the destiny of the people of this country, but of Europe. That is why, if it were necessary, I should not hesitate for a moment to move the Amendment which has been moved by the hon. Member for Hull, which says that the proposal is inconsistent with the spirit of the League of Nations. Why is it inconsistent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-21a.1123.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-22", "file": "debates1919-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "62f3ab4db812d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-22a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND SETTLEMENT (FACILITIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "out his pledges, as I feel sure ho can do, and putting into vigorous application the undertakings he has given. I feel that he has been in the House for a very long time in circumstances somewhat depressing to him, and I hope my hon. Friends will see their way to allow this Amendment to be withdrawn in view of the undertakings that have been given. Therefore, I ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-22a.1278.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-23", "file": "debates1919-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d78ba53d698f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Have the pit ponies been removed?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Member will realise that every statement made by the Government has avoided any appearance of provocation. It is a fact that the Miners' Executive are meeting the Prime Minister and myself tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1360.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-23", "file": "debates1919-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d78ba53d698f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1361.7", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE CELEBRATIONS (OFFICE OF WORKS).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why there were no representatives in the procession from the Scottish Command?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman consider it advisable that those who were responsible for the erection of the stand for the Members of the House last Saturday in the Mall should get some special distinction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-23", "file": "debates1919-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d78ba53d698f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1481.0", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. SHORT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"So have his officers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. SHORT", "preceding_text": "nemployment, that is something which appeals to him and which he justifies. If the hon. and gallant Member represents the opinion of the employing class in this country—I hope he does not—it is a remarkable demonstration of their patriotism. We have just emerged from a terrific contest. Tommy Atkins has been facing unknown terrors, going over the top, facing hell for a bob a day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-23", "file": "debates1919-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d78ba53d698f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ve been held together. There is another lesson of the War, and I am sorry that my hon. and gallant Friend the leader of a considerable party is not here this evening. He asked during the War—why is Germany so strong? And the answer was, \"Protection.\" Another lesson of the War is: that a country based on the principles which the Government is introducing here fell before a Free Trade country,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-23", "file": "debates1919-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d78ba53d698f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1505.0", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the natural resources of the Empire?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "t a country based on the principles which the Government is introducing here fell before a Free Trade country, [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about America?\"] I should diverge from the strict lines of this Bill if I referred to America. But I suppose that the hon. Gentleman does not suggest that the natural resources of our country are in the same undeveloped condition as the natural resources of America?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-23", "file": "debates1919-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d78ba53d698f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "That is what I am saying. We were able to finance the War and the Empire as a Free Trade country, and finance the very portions of the Empire to which the hon. Gentleman referred. There is another lesson of the War. Fifteen years ago the distinguished follower of the Chancellor of the Exchequer suggested that the Empire would not hold together unless you put a tax on food and raw materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-23", "file": "debates1919-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d78ba53d698f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We reduced them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " ultimately lead to the taxation of food and raw materials. That is prophecy which proceeds upon the assumption that there have not been any duties on food. That was not the line taken by hon. Gentleman opposite during the Committee stage when we were dealing with sugar and tea, which are essential foods, and the party opposite had no intention when they sat on this bench of removing those duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-23", "file": "debates1919-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "d78ba53d698f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "agricultural labourer as any other hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-23a.1524.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-24", "file": "debates1919-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "07397be3156b6cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1547.10", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "In Ireland?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "We think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1547.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-24", "file": "debates1919-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "07397be3156b6cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1550.5", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "If these facts are correct, the responsibility for the stoppage must be that of the Coal Controller.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-24", "file": "debates1919-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "07397be3156b6cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Will it include Carson?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may be sure that the Government are not over-looking these people. We have them in view, and will do whatever we think effective for the purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1552.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-24", "file": "debates1919-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "07397be3156b6cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1563.2", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will he be recalled?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "I can give you the man's letter received the other day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-24", "file": "debates1919-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "07397be3156b6cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1563.6", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE CELEBRATIONS (THAMES PAGEANT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "May I suggest as an alternative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-24a.1563.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-25", "file": "debates1919-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d1bb408fdb0f630c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-25a.1753.0", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. MURRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are black sheep among the landlords!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "ting or improving houses on their estate. Would it be a practical thing for tenants who are farm servants and shop-herds and others to become members of the public utility society which they would be entitled to do. The point which arises is that of security of tenure. We all know that there are good servants and bad servants, and there are always black sheep among the farm servants and shepherds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-25a.1753.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-25", "file": "debates1919-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d1bb408fdb0f630c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-25a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTORATION OF PRE-WAR PRACTICES (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": "I want to put it into legal language, so that the employer may have this third defence in addition to the other two which are open to him, otherwise he would be confined absolutely and minutely to the defences which the Bill permits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-25a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-25", "file": "debates1919-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d1bb408fdb0f630c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-25a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTORATION OF PRE-WAR PRACTICES (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ed to all the consideration that workmen deserve? I am afraid that some hon. Gentlemen who are now using them for political purposes are not prepared to deal with them fairly from an economic standpoint, because some of our unions have had to conduct strikes for the purpose of seeing that the pensions of discharged soldiers and sailors are not taken into consideration in the fixing of their wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-25a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-28", "file": "debates1919-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "6be97f864a948c59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-28a.1801.12", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I do not think it would be possible. My Noble Friend will know that the House has already been in-formed of the exact scope of what we arc doing in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-28a.1801.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-28", "file": "debates1919-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "6be97f864a948c59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-28a.1804.2", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CARRIAGE SHELTER (PALACE YARD).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "It is a very difficult thing to find out what are the feelings of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-28a.1804.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1943.4", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIPPENHAM MOTOR DEPOT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that a good many railway trucks are being held up because the railway companies refuse to open their yards before eight o'clock, and that they close at five o'clock, so prevent unloading?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "preceding_text": "If by repairing motor vehicles at Slough we can increase transport facilities, we shall help in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1943.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not send some delegates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "gation of persons which could secure, if allowed to enter, for this country some record of what actually is the internal state of things, but I can assure the Secretary of State for War that there is a very great conflict of evidence, and, for my part, I would like to have the public mind eased by as reliable testimony as can be obtained as to what actually is the state of things prevailing there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "is House on the occasion of a previous Debate the resolution passed by the recent Labour Conference in Southport on this very question. So strong has Labour opinion become upon our policy in relation to Russia, and so much does Labour believe that we have intervened in Russia, partly in the interests of property, partly in the interests of investments, held even by Members of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": "y and then merely to leave them without a word—that is the kind of action which this country has never been guilty of, and, I hope, never will be. This seems to me the real difficulty of the position. I myself agree fully with what the right hon. (Gentleman says about the folly of smashing Bolshevism. I do not believe there is anybody who really is prepared to advocate such a policy as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Power!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "d not exist in any appreciable form a year ago. Those Armies are now very considerable. They are best to be measured by the number of enemy troops who are fighting them. Nearly 300,000 enemy troops, or more than two-thirds of the entire military forces of the Bolshevist Empire—an Empire which, let me remind the Committee, has the whole great central mass of the Russian people in its control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Behind them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "red by the number of enemy troops who are fighting them. Nearly 300,000 enemy troops, or more than two-thirds of the entire military forces of the Bolshevist Empire—an Empire which, let me remind the Committee, has the whole great central mass of the Russian people in its control. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Power!\"] I was using the phrase purposely. I do not beg the question, let us say beneath them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the assets?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "d upon that matter. Therefore I will see what can be done. I accept the offer of the right hon. Gentleman that it is to bean estimate, and that it is to be within £10,000,000 one way or the other. I must ask for that, otherwise the process of disentangling these accounts, which have not been kept separately, would east upon the officials, my hon. Friend informs me, an altogether undue burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2001.0", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "War broke out, but it will be an Army better paid and better equipped in every respect. I venture to think that the worst of our difficulties are over and that it is not only possible to look forward to the complete passing away of Conscription, but also we can see at the present time by our situation how absolutely foolish it would have been not to have passed the renewal of the Conscription Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2001.0", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By-elections!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " it is not only possible to look forward to the complete passing away of Conscription, but also we can see at the present time by our situation how absolutely foolish it would have been not to have passed the renewal of the Conscription Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] We are entitled to the support of this House which has not hesitated to do its duty in this matter and has run some risk in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were told!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "very divided opinions as to the justification or necessity, but when the election took place; the people were told clearly and definitely that, so far as Conscription was concerned, there was no intention whatever to introduce such an Act. They were told that, and no amount of legal quibbling will get over the fact. My right hon. Friend (Mr. Churchill) says they were not told anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the difference?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "o not hesitate to say that, and it is a position I have never disguised from my mind, because I believe in facing facts. But that is not the complaint of the working classes. That is an entirely different thing from using soldiers, or threatening to use soldiers, not in order to preserve law and order, not for the purpose of defending the State, but for the purpose of using them to break a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has not been done !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ere Prime Minister. I would do precisely the same. \"It is a logical position, i am asked, \"What is the difference?\" I will tell hon. Members the difference. If troops are used, not for the purpose of preserving law and order, not for the purpose of supplying food, but for the purpose of blacklegging, that is an entirely different thing. That is the whole point that the workers feel in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " is an easy matter to be flippant in these things. I know, and know all too well, that there are a large number of people who believe the best way of dealing with this question is to fight and \"damn the consequences.\" But I would beg the House just to ponder for a moment on the facts. The State could have a fight. The State may say, \"It is tar better that we should have the fight and get it over.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ht. The State may say, \"It is tar better that we should have the fight and get it over.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, I know that I correctly interpreted that feeling. \"But let me beg the House to remember one or two facts. You could have the fight, and you could win. But the problem that we are faced with immediately, and the only problem that will save our country, is increased production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2059.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-29", "file": "debates1919-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "82e53da4360ccb4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2061.2", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is striking?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Yes; but if that is so, is fighting and damning the consequences the way to get that production? Is that the way to get good will?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-29a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2102.4", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman make inquiries to ascertain whether his statement is correct that the owners and the men had not agreed. I wish to say that the owners both of South and West Yorkshire and the representatives of the miners had agreed to an increase of 14.3 per cent, and it was only after they had agreed that they received an instruction from the Coal Controller.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2102.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2103.3", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "I have the definite statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2103.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2105.11", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will the Government consider the question of the cession of Ireland to America?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2105.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2149.0", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "preceding_text": "ipowners like my hon. Friend the Member for Dumbarton. We know how they have suffered from the' War in every way possible, and 1 am sure we extend a deep measure of sympathy to them. But when they come before us here or in Committee and say that by insisting on this humane proposal we are going to drive them into bankruptcy, all I can say is that 1 almost wish I could share their financial plight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2154.2", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In a fog?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WILSON", "preceding_text": "d by the instalment of wireless on these ships; but I do maintain that it is not reasonable to insist upon the instalment of wireless on ships which ply absolutely within smooth or partially smooth waters, which are never out of sight of land, and the instalment of wireless on which would' not, I am convinced, save one single life at any time. As I say, these ships must always be in sight of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2155.0", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "After the very plain and straightforward speech from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping, I hope my hon. Friend will not press this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "Cheers", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "mate amount of that claim will be nearer £18,000,000. Whatever its amount, apparently it has to be met by the British taxpayer. It is rather interesting to note that a year ago, at the annual meeting of the company, the chairman's statment included the following remark: It is important to note that our claim has to be met directly by the Imperial Government, and not by the people of Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2215.0", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "British liberty that", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": " of fairness. If an employer wishes to keep his servant on the land, he has only to refuse him a licence. If they migrate to the towns they are met by a threat to take away from them all the right of engaging in trade or holding property. If a white man strikes, he gets an increase in wages, but if a black man strikes with the object of increasing his 6d. or 8d. per day, he is fined or imprisoned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2218.0", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " up the high standards that satisfied our ancestors in the past. If, on the other hand, we are going to try to use our ownership of the Crown Colonies all over Africa and elsewhere, Guiana for instance, as a means of increasing the wealth and prosperity of England, as a means of increasing the shares in the various companies which deal in these Colonies and in many of which I am myself interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2218.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-30", "file": "debates1919-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0aa65ef31bbda81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2232.0", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "At whose expense?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel AMERY", "preceding_text": " as to the representations to the Commission on behalf of the natives. Telegrams have already been sent to the High Commissioner in South Africa telling him to inform the elected members of the Legislative Council in Rhodesia of the appointment of the Commission, and to give full publicity to the matter, so as to enable all parties interested in any way to see that their representations are heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-30a.2230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-31", "file": "debates1919-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "42bdeb062e20dd4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-31a.2258.2", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENEMY ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether an interned German, married to a British-born woman, will be released, and, if so, will they be released while the Aliens Restriction Bill is going through?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-31a.2258.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-31", "file": "debates1919-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "42bdeb062e20dd4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-31a.2289.11", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THAMES RIVER PAGEANT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is he aware that there are plenty of wharves in the borough of Stepney which would be available?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-31a.2289.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-07-31", "file": "debates1919-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "42bdeb062e20dd4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-31a.2325.1", "colnum": "2325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The proceedings there were a farce.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "said to the House a few minutes ago that if it be the wish of the House to take the Votes separately, it is for them to decide. We are simply putting these Votes for Unclassified Services together to save time and trouble to the House; but I might remind my hon. Friend that the Vote on the bread subsidy was sent up by request more than once to the Committee upstairs, and it was not proceeded with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-31a.2325.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-07-31", "file": "debates1919-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "42bdeb062e20dd4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-31a.2335.1", "colnum": "2335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "At this point for blind male, occupants of the Public Galleries interrupted the right hon. Gentleman, and were immediately removed by the attendants.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "s of the country by those who are providing and managing hospitals and homes for the paralysed and the disabled requiring long-continued treatment. I feel very conscious that I have given but the briefest sketch of the work done by the Medical Division of the Ministry of Pensions; it is a subject which alone would provide material for a speech much longer than I can ask the Committee to listen to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-07-31a.2335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-01", "file": "debates1919-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "49821bae29b3fb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-01a.2449.2", "colnum": "2449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "It is exceedingly strange that the Government should bring up this Bill at this particular time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-01a.2449.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-04", "file": "debates1919-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "e2cd6cf3cf56fbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-04a.65.5", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [20TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" The estate was only 224 acres in extent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "he part of the Board of Agriculture is to the found in the experiment tried with the estate of Midlocharwoods. As a matter of fact, a large part of this estate is under the high-water sea level. Its total area is 520 acres, and when it was taken over it was divided in the foil-owing way: There were 158 acres of fair arable land, 62 acres of very inferior land, and 340 acres were flooded \"moorland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-04a.65.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-05", "file": "debates1919-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f262e22f49ba416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.175.5", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up, you are just having a conversation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. and gallant Gentleman know the circumstances, because this man is playing a barrel organ in the streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-05", "file": "debates1919-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f262e22f49ba416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We did not agree upon it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "ose of these experiments, if there is any profit after the apportionment referred to surely the excess of that ought to go back to the State. If it does not go back to the State it ought to be divided between the landlord and the State in a bigger proportion than is suggested in the Bill Scottish Members will remember that we discussed this question on the Housing Bill in Scottish Grand Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-05", "file": "debates1919-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f262e22f49ba416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "uch with Scottish opinion, which is rapidly moving and hardening at the present moment. This Government, in taking away from the Scottish Office— in defiance, I would like to think, of the opinion of the Secretary for Scotland, who is soon to be made a Secretary of State, and of the Law Officers of the Crown for Scotland, and certainly in defiance of the great bulk of Scottish opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-05", "file": "debates1919-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f262e22f49ba416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRIES AND SECRETARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATSON", "preceding_text": "e increase? One right hon. Gentleman on the Front Opposition Bench referred to the £400 a year salaries of Members of Parliament. He is not in his place at the moment. Does he propose to revoke those salaries I If £400 was adequate in 1911 it is grossly and hopelessly inadequate now, and I, and I believe most hon. Members, would have the courage to vote for a proper increase being given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-05", "file": "debates1919-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f262e22f49ba416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRIES AND SECRETARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Certainly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "ch is to put offices of similar standing with the others on the same position and to give them the same salaries is wrong. What he said was, it is unpopular, it is going to have a bad effect on the country, and if you go to those men and say, Do you insist on this? They will reply at once, No, we are ready to make the sacrifice. Is that right, for the House of Commons, representing a great nation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.316.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-05", "file": "debates1919-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f262e22f49ba416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRIES AND SECRETARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"It is remote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rs ago we had a Bill introduced to raise the salaries of the Presidents of the Board of Trade and Local Government Board to£5,000. It was introduced in collusion between the two Front Benches; the Government had the support of the Front Bench opposite. I think it is to the honour of the Opposition Front Bench that they oppose this, in spite of the probability of their reversion to the office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-05a.324.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-06", "file": "debates1919-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "648b24f81b2d2cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-06a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "preceding_text": "I do not want to delay the House in coming to a conclusion on this matter, but I want to appeal on behalf of the men of the Royal Engineers who joined the Army from the Post Office. These men have not had war gratuities, and I claim that they have every right to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-06a.456.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WALTON", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Less profits !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WALTON", "preceding_text": " payment of imports? The exchange is going against us, raising the price of all American produce that we have to import into this country. The only way that we can avoid bankruptcy is by the practise of rigid economy both on the part of the Government and the nation, which has not been practised up to the present. Increased industry and increased production is the only way of saving the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKEY", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKEY", "preceding_text": " seems to me that the Board of Trade are extravagant, not only as regards themselves, but as regards the public, and I think that these Government Departments require a considerable amount of overhauling and putting on, what might be called a real business footing. We have been told by the Chancellor or the Financial Secretary that every question in this House costs the country a sovereign apiece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "r Barnsley (Sir J. Walton). He asked me—they are not small matters which can be dealt with in one or two sentences—what was the Government policy in relation to subsidies, what was its policy in relation to currency notes, and what was its policy in relation to exchange. My policy in regard to subsidies is to bring them to an end wherever that can be done and as soon as it can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "em to an end wherever that can be done and as soon as it can be done. [Hon. Members: \"When?\"] Do hon. Members think that is capable of a precise and definite answer? Do they think that that question can be answered by my saying 1st November or 31st December or any single date? Each one of these must be considered on its merits. There are the railways. I should like to bring that subsidy to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e be drawn more than need be into details. I want to bring the subsidy to the railways to an end as quickly as possible. You have got to do that by getting your railways into proper working order and adjusting their rates to the new values of services, commodities, and money. Then there is the bread subsidy. Would anybody say that it would be wise for the House to-morrow to stop the bread subsidy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Sixty thousand!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "nts of people governed by naked force; essentially the same system as in Belgium and in Germany; armed police, soldiers, machines, tanks, gas, etc.—all the hideous paraphernalia of war. The whole of it apparently to repress a people who are determined in some way or another to attain their liberty. There was then in Ireland, I suppose, something like 30,000 troops. What is the number to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "kind of question that confronted me. Take finance. There is nothing more vital to the prosperity and the life of the community. That is the first thing. It is essential that expenditure in every Department should be cut down, and cut down ruthlessly. I use that word within the limits of security and efficiency. There is the question of the Coal Mines. Here was a Report of a great Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.655.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Demands?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "We understood all along that the Commission was set up to inquire into our demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"What about the safety of the mines!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "the workers as the existence of anomalies, and wherever you have an anomaly, wherever you have amongst a large body of men even a small section of them who do not enjoy the advantages that apply to the majority that is always a running sore. In this case you have a small number of men and there is no earthly reason why they should not receive precisely the same conditions as all the other workmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-07", "file": "debates1919-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d538b6ec2f7fd70f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "The finding of the Sankey Report was that the conditions under which miners work are different from those of other people, that they work in darkness the whole day, continuously with but a short rest for meals, and that they work amid dirt and dust, and in many cases exposed to the dangers of bad gases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-07a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-08", "file": "debates1919-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "a08d01f6f0c40d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-08a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS AND DESIGNS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir A. SPROT", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir A. SPROT", "preceding_text": "bilities from the continuance of their system. The point has been made that this is an American company, but that is not the case. The company is registered in Eng land, and a great many of the shareholders are British; and, what is more, a great number of the employés of the company are shareholders in it. I take it that this is perhaps a matter of rivalry between two companies in the trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-08a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-08", "file": "debates1919-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "a08d01f6f0c40d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-08a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " beginning. The present assessment is for a period of three years, and no doubt hon. Members could produce evidence from discharged men in which they say they are tired of being under so many doctors. I know of one man who had seen twenty-seven doctors within the last three years in connection with his pension, and that man does not want to see another doctor until the morning of the Resurrection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-08a.778.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-08", "file": "debates1919-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "a08d01f6f0c40d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-08a.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "There is a delusion among Southerners that Scotsmen require to be paid for everything they do. The greatest services to the State are rendered by Scotsmen without any pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-08a.802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.923.5", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That does not follow! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "gainst us, profits are high. We want boots, and we want them as cheap as we can get them, but if the profits are high, whatever amount of the profit is unreasonably high is a dead loss to us from the point of view of exchange, and has its counterpart in the fall of exchange, and, therefore, in the increase of price which has to be paid for necessaries, which have to be brought across the exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.923.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.923.5", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"MINISTERS!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "rectly depressing production, and it is a very vital factor in that depression. There is another factor. Never before in the history of this country have there been so many people who drew their income from the State. You have the pen- sioners who deserve every penny they get, you have the men still with the Army and with the Navy, and you have the unemployed who draw their incomes from the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.923.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.923.5", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the trade?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "manufacturer in the North of England. He was talking about profit, and he said to me, \"I am thoroughly ashamed to see the profits we are making. \"He added, \"I have reduced the prices that I am charging to something nearer the proper level, and that means that they are now below the prices my competitors are charging, and it means that on the existing sales I have a profit of £200,000 a year.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.923.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " of a kind in common use by the majority of the population, and it will have power to require any person to appear before these inquisitional panels, which will beset up, to furnish such information and produce such documents as may be required. Think what it covers ! It covers clothes, boots, beds, bedding, chairs, tables, pianos, shirts, underclothing, hats, cocoa, cigarettes. There is no limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should there be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " will have power to require any person to appear before these inquisitional panels, which will beset up, to furnish such information and produce such documents as may be required. Think what it covers ! It covers clothes, boots, beds, bedding, chairs, tables, pianos, shirts, underclothing, hats, cocoa, cigarettes. There is no limit. [An HON MEMBER: \"Quite right!\"] There is no Schedule in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.936.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RUTHERFORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It is in the Memorandum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RUTHERFORD", "preceding_text": " definition, and that anybody should be able to lay a complaint behind the back of a threatened man, and he would not know what the complaint is, because it is to be confidential, and not disclosed. That is carrying the thing too far, and it is time this House interfered. It is estimated that the expenses of these tribunals will be about £50,000 for six months. There is no figure in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.946.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Homer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. THORNE", "preceding_text": "t to be lowered. If I could think that passing this Bill would do that, I would support the measure earnestly, but because I believe that it is a sham measure and that instead of effecting this end it is going to give the people a false conception, I consider it to be dangerous rather than helpful. The right hon. Gentleman apparently was unaware of the appointment of the Committee. Even Jove nods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel W. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The following day!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel W. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "dence that high prices of food were not due to excessive profits. He was asked for suggestions, and he made them. They were very good suggestions—much better than those which have been adopted in this Bill. The Minister for Food, however, dropped not the slightest hint of any such proposals as those which two days later were sprung upon an astonished Committee and introduced into this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What Section of the Licensing Act is that?", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Robert Horne)", "preceding_text": "ebody said in the course of the Debate that that only occurs in civil cases, but the term \"reasonable\" is as well known in the criminal as it is in the civil law. Under the licensing Statutes a licence holder may be prosecuted if he gives certain classes of people more than a reasonable refreshment. Is it easier to decide what a reasonable refreshment is than to decide what is a reasonable profit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "he true cause was the lack of production. In the last ten days, when I rebuked a certain shipbuilding concern for the lack of work they were turning out in regard to something in which I was personally interested, they told me in the last ten days one of the workmen had been fined £3 by his society for turning out more work than the society considered it expedient any one man should turn out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "s is the ease at present—and you prevent a man going into that same business because the first one is close by it, then the man who has the monopoly of the fried-fish shop will put on a monopoly price. In every case the way to get at the present profiteering is to increase the competition by allowing free importation and licenses to anybody who wants to go into any sort of business whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-11", "file": "debates1919-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "66aef29000be5822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1031.2", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH CHURCH (TEMPORALITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "hat day vest in the Welsh Church Commissioners. The date of Disestablishment is fixed by another Act as \"at the end of the War.\" Therefore, the question is whether there will be Welsh Commissioners to reserve the property at the rate of Disestablishment. If there are Welsh Commissioners, the Disendowment will proceed. If there are no Welsh Commissioners, the Disendowment Clause cannot take effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-11a.1031.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "When did that take place?", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "so that I doubt really— leaving aside the question whether the Ministry should have cars— whether there are enough. There were sixty-eight; there are now twenty-two. There were thirty-three of what are called allotted cars, for officers going to particular places; there are now only six. The number is reduced, as will be seen, to one-third in the one case and to one-fifth in the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1140.5", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the distance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "ordinary season ticket. What my hon. Friend would get in the way of a third-class season-ticket I do not know, but the point is that I will not be led away. I do not think these interruptions are fair. It is not fair to take the point that the Government subsidises the railway as being an answer to this, because the statement on which the attacks are based is that the railway fare is 4s. 7½d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1140.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON.MEMBER", "cue_text": "Cannot these cases of waste be dealt with?", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "t had not been for the aeroplane itself I could not have done it, but its swiftness has enabled me to visit twenty-three of the different centres in the last two weeks. I will do my best to ensure that there is no waste; but it is difficult, and will take time to build up the new force, and at the same time to reduce the old, and in the third case to ensure that its work is being done efficiently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1141.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Where is it coming from?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "his place they will find it is twice the size of Hyde Park. It is a constant answer to anyone who wants to know whether the Government has been efficiently run and economically administered. Well, it is as my right hon. Friend says, or suggests: these cases break down when you examine them? One after another the Departments get up to speak in their own defence. After all, where is the money going?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "atly reduced. I hope it may be reduced to one-half of what it is at present, within the next month or two, by local sales on the spot. What is the use of keeping a horse standing, with a man grooming it, when the charge for feeding that horse and the cost of that man for three or four months would more than equal the value you would get for the horse even if you made an extremely good sale for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " What is the use of keeping a horse standing, with a man grooming it, when the charge for feeding that horse and the cost of that man for three or four months would more than equal the value you would get for the horse even if you made an extremely good sale for it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"] The same applies to aeroplanes and all kinds of stores and Government properties that are at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "hat the following are, the facts about the Nottingham defence. In no case has any of the anti-aircraft defence been kept up to full strength. To give an example of the reduction, the number of officers and other ranks employed on the Nottingham anti-aircraft defence, in November, 1918, was thirty-one officers and 591 other ranks. On 29th July last eleven officers and ninety-six other ranks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y are employed as care and maintenance parties. It may be stated that this number is growing less every day. It is very easy for hon. Gentlemen to say why should they be there, but I am not prepared at the present time to take the decision to wipe out altogether not merely our anti-aircraft force, but also the skeleton organisation which would enable us to reproduce it and to put it into activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-12", "file": "debates1919-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "89ed4bf15219ce83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "iture is going to mean in money. In giving that indication we meant that it should have some reference to the money which will be spent. My right hon. Friend explained, in making this estimate of £50,000, that he had really made a careful estimate of what he thought the expense would be. I am sure the House would not desire that he should have to come to Parliament again for increased powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-12a.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1355.0", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY JONES", "preceding_text": "ll is the Ministry of Supply. You are going to fix prices and to declare profits, and, unless you can control supplies, you are going to risk the dangers of disaster in all branches of trade. You cannot control prices unless you control supply, and, therefore, I suggest that the proper authority to carry out the provisions of this Bill is the new Ministry which, I think, is in process of creation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1359.3", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. WARREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The leather?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WARREN", "preceding_text": "I wanted to say that a large number of us will support the Government in the proposal that this Department shall be dealt with by the Board of Trade. We believe it to be a right and proper thing. The Department has regard to the trade of the whole country in every particular, as had been pointed out by the hon. and gallant Gentleman who referred to leather. The Department has to touch everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1359.3", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. WARREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WARREN", "preceding_text": "be dealt with by the Board of Trade. We believe it to be a right and proper thing. The Department has regard to the trade of the whole country in every particular, as had been pointed out by the hon. and gallant Gentleman who referred to leather. The Department has to touch everything. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The leather?\"] I have yet to learn that leather comes under the purview of the Food Controller!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. YEO", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Landowners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. YEO", "preceding_text": "hat the trader who charges 3s. 6d. is a profiteer, because he has had to pay at least another 4½d. to 6d. for the same article. You will get no satisfaction in this Bill; you will not remove suspicion from the people; you will not put an end to the unrest unless you tackle the thing at the source of supply. In my opinion the profiteers to day are the great combines, the rings, and the trusts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the small men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Now we are coming to it, protection for the men who are not well organised. Is not the rule of competition the survival of the fittest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "t the Government have got themselves into a hopeless tangle, but, in so far as it exists, I think it is due to a general misapprehension as to the proposal my right hon. Friend made. In the first place, if the House is ready, I say now, on behalf of the Government, we will gladly accept the proposal of my hon. Friend to have a one-clause Bill to enable the Board of Trade to do what it likes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "They have said so!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ything of the kind suggested in the Bill that stocks will be held up, production will be limited, and men will not attempt to sell. A more serious indictment against the manufacturers of this country could not be made. What would hon. Members think if the miners came down next week and said, \"Because we cannot get exactly the prices and the conditions that we are demanding we will hold things up?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1402.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": " But when that was being done they met with the unstinted and wholesale condemnation and anathemas of hon. Members on the opposite side of the House. The people who constantly condemn the miner and anathematise him now propose themselves to turn and practice the same offences which they have been condemning in the miner. I say again, a more serious indictment has never been levelled against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1403.5", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "If the right hon Gentleman will examine the report of his speech in the morning, he will see what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1403.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1403.5", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "n will continue to increase. you, therefore, get that alternative. So far as we are concerned, we think the wiser of the two alternatives presented is to make some honest attempt to fix prices. We are quite cognisant of this fact, that it will be impossible to fix all prices. I do not know—replying to the lion. Member near me—why I should be concerned about a maximum price for pig-iron", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1403.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Some of us are very much concerned.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "rease. you, therefore, get that alternative. So far as we are concerned, we think the wiser of the two alternatives presented is to make some honest attempt to fix prices. We are quite cognisant of this fact, that it will be impossible to fix all prices. I do not know—replying to the lion. Member near me—why I should be concerned about a maximum price for pig-iron [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1403.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "preceding_text": "I hope the House will not give the Board of Trade these autocratic powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "Do I understand the hon. Member was saying what the President of the Board of Trade said? Is it suggested that the President of the Board of Trade said that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1448.5", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not amusing; serious!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "It gave me great pleasure to hear the amusing speech of my hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1448.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1448.5", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This Bill will not do it!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "t gave me great pleasure to hear the amusing speech of my hon. and learned Friend.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not amusing; serious!\"] It gave me great pleasure, then, to hear the amusing and serious speech of my hon. and learned Friend. In approaching this very difficult question, I assume two things. The first is that the Committee sincerely desires to deal, and to deal fairly, with the evil of profiteering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1448.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the same thing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "stly aspersed, and to direct that tribunal to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and come to the conclusion aye or no whether under those circumstances the profit is unreasonable. My suggestion is, with all the criticism to which it has been subjected, that that is a fair and proper way. In everyone of these cases there would be if the defendant desired an appeal to Quarter Sessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Bill only lasts for six months!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "ected, that that is a fair and proper way. In everyone of these cases there would be if the defendant desired an appeal to Quarter Sessions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the same thing!\"] Arc we to be told that neither a Court of Quarter Sessions nor a Court of Summary Jurisdiction is fitted to deal with cases of the kind? There might in a proper case be a case stated for the opinion of the High Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "preceding_text": "h and horses through this Bill. All that a multiple shopkeeper with 10, 20, or 100 shops has to do to got out of this Bill is to open a wholesale department. The goods he buys pours through it, and he re-invoices them, and makes two profits. He will tell the tribunal these are warehouse charges or, it may be, office charges. The Wholesale Co-operative are doing the same thing to-day and every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "the difficult question of costs against the Crown. I hope that before long that will be put upon a proper footing. My own view is that the Crown ought to be in the same position as any other litigant: it ought to pay where it fails, and to receive the costs where it succeeds. Let it not be imagined that it will be in any way disadvantageous to the Crown, because the Crown is so well advised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1461.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1474.3", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "I am 'sorry I did not reply before, but I really did not think any reply was needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1488.2", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. G EDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. G EDDES", "preceding_text": "n the whole country are covered by this Clause—if we are not going to allow the big men to escape, I should be prepared to meet any suggestion with reason; but to say that no director is to be regarded as responsible for the doings of the company of which he forms a directing part unless, as is suggested, he is actually proved to have known about that particular act, is perfectly impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Agreed !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "preceding_text": "xpect the ready acceptance of this Amendment. If the question of profiteering is a grievance anywhere, it is so in the home and to the mother. Women are the victims of the profiteer to a much greater extent than men are. There are plenty of precedents in favour of this proposal. Women have been admitted on the education authorities and are represented on many other local bodies which have control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why bakers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "he was quite right. I do not think the hon. Member appreciated the danger that lies in the Bill as it stands. Take a small town in which there were two bakers; one might be a fierce rival of the other, not only in business, but they might also be political and religious rivals. Some of the difficulties in regard to those local committees were brought before the Committee in charge of profiteering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1523.8", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unless he is a Minister !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "he persons nor what is the training suggested. Who would come within the ambit of this definition? Who would be excluded? I should have thought myself it would have been sufficient to leave it to the Board of Trade to appoint persons on the tribunals. But we have got as far as this—that in the opinion of the hon. Member a Member of Parliament is a person trained in the assessing of evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1523.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Go on!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask the Government, it being now four o'clock, whether they are still of the same opinion that they were one and a-half hours ago, and intend to finish this Bill, afterwards taking the Lords Amendments to the Transport Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "ropose practically the same thing in one of their own Bills. I resent it mainly because that Bill was taken on a Friday afternoon—it was proposed by the hon. Member for Govan and the Member for Leigh—and I was persuaded to come down to the House and vote against it because they told me it was a Bill to establish Bolshevism in this country. I had it on the authority of one of the Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-13", "file": "debates1919-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "342f8be824f6194f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. FLANNERY", "cue_text": "Cries of \"What Schedule!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. FLANNERY", "preceding_text": "like myself, opposed to Socialism and Communism, would support this Clause. I do not intend to supoprt this Clause on general grounds, but on the ground of immediate necessity in regard to those necessities of life, and also because the provision is for a short period of six months as experimental, and because municipal trading is limited to the articles that arc referred to in the Schedule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-13a.1536.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-14", "file": "debates1919-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "3ef537543140b981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-14a.1622.2", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRAINING OF OFFICERS (UNIVERSITY COURSE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that by the action of the trade unions many of those who obtain such training in technical colleges are prevented from obtaining employment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-14a.1622.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-14", "file": "debates1919-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "3ef537543140b981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-14a.1630.0", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF RECONSTRUCTION (PAMPHLETS).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Do the authors get any fees for these productions?", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY Of NATIONAL SERVICE (Mr. Beck)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to answer this question. Up to the present the total cost of the reconstruction pam- phlets amounts to £11,650. This includes all charges for writing, printing, advertising, and circulation. It is estimated that a further sum of £1,350 will be required for the remaining seven pamphlets which it is proposed to issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-14a.1629.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-14", "file": "debates1919-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "3ef537543140b981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-14a.1704.2", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not; it is the shareholders who get the benefit!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "Surely this is only doing what is done under the Companies Act. Are you going to say that the director of a company guilty of profiteering who himself gets the benefit of that profiteering shall escape?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-14a.1704.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.1894.8", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "As this question is of academic rather than Parliamentary interest, I will circulate the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.1894.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.1986.3", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ss. If that be the case, then competition is impossible, and let me say at once no tariff would ever remedy that. I should like to say a word about the effect upon the exchanges. Unless you nay the adverse balance by means of goods it must have the effect of depreciating the purchasing power of your coin. At the present moment in the United States of America the British sovereign is worth 17s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.1986.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I thought there were to be no more wars?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "allenge. The first is this, whether the industry was revealed to be essential for war or the maintenance of the country during the War. That is the first test. The second is this, whether during the War it was discovered that the industry had been so neglected that there was an inadequate supply of goods produced in the industry for the purpose of equipping ourselves for the essential task of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2012.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2017.3", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "at was the request? Was it that we should demobilise? Was it that we should reduce our armaments? Was it that we should clear out from countries which were not our own, and leave those people to self-determination? Not at all. It was a resolution angrily complaining that British troops were withdrawing from the Caucasus! I have had support for this appeal from the greatest economist in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2017.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2020.2", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Nationalisation.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "63;35,000,000. There was a, reduction in the prices of all other shells, and there was a reduction in the Lewis guns. When we took them in hand they cost £165, and we reduced them to £35 each. There was a saving of £14,000,000 there, and through the costing system and the checking of the National Factories we set up, there was before the end of the War, a saving of £440,000,000", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "n Senate. Until then the American President is powerless to take up this matter I will not go into all the causes—I might perhaps be getting into an embarrassing discussion of the internal politics of America—but I can say that one of the causes—I do not say the only cause—of the delay in the ratification of the Treaty of Peace by the American Senate was the Irish question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2068.1", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "inced was he of the necessity of doing it for the purpose of maintaining good relations with America, that he was determined there and then to bring in and push through a Bill giving Ireland self-government. That was in April, 1917. Note the date! The right hon. Gentleman's difficulties may be great to-day, but in April, 1917, we were in all the agonies of the successful push of the German troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2074.0", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "is to come to an end. But I should like whoever is going to reply to tell us is anything going to take its place. May I ask if the Prime Minister will tell us if the proposal which he makes to-day for dealing with dumping and the protection of key industries are those matters which will require legislation, and from 1st September to the meeting of Parliament, will the whole thing be free and open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2078.0", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Auckland Geddes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When,\" and an HON. MEMBER: \"Another Box.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Auckland Geddes)", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will allow me to explain. The general licence system is to go. A list of key industries will be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2088.1", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "No one who has any imagination can possibly be blind to the fact that this War, with all the enormous upheaval of political, social and industrial conditions, must and ought, if we are rational and practical people, suggest to us new problems. I should regard it as a deliberate blindness to the teachings of experience if you say we had forgotten nothing and had learnt nothing from a war like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "sue. The output from the mines in this country can be increased. There is no question at all about that, but it can only be increased when there is a hearty co-operation between the miners' representatives in this country and the Government, and I say that there is not a miners' representative from John o' Groats to Land's End who will co-operate with the Government in making this thing a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "r it is a shame or not, the result will be the same. There is no man in this House or out of it who has more honestly and sincerely endeavoured to exert an influence in the direction of increasing output than myself; I have done my level best, but I shall certainly not render any assistance in making a scheme of the kind announced by the Prime Minister to-night anything in the nature of a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "I think the less said by you the better. When the miners of the country know to-morrow that they have been duped, and that is really what the statement amounts to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "I think the less said by you the better. When the miners of the country know to-morrow that they have been duped, and that is really what the statement amounts to—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—they will know they have been deceived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\" and \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "miners of the country will, ask, and they will say, \"We have been deceived, betrayed, duped.\" The Prime Minister told us this evening that there were over 1,141,000 men in the mines, and that we should get about 200,000,000 tons of coal per year. Since the 6s. was put on output had gone down, and is continually going down. I say after the declaration of this policy it will go down further to ruin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-08-18", "file": "debates1919-08-18a.xml", "sha256": "512046649f65925a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POSITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Profiteering!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "e!\" or not. If we are not to have a definite difference in the mining industry than in the past, then the miners will not produce on the same terms as they have produced hitherto. Why, even the Duckham Report, which proposed to set up these trusts, suggested some sort of limitation of profit. The Prime Minister did not even think it necessary to tell us whether or not he is going to limit profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-08-18a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-10-22", "file": "debates1919-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "114a7d68fc6dca51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.10.9", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (STAFFS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It is not revenue.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "preceding_text": "It was a war expenditure which we are now able to dispose of, and for which we are receiving a revenue of £2,000,000 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.10.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-22", "file": "debates1919-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "114a7d68fc6dca51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.12.8", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Has this House ever been consulted in carrying on these operations? Can you make war without consulting the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.12.8"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-10-22", "file": "debates1919-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "114a7d68fc6dca51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can he say whether all the anti-aircraft stations have now been abolished in this country?", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "The particulars asked for by my hon. Friend as to the strength of the Royal Air Force on the dates mentioned by him are as follow: Officers. Other ranks. Date of Armistice 30,122 263,410 12th August, 1919 9,044 59,671 18th October, 1919 6,005 51,976", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.23.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-10-22", "file": "debates1919-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "114a7d68fc6dca51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.34.8", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is in the future.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " should be necessary. I hope that Members of the House are fully impressed by the need for economy, and will not only help to enforce it in the House, but will also make it the subject of addresses to their constituents. If, in particular, Members will refrain, and will induce their constituents to refrain, from pressing for new expenditure, a first step will have been made in the right direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.34.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-22", "file": "debates1919-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "114a7d68fc6dca51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "effect of obtaining support from a larger body of opinion in the House. Is it unreasonable to say that in establishments giving employment in this country not more than a fourth of all the volume of employment should be alien—in other words, that at least three-quarters of the people employed in any business should be our own people? Can anyone really say that is an unreasonable proposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.66.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-22", "file": "debates1919-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "114a7d68fc6dca51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "by the Clause you are now putting into the Bill? Does it mean that no workman because of his nationality is allowed to land in this country and is not allowed to take part in any propaganda in this country? There is a number of men who are Germans by descent. Are they going to be debarred from taking part in trade union propaganda? If so I shall object to Princess Mary coming down to open bazaars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-22a.154.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-23", "file": "debates1919-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "304bd26ab578bd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-23a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about banking?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "preceding_text": "o sacrifice the small amount of help they get from these incompetent foreigners. I appeal to them not to continue this alliance with the foreigner who may be the enemy of this country. This proposal cannot do the Labour party any harm if it removes certain foreign Labour leaders. It will, on the contrary, strengthen the Labour party. We do riot accept foreigners as leaders in any other connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-23a.197.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-27", "file": "debates1919-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e93fc8baea608ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-27a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISQUALIFICATION (REMOVAL) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "preceding_text": "dment. His Amendment is that, until Parliament otherwise determines, special provision may be made by Order in Council regulating the admission of women to any branch of the Civil Service in any of His Majesty's Overseas Possessions, but it specially takes away the power which is contained in the Bill of regulating the admission of women to the Home Civil Service or any of the Departments at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-27a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-27", "file": "debates1919-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e93fc8baea608ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-27a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEX DISQUALIFICATION (REMOVAL) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "ete on equal terms. I was very glad to hear that; I thought we were getting along. But, in the next sentence, his idea of increasing the fairness of competition is to rule out women from a large part of the posts in Class 1. If we accept the Amendment of the Government, I assure the Committee that it will mean that all the higher paid posts in the Civil Service will continue to be reserved to men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-27a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-27", "file": "debates1919-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "e93fc8baea608ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-27a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSTABULARY ANT) POLICE (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have a right to get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": "ot understand the position of the right hon. Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) any more than I understand the position of my own countryman, the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. MacVeagh). Both of them are striking a serious blow at bringing the pay of the police up to a proper level. I would ask them do they or do they not believe in the principle of a living wage for policemen as well as for workmen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-27a.418.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-10-28", "file": "debates1919-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c6c28be4fc33b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Who are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "nth ago, owing to the accidents involved in transporting this great number of machines over a practically untried route. The officers who arc investigating it—I think they must be officers, because practically everyone who understands the air has been in the Air Service during the War—are outside the Department of the Chief of the Air Staff and are quite independent of that Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-28", "file": "debates1919-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c6c28be4fc33b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSTABIULARY AND POLICE (IRELAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "ter opportunity of employment than the average man, but even admitting that, when those places have been filled there is a very large number both of ex-policemen and of ex-soldiers who have served the Crown loyally who cannot get those occupations. None of us will deny this facility to those men if possible, but if you admit this claim you have got to admit the claim of every ex-Service man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.523.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-28", "file": "debates1919-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c6c28be4fc33b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Charles II.‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "course of his speech, made one or two suggestions which were almost as strange as his historical references. He told us, for instance, that in some strange way, under these powers which the House were asked to pass, an official would be able to say to a subject, \"If you do not take care the same sort of thing will happen to you as happened in, the time of Charles II., and you will lose your head.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-28", "file": "debates1919-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c6c28be4fc33b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "rfectly free to make any modification which it pleases. I do not think it is really worth taking up the time of the House to dwell upon the kind of questions which have been raised by the right hon. Baronet, or upon the difficulty of understanding the provisions as they appear in this Bill. These regulations are sent out to the people who arc chiefly affected by them, and they are perfectly plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-28", "file": "debates1919-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c6c28be4fc33b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "tter brought before him. It will disgust everyone that you should search a man's premises looking for proof that there is an anarchist plot. I maintain that the Second Reading should not be taken until the White Paper is given to us and we know exactly where we are. May I appeal to hon. Members who do not usually agree with me? The present Government may not last for ever or for many weeks longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-28", "file": "debates1919-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c6c28be4fc33b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I represent part of a large commercial city—are unanimous in saying that they are not required, and they ought to know. I suppose they are as patriotic as His Majesty's Ministers, and they say that a great many of these Regulations are not required. I do not know in the very least which of them it is proposed to keep or which of them it is proposed to drop. I have tried to look through them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-28", "file": "debates1919-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c6c28be4fc33b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear ‡ \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "to abrogate the Habeas Corpus Art, which was passed under Charles II. We are going back on what our ancestors did 250 years ago. That is a pretty strong step to ask this country to take nearly a year after hostilities have closed. We are continuing power to prohibit public meetings and processions and to remove persons considered by the authorities as undesirable from areas where there are troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-28a.605.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-29", "file": "debates1919-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea66b577abee9cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does unemployment come to an end on 21st November?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "heir decision as to what steps it may be necessary to take in order to relieve us of a burden in respect of these services. Then there are the out-of-work donations. As regards discharged Service men, their rights exist for one year after demobilisation. I have heard nobody in the House question the wisdom of that provision. The ordinary civil out-of work donation comes to an end on 24th November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-29", "file": "debates1919-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea66b577abee9cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thanks to Free Trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "With that view we invite the House of Commons to explore with us, and in anticipation of any decision by us, the subject of a levy on war profits. Our burdens are heavy, but our shoulders are broad. I end as I began. There is every occasion for caution. There is no excuse for panic. Our position is sound. We have borne throughout the years of war a financial burden unequalled by any other country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-29", "file": "debates1919-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea66b577abee9cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "admit the slightest impeachment, the sole variation of an adverse character for which any criticism may be levelled against us. May I illustrate this financial position in another way? If the good debts of £67,000,000 on which we had counted had been recovered in the year, as they will be recovered, we should have had a surplus of £9,000,000 in Appropriations-in-Aid instead of a deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.779.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-29", "file": "debates1919-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea66b577abee9cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "nning of the year, has now gained an enormous territory—the richest part of Russia, including the corn, oil, coal and iron, the greatest supplies of all these vital needs of Russia, including also four or five of the greater cities, comprising a population of between 35,000,000 and 40,000,000 of poor persons who welcomed his troops. I know how easy it is to pervert the truth on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.791.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-29", "file": "debates1919-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea66b577abee9cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.830.6", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "hese suggestions may be false moves, and if they are followed may prove both unwise and dangerous. May I make one further reference to this aspect of the case? The Chancellor of the Exchequer made an announcement with regard to the date when the unemployment grant was going to expire. I think he said it was the 20th November, and I marvelled to note the satisfaction on the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.830.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-29", "file": "debates1919-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea66b577abee9cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "profits would be handed back to the Treasury. He said that he could not help making these profits, and if he did not keep up his freights somebody else would get the benefit, and he said he was prepared to account for the larger proportion of them. That is the view of a large number of these men, and they are just as honest as the rest of tie community and are desirous of doing the patriotic duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-29a.837.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBEES: \"Less‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "frank and open than the whole of his speech—that no allowance had been made for an increase of old age pensions. I understand, and I quite recognise with him, that it is a very difficult question. The difficulty is, of course, caused by the increase in the cost of living. The old age pension which was worth 5s. a week before the War is, of course, not worth much more than 2s. 6d. a week now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "changes against this country. That is a practical method of dealing with that point; but I suppose we must wait and see how far we may follow the example of France and other civilised countries in regard to these new sources of revenue. I am not going to delay the House for a moment about what I once thought was a source of income—that is money from Germany. That evidently has gone for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, I suggested that it is very controversial. I am certain the Noble Lord would not agree with it, because it is so obvious. The paper money of France is three times ours. Germany's paper money is over three times. In Germany it is between four and five times. I have no doubt the question of paper money is a tremendous fact, but that is not the whole thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.980.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.984.3", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "e employers of the country to say also that there shall be no reduction of wages then every worker in the country would have an incentive to increased work, because he would know that increased cost would reduce the cost of living, and that would mean for him increased wages. If increased production reduces the cost of living it will give an incentive not merely to the employer, but to the worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.984.3", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Say it ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "n of wages then every worker in the country would have an incentive to increased work, because he would know that increased cost would reduce the cost of living, and that would mean for him increased wages. If increased production reduces the cost of living it will give an incentive not merely to the employer, but to the worker. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide ‡\"] I have only got one sentence to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.984.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAILWOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: Oh, oh ‡ \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAILWOOD", "preceding_text": " a considerable time with this bread subsidy. I contend that the time has come when bread should be decontrolled, and the price of flour should be raised gradually until the subsidy is entirely liquidated. I also wish to support the idea that the unemployment dole should be withdrawn. I would go further than that. I think the time has come when you might close up the Ministry of Labour altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Where are Germans working on the land?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HODGE", "preceding_text": "or 29th October they gave 9,300 odd agricultural labourers as being idle, and yet we have German prisoners working on the land. That is not fair. The first consideration surely should be to find employment for our own unemployed. That is a very much better proposition than paying unemployed benefit. It would be surely better to keep the German prisoners idle than to keep our own kith and kin idle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BON AR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not go on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BON AR LAW", "preceding_text": "h was a most interesting commentary on one part of the speech of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. He described an ideal Cabinet to take our places, and indicated a few of the difficulties of this question of retrenchment with which they would be faced. He was sanguine enough to think they would last long enough to enable my right hon. Friend to accept the principle of \"Peace, etc.\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BON AR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing\" and \"A bagatelle ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BON AR LAW", "preceding_text": "hat, may I remind anyone who still thinks he has a rod in pickle for my right hon. Friend that, as a matter of fact, even with the revised Estimates of what the expenditure is going to be, my right hon. Friend has a smaller percentage of error than the Budget Estimates of any Chancellor of the Exchequer since the War began. In addition to that, the tot31 error in the Estimate is £223,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-10-30", "file": "debates1919-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "358b7027666fc62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The Prime Minister has it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "ent. We have got to judge it by certain known facts. It is rather curious, on the whole, that I should have got into that particular kind of trouble. It was due, of course, to what was meant to be a private talk being made public. I read in some newspaper the other day that what was needed in the matter of finance was a man of imagination and expedients. I do not know what is meant by imagination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-10-30a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1129.6", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I recognise that there ought not to be any delay in coming to a decision. I will discuss the matter again with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but. 1 ion inclined to think that the House would like to have the advice of a Committee of its own Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1129.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1165.4", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not allowed now ‡ \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "sh ship. That will have the immediate result of profoundly annoying the whole of the American nation. The American nation is going to be a very large maritime nation, with a large merchant service. They will undoubtedly retaliate by having a similar law to this, and we shall have all Englishmen prevented from being masters, chief officers or chief engineers of ships flying under the American flag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1165.4", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "the flag of any company and the shareholders of that company is often very weak now. In many of these companies the Americans hold large blocks of shares. If you go into the Levant you find a great deal of Greek capital in ships flying the British flag. We do not want to have these ships transferred to a foreign flag. At present we have an overwhelming majority of the Merchant Marine of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the public‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "ried to give my best attention with a view of finding out what is really intended, how the Amendment is to be applied, and what will be its ultimate effect, and I have come to the conclusion that it is a fair and reasonable Amendment from the seaman's point of view. There are two interests to be considered. There is the interest of the shipowner, and there is also the interest of the seamen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1190.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "this question of getting the help of foreign capital—for that is what it amounts to—in securing the food supplies of the sea for this country is not so important as it was. There is, therefore, a certain amount of doubt as to which is the wiser course to be taken. My own feeling is that in the long range the wiser course it to put in a provision that second hands shall also be British.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) made what was, of course, an extremely clever debating point, but one which was not justified. He meant to imply that the Goanese stewards employed on great British lines are sweated. Nothing could be more contrary to the truth. It is not so. If the word \"rating\" was used it would mean that these stewards would have to be paid at the same rate as British stewards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILSON", "preceding_text": "I shall have to put the House to a Division if the right hon Gentleman accepts the Amendment, because it practically destroys the whole value of the Sub-section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1215.3", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear‡", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILSON", "preceding_text": "ill be to encourage the employment of large numbers of Chinamen on board British ships that are not going to trade on the coast of China only, but ships that will engage crews at Chinese ports and then trade to all parts of the world in competition with our own ships. What advantage is the Clause of the right hon. Gentleman? I appeal to the House of Commons to have sympathy for the British seamen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "It is worth while pointing out, for the benefit of the public, the condition of things under which we do our work in this House, so that they may realise it. I think it is very desirable to have this frank admission, and that the public should see how hollow are the pretences which guide us into one Lobby or the other as the case may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And wives \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "We have listened to a very amusing speech which I am quite sure was not intended to be serious. The whole point of this Clause is for the protection of ourselves. It refers only to people who are aliens and choose to remain aliens, and that lovely picture of children and grandchildren —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ngland to allow that to be extended to two months— to be allowed to remain in the United Kingdom, stating the special ground on which such application is based, and unless the Secretary of State after due inquiry shall grant him a licence to remain. (2) The applicant shall advertise notice of his application in some paper circulating in the district— So that they may all know about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Half a crown ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "tate after due inquiry shall grant him a licence to remain. (2) The applicant shall advertise notice of his application in some paper circulating in the district— So that they may all know about it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] So that they may all point at his children at school, and jeer at his wife. These are mostly poor people, to whom the cost of advertising is a very considerable item.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sir Ernest Wild,\" and cries of \"Order ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "te can carry out all these duties without an Advisory Committee. That would have given the power which the Clause did not. If my Amendments are accepted, the Home Secretary is entitled to have his Advisory Committee. That Committee will consist of a person of judicial training and position. I have in my mind a very highly skilled and judicially-minded man who, I hope, will take the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-03", "file": "debates1919-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "02e31520f8a72f57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wise men do‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": " can get the most merciful, just, and, at the same time, most secure provision with regard to aliens under this Clause. Hardship can be avoided, injustice can be avoided, and the security of the country can be made absolute. Under those circumstances, I do ask the House to say that it is wiser that the Clause should stand. I am twitted with having changed my mind, but has nobody else ever done so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-03a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Are we to understand that these fourteen generals are carrying on, with staff, and drawing their pay?", "preceding_speaker": "Major NALL", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman think it is necessary to employ all these officers in the manner in which they have been employed since last April?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1297.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VOLUNTEERS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is no recognition to be given to the men who joined the Volunteer Training Corps before the formation of the Volunteer Force, in spite of the fact that the head of the Volunteer Training Corps, Lord Desborough, had a room in the War Office and did his work in conjunction with the War Office?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "til the Volunteers were organised under the Act of 1863 in May, 1916, they were not under any legal obligation as soldiers, and the War Office holds no records of their services prior to May, 1916. The letters of thanks to which my hon. Friend alludes must consequently be limited to enrolments under the Volunteer Act, by which the Volunteers became a definite part of the Home Defence organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1303.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "preceding_text": "ality committed by the Huns and applauded by the whole of the German people almost without exception. That feeling cannot die simply because we have signed an Armistice or even because we have signed a Peace. That being the fact, it is quite idle for the hon. and gallant Member for Bury St. Edmunds to talk about the \"stunt Press\" and \"electioneering claptrap.\" It was what was said at the Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it discussed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. WILD", "preceding_text": "d the Government for what is called a change of front. It has been alleged again and again that there has been some sort of bargain made with some of their supporters. Although that has been denied by the Home Secretary and the Solicitor-General, that denial has not been accepted as I think it ought to be accepted in Parliament. I wish to bear my humble testimony that there was no sort of bargain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BEN N", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BEN N", "preceding_text": "about it? There is one phase of the whole matter that has not been discussed at all, and that is the question of reprisals. Does anyone deny that if we deport all persons of enemy countries, those enemy countries have not the right to do the same with regard to us? Then what is going to be the effect of an Order for the deportation of all British people from Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, and Turkey?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "in the House yesterday, and it has been admitted by my hon. and learned Friend (Sir E. Wild) to-day. The difference really is a very great one. As the Clause came from Committee it had no Advisory Committee in it, and it seemed to me that the wording of it gave the impression of which my right hon. Friend spoke—that nobody would be exempt except those who were specially down in the category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "And for their sake, too!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "es in a speech without looking up the context. For instance, I noted a reference to one of the speeches of the Prime Minister. I have read more of the speech; but never for a moment did he say that every German, without exception, was to be bundled out of the country. What I myself have said was that those people who have been so dangerous during the War and who for our safety were interned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1384.0", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed, agreed !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "preceding_text": " this Tory militarist and a Scottish Radical can see eyeto eye?\" We did see eye to eye on practically every case. Then 1 was told that the hon. and gallant Member for Mid-Antrim (Major O'Neill) would be on the Committee. I said to myself, \"Look here, this is growing worse and worse. I am a Scottish Radical, and I am asked to work alongside a violent Ulsterman of the most stern and unbending type.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1384.0", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "preceding_text": "had fought in the War. I do not want to rub that in, but, at any rate, they had no soft feeling towards the Germans who had tried to wipe them off the map. When it 'is proposed, as it is proposed in this Bill as it stands now, to scrap all the work which Lord Justice Younger's Committee have done, there is no reason in it. There has been no word of reasonable complaint made against that Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ustration given by the hon. and learned Member for York. He has given an illustration which, to my mind, will cause most of us to pause, at least, before we give assent to this Subsection. Ho has stated to the House that on the receipt of a letter relating to the conduct and character of a man in a certain district, where he passed as an honourable citizen, without any further investigation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "mber remarked that some very odd things were said at the election. This can hardly have been the subject of an election pledge, and, therefore, I think that those hon. Members who are so anxious to keep strictly to their pledges need not bring forward that argument in support of this Sub-section. Surely the object ought to be to make the procedure against aliens as little disagreeable as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1418.5", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "sal will have an explanation from the Home Secretary as to what this Section means, and an to whether these women are going to be separated from their husbands simply because their husbands happen to have been born in Germany. They are British women and their husbands are quite harmless and well-disposed towards this country, but simply through the accident of birth they have been born in Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1429.0", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL CONTROLLER (APPOINTMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT EDWNARDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You deserve it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT EDWNARDS", "preceding_text": "Without endorsing particularly the detailed arguments which have been advanced by the right hon. Gentleman, I desire cordially to support the broad claim which he has put forward. For ten months my colleagues and myself have been loyal supporters of the Coalition Government, but I have had very considerable misgivings, and a great deal of mental disquiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL CONTROLLER (APPOINTMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "he Government are taking upon themselves with a supreme degree of folly an extra burden, which, when the people of this country come to understand it, they will not be able to discharge. I was elected frankly as a supporter of the Coalition Government. My colleagues and myself have consistently supported the Coalition Government through thick and thin up till to-day, but we are not going to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL CONTROLLER (APPOINTMENT).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What is his salary?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": " sure I shall not appeal in vain, to give him a fair chance in this office which lie has taken up at what I might fairly say is a considerable personal sacrifice. It is at the request of the Government, to carry out a national duty, that he has accepted the post. It is true that immediately, at the moment, there is an increase in salary over that which he was receiving before he came to this post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1452.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL CONTROLLER (APPOINTMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pretty good pay!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "Two thousand pounds a year, with. £300 war bonus. He was offered that amount to stay where he was, and his prospects were extremely good, but he selected temporary Government service. He is not serving for a pension. He has come in out of a patriotic desire to help the country at a lower rate of pay than he could have got, with worse prospects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-04", "file": "debates1919-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "54f2e843bb50e5cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1455.2", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL CONTROLLER (APPOINTMENT).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You did it for the election.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "Do you think any Government would put 6s. a ton on coal for fun?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-04a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1493.4", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "Before the Government departs from the traditional British method of raising revenue, and in view of the tremendous admiration shown by certain Members of the House for the practices and principles of every country but their own, will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1548.2", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "m a form of government to which they are not accustomed, and which Apparently they do not want. Moreover, I would ask the House to observe that in Russia itself all those elements and those political parties that were utilised to support the anti-Bolshevik movement are now coming round to support the Bolshevik Government. Take the Menshevik party, which is the minority party opposed to Bolshevism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1557.0", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel JOHN WARD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel JOHN WARD", "preceding_text": "and there was no close time for them. Probably if there was any good thing about their proposals that was it. For a most astonishing reason, the next class that could be destroyed at sight if they wore their uniform were the cadets, the boys, who attended the schools. Those were the three ostracised classes, officers who dared to wear their shoulder straps, lawyers who were known to be such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1574.1", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "preceding_text": "are as follows: All the existing de facto Governments should remain in full control of the territories which they occupy, excepting in so far as the conference might agree to the transfer of territories, or the peoples inhabiting the territories controlled by these de facto Governments shall themselves determine to change their Governments. I will not weary the Committee by reading all the points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1574.1", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "preceding_text": "ies which they occupy, excepting in so far as the conference might agree to the transfer of territories, or the peoples inhabiting the territories controlled by these de facto Governments shall themselves determine to change their Governments. I will not weary the Committee by reading all the points. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"] By the leave of the House, I will read some of the more salient features.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or New York.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "very interesting time. I envy him his experiences. If he will allow me to say so, he seems to have had a kind of Cook's tour with Trotsky. He has gathered there a great many impressions. He has every right to bring back from his visit any impressions he liked to gather, and I am certain that they will afford him-any quantity of copy for articles in the \"Daily Express\" or the \"Manchester Guardian.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": " seems to have had a kind of Cook's tour with Trotsky. He has gathered there a great many impressions. He has every right to bring back from his visit any impressions he liked to gather, and I am certain that they will afford him-any quantity of copy for articles in the \"Daily Express\" or the \"Manchester Guardian.\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"Or New York.\"] Certainly, or any paper to which he likes to send.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in Russia though!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": " down quite rightly suggested. This means concessions. Unless some country is going to dominate Russia, the Russian people themselves will be those who give the various concessions. If a vote were put to this House as to whether we should send an expeditionary force of volunteers—not conscripts—to endeavour to establish order in Russia to-morrow, I should support it in the Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1622.0", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They are all wanted!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "erest. This firm has published a map, and upon that map, you do not find the towns or the places that you usually discover on maps issued for general enlightenment. This, map contains, carefully marked out all over in Russia and Siberia, the regions in which tin, lead, copper, oil, grain, and timber can be found. It tells us of a vast tract of territory from which these raw resources can be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The House has listened to a lively speech from the hon. Member opposite (Mr. N. Maclean), which is, I think, his first appearance in the responsible position of speaking from the Front Opposition Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Not more than any other class!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "ite sincere in his belief, I should like to inform the hon. and gallant Gentleman that those of us who are coming in daily contact with the Labour movement of this country know that the overwhelming mass of opinion amongst the working classes is against intervention in Russia in any shape or form. The workers of this country have borne their share of the burdens and the sacrifices of the great War", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1638.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You have done your bit and made your bit!", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Derby has!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1639.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1640.6", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What are you reading from?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "It is stated here that the Prime Minister said there were three possible policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1640.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-05", "file": "debates1919-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "224f35225bebfd4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1640.7", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I am reading from a report of the meeting of the Supreme Council in Paris at which the Prime Minister spoke, and as I have said he said there were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-05a.1640.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-06", "file": "debates1919-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a9c38856f6de904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-06a.1749.3", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not so ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "eat weight with the Government, and the Labour party are very half-hearted about this Bill. It seems that it is going to do no good at all. It absolutely asserts that a man must go to an inquiry, and when that inquiry has been held and a decision has been arrived at, neither party is obliged to adhere to the decision. May I say here the ironmoulders had an award, and they refused to abide with it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-06a.1749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-06", "file": "debates1919-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a9c38856f6de904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-06a.1749.3", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "to do no good at all. It absolutely asserts that a man must go to an inquiry, and when that inquiry has been held and a decision has been arrived at, neither party is obliged to adhere to the decision. May I say here the ironmoulders had an award, and they refused to abide with it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not so ‡\"] Well, it is very nearly so; it is almost a distinction without a difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-06a.1749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-06", "file": "debates1919-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a9c38856f6de904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-06a.1749.4", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes ‡ \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "hen these great convulsions happen the public have a most tremendous interest far outweighing the immediate consequences, and I am all for making these gentlemen let the public know what the dispute is about. Whatever may happen to any other part of the Bill, I most sincerely hope the Committee in charge of this Bill will adhere to that. May I ask whether it is to be a Committee of theWhole House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-06a.1749.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-06", "file": "debates1919-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a9c38856f6de904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-06a.1804.1", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND ARMY EXPENDITURE, 1917–18.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The Government would resign℠", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Could the hon. Gentleman tell us what would be the effect if this Resolution were not passed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-06a.1804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1823.2", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "preceding_text": "at have we to face here this day? During the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and at the close of those wars, the landlords throughout the land enriched themselves and entrenched thems3lves in the commons land of England. I remember when we came to the close of the Boer War there was introduced into this House an Education Bill which placed disabilities upon Nonconformists of a severe character—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1823.2", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "preceding_text": " men are suffering there is that high spirit, that love of liberty, and the cry goes up with great strength not to surrender our liberties or principles, or to yield up our belief in them. In these matters evidently many of our leaders are not leading us. I regret it deeply. But we have to recognise the truth. We have to face the thing which is practical. The War has been a bad thing for religion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1823.2", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "preceding_text": "acy of some statements ‡ Here you have a national Church with its vast prerogatives, with its claim to do all this under the plea of spiritual development, and I agree with that I The Church of Christ should stand free from the State. Spiritually it should be an independent State. But you have here a National Church that obtains from the State something like £8,000,000 a year in tithes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1832.0", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "c form with autocratic effects, and that is what has taken place in this constitution. This common desire for the same end has produced extraordinarily similar results. In all really democratic countries the National Assemblies, whether Legislatures or the House of Commons, are the result of direct election. The elector directly votes for his representative. In all parts of the world except Russia", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1864.0", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "we spoke about these scandals in the Church of Wales our words fell on the deaf ears of hon. Members who to-day speak most eloquently about them. The hon. Member for Sheffield spoke of the present state of things. There is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is a Unitarian, the Postmaster-General, who is a Nonconformist, and the First Commissioner of Works who is also, I believe, a Nonconformist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1867.1", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": ". Hitherto, it has been axiomatic that cash should always connote control. One of the leading Nonconformist divines expressed it very aptly the other day when he said—and I should like the House to mark the words: The Enabling Bill is an attempt to combine incompatibilities: the autonomy of a Free Church, and the emoluments of an Establishment. The Church of England cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1867.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1881.1", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide ‡", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1881.2", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "I regret that there should be a cry of \"Divide‡\" when the first of those who sit on the Labour Benches attempts to speak on this Bill. It certainly shows a great discourtesy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1885.0", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "preceding_text": "thood to do that in the Church of England. What we want to guard against, what this House has a right to claim to guard against and the right to protect, is the Church itself from this power of the priesthood and the power of even the best and most enthusiastic -of its laity when the desire to narrow down the principles of the Church so as gradually to exclude more and more of the country from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1885.0", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "preceding_text": " to guard against, what this House has a right to claim to guard against and the right to protect, is the Church itself from this power of the priesthood and the power of even the best and most enthusiastic -of its laity when the desire to narrow down the principles of the Church so as gradually to exclude more and more of the country from it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not‡\"] Yes, but they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1885.0", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only some of them ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "preceding_text": "rotect, is the Church itself from this power of the priesthood and the power of even the best and most enthusiastic -of its laity when the desire to narrow down the principles of the Church so as gradually to exclude more and more of the country from it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not‡\"] Yes, but they do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] We see it day by day. The priesthood do narrow down these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1887.0", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "cordance with this. Act may relate to any matter concerning the Church of England. Not exclusively concerning the Church of England, and may extend to the Amendment or repeal of any Art of Parliament, including this Act. That is an extremely wide scope for legislation. I suppose every question of morality concerns the Church of England. I presume questions of divorce concern the Church of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1890.2", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Has all this anything to do with the, Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "During the War these people have shown their calibre. They have done nothing to help the conscientious objector, they have joined in the attacks on the aliens. These people are supposed to preach Christianity and the brotherhood of man, but they have preached nothing but hatred, and it is to these people you are handing over the legislation of the country. The Archbishop of York—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1890.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-07", "file": "debates1919-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "874dd2e142837e59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1890.2", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS, \"Divide‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "herefore, consider the character of the people to whom we are handing it over. The Archbishop of York went to America during the War and for a fortnight he spoke like a Christian in that country. When he came back he was attacked by the stunt Press—by the people who are represented in this House to-day. That is the class of person to whom you are handing over the legislation of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-07a.1890.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FORSTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FORSTER", "preceding_text": "No; the hon. and gallant Gentleman knows perfectly well that the equipment placed at the disposal of General Denikin was given free of any stipulation as to the particular enemy against whom he used it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FORSTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FORSTER", "preceding_text": "I am quite sure if the hon. and gallant Gentleman would himself care to go—!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.19.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.47.5", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY BILLS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether, seeing that I have a question on the Paper on this subject for next Wednesday, a question on exactly the same ground ought to be put by private notice, thus cutting out my question for Wednesday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.47.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'GRADY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no compulsion in the Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'GRADY", "preceding_text": "agreement was observed. Let me tell the House quite frankly, and I beg of the House to accept what I say, that you have got to rely upon the honour and integrity of the unions themselves, and if you do that you will get our people to go to the Courts much more willingly than under compulsion. In fact, they will not go by compulsion. You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "r something of that kind, is really vital. I venture to appeal to my hon. and right 'hon. Friends opposite, is it not true that nine-tenths of these industrial disputes arise out of misunderstanding, because the two parties do not understand one another, and still more because the general public is quite in the dark as to what the real rights of the dispute are? We have set up a League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But there are a lot of you there! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member who has just sat down will not think I am one of these \"servile majority\" with the \"dog-collar round my neck.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRIEG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRIEG", "preceding_text": "Upon one point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "Before I withdraw this Amendment may I say that obviously we cannot have a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-10", "file": "debates1919-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40a6c721f3745016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " we think that the Courts should have documentary powers adequate enough to lift these firms and businesses above the suspicion in which they rest in the minds of the working men. The working men suspect that the facts are not revealed in these inquiries that take place from time to time. The position is that if the right hon. Gentleman presses this Amendment he will be obliged to press the others", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-10a.193.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-11", "file": "debates1919-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f9c68ceee80f9f8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-11a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say how many houses have been built or how many are in process of being built?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-11a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-11", "file": "debates1919-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f9c68ceee80f9f8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-11a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (COUNCILS, ETC.) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seventy-eight!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen)", "preceding_text": "to the Board in carrying out its work. One word about the composition. I have had some criticisms brought to my knowledge that the Bill as drafted gives undue prominence to what are called urban interests in contradistinction to rural interests. It has been pointed out that there are forty-eight councils in England, and each one of them has a member, and that there are sixty-eight county boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-11a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-13", "file": "debates1919-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c33dd14141b83791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "No; it is not possible to send a political mission to that division of Denikin's army, which is engaged not in fighting the Bolsheviks but in fighting these other people. Cannot he not take steps to protect the Ukraine from the Donikin troops, and is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.477.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-13", "file": "debates1919-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c33dd14141b83791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.487.8", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "May I draw your attention, Sir, to the most insolent remark made by the Chief Secretary which had nothing whatever to do with the question on the Paper—most insolent!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.487.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-13", "file": "debates1919-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c33dd14141b83791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.487.12", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; but the Chief Secretary is getting into a habit of replying that is characteristic of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.487.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-13", "file": "debates1919-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c33dd14141b83791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.537.7", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME OFFICE (Mr. Shortt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME OFFICE (Mr. Shortt)", "preceding_text": "I hope my hon. and learned Friend (Sir H. Nield) will follow the course which he adopted in Committee, and be content with the two years. Putting in the words he proposes makes this a permanent measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.537.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-13", "file": "debates1919-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c33dd14141b83791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: ''Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " very much relieved indeed by this very much freer intercourse with Germany. I stated in Committee, and I say now again, that if this country is going to be reconstructed from the economic point of view within a reasonable time, we must have former enemy aliens coming into it. If this country is to get any sort of satisfactory indemnity out of Germany we must have Germans coming into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-13", "file": "debates1919-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c33dd14141b83791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the monkeys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "preceding_text": "The proceedings of the House with regard to this Bill remind me rather of what can be seen at 4 o'clock any day in the Zoological Gardens, the Home Secretary filling the rôle of keeper, trying to pacify the roaring lions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.555.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-13", "file": "debates1919-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c33dd14141b83791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS RESTRICTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the objection to them then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not press the Amendment. The only possible effect will be to put in an indefinite provision. Surely people who are acquainted with business affairs will, as the Clause now stands, fully understand that business will be one of the special grounds for permission to come here. The words do not alter in the least the meaning of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-13a.568.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-17", "file": "debates1919-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "35c970fc325abe18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-17a.707.4", "colnum": "707", "heading": "MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Koltchak?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "to meet one until I met Admiral Koltchak that night. Naturally, being a Labour man and a, democrat, the very first thing I demanded from him was the safety of the Socialists who had been put in prison and who I heard were to be executed that night. Two of them would not have been alive to write to the \"Manchester Guardian\" if it had not boon for me, and if it had not been for British intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-17a.707.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-17", "file": "debates1919-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "35c970fc325abe18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-17a.707.4", "colnum": "707", "heading": "MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What, about the murders?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "air trial or that they should be released; but I went further and stated our democratic view of what a Government ought to be. I stated that fairly and squarely to Admiral Koltchak and it is contained in the despatches. Reference has been made to the reactionary policy that this man pursued. To begin with you cannot very well set up judge and juries in revolution. You have no police to begin with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-17a.707.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-17", "file": "debates1919-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "35c970fc325abe18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-17a.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "es and in the belief of the soundness and righteousness of our cause. In this common cause I would like some hon. Gentlemen to remember that no Power gave more passionate and generous aid than did the Russians in those days at Ypres. Our memories are very short indeed, and I put it to those who have studied these matters whether we could have stood one more onslaught from the Germans at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-17a.753.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-18", "file": "debates1919-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e9c8f8d5fe62e556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-18a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Would it not be possible to send a wire to General Denikin urging him, in view of the material support we give—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-18a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-18", "file": "debates1919-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e9c8f8d5fe62e556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-18a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "Can we have a discussion reasonably soon, as the matter is very urgent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-18a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.965.6", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Robert Home)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the blockade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Robert Home)", "preceding_text": " say most of the markets of the world, I mean most of those markets to which we used to export the greater part of our manufactures, because it is undoubtedly true that even now a very large portion of the markets of the world is still shut out from us, partly by reason of the fact that they have not readjusted themselves since the War ceased, and partly because of the lack of ships for transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.965.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said it was an engineer's war.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "le number of women who have been attached to mobile corps, will also have the same rates. They will be paid at the rate of 15s. a week for the same number of weeks. Altogether the amount involved is roughly £1,500,000, which is the amount set down in this Estimate. It may be said, why do you treat the soldiers differently from the Civilians? It is scarcely necessary for me to make any answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do not they do it for themselves, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "em. They should accept them. It is the most honourable of all occupations for women, and it is a scandal in the education of our community that either women should despise that occupation or that some of their employers should treat it as if it were other than the highest occupation. The word \"lady\" was derived from an Anglo-Saxon root which means \"the woman who prepares and hands round the food.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the mistress doing it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ccupation or that some of their employers should treat it as if it were other than the highest occupation. The word \"lady\" was derived from an Anglo-Saxon root which means \"the woman who prepares and hands round the food.\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do not they do it for themselves, then?\"] It is the best possible training for a young woman. It is better than having constant evenings for gadding about,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "tting up something to hold it up, which we can understand, which will be a method of carrying the thing on until we can get back on to the normal basis. I think the House is entitled to complain very strongly of the very awkward position in which we are placed. We have all been doing our utmost trying to insist upon the Government economising, and we are put in an extraordinarily awkward position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And nothing for it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "inced that the one thing that is doing infinite harm at this moment is the fact that the State is paying out cash to a large number of people for doing absolutely nothing. Some hon. Gentlemen may say that they are not the only people getting money for doing nothing. The rich man has his employment, or else he is miserable, for the one thing that makes a man miserable is having nothing to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. SMITH", "preceding_text": "y of further considering them. I beg them further to accept the suggestion of my hon. Friend who spoke from the Front Bench below the Gangway, and to let us on this occasion have a free Vote of the House, so that every hon. Member, unhampered by the party Whips, may give his vote as he honestly believes to be right. Not only have I never voted against this Government on any matter of policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1016.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1025.4", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "What about the members of your family—parasites all of them!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1025.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What is your policy?", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "the first necessity now is to economise the public finances. We cannot do so much good to the working classes in any other way. I am told that there is no more unemployment now, and has not been lately, than there has been in every winter before the War, and will in all probability be in every winter in the future. What is the policy with respect to the unemployment which is going to be permanent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1025.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Starve the people, starve the people!", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "inciple to which we both, majority and minority, solemnly agreed in the economy debate of a fortnight ago, and let us give proper support to the Government in carrying out the Resolution, whose exact words I forget, but which I think I am right in saying, spoke about the need for economy and offered support to the Government even in any drastic steps necessary in the interests of national economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "We have had a very curious Debate on this subject. Some hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway have seemed to me to imagine that they have almost an entire monopoly of sympathy with those who are out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel BURN", "preceding_text": "I listened just now to the speech of the hon. Member for the Forest of Dean (Mr. Wignall), who drew a picture of Noble Lords and others drawing their money from mining royalties. When Noble, Lords or anybody else invest their money in mining royalties, they do so just as they would in a railway or other commercial concern,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "gnise the danger, we must recognise the possibility of waste, and we must be in a position to appreciate the possibility of it costing us a much larger sum than that which is involved in the sum that the donation makes necessary, if economy has to be secured by the starvation, of the people. It is no exaggeration to say that starvation might be one of the consequences of the stoppage of this dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The workhouse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "and \"Yes!\"] The hon. Member for Newcastle (Mr. Renwick.) says \"NO\". May I ask, in these days of high prices, what working men with large families have to do if, as I said at the beginning, they may happen to be outside of any trade union, are receiving no assistance from any organisation of that kind, and they have to walk about the streets week by week, month by month? What are they then offered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1062.5", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true, anyhow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "loyed donation should be continued until they have produced their plans, in order to deal with the problem on a more permanent basis! I think it is very unsatisfactory even to have to suggest the possibility of bad faith between the Government and such a Conference as they themselves organised, and which issued the Report to which I have referred. I do not want to make the suggestion of bad faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1062.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "adequate payment in exchange. That really means something entirely different from all the arguments that have been put forward from that bench. It means, not that this donation should be given as a consequence of the temporary causes due to the War, but it means that our whole social system should be turned upside down, and that everything that everybody has should be more or less equally divided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "I thought it was an engineers' war!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "fore, merely a matter of right and wrong as to whether we should continue it. There is one thing, however, that I should like to say, which greatly influenced me. I have heard many speeches from those benches which implied that it was wrong to make a distinction between the man who had actually served in the field and the men who had served by working at home. I do not agree with that view at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "e view of the Government. Clearly we cannot say after that, and after I have expressed my view and the views of the Government, that this is a matter of right or wrong upon which the Government refuses to be guided by the views of the Committee. On the other hand, are we to take it that the Debate, with all the speeches to which we have listened, represents the opinion of the Committee as a whole?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The unemployed have got nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "applies to everyone. I would remind him and the Committee that the high cost of living, and the other consequences of the War have some bad effects on all classes, and in my view the class which has suffered most is the lower middle class, which has to bear this high cost of living, and has not got anything like the same advance in income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he class which has suffered most is the lower middle class, which has to bear this high cost of living, and has not got anything like the same advance in income. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The unemployed have got nothing.\"] That class will have to pay its share of continuing this donation. If I were convinced that the Committee as a whole had decided that we were to continue it till the end of March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-19", "file": "debates1919-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "223b8f0df694c7fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruptions and conversation.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. WOOD", "preceding_text": "pposed to obtain these Regulations? They are not at the Vote Office. I understand they have been lying on the Table since 22nd October. The ordinary Member would have been able to follow this Debate with much more intelligence if copies had been available at the Vote Office. I tried to get a copy of these Rules at the Vote Office, but failed. I am informed that they were printed only two days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-19a.1094.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-21", "file": "debates1919-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0c149c753d7908f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-21a.1311.2", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Bolshevism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-21a.1311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-21", "file": "debates1919-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0c149c753d7908f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-21a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": "doing that part of the work which private enterprise was unable to undertake. Had he confined his policy to that I think there would have been no difference of opinion. I think everyone will agree with what my right hon. Friend who spoke last said—and what the other hon. Member emphasised so strongly—that you cannot develop and organise a great building enterprise in one or two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-21a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-21", "file": "debates1919-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0c149c753d7908f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-21a.1351.4", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "nd skill which you carry out those plans, subject to the necessary control, of providing healthy and decent houses for the class for which they are intended.\" I am quite sure that the present plan is unworkable. I do not believe that £750 is the proper price for a cottage. Before the War, between £150 and £200 was the possible price at which you could build cottages in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-21a.1351.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-24", "file": "debates1919-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc0fbef19cb34ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1432.2", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOUGLAS-PENNANT INQUIRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider the propriety of making provision that evidence given before these Committees of Inquiry shall not be regarded as privileged?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-24", "file": "debates1919-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc0fbef19cb34ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1445.6", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MUNITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend if his Department is to prejudge the case; and is not this question of transport of more importance in these timesthan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1445.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-24", "file": "debates1919-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc0fbef19cb34ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1445.6", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MUNITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend if his Department is to prejudge the case; and is not this question of transport of more importance in these timesthan—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"No, no\"]—if necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1445.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-24", "file": "debates1919-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc0fbef19cb34ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "Apparently tins Amendment is moved and seconded on two entirely different grounds, the second of which—that of the Seconder—is, at the most, only a very small portion of those motives which, apparently, actuated the Mover. If this Amendment be accepted, it would of necessity involve a recasting of a very large portion of this Bill. It could not be embodied without doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-24", "file": "debates1919-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc0fbef19cb34ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1531.0", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. WILLIAMSON", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"That should be made clear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WILLIAMSON", "preceding_text": "£l,000,000 and had put aside.£100,000 for depreciation, the Government propose to take that over. I understand the condition of the plant is to be ascertained in accordance with the regulations made by the Electricity Commissioners, and the amount of depreciation will be fixed in accordance with those regulations, and they will not have regard to what has been set aside for depreciation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-24", "file": "debates1919-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc0fbef19cb34ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. HARMOOD-BANNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. HARMOOD-BANNER", "preceding_text": "mittee upstairs, and a promise was given to put down an Amendment to this effect. But it is now scrapped, and we are asked to take a most insufficient sum or to submit to arbitration. I challenge the Government to say whether that is fair treatment of the electricity companies. I ask them not to go back on their promises, not dishonourably to cancel every principle which they offered to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-24", "file": "debates1919-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc0fbef19cb34ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "p electricity may be, it is not to be gained at the expense of breaking contracts or doing an injustice to people who have invested their money on the faith of Parliamentary powers. What have these undertakings in the hands of companies been paying. I have not looked it up, but my belief's that at the present time the great majority of them are worth the money which was originally spent upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-24", "file": "debates1919-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc0fbef19cb34ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "say, \"Having regard to all the circumstances of the case, how can we properly get the necessary money to carry on our business?\" If there is one thing quite clear it is that it is not to the advantage of the country to have a series of laying companies dealing with electricity. Many would have liked it better if this Bill had been bolder and had gone in for complete nationalisation of electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-24a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-25", "file": "debates1919-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "e69f1031b0b86c5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-25a.1624.2", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Is it necessary to put forward a saving of £6,000 over the whole of Scotland as a saving that is likely to bring this country out of its financial difficulties? Can the right hon. Gentleman not see his way to have the \"occupation\" column put back again on the registers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-25a.1624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-25", "file": "debates1919-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "e69f1031b0b86c5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-25a.1624.2", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Is it necessary to put forward a saving of £6,000 over the whole of Scotland as a saving that is likely to bring this country out of its financial difficulties? Can the right hon. Gentleman not see his way to have the \"occupation\" column put back again on the registers? [Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"]—I am asking the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-25a.1624.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-25", "file": "debates1919-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "e69f1031b0b86c5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-25a.1724.2", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "\"authorised by special Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Amendment made: In Sub-section (2), leave out the word \"special\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-25a.1724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-25", "file": "debates1919-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "e69f1031b0b86c5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-25a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"They deserve it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I hope my hon. Friend will not press this Amendment. The intention under the Bill as it stands is that the electrical industry, and those who benefit by this Bill, shall pay the reasonable expenses of the Electricity Com missioners. We have heard a great deal about economy, and the Government have been very severely criticised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-25a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-26", "file": "debates1919-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "873ffcd8bf6d3295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-26a.1773.2", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISCHARGES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. BRAMSDON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. BRAMSDON", "preceding_text": "I quite appreciate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-26a.1773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-27", "file": "debates1919-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9eedbede6b67191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-27a.1898.5", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel A. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel A. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether his information does not point to the fact that public opinion in. all the Allied countries is favourable to leaving the ex-Kaiser where he is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-27a.1898.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-27", "file": "debates1919-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9eedbede6b67191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-27a.1902.4", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "etary of State for War, who holds both positions. That has been done many times in the history of this country, and it is thought desirable in this case. With regard to the latter part of my right hon. Friend's question, I have already said, in answer to my Noble Friend, that if there is a general desire on the part of the House for a discussion of the subject, the Government will find time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-27a.1902.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-11-28", "file": "debates1919-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bfcc58128cb5f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2011.0", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "MR. BRACE", "preceding_text": "e of coal, have gravely prejudiced the industry and the nation, and such decisions could never have been arrived at had he chosen to obtain the expert advice of the Advisory Committee. His latest proposals for limiting the sphere of operations and influence of the Coal Controller, in conjunction with the foregoing, render it impossible for us to continue to sit and act upon the Advisory Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-28", "file": "debates1919-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bfcc58128cb5f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2035.3", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOUSTON", "cue_text": "HoN. members: \"No, No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOUSTON", "preceding_text": "capture from us, as an illustration of the difficulties and dangers we are meeting with through a short supply of coal and a supply at a dear price. I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend in one of his propositions. I disagree with him on the question of nationalisation, because I think in nationalisation you would have what you complain of, namely, bureaucratic control in the very worst form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-28", "file": "debates1919-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bfcc58128cb5f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2055.13", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An hon. member: \"Steel!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "ere we were, with a comparatively speaking small proportion of our coal going overseas, yet that comparatively speaking small proportion of our coal was making enormous profits. We had the large proportion of our coal being used inland and overall making a loss, and based on that coal which was making a loss we had such industries as the cotton industry, the woollen industry, soap, linoleum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2055.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-28", "file": "debates1919-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bfcc58128cb5f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2062.0", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-28", "file": "debates1919-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bfcc58128cb5f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2064.2", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An hon. member: \"And never will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "mation, the simple reason being that the Coal Control Department do not themselves know. They have not made up their accounts, and they do not know how the accounts stand. It is not merely I who say that, but they say so themselves, because when asked what was the profit or loss in the quarters March, June, and September, the reply I got was that the accounts had not been made up for this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2064.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-11-28", "file": "debates1919-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bfcc58128cb5f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "ng a speech. I know that Members are anxious to take a Division, if a Division is to be taken, but I would ask the Government whether on further consideration they could not see their way to accept the Motion that has been moved by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Abertillery? It is quite evident, from the speeches that have been delivered, that the House is entirely against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-11-28a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "If such a thing be conceivable—not when, but if, this House by an adverse vote on this Resolution says Premium Bonds are immoral and corrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "If such a thing be conceivable—not when, but if, this House by an adverse vote on this Resolution says Premium Bonds are immoral and corrupt. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] That is what it means; that is the argument against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Members who are within hearing can judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"Not a lottery of that kind!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "estion naturally occurs to your Committee, whether any pecuniary advantage, however large or convenient, can compensate to a State for the amount of vice and misery thus necessarily produced by the levy of it? I gather from the advertisement of my hon. Friend that, as far as a lottery is concerned, he would think that condemnation justified and accurate, and his case is that this is not a lottery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Mr. Bottomley) that we should have a loan bearing interest at 2½ per cent., with 1½ per cent. devoted to prizes obtained by annual drawings, and that the Whole should be tax free. H you get your very rich man, that is not gambling; it is an investment, and rather an attractive one-I have had the curiosity to turn up some Income Tax figures, and I will take the-man at the top of the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "he issue was still open, and suppose you took the means which it would be the duty of the Government to take—to advertise your issue—and you had a campaign of publicity showing how some poor person became the lucky winner of a, big prize, suppose you pictured the humble home in which he dwelt, then the big prize he had obtained, and added the headline, \"What will he do with it?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.168.7", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e who took the maximum. How did they sell the others? I appeal to the experience of any of the employers of labour here. In every large works—perhaps to say \"every\" is an exaggeration—but in many works all over the country workmen's associations were formed, and thirty-one workmen, say, subscribed 6d. each, and that produced one 15s. 6d. certificate. They drew lots for the certificate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.168.7", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "t in many works all over the country workmen's associations were formed, and thirty-one workmen, say, subscribed 6d. each, and that produced one 15s. 6d. certificate. They drew lots for the certificate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am not blaming them. I do not see why they should not do it. It adds to the human interest. That is the way to which seven-tenths of the War Certificates were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.168.7", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS as hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e and the God of Battles for adequate revenge in the form of a popular Five per Cent. Public Loan. You escape this altogether. Another hon. Member said that the securities would depreciate in value, and, therefore, they would be constantly sold. That is not the experience of France and other foreign countries where these Loans have been issued. I will not weary the House by going through the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.168.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "If the House desire to come to a vote now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-01", "file": "debates1919-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ebe7fa14380d2b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREMIUM BONDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "ce the Debate has lasted to this hour I thought it was right, as the Prime Minister could not be here, that I, as Leader of the House, should at least express my views before the House came to a decision. It is more appropriate I should do it rather than the Prime Minister because, from his past record, it would naturally be assumed that the Prime Minister would be on the side of the angels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-01a.171.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-12-02", "file": "debates1919-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b44f1bb6a43c85a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.229.7", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REPATRIATED MUNITION WORKERS, AUSTRALIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Circulate it.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WILSON", "preceding_text": "I must apologise for the length of this answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.229.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-12-02", "file": "debates1919-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b44f1bb6a43c85a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHESS TOURNAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGG E", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend considered the question of precedent, and is he prepared to assure the House that in regard to amusements this will not create a precedent? This is the first occasion on which this sort of amusement has been permitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-02", "file": "debates1919-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b44f1bb6a43c85a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHESS TOURNAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\" and \"Sit down !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "May I make a serious appeal to Members of this House to refrain from voting on matters on which they have not heard the arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-02", "file": "debates1919-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b44f1bb6a43c85a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND SETTLEMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MCMICKING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MCMICKING", "preceding_text": "farmer, and the tendency has been, when small farms come into the market, owing to the difficulty of keeping up the equipment and the buildings, for them to be taken over by the large farmers. This Amendment would safeguard small farms. We want the small farm, the medium-sized farm, and the large farm. This Amendment would give security to those occupiers, who would become statutory small tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-02", "file": "debates1919-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "b44f1bb6a43c85a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND SETTLEMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "The HON. MEMBER dissented.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ber for the Western Isles expressed willingness to support this proposal so long as it is not applied to his own constituency. I think that probably the hon. Member for Caithness may take up the same attitude. Knowing the number of holders waiting to be accommodated he will appreciate that if this extension is agreed to it will be impossible to give the necessary land to a large number of holders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-02a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-03", "file": "debates1919-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "931b3956fc393668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-03a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Re-committed) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " that has yet come before this House since it was elected, and may I put it to you that the ordinary Rules of Procedure in Committee should be strictly followed within your province, and that we should not in any way damp down discussion on the very important Amendments which appear later in the Bill? May I also put it to you that the proceedings of this House on this Bill are being watched—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-03a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-03", "file": "debates1919-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "931b3956fc393668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-03a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Re-committed) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I understand that the whole principle of the concessions by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-03a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-03", "file": "debates1919-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "931b3956fc393668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-03a.514.4", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Re-committed) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "preceding_text": "I admit it was so, made by the Secretary of State. He knows, as I have found over and over again, how to make the best of a bad case. It is all very well to say that the Indian Civil Service will be exactly now as they were before; they will not. Many of those men went out with the distinct expectation and guarantee that certain positions were open to them, and those guarantees are done away with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-03a.514.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES FUNDS (POLITICAL PROPAGANDA),", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw, withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not express himself in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.577.9", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May we not have an opportunity of discussing this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.577.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "That will depend entirely on the progress we shall make with business. There are certain measures we must get through. For instance, the Housing Bill we must get through all its stages in order to press on, and there are certain other measures which must also be completed. I hope we might be able to rise on the 23rd December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.586.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He said early in February.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "Can he give any indication as to the date of the commencement of the next Session?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.587.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Who supplied the right hon. Gentleman with that tissue of lies which he has just read out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "lling, that that sort of Bill should be vetoed by the Governor, but they do urge, and I think we have a right to ask, that it should be considered that a Bill of that nature should be discussed, and that discussion should be permissible; otherwise the Governor cannot possibly tell what the purpose of a Bill really is, and, in any case, it is much better to allow people to blow off steam in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.700.9", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ion contrary to the wishes of the Government. The same conclusion was arrived at in connection with the local Legislatures. In the Second Chamber you have this check Chamber maintained, although any possibility of it acting as a check has gone. You have got the unnecessary Second Chamber pushed into this Bill simply because there are so many politicians in this country who love the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.700.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " all the evidence which comes from India as being the representative voice of all Indians. They mostly represent the people who can afford to spend money upon looking after the interests of India, and the new capitalists in India are not the people whom I would absolutely trust with the government of India. In the Second Chamber you are going to have this special capitalistic interest represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "He would have been tried by people who would have been told that it was their business to convict him just because he was tried in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.721.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.723.7", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ord of regret has come from the right hon. Gentleman—not one word. Yet the Leader of the House has stated that he regarded the thing as important-, and the more important because of the effect it would have upon Australian opinion. Australian opinion does not count; no opinion counts if Ireland is involved. Captain O'Donnell had Irish blood in his veins. That was the gravamen of his offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.723.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "y step Sir Archibald Bodkin attempts to get this, I suppose I might call him unsophisticated, man from the Commonwealth on to the slope, so that he can push him down and say, \"Those are your sentiments.\" But why should the Army Council consent to have this criminal lawyer employed to prosecute and ruin this Australian padre? If the House will observe, I am not imparting political prejudice at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "?—Oh, yes, I have frequently expressed that. Did you say in that room, 'When the time comes I shall come over and help the people in their struggle against the tyrannical English Government'?—No, I did not. That is your sentiment, is it not?—No. That is not your sentiment?—That is not my sentiment. I suggest that, proper as that cross-examination undoubtedly would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Treasury!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "n an ordinary Court, it is not fair in a court-martial to submit an accused person to a cross-examination of that kind. Now I hope I have dealt quite fairly with Sir Archibald Bodkin, and I think I have made a point which seems to me unanswerable. I would like the right. hon. Gentleman to give me an answer to this question. Will he tell the House who paid for the services of Sir Archibald Bodkin'?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a King's Counsel!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "the Australian Government. They had a court-martial. They dealt with it in their own way and acquitted the officer. We have nothing to do wit h that. All we have to answer for is the sending from Dublin.\" As to who paid a King's Counsel to prosecute this padre in the Court, not a word is said. Is it right that the rates and taxes of this country should be used to pay a King's Counsel to prosecute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.733.5", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "g person to bring it forward. But what is our duty as Members of this House? Do we doubt the facts? It is impossible to doubt the facts. Do we not know he was acquitted by a court-martial? We do know. Do we question that indignity has been heaped upon him? It is impossible to do so, and I say our duty, especially at a time when Imperial ties are perhaps more delicate than in the memory of any man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.733.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.737.3", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " invidious kind of almost personal malevolence which the hon. Gentleman—although I am sure he did not believe it—indulged in. These two officers arrived at these conclusions, and as a result of the report of Lieut. Chambers the military machinery of discipline was put into operation and Father O'Donnell was arrested the next day on a charge of using seditious language against the King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.751.6", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "lict of evidence, and either one side or the other side is lying. A man knows whether a bed is comfortable or unhealthy. Father O'Donnell has given testimony, which has not been challenged in Court, that he was put into a filthy cell with a filthy bed. Now I ask my hon. and gallant Friend, if that statement be true, do we not owe an apology to the force and to the country from which that man came?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.751.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " an officer in one of the smart regiments in this country? Would Lieutenant Chambers in that case have gone out of his way, as I think he really did? Would an officer, for example, in a Cavalry regiment—possibly the right hon. Gentleman's own regiment—have been haled up in this way? The right hon. Gentleman knows that at this moment all Irishmen, if only by descent, are hypersensitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I regret if I strayed from the subject. I will at once return to the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why don't you sit down?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I apologise again, Sir. There is this intensive propaganda going forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "nk it is even more regrettable, and only lends weight to what I say, that the right hon. Gentleman, while having to defend, as it was his duty to do, his own subordinates in every way he could—I perfectly agree with him—sympathise with him—did not at the same time regret the occurrence—as we all on these benches do—and find himself ready to offer a more sincere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I would not have intervened in this Debate, because I think the matter has already been so well dealt with from all points of view that any remarks of mine might appear superfluous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.757.4", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Captain REV. T. J. O'DONNELL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "preceding_text": "May I call your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the remarks made by the other side — an hon. Member calling me names. I will hit back if you do not protect me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.757.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "y future Government may have to perform. Probably it will be said that all that is necessary will be to repeal this Act and to introduce new legislation when such legislation is required. We are putting an unnecessary barrier in the way of possible development in the future if we carry this Clause as it stands. The right hon. Gentleman has not accepted a single Amendment that has been put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.779.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-12-04", "file": "debates1919-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d9fd759362615e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "may be that in two, five, or seven years a situation may arise in India which will demand action, and it is unwise to put anything in this Bill which will prevent the free action of Parliament. I want to look at this matter from the point of view of the people of India. There is far too much a tendency on the part of the present House to look at the matter simply from the point of view of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-04a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-05", "file": "debates1919-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2bae042b0acfd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-05a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the Labour party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ge from bureaucracy to the oligarchy, and the oligarchs have caught the Labour party, and they are lining up behind them and cheering and saying, \"Here we have a great democratic advance.\" It seems to me an extraordinary thing that \"time cannot stale or custom wither\" the interminable gullability of the Labour party, and when anybody cries eat liberty and waves a flag they will get their applause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-05a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-05", "file": "debates1919-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2bae042b0acfd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-05a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "lied nations who have taken over mandates to administer other countries, and that the success of this experiment will be carried further in our own British Commonwealth—that what has been done in South Africa, and what will be done and is beginning to be done under this Bill in India, will also be extended to Egypt, to Turkey, to Mesopotamia, and even, possibly, for aught we know, to Persia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-05a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-05", "file": "debates1919-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2bae042b0acfd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-05a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (POWERS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "existing rights of any person.\" The Nonconformists have existing rights, and this Bill will deal with those existing rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-05a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"And the Press?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "We do not intend to have the meeting in the least private, but open to every Member who wishes to attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.892.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.892.6", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No; Wednesday.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "I cannot arrange it for this afternoon. If Thursday is not convenient, would Friday be more convenient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.892.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.910.6", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that in all quarters of Ireland, and among alt sections and classes of the people of Ireland, this Order is detested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.910.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman deny the fact I have stated that this great mechanics' trade union in Ireland has struck against it, and does he deny that motor transport is held up all over Ireland at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "e case of municipally-owned houses. Therefore we have left the subject of construction and lay-outs to the local authority, and we require them to give a certificate that the house is properly erected, fit for habitation, and has been completed in a proper and workmanlike manner. It will be observed, and on this I dare say we shall be challenged, that we have made no conditions as to sale or rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "is a serious setback to the scheme of last July. No doubt there have been defects in administration, and delays, but did you ever hear of a works putting down machinery or a factory enlarging its plant, and because in the first few months they could not get the maximum of production, scrapping the plant and digging up the foundations, as you propose to tear up the foundation of your original Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "tive builder and the property-owner—all the time. We have been defeated first on one line and then on another. When this great Act was brought in we thought, here at last was our salvation, and local authorities could sweep away the vested interests, rebuild their towns, and abolish slums. Now you are going back on the old plan. You are going to subsidise the jerrybuilder and the speculator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Subject to conditions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "other. When this great Act was brought in we thought, here at last was our salvation, and local authorities could sweep away the vested interests, rebuild their towns, and abolish slums. Now you are going back on the old plan. You are going to subsidise the jerrybuilder and the speculator. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] One hundred and fifty pounds is to be paid to anyone who is prepared to put up a house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "n selling all the houses which are built within the next six or nine months at an economic price without a subsidy. But even if it was not so, why should a subsidy be given to the private builder and the landlord? Where you have public money expended it should go for the use of the people and the locality itself and not for any private interest. It is going into the pockets of private individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "of the pockets of the landowners and the land jobbers of this country. Can he wonder if he has been put under pressure? Let us look at facts as they are, without pretence. The real fact is that the whole pressure that has been behind this movement has been the pressure of landowners and land jobbers who have got land upon their hands which, under the conditions of the Housing Act, is not saleable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.976.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An hon. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Are materials not already controlled?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ause that is really vital. We must also dispose of the dole. It is absolutely no use, and if it is proceeded with, I predict that we shall be discussing, a few months hence, the failure of the housing scheme once more. It is no use proceeding with something which we know is quite impracticable. I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman, therefore, to drop the dole, and instead to control the materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.1052.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. MURRAY", "preceding_text": " mind a case in one of the main thoroughfares in Glasgow about eight weeks ago in which a cinema company bought up three or four business houses in which fifty or sixty hands were employed. The owners of the businesses had no remedy, but if there had been a provision in the Act covering cases of reconstruction as well as construction such a case could have been met. There is one other point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-08", "file": "debates1919-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "2f9a3a4bbdf7b652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "preceding_text": " Kingdom. An hon. Member opposite, speaking of Ireland, said that the local authorities were quite inadequate to deal with the housing problem. That may be perfectly true about Ireland, but it is not true about Scotland. The municipal authorities in Scotland, as soon as they had the power under the Housing Act, set to work with a will. While England and Ireland were talking, Scotland was building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-08a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-09", "file": "debates1919-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "854d632d083075cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "I think I am entitled to protest against your ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-09", "file": "debates1919-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "854d632d083075cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bad Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": "that is supposed to be an exposition of freedom. I think they had better begin and get a lexicon and see what freedom really means. We have heard denunciations about the actions of the police and condemnation of the armed occupation of Ireland. We have heard something about the training of the police force in the use of hand grenades. What is it that has made all these things necessary in Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-09", "file": "debates1919-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "854d632d083075cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1255.10", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No. no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "f pay given to the police force in this country. One can see a very close analogy between the causes that led to both. One cannot help feeling that the increases in pay were given, not because of any great consideration of the conditions in which the police of either country then found themselves, but because only through such increases in their pay could they be induced to retain their positions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1255.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-09", "file": "debates1919-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "854d632d083075cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION [WAR ADDITION] AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BAIRD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BAIRD", "preceding_text": "ion. At the same time, I can explain easily why the limit is twenty-one years of age, and I must say I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman himself should not be aware of it. It arises from the fact that in the proposals which were put before the, Home Office by the Miners' Federation and the Mining Association, those proposals were confined to persons of twenty-one years of age and upwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-09", "file": "debates1919-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "854d632d083075cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION [WAR ADDITION] AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BAIRD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Major BAIRD", "preceding_text": "They are the proposals we received at the Home Office from the Mining Association of Great Britain. We understood they embodied the agreement reached with the Miners' Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-09a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1294.6", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN (TRAINING).", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "I do not think that question entirely arises out of the question which I have just answered. As matters stand at present, as he will remember, the A. S. E. by ballot refused to help in the matter of taking in discharged men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1294.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1326.5", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \"EGYPTIAN CIRCULAR\" (EDITOR'S ARREST).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "Would it not be well, in the public interest, to try this man in open Court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1411.0", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "s to be, but on the other hand I think it is possible at the present time that we might be given a finger post pointing out the general direction of the course of our path for the future. Before the War we always knew what the policy was because we had the power standard. Let me put it in this way: Is our naval policy of the future to be governed by a power standard, and if so, by how many powers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "assed through Singapore. Singapore is not only a great strategical point from the naval point of view, but also from the aerial point of view. With regard to the dockyards, again referring to the jungle policy, I hope there will be no money spent on Jamaica. I regret to see that there is some allowance for oil tanks there. It will be impossible to hold Jamaica against the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LONG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LONG", "preceding_text": " the Admiralty what you want for the air, because he has already given it to himself at the War Office \"? I do not want to take refuge in the hypothetical, but I think I may pray for mercy and say that we have plenty of other difficulties to deal with. We have had a most interesting debate. Everybody who has spoken has criticised the Admiralty and the First Lord, and has attacked us and abused us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1486.0", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I gave notice of this matter to the right hon. Gentleman, and I really must refute with indignation the suggestion that I am wasting the time of the House. This is a matter of a question of a quarter million of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1486.0", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I gave notice of this matter to the right hon. Gentleman, and I really must refute with indignation the suggestion that I am wasting the time of the House. This is a matter of a question of a quarter million of money. [Interruption.] These are two cruisers twenty years old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1486.0", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "is matter to the right hon. Gentleman, and I really must refute with indignation the suggestion that I am wasting the time of the House. This is a matter of a question of a quarter million of money. [Interruption.] These are two cruisers twenty years old. [Interruption.] I gave notice of my intention to raise the matter, and with all respect the reply of the right hon. Gentleman is unsatisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "e replies are not at all respectful to the Committee, and it is not the sort of information which we are entitled to have. What is the use of talking about scrutinising expenditure when we are going to vote £739,000 on the ipse dirit of the First Lord of the Admiralty? If my hon. Friend presses his opposition I shall certainly go to a Division, and I shall consider I am justified in doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1488.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1511.4", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. WALTERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said a 'double subsidy.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. WALTERS", "preceding_text": "sider it when the proposal is made. But it is quite clear that the subsidy will not be paid to such an extent that a person erecting buildings of that particular type will get more than he would for building an ordinary house. The subsidy will be graded on the basis of the living accommodation. A distinction will not be made so that one would get an advantage over the builder of an ordinary house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1511.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-10", "file": "debates1919-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "d25d780493869d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ADDITIONAL POWERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBER: \"Two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "s apt to find himself in opposition by the very nature of the case, and perhaps sometimes he will be in opposition to the general sentiment of Members; also, by the nature of the case, he is often suspect. Having said that, let me take the argument of my hon. Friend. The other Acts to which he has referred in the course of his speech are Acts in perpetuity. This is a Bill limited to twelve months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-10a.1576.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1620.5", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL LEVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Read the speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I have heard a great deal of talk about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1620.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Every industry is linked with coal getting!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "position in regard to this Bill, that we look upon it as an emergency measure to meet an emergency which has arisen, we deal in this Bill only with that industry and those parts of the undertaking which are at work in the industry of getting coal out of the ground to the surface, and we leave on one side all other industries and all other parts of the industries which are linked with coal getting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We had no chance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "we are very much in the same position. The Government undertook to accept the Sankey Interim Report. As a result of that acceptation we gained peace in the coal fields. There is no doubt that if we had not accepted the Sankey Report there would not have been peace in the coalfields in the spring of this year. There was, in fact, no protest made in this House against the acceptation of that Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "ist upon discussing the matter to-morrow or the next day, when we have had time to think it over,\" then, in my view, the House must be taken to have stood by and to have accepted what was said on behalf of the Government; and it might be, in spite of what the President of the Board of Trade said just now, that the House of Commons, under such circumstances, is just as much bound as the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1685.0", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "If the House accept that as my speech, I shall be very glad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1699.0", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ion in Europe generally and also in this country may be even more grave and difficult in March than it is now. Why are we to put off a settlement until that date, because at that time we may be in even a more difficult position than we are at the present time? I understand the nationalisation policy, but I do not agree with it, because it means State management, and that I dislike most profoundly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1699.0", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "e it means State management, and that I dislike most profoundly. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] I am not sure what hon. Members mean by nationalisation. If you are going to bring the State in and make the State finance the mines in this country then you must have State management. If you are going to allow the Treasury to finance the mines you will have to put yourselves under the bureaucracy of Whitehall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1699.0", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "eman drew between the leaders of a trade union, the members of the Government, and the Members of the House of Commons, because each Member of the House of Commons comes here charged with a public duty to do what he thinks right, in the first instance in the interests of his constituency, and in the second place in the interests of the country as a whole—or perhaps it is the other way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LIBRARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "th all these various new departments and officials, but after all, this is a question for the Education Department, and surely it should be left to them to say whether or not in their opinion the expenditure of money is likely to increase the education of the country. What has the Ministry of Health got to do with it? I do not think the Local Government Board has been absolutely abolished, has it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-11", "file": "debates1919-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6e39770080df6c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1779.2", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LIBRARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "hink that it is absolutely necessary that there should be some limit. I understand that you have put the Question, \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill,\" and therefore it is not possible to move an Amendment at the present time. Would the right hon. Gentleman in charge of the Bill allow this Clause to be negatived in order that on the Report stage an Amendment limiting the amount may be put in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-11a.1779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-12", "file": "debates1919-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ec266214f62f363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-12a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY (ACQUISITION OF CAPITAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: Hear, hear: \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "the hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy) makes himself the spokesman in this House, with such assiduity and diligence. He presents their point of view particularly and very continuously, but it is a dying point of view. It is going out. It is past. The Conservative and Labour parties have a plan for the national exploitation of natural resources; the exploitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-12a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-15", "file": "debates1919-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a127bd0cd365fe4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-15a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in the affirmative\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "As the reply in both cases is in the negative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-15a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-15", "file": "debates1919-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a127bd0cd365fe4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-15a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " what extent will it be satisfied when this splendid campaign of economy has reduced the total to £60,000,000? We know that the anticipation is that next year there will be an expenditure of £15,000,000 only. To my mind that very remarkable drop, which we hope will appear next year, shows that during this year, at any rate, there must have been gross mismanagement and gross extravagance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-15a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-16", "file": "debates1919-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "3d57e57429f2aab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.338.8", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And anywhere else:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENRY", "preceding_text": "olunteers, and that he should have the opportunity he wished to see members of the Government Departments with a view to organising that force. No pressure of any kind or description was put upon members of the Civil Service to join that force. What was the result? An article in the \"Freeman's Journal,\" at the earliest possible moment, referring to Conscription—an ugly name in Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.338.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1919-12-16", "file": "debates1919-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "3d57e57429f2aab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why did not you go?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "Where in the War were you? Like Macpherson, you stayed at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-16", "file": "debates1919-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "3d57e57429f2aab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smiling morn!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "in favour of murder, or ever said a word in favour of murder? No, we have not; but there are men in this House who have advocated murder. There have been men in this House who have pleaded that public men in England should be murdered, and I will tell you who they are. Here is a speech by an hon. and learned Gentleman from the North of Ireland, delivered in a place called Hayle. Hail, lovely morn!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-16", "file": "debates1919-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "3d57e57429f2aab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "learned orator from the North of Ireland went to Hayle, he said, \"The Radical Press is talking a great deal at the present time about the right of free speech,\" and when the voice shouted \"Long live Winston Churchill,\" he replied, \"I do not know whether, if he gets to Belfast, he will live long when he gets there.\" There is no doubt about it, if ever there was an incitement to murder, that was it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-16", "file": "debates1919-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "3d57e57429f2aab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Long live Winston Churchill,\" he replied, \"I do not know whether, if he gets to Belfast, he will live long when he gets there.\" There is no doubt about it, if ever there was an incitement to murder, that was it. [Laughter.] Why does the right hon. Gentleman the Chief Secretary for Ireland not look solemn? Why should the murder of Winston Churchill cause all this merriment? Winston Churchill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-16", "file": "debates1919-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "3d57e57429f2aab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN (continuing)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN (continuing)", "preceding_text": " listened to the speech of the learned Attorney-General, in which he stated that the \"Freeman's Journal\" was a paper that, up to three or four weeks ago, was conducted on lines of constitutional policy, but has ceased to adopt that attitude. I think he said it was wound up in bankruptcy. What was the \"Freeman's Journal\"? It was one of the most magnificent papers in the whole of Europe at one time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-16a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-17", "file": "debates1919-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "d0905c7a223f2e24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "to do, a- reasonably accurate definition of the term, I should still say that, as a factor in the problem of universally high prices, profiteering has now been proved to be relatively insignificant, I do not say absolutely, but relatively insignificant. There is another point. We shall be told that, if it is not due to profiteering, it is due to the low productivity which is at present prevailing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-17", "file": "debates1919-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "d0905c7a223f2e24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Convert it !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "l no doubt be acted upon directly if we cease to borrow. To cease to borrow in order to balance the income and expenditure of the year is the first duty that I set before me. Having ceased to borrow new money for that purpose, I then want, as soon as possible, to make a beginning with the repayment of old debt—the repayment in the first place, up to a reasonable amount, of the floating debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-17", "file": "debates1919-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "d0905c7a223f2e24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of LABOUR (Sir R. Horne)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS \"Plenty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of LABOUR (Sir R. Horne)", "preceding_text": " can find no employment. I would beg of the hon. Member who has just sat down not to believe that the Government have any wish to perpetuate any system by which anybody should be unemployed. There may have been people in the past who regarded it as good economics to have a number of unemployed as a means of keeping down the rates of pay of those who were employed. If there are any such left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-17", "file": "debates1919-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "d0905c7a223f2e24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Deportation of Former Enemy Aliens.)", "cue_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are all undesirable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "e many to act as they feel the demands of justice in this matter require. The letter which my hon. and learned Friend wrote to the \"Times\" a few days ago practically confined the question entirely to the necessity of supporting his election pledges. He did not argue the question on its merits, because on its merits there is not, on the question of the undesirable aliens, any difference between us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.572.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-17", "file": "debates1919-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "d0905c7a223f2e24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.609.8", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITEERING (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "Before this Bill be read a second time I think the House ought to be informed of the action taken under the Profiteering Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-17a.609.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-18", "file": "debates1919-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceec281cdb91f270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-18a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "THE PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that is not quite the opinion we have upon the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-18a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-18", "file": "debates1919-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceec281cdb91f270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-18a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We will find the time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "THE PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that is not quite the opinion we have upon the subject. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] We shall make further inquiries on the subject. It is not a question of the Government finding the time; it is a question for the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-18a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-18", "file": "debates1919-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceec281cdb91f270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-18a.652.8", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "Would not the same argument apply to all naval and mili- tary pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-18a.652.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-18", "file": "debates1919-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceec281cdb91f270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-18a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": " situation? What plans have been made? I know food has been put in; but it is merely throwing away money, and it is not of much use merely shovelling food into the country if you do not do more than that. We cannot go on permanently feeding these peoples. You must set them on their legs again, so that they will be able to feed themselves. You must get the economic machine going. That is essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-18a.729.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-19", "file": "debates1919-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "8cbf61604a2d9056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-19a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On dogs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "rous one. In a very difficult situation he has rendered a public service in drawing the attention of the House, with all his authority, to the really salient facts of the situation in regard to the procedure of the House on money questions. I am sure that I express the opinion of the House when I say that no one can doubt my right hon. Friend's kindness of heart. He has shown it on many occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-19a.871.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1919-12-22", "file": "debates1919-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dbc97466994d08d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-22a.1230.2", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would you have done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nglish primer the only thing the ordinary person learns about British rule in India is about the Blackhole of Calcutta and the massacre of Cawnpore, where there was a well choked with corpses. Centuries hence you will find Indian children brought up to this spot. just as they visit now the Cawnpore Well, and you can imagine the feelings of these Indians for generations over this terrible business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1919-12-22a.1230.2"}