{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-10", "file": "debates1920-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f91a87a85451c067", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "the people absolutely revolting against this steady increase that is taking place in the cost of living. I note also that it is the intention of the Government to proceed with a Bill for the better Government of Ireland; they are to proceed with a Bill along the lines indicated by the Prime Minister in the closing days of last Session. I have just come back from a short tour in that country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-10", "file": "debates1920-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f91a87a85451c067", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "is perfectly true that all Governments when they come into power very soon begin to spend their majority. Someone, I think, said it is no use belonging to a Government unless you can spend your majority like a gentleman. I think that was the phrase. But there has been no parallel to such an expressed lack of confidence, as shown by bye-elections, as has been the case during the past twelve months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-10", "file": "debates1920-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f91a87a85451c067", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ry ease go by default. I think there has been no parallel to such a statement as that made by a Minister who also remained a member of the Government. That opinion obviously must be shared by some of the Lord Chancellor's colleagues. The reason for this remarkable development on the part of the electorate, this significant statement by a Minister is that the time for the Coalition to end has come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-10", "file": "debates1920-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f91a87a85451c067", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Yes, the guarantee was that the signature of the President of the United States would be appended to it, and that does not look as if it was going to be honoured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-10", "file": "debates1920-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f91a87a85451c067", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "asion for the starting of smaller things, and any other irritation which we do not at the moment anticipate may cause a blaze and produce a conflagration in this country. It is largely in consequence of this most serious state of affairs that I urge the Government with all my power, and with no party feeling, to take whatever steps they can as speedily as possible to deal with this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-10", "file": "debates1920-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f91a87a85451c067", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ouse in the past 12 months to this tremendously important question have been far less in earnest than I should have liked them to be. America, they say, has gone dry. That is an economic factor of the most tremendous importance to this country. What have we been doing? I have here some figures which stagger me so much that I could not believe them if I did not know the source from which they come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-10a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It will be observed that the Amendment starts with a demand for nationalisation, not to give an increase of wages to the workmen, but in order to secure economy in management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"A minority?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "e mine. The council would consist of ten members. The manager, the under manager, and the business manager are by virtue of their office members of that pit committee; then the workmen at that pit would elect by ballot vote four to represent them. That is seven, and the district mining council, of which I shall speak in a moment, would elect the other three to represent the public interest.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.83.3", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Will they be paid?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "of mines, trial sinkings, the control of prices and the basis of wage assessment, and the distribution of coal. That Committee is to do exactly what the boards of directors are doing now. When I talk about economy in management, I should think it is obvious that this one Committee of 14 will be able to do what is taking now scores of directors to do, and it will be done very much more efficiently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.83.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.100.5", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "ituted for the individual as the sole employer of labour. That the State should be substituted for the individual as the sole distributor of commodities. That is what we have understood by nationalisation. We have heard this afternoon that this system, or a modified system, is to begin with the coal mines, but the hon. Member (Mr. J. Jones) and many others do not mean to stop at the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.100.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.100.5", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " better where we stand in the argument I am pursuing. We are only beginning with the coal mines, as Mr. Smillie said in December. Mr. Tom Mann, also at the Trade Union Special Congress in December, said: It was not the miners alone who required the control of their industry Each industry would come along with its programme until the general principles of socialisation had been effectively applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.100.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "or two special classes of wage-earners have been able to obtain very large remuneration for their labour. The miners in particular have been able—I do not want to say a word which will be bitterly controversial, but surely it is a matter of general acknowledgment that the miners have boon able—to obtain from the necessities of the community very exceptional remuneration for their work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "nationalised along with them. I admit frankly that the manual workers in the mines could secure an advantage, but they could secure it only so long as they had a virtual monopoly and a larger output. The cheers which greeted the earlier portion of my speech showed that hon. Members have already surrendered the first of these advantages. They are not going to nationalise the mines and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " workers in the mines could secure an advantage, but they could secure it only so long as they had a virtual monopoly and a larger output. The cheers which greeted the earlier portion of my speech showed that hon. Members have already surrendered the first of these advantages. They are not going to nationalise the mines and nothing else. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] They surrender that advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "ear!\"] Exactly, and I admire their unselfishness much more than I do their perspicacity. A larger output means various things. In the first place, you must have the application of abundant capital. In the second place you must have highly skilled direction, and in the third place, you must have very hard work on the part of the manual worker. I was very pleased to see in the \"Daily Herald \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The profiteers\"; \"From White-chapel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "] Hon. Members will observe what an attentive student I am. I was very pleased to read in the organ which has evoked those cheers a statement by Sir Leo Chiozza Money in favour of the nationalisation of the mines because, as he said, it was absolutely necessary for the mines that new capital should be lavished upon them. Where is that new capital that is to be lavished upon the mines to come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": ";what he calls colliery scrip—and he gets Government scrip, but it is all in respect of the same investment. There is another thing which he overlooked. My right hon. Friend said that as long as profits are made, yon will not get the incentive to work. There has never been an increase of profit, at any rate in recent times, in which the miners have not shared. High profits mean higher wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\" \"Sliding scale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ot get the incentive to work. There has never been an increase of profit, at any rate in recent times, in which the miners have not shared. High profits mean higher wages. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] In the main, taking the industry as a whole, when the prices go up, they mean higher wages. Therefore, when the miner is working for increased output, when there are higher profits, he gets his share—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "has the sanction of the Miners' Federation. Let the House of Commons and the country realise what that scheme is. The point of the Sankey scheme is this—it requires a very small change in numbers to convert it into the real scheme of the Federation. The real scheme of the Federation is one that would practically give control of the whole of the mines of the country to the Miners' Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Private enterprise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "the mines, and to improve the conditions for the miners. Anyone who knows the mining villages need not argue about that. The argument is to be found in an actual contemplation of the facts. In this rich industry, in the greatest national wealth of this kind in Europe, which enriches the nation, men toiling at the risk of their lives to produce this Wealth, are entitled to better conditions of life", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Give us the opportunity!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "few months, but those who have been engaged in great movements know how long it takes to carry conviction to the multitudes in any land, and yet he is impatient with his few months of experience. I ask him and his friends to pause. What does it mean? He practically says \"We have come to the conclusion that we cannot convert the majority of the people of this country to our way of thinking \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "ed by motives of self-interest then we shall certainly never become what I may call a highly civilised community. 7.0 P.M. What has private enterprise done for our people up to now? Has there ever been a time in the history of this country when we have not had a third at least of the people beneath the poverty line and in a state of semi-starvation. Is not that the position of this country to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "n entitled. To-day they are allowing an increase of 30s. per ton, and I have no hesitation in saying that if the price of coal from the Welsh coalfields, including coal which is sold for household, industrial, and export purposes, is maintained there will be at least £50,000,000 profit on the actual figures ascertained from the books and the coalowners have had that for the last three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBER: \"Not their pockets!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "t if the price of coal from the Welsh coalfields, including coal which is sold for household, industrial, and export purposes, is maintained there will be at least £50,000,000 profit on the actual figures ascertained from the books and the coalowners have had that for the last three months. [HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"] The colliery owners of South Wales have received that and put it into their books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-11", "file": "debates1920-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9384eee65d565530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCURDY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Coalition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCURDY", "preceding_text": " raised before the House to-night is that we as a people and as a House of Commons should venture to look behind the labels and should get at the facts. If we do get at the facts, what are they? They are these, that a claim for nationalisation is put forward by a body of men who are pleased to call themselves a party. They are men with divergent and conflicting principles, tied by one common bond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-11a.176.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-12", "file": "debates1920-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a94f4521fbc5359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ATTENDANCE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Monday.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am entirely in the hands of hon. Members. It is all the same to me whether it is Monday or Tuesday, but I should have thought Monday the more convenient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.214.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-12", "file": "debates1920-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a94f4521fbc5359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not think it would be much better to give the British farmer more than 100 shillings for 480 lbs. of wheat than to give the foreigner 120 shillings for 480 lbs. in order that the agricultural labourers could be paid more money. At the present time the wages of agricultural labourers are kept down by the control, and they are much below those of any other workmen on account ", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCURDY", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the Wheat Commission are buying wheat but I should like notice of this question in order to give a full and proper answer to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-12", "file": "debates1920-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a94f4521fbc5359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.225.5", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Trading associations!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "This union is allowed to become subject to the arrangement that already applies to over 1,800 other associations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.225.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-12", "file": "debates1920-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a94f4521fbc5359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Bradbury!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "-Chancellor of the Exchequer: It is suggested to me that it is a possible and an alternative way of dealing with the matter, that you should fix the rate of exchange at which the indemnity would be paid off. We know how the exchange has been rocketting about ever since the Armistice. I think it went as low as 120 at that time and has reached 360, and is now about 320 marks to the golden sovereign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-12", "file": "debates1920-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a94f4521fbc5359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to follow my hon. Friend into the gloomy and almost unrelieved pessimism of his speech. According to him apparently we are living in the worst of all possible bad worlds, and indeed, if I understand him aright, he gravely doubts the sanity of His Majesty's Ministers, and I presume of that very large majority in the House who agree with them", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.351.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-12", "file": "debates1920-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a94f4521fbc5359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.355.3", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You did not establish them.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister did not deny the truth of the charges that I made this afternoon at Question time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-12a.355.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-16", "file": "debates1920-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e537d28a2db9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The answer is in the negative!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman able to answer that part of the question which asks whether the Ministry of Transport has a policy with regard to the administration of the canals, and has not the Minister of Transport, after fifteen months' reflection, a policy of his own until the Committee reports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-16", "file": "debates1920-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e537d28a2db9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "I am always glad to have assistance in answering supplementary questions, but that interjection is not an accurate answer. The policy of dealing with canals is a subject which is closely related to the greater policy of dealing with the railways and other forms of transport. The subject is receiving attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-16", "file": "debates1920-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e537d28a2db9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Some interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "Sinn Fcinism is the child of such politicians as my hon. Friend (Sir J. Butcher) and of a Government which has been the miserable slave and creature of such politicians since the present Prime Minister came into power, and it derives also from the rebellious and outrageous movement which was started in the North of Ireland just before the enactment of the Act of 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-16", "file": "debates1920-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e537d28a2db9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Which is which? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "egal by the Courts in this country. As one living in England, I am proud that no Government has been able to touch the purity and the love of liberty and the impartiality of our judicial tribunals in this country. But go to Ireland! Do you suppose that Dublin Castle and the officials there, the little gang of whom those two Gentlemen I see opposite are merely the puppets and the marionettes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-16", "file": "debates1920-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e537d28a2db9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASES OF WEALTH (WAR).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Chancellor of the Exchequer that it would be very unwise in the present state of the public discussion of this question of a capital levy to leave out the consideration of it by the Committee. This question has become a veritable football between the contending parties at bye-elections. On the one side people are discussing it as a sort of infallible, swift-moving remedy, almost of a quack nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-16", "file": "debates1920-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e537d28a2db9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASES OF WEALTH (WAR).", "cue_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "preceding_text": "dening the area of anxiety and unrest and fear, because the moment the House of Commons, with the sanction of the Government of the day, appoints a Committee with the width of reference which my right hon. Friend opposite desires, it will and must be taken as notice to the poorest person who still has a little capital after the War that their little all may be subject to depredations by the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-16", "file": "debates1920-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0e537d28a2db9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASES OF WEALTH (WAR).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "xtend the modest terms of reference to the war fortunes tax to the tax on wealth. It is refused. Very well'. I hope the result will not be bad for the whole country. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he would not be the instrument for putting such a levy into operation. I am not sure that any Member of the present Govern- ment will be the instrument for doing anything in a very few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-16a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-17", "file": "debates1920-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "da2163137ea29de4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIME DETECTION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask, would it not help the situation if some of the detectives who are used for spying on trade unions were put on detective work to protect the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-17", "file": "debates1920-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "da2163137ea29de4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does the £22,000,000 include?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " amount of the standard. That was £22,000,000, and if the hon. Member for North-east Derbyshire (Mr. Holmes) does not succeed in entirely upsetting the calculation of the independent accountant it would appear that in this particular financial year up to the end of March the probable excess would be somewhere about £1,000,000 in the pool, and £100,000 of that would go to the owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-17", "file": "debates1920-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "da2163137ea29de4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General HICKMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not put it in the Bill\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General HICKMAN", "preceding_text": "ould be made, so that everybody might know what was going on. We do not want secrecy. I tell my hon. Friends on these benches, that is the considered opinion of the Mining Association. We are quite willing if hon. Gentlemen will join with us in the future, after the lapse of this Bill, to do our best to run the industries together for the benefit of the country and there need be no secrecy at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.779.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-17", "file": "debates1920-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "da2163137ea29de4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.790.5", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "New Bill.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "I do not want to waste the time of the House or to oppose your ruling, but I do respectfully suggest that as this Bill carries the coal control up to the 31st August, 1920, and it is possible for this House to alter the Bill in the form I suggest as from 1st April next to the 31st August, that I am in order in putting these suggestions forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-17", "file": "debates1920-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "da2163137ea29de4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.849.3", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or low wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " to the War, to secure as soon as you can on the remainder an economic rent. The proper policy—if I may say so, with great respect to the hon. Member for the Spen Valley Division (Mr. Myers), whose interesting first speech we all welcomed—for labour should be that the man's wages should be enough to enable him to pay a proper rent. I am not going to be a party to subsidising low rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-17", "file": "debates1920-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "da2163137ea29de4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At what rate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "ll events, the money was there. I suggest that what we have to do is to see whether some of the money in the localities cannot be raised now in the localities. I think it could be raised under the schemes for housing bonds. After the conference we had with the municipalities the other day it was agreed, I think, that we were bound to begin by having a successful issue in many cases of local bonds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-17a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SILVER COINAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. CARTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On Sundays.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. CARTER", "preceding_text": "ecessary to have the three-penny bit, or would there not be a saving if it were left out in the coining of the next lot of silver? If possible a larger amount of copper coinage should be circulated through the country. I know that there is a shortage of copper coinage to supply the needs in our large towns and cities. I have never yet known anybody who wanted particularly to get a three-penny bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "m to know the technique of the case at all. Take the building trade. What would you do there with the discharged soldier or the disabled soldier? A bricklayer is a very important man, but he is not the shadow of use unless he has a skilled labourer with him. The skilled labourer is the man upon whom the labourer depends. Where could you place a disabled or a discharged soldier in a building trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.982.3", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because they fought for you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "engineering shops. Why did not the Government utilise them to find employment for discharged soldiers? We have going on now an inquiry with respect to the dockers' minimum of 16s. a day, and I ask, why should we, who have a surplus of men in the transport trade, be expected further to congest the transport labour market by employing discharged soldiers, simply because they are discharged soldiers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.982.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Commander Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "des, Ashton-under-Lyne, District. I believe this federation is composed of three unions—the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the Steam Engine Makers and the United Machine Workers. In the course of the reply it says that the workmen are not to accept this scheme unless you are prepared to give an under-taking not to employ disabled sailors and soldiers who have not been in the trade before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.991.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You would have to get up early.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " the proper legal term—make a motion to get me committed for continuing my offence, in which case, I suppose, I go to gaol. We hear a great deal about the cost of living from the opposite side of the House, but it is not only Labour Members who find the cost of food a very serious matter indeed. If I am committed to gaol, at any rate I shall get the benefit of free rations and free lodgings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.995.2", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It cannot talk about dividends, at any rate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "edy of a great and powerful assembly of men going downhill in the way that trades unionism is doing to-day. You cannot expect any society to flourish if its heart is of stone, and the heart of trades unionism to-day is absolutely a heart of stone It is the usual thing for political parties to talk about their ideals. The Labour party, perhaps more than any other, is prone to talk about its ideals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir R. Horne)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir R. Horne)", "preceding_text": "t. When I have said that, I must refer to two notable exceptions in connection with this matter. The sheet metal workers have absolutely refused to have anything to do with assisting our training schemes, and the great society for which the hon. Member for the Newton Division (Mr. Young) speaks, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, has rejected the idea of helping in the training of disabled men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": " Government have refused thousands of men the treatment we think they ought to have, and have not had, in spite of the statement of the Prime Minister to which I shall refer. We have only had incidental cases mentioned of so-called tyranny of trade unions. The Prime Minister said in his speech that 350,000 men were available for the building trade, possessed of full skill to build houses required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": " few cases in which trade unions have made mistakes, but, compared with the sins of the opponents of the trade unions, those sins of the trade unions are very small indeed. The Ministry of Health told us this week that there was a genuine shortage of a certain number of thousands of bricklayers. The Prime Minister told us that there were 350,000 men ready and willing to work in the building trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\" and interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "this should be presented to the House, much less passed. It cannot in any possible way improve matters. It will make feeling more acute and it will destroy\" the very object of mover and seconder. In fact, it is more likely to destroy that object than to help them. There may be a possibility, by careful and consistent action on the part of the House who may believe the trade unions are wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "n the contrary? I appeal to hon. Members to believe that we on these benches love to see the country thriving and prosperous in every way, and that industries are made as efficient as they can possibly be made, and not to introduce matters like these which cannot do any good and may do irremediable harm. If there is a complaint to make, let the Minister of Labour appeal to the trade unions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-18", "file": "debates1920-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a4cd25ee784c6e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1008.4", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPOEARY CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I suggest it would have been infinitely bettor if the responsible Minister had come down to the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-18a.1008.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TURKEY AND ARMENIA.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Kb, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that there will be any discussion upon that particular feature of the Turkish Peace Treaty by the Supreme Council, but in any event I would very respectfully deprecate any attempt by a Chamber of a particular country in which the Peace Conference happens to be held to influence the decisions of representatives from other lands. That was carefully avoided by the French Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "Cries of No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "May I respectfully suggest that you might follow the precedent created last year, when you reduced the number of questions to four per Member as a sort of trial? The House has generally indicated its approval of a reduction of questions to two per Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "Would it not be possible, instead of limiting them to less than four per day, to limit each Member to ten questions per week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Two a day!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "We should require another gentlemar, to sit at the table to classify them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "purpose of considering a legal claim, but for the purpose of obtaining at the hands of the Commission what was fair and right in the circumstances. Now that Royal Commission working—and working hard—during all these years, has had to adjudicate upon an enormous number of claims, and I venture to think it has adjudicated upon those claims in a way which has given universal satisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1153.4", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "smashed the machinery if you were Nationalist. But you have the advantage of being the supermen in Ireland and of having the Prime Minister in your pocket, and that was why the machinery was not smashed. What is the charge which the hon. Member for Fermanagh did make? It was that the Sinn Feiners murdered Resident Magistrate Milling and that we were in sympathy with the Sinn Feiners in the murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And for the discharged soldiers and sailors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "nd they are only fit to occupy a cell? Those who live' in the soft security of imagining that they represent British public opinion will have to recognise that they are dealing not merely with Irishmen in this case, because we stand behind the rights of the people of Ireland, just as we stood up in our trade unions and political labour organisations for the rights of the smaller nations of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER made an interruption which was inaudible in the Reporters' Gallery.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "hat fought and beat tyrants and tyrannies, that crushed her powerful military opponents, great and mighty England has to save herself now by taking a simple, honoured citizen of the capital of a country, the Lord Mayor, the Chief Magistrate, putting him on a warship, bringing him over to England, casting him into prison, and letting him lie there until he has almost died, and then letting him out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "to prison, and letting him lie there until he has almost died, and then letting him out. [An HON. MEMBER made an interruption which was inaudible in the Reporters' Gallery.] My comfortable Friend, I would like to see you in gaol for a while. I doubt if the hon. Member would be as corpulent as he is now. I do not think it would be possible for him, at all events, to make any sacrifices for anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1198.5", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "certain, will share my regret that the right hon. Gentleman has not illuminated our Debates with more remarks of the kind showing the same deep insight. What about habeas corpus in relation to the Lord Mayor of Dublin? In the Chief Secretary not answering for his own administration, he is pursuing to-night the policy of permanent absenteeism, which has been his only defence in the last six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says nonsense. I say that the Irish Church Act, the Irish Land Act. and all these things were passed, by the acknowledgment of all the occupants of the Front Bench opposite, as the result of outbreaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1206.4", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "New the Chief Secretary has given us the whole case. Ho is a Member of Parliament who professes republican and revolutionary views. Is that an offence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1207.4", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide I \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "nable, and he brings charges against them and they are tried by these special courts and—this is the grievance of our charge—not by the ordinary law of the land. I presume that there is a law against incitement to murder, but Mr. Barton—this is the whole point—is charged under this body of Regulations by the Chief Secretary, who to a large extent interprets the law himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "o secure the people who committed these crimes, but the people he has secured are lots of people who have done things which we consider perfectly innocent. The man who shoots the police is the man who is not caught by the Chief Secretary. The person who is caught is the person—[Hoy. MEMBERS: \"Incites!\"] We will see that. I will give the Chief Secretary some examples. Two little girls —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1208.4", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Here is the case of a little girl fined £1 for selling flags.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ity of a people the stronger it becomes and the more earnest and determined. That is the whole history of England's relations with Ireland. The Chief Secretary has made a great point of representing me as a friend of crime and disorder or as in some way associating myself with the forces of disorder. Let us take representative Irish opinion, because it does not matter what people in England think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Irish opinion, because it does not matter what people in England think. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] What really matters in a matter of Irish government is the opinion of the people of Ireland. We have to get the best public opinion behind the machinery of government. What is thought of these measures by the best sort of public opinion in Ireland? I will take Lord Monteagle who, I believe, is a Unionist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact I have not got that part of the quotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Or of Irish extraction. We have just sent back to Australia an Australian chaplain who was treated most scurvily by the British Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " treated and went back to his own country disgusted with the treatment meted out to him. As to the relations with the United States of America, much has been said, and with so much eloquence, by the Father of the House, that I will not venture to add to it, except to say, that I think everyone will agree that it is on the cornerstone of Anglo-American relations we must build the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-19", "file": "debates1920-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "132873730211cf5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ll agree that it is on the cornerstone of Anglo-American relations we must build the League of Nations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No.\"] The Irish question is the root of all the difficulties which lie ahead of us. We have just found America unwilling to ratify the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations, and one of the main reasons was the sort of administration that has been carried on in Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-19a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-20", "file": "debates1920-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "33c115fc58124500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-20a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ed the Second Reading of the Bill said that the local authorities have proved their powers of government. His reason for that contention was that they had acquired and carried on schools, parks, and amongst other things, cemeteries. So far as I know, of municipal undertakings at the present moment, probably the cemeteries are the most paying of all, because all the others are charges on the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-20a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-20", "file": "debates1920-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "33c115fc58124500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-20a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bad Management!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " present moment, probably the cemeteries are the most paying of all, because all the others are charges on the rates. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Parks, schools and public lands are charges on the rates. Sometimes, of course, electric light and gas do pay, but in the case of the Middlesbrough Corporation, on which I sat, these undertakings did not pay, because they were not carried on on the best lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-20a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-20", "file": "debates1920-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "33c115fc58124500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-20a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel NEWMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel NEWMAN", "preceding_text": "I am quite certain about. There is one hon. Member, who has been returned as a co-operator, the Member for Kettering. He is a member of the Labour party. I presume he will have great knowledge of some of the big aspects of the trading of the great cooperative movement. After all, they do stand for a very great movement. They have advantages over the private trader. They have not to pay Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-20a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "I am quoting from the \"Daily Herald.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1391.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The minority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": " State will be used against any section of the community that endeavours, in the judgment of the Government, mark you! to impose its will upon the nation. That statement was applauded. I want to know whether this Army is being built up, this huge machine maintained, in view of controlling our civilian population at home, so that people cannot secure reforms along the ordinary constitutional lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1396.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1432.3", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Somali-land.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I do not think a Debate of this character would be complete without something being said by a representative from Ireland. Ireland is the only country with which the Empire is at war to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In his Radical days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " does not depend upon its military machine or its military power. I think I am correctly quoting the sentiment. It depends upon the strength of the civil power. I think that was a sentiment worthy of the Radical politician, and which showed that he still retains some of those beliefs in the spirit of justice and humanity which inspired him to so many good deeds during the time he held high office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "lgium and Northern France. That is the statement of Lord Monteagle. He has no sympathy more than anybody else with these transactions, and he knows very well that you will never settle the question of Ireland in this way. You cannot do it by keeping up the military occupation any more than it could have been done in Belgium by a permanent occupation with German troops. The \"Times\" newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "s no sympathy more than anybody else with these transactions, and he knows very well that you will never settle the question of Ireland in this way. You cannot do it by keeping up the military occupation any more than it could have been done in Belgium by a permanent occupation with German troops. The \"Times\" newspaper—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!]—I agree with the \"Times\" newspaper.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1447.3", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"By-elections!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "w me to offer them this word of counsel, I would venture to say that sometimes perhaps we make a mistake in trying to satisfy them. Perhaps for a change one of these fine days we might adopt the opposite method. We might adopt the method of endeavouring to dissatisfy them on a particular point where their views are clearly adrift and clearly averse to the main and general interests of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1447.3", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The feeling of the country!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "istake in trying to satisfy them. Perhaps for a change one of these fine days we might adopt the opposite method. We might adopt the method of endeavouring to dissatisfy them on a particular point where their views are clearly adrift and clearly averse to the main and general interests of the country. [HON MEMBERS: \"By-elections!] By-elections—I do not see the relevance of that interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "That is quite irrelevant. My point is that the Government at the present time offer to the three parts of Ireland an opportunity of managing their own affairs, and the party Government before the War entered into an agreement with the Irish Nationalist party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "n agreement with Mr. Redmond and Mr. Dillon definitely that Ulster was not to be brought in against her will until two General Elections had taken place. We have not departed from those general lines; on the contrary, we have advanced enormously. Before the War we were a party Government fighting against forces as strong as or stronger than ours. This is not the gift of a party but of all parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-23", "file": "debates1920-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "528e9f56c2599a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS, \"Divide!\" \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I wish to congratulate the right hon. Gentleman who has just spoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-23a.1452.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1465.9", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES (BRITISH MINISTER).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel MURRAY", "preceding_text": "May we take it that there is no truth in the rumour that the President of the Board of Trade is going to be appointed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1465.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (EXPENDITURE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, not without notice. If my hon. Friend insists on putting down a question of that kind he shall have an answer, but I think it is a waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1505.2", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman really know that the only question upon which Ireland feels intensely is the payment of the teachers' salaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1590.4", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " I do not know the rights and wrongs of the De Keyser case, but, according to the statement put forward by a couple of hon. Members, I understand that the activities are in regard to the disabled soldier. Is it a fact—and this is rather important—that under these powers any building can be seized by the Crown and the people asked to go, and the subject has no redress in a court of law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1610.3", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "r is an agitator, every single one of them. The person who drinks does not go about asking everybody else to have a glass; but the man who does not drink spends his life in trying to persuade people not to drink. Those are fundamentally different positions. The moderate drinker welcomes the teetotaller, hut the teetotaller calls the moderate drinker a \"son of Belial flown with insolence and wine.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1623.0", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I shall not begin by craving the indulgence of the House. I am only too conscious of the indulgence and the courtesy of the House. I know that it was very difficult for some hon. Members to receive the first lady M.P. into the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1623.0", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "m of the subject. We talk about our war gains and efficiency. You talk about liquor control. What was it set up for? It was set up for national efficiency. It was not set up for temperance. It did pretty well. The War Office and the Admiralty both commended the Liquor Control Board for having greatly gained that for which it was set up. No one would call the War Office or the Admiralty Pussyfoots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " is you, Sir, who are deceiving, it is not I, and if is not the Liquor Control Board. All during the War when the Government and the Admiralty, and the War Office, said that the Liquor Control Board was helping efficiency and helping to win the War, what did you do in the Great War, you and your friends? No, Sir, the hon. Member and his friends were always kicking against the Liquor Control Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "hought the hon. Member was going to complain about the hardships of the trade, but he did not do so. I have, however, heard others do it, and I can tell you that the drink trade, in spite of its hardships, managed to profiteer to the tune of many millions out of the working men. That is what they did in the Great War. Brewery companies which were nearly ruined before the War have now got millions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "nduce Parliament to let them make their public-houses more attractive and more profitable, and this in spite of the record of convictions amongst women being double and amongst men four times what they were. I do not believe that the Government or the House is going to play their game. I do not think the country is really ripe for prohibition, but I am certain it is ripe for drastic drink reforms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e trade and the profiteers. It is not the trade and the profiteers who put the Prime Minister where he is. There are thousands of people who really believe in him over this drink question and they trust him. I do not know whether there are many hon. Members who feel that way, but I do, and I can tell the House that my name is legion in the country. There is a real awakening throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We all do that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "nk question and they trust him. I do not know whether there are many hon. Members who feel that way, but I do, and I can tell the House that my name is legion in the country. There is a real awakening throughout the country. [ Laughter .] You can laugh, but there really are people in England, and thousands of them, who want to see the country better and they are willing to give up their appetites.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1636.3", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Major CHRISTOPHER LOWTHER", "cue_text": "Viscountess ASTOR: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHRISTOPHER LOWTHER", "preceding_text": "monopoly in a large district. It may surprise hon. Members to know that the Board has seized or expropriated licenced premises, has turned the licensee out and—it would be comic if it were not sad—the licensee is not even allowed to take away his own photograph, or the photograph of his family which happens to be hanging on the wall unless he pays an enhanced price to the Board for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1642.0", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)", "preceding_text": "postles of human liberty who support it, have been longing for a funeral that has not taken place. They have all my sympathy and my commiseration. Here are these hon. Gentlemen standing month after month with their mourning bands and their sable gloves, and their handkerchiefs glistening with tears, waiting for the hearse which is not making its appearance. The Liquor Control Board still survives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have, and that is what taught me the value of a pint of beer. Have those ladies who talk in this way ever spent six months over the wash-tub?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw, withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have, and that is what taught me the value of a pint of beer. Have those ladies who talk in this way ever spent six months over the wash-tub? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] If they had done this amid the heat and the moisture they would be glad of a half of whisky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1648.6", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "preceding_text": "rose,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1648.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-24", "file": "debates1920-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b3af28b62302fce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1648.9", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The hon. Member for Springburn (Mr. Macquisten) never sweated in his life.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Provocation, Mr. SPEAKER.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-24a.1648.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1676.0", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL UNION OF ALLOTMENT HOLDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Agricultural Organisation Society is a rival organisation to the Allotment Holders' Society", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1742.1", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ull machinery. Looked at from that point of view, it seems clear that the only basis upon which we can work is a contributory scheme. The second problem is how are we to deal with all the various trades which we are going to bring in? There is on this second point of view quite clearly a distinct issue. One question is are you going to make each industry carry its own burden of its own unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1758.2", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sometimes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "e and business, which I do not question at all, and the poor man pays his shillings to his club for essentials, merely to guarantee himself against conditions of distress which in his case are certain to occur. It would be the right thing to exact a fine or some payment of penalty from the workman for anything for which he is to blame, but the workman is not to blame for his state of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1771.2", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " here is to force on an education Measure which will arouse fresh religious and political differences in the country, so that in the welter of all our potential discords they may perpetuate the old bad spirit on which they have prospered for the last century. I am entitled to speak on this question. I am a Member for Belfast, and the only one who has ever taken any interest in the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EX-POLICE OFFICERS (PENSIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "ts. Those people who were pensioned before the War have suffered profoundly when their means were small. We are all agreed upon that. He went on to say:— But they have suffered in common with immense numbers of their countrymen; with all who were living on fixed incomes; and who had not succeeded in increasing their earnings. Why should the State, whose bargain with them was complete—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1838.2", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EX-POLICE OFFICERS (PENSIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "something on which a person could live in absolute comfort without doing any work, is erroneous. Pensions were always given as something which would be regarded as a regular sum of money to be received and which, with whatever else the recipients might have saved or could earn, would enable them to live in comparative comfort. We really must make up our minds that we have got to suffer for the War", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1838.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1842.0", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EX-POLICE OFFICERS (PENSIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Divide! divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "fect that it was not in their power to pay out this money; therefore the pensioners engaged by the Glasgow Corporation have to go without the extra pension. If legislation or a short Bill be necessary, I think the Scottish Office might consider the special case of the policemen under the Glasgow Corporation, and do them this justice, which can be done cheaper than in any other city in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1847.1", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EX-POLICE OFFICERS (PENSIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "we have known his attitude to wards the working classes. I venture to say that the fight he was prepared to make to-night against helping these pensioners he was not prepared to put up on the Bill known as the County Court Judges Pension Bill. On that no Division was needed, and the right hon. Baronet's lips were not opened on the increase of some Members' salaries from £2,500 to £5,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the Government intend to go on with this Bill now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On 15s. a week! It costs 20s. 6d. to keep a pauper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " with now, and I think it is conclusive against his suggestion. He says that the approved societies have managed the whole matter of unemployment insurance. I wish to repeat that you can only deal with that if you have a mechanism by which you can test whether a man is able to obtain suitable employment or not. That is essential, otherwise you will be malingering to an extent scarcely conceivable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "preceding_text": "o say. It is the sort of thing that a number of Members would refrain from saying on an election platform, but it is a fact. The real incentive to work is the desire to get something. There are or there have been hon. Members in this House who have walked through the Lobbies again and again with the desire to get, possibly, a thing like a baronetcy. They all work with an idea of getting something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we say.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "preceding_text": "al concern? Could any board of directors say, \"Produce as much as you like, because we have made arrangements with our competitors throughout the country that directly you can produce more than we can sell at a profit we will pay you for producing nothing at all\"? It is a fallacy. The whole Bill is a fallacy. What we want to do is to say to the working man, \"You have to work, and we have to work.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-25", "file": "debates1920-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e15740b126c6c48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "preceding_text": "e can sell at a profit we will pay you for producing nothing at all\"? It is a fallacy. The whole Bill is a fallacy. What we want to do is to say to the working man, \"You have to work, and we have to work.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we say.\"] May I say this to the Labour Members who interjected that remark, that if they could work and produce they will make this the richest country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-25a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WOMEN'S CORPS (COMPENSATION BASIS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1890.5", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CEYLON RIOTS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That's argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that there is no question of amnesty? They were not put in prison but only deprived of their offices. Is it not a fact that people who shoot natives with a view of stopping those natives from committing outrages subsequently, are adopting a new departure in British administration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1890.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1949.2", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": ". We all admit and gladly acclaim the noble and splendid part India played in the War, and you cannot measure the services and sacrifices in that contest by men or money. It is with a full sense of the deep obligation which the whole Empire owes to India that I and every hon. Member of this House will approach a discussion of this question, which has unfortunately developed into a religious issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1955.2", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you going to do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": " them all quit. The hon. Member will find it a very difficult task. Then, how are you going to govern Turkey? That is one of the most difficult questions which you can conceive. Are you going to govern it by England? Of course not. By France? Of course not. By Italy? Of course not. Or by a Committee of all three? You could not do that. Running Constantinople by a Committee! The thing is ludicrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1955.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1957.1", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You sneered at it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "Well, I wish we had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1957.1", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another Disraeli!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "he nations are exhausted. None of them are prepared to face any larger or greater responsibility than they can help, and it is perfectly natural, until you have reconstructed society throughout the world. But, apart from all that, I read an article by, or interview with, the Secretary of State for India with reference to the effect of driving out the head of the Turkish Empire from Constantinople.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ettled this question very soon after the Armistice. That is the real difficulty. The other difficulty is this, that America did not take the mandate. I know one of the reasons why America did not take the mandate, and the Prime Minister knows it as well as I do. America is not at Constantinople, because you allowed American opinion to lose all confidence in you by your policy in regard to Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why gallant?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ty is this, that America did not take the mandate. I know one of the reasons why America did not take the mandate, and the Prime Minister knows it as well as I do. America is not at Constantinople, because you allowed American opinion to lose all confidence in you by your policy in regard to Ireland. [ Laughter .] I do not know why the hon. and gallant Member (Viscountess Astor) laughs so. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1988.2", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ans going to Constantinople, It is quite true the Conference had, no doubt, considered the question of American control, but only in conjunction with, an American mandate for Asia. Minor. To turn out the Turks and to get a real grip of Asia Minor is a very different affair. To turn out the Turks and to let Asia Minor look after itself is the apparent wish of the promoters of the present agitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1997.9", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "that this was a Press agitation. Is it not true to say that the French Press within the last three months has been completely turned? Is it not true to say that three months ago there was an entirely different opinion in France? It is no secret that the French Press, I will not say has been subsidised, but I do deliberately say that there is some reason for it, and we can only draw one conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.1997.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2011.0", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Kalifate? I hope the Noble Lord who has had a demonstration in force this afternoon will not press this matter to a division. The Government have given safeguards to a very large extent to meet the Noble Lord. I am very glad to see that the Noble Lord indicates that there will be no division. I hope there will be a unanimous voice on this question, and that we shall regard the thing as settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2013.1", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "n turning the Germans out of Berlin There may be grounds of expediency for doing so. Has my Noble Friend never heard of the atrocities at Louvain? Let one who has fought against both Turks and Germans say that the atrocities of the Turks are as nothing compared with the atrocities committed by the Germans. Ask any soldier who has fought in France and anyone who has seen what took place in Louvain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Church of Rome.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OMAN", "preceding_text": "aim has been worked up very much by certain Mahomedan gentlemen in India, some of whose names I respect and some of whom I look upon with the greatest doubt. They tell us, for example, that the Aga Khan represents the Mahomedan people of India, but since he represents a very small dissident sect only, it would be just as reasonable to claim Dr. Clifford as the representative of the English Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major DAVID DAVIES", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2059.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-02-26", "file": "debates1920-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b665ef8b589b7ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2060.0", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TURKS AND CONSTANTINOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I have tried, unsuccessfully up to now, to get an opportunity to take part in this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-26a.2059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More so:\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "While I mention all those matters I ask for the unanimous acceptance of this Bill, on the ground that women are equal in intelligence and ability to men, and if granted this vote will use it with the same rational common sense which has characterised the men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2076.0", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIDEON MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIDEON MURRAY", "preceding_text": "asked a question upon this matter, I never committed myself; in other words, I always took the consistent policy that women's suffrage was on trian and that trial was not yet finished. We have only had one General Election, and I do not think hon. Members will believe that one General Election is sufficient to give a full trial to women's suffrage. Furthermore, is this Bill desired by the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "se were made equal to men and women what was the estimate of the number of women who would be added to the register? The reply was that, of course, no definite estimate could be made, but that it certainly would be over 5,000,000. The result of that, if this Bill were passed and equal franchise given in this country, would be that there would be 12,913,000 male voters and 13,479,000 female voters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": " there would be 12,913,000 male voters and 13,479,000 female voters. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] That is what I should like to explain, if I may. Hon. Members do not agree that that is any reason for not giving this vote. I, however, contend that that is every reason. What is demanded is equal opportunities for women? This is not giving equal opportunities but greater opportunities than to the men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2082.0", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. M. COWAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. M. COWAN", "preceding_text": "ears. I think that gives me some little right to speak as to the relative capabilities of men and women. I can assure hon. Members that if you ask for and get the honest opinion of the male students of the various schools and universities, you will find that in their opinion the women are at least equal to men as regards average study, and the average consideration of the ordinary affairs of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2115.0", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. PALMER", "preceding_text": "ty which has come over the country at recent bye-elections is not in my view so much a proof that there is less love of the Coalition as more fear of the Labour party, not the gentlemen who with great ability and courage carry on the constitutional work of that party in the House of Commons, but those dark and sinister forces which lurk behind the honest, straightforward men who sit in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "mous powers, so that if one of these girls of 21 signs her certificate saying that there are no suspicious circumstances attending the death of a man, no one will question it. The man may be legally buried and the insurance collected by whoever has had the good fortune to insure him. When a power like that is exercised the giving of the power to vote at the age of 21 is really a negligible matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2129.0", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "preceding_text": "a good many of those in the Government, who do not desire an early General Election. I have never been able to see the force of that argument. The hon. Member representing the Scottish Universities said that if an extension of the franchise is granted, this House will no longer represent the people. Does anybody imagine, that it represents the people to-day. All the by-elections prove it docs not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-02-27", "file": "debates1920-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "1374c8fa0308e4b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2136.0", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One swallow does not make a summer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": "inite instance of how women are being prevented from using their right of entering into competition with men in the labour world. It is all very well to say you are giving women a lever by the vote to make the laws, but those who are leading members of these Unions should see to it that the women are treated upon an equality in the realm of work, and their action in this matter is mere camouflage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-02-27a.2136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of FOOD (Mr. McCurdy)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of FOOD (Mr. McCurdy)", "preceding_text": "I believe that I am correct in saying that this is the first occasion during the lifetime of the present Parliament that the policy of the Ministry of Food has come up for discussion on the floor of this House. I suppose I may take that as a tribute to the entire satisfaction which the conduct of the Ministry of Food has given during the first twelve months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " Mumber for Govan (Mr. N. Maclean), we know why he wants to keep these things on. He wants to carry out the policy which he and his party frankly avow, and that is the socialisation of the whole retail distribution of everything. It is perfectly consistent, but that is not the position which most of us take up, and a comparatively small number of people really in the country take that position up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.130.2", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \". No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "at? If it is true that control is so highly desirable in the interests of the consumer, especially the poor consumer, there is no justification for prosecuting people for selling things below the price. That is a course which I cannot possibly understand. Our objection to the present food control is that it is a scratch machine. It gives the Food Controller power to prohibit people from producing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"The Member for Hull.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " I suppose it is with sort of an idea of doing that that these powers are required. You want to find out who are the people who go to Strasburg to meet the French Socialists, who are holding a meeting and where probably the majority will be found to declare for the principles of the Third Internationale. The people who will go from this country will be the extreme left wing of the Labour movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "rder—was a danger, not to one country, but to all. Immediately the civilised countries, even Germany herself, began to stretch out hands to others who know whether some common action could not be devised to stave off the disease which threatened the existence of civilised society. This Regulation and the money taken are not intended to protect us against an enemy, because we have no enemies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.175.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.200.6", "colnum": "200", "heading": "WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The Shipping Controller has power to supply bunkers to foreign ships, without bunkers it is inoperative.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact they are not getting the cargo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.200.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": " the shipping world. Some people are selling their ships because they say that control is coming off and now is the time to sell, while others are rushing in to buy because they say control is going to continue and this is the time to buy. I am only expressing my regret that my hon. Friend did not tell us how the gambling was brought about, and what motives prompted the gamblers to buy or to sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "ushing in to buy because they say control is going to continue and this is the time to buy. I am only expressing my regret that my hon. Friend did not tell us how the gambling was brought about, and what motives prompted the gamblers to buy or to sell. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Profits.\"] \"Pro fits,\" says an hon. Member; but who is getting the profits—the one who is selling or the one who is buying?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "We do not wish to prolong the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-01", "file": "debates1920-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ee942be8982eaf8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.215.5", "colnum": "215", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "It is quite a surprise to us that this Resolution should be taken to-night The Committee stage of this Money Resolution was taken in exactly the same circumstances. I must ask that some explanation should be forthcoming. I do not think it should be taken as unopposed business. Of course, I have only the right to speak once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-01a.215.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.240.8", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman satisfied that every step is being taken by the Air Ministry to encourage civil aviation, and thus to provide an adequate reserve of machines for use in time of war?", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Major Tryon)", "preceding_text": "r the conversion of a war machine to use for peace purposes depends entirely on the degree of comfort required by the pilot and passengers, as the removal of war fittings can be effected within a few hours. I regret that I am not able to furnish a detailed reply to the last part of my hon. and gallant Friend's question as the time would vary with each particular type and design of a peace machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.240.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND EEVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "Nobody accuses my right hon. Friend of not acquainting himself as far as possible with all the facts of an estimate, but I cannot accept his explanation. It means that any Minister who is in charge of an estimate can say, \"I am very sorry I have not got these details, but we want our estimate and we appeal to the Committee\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND EEVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "n the past it was good enough for students to accommodate themselves at their own expense, for heaven's sake let them go on in that way, until we are in a position to see that we can reduce taxation a little. I have no objection to students learning about the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, learning botany and that sort of thing. I do not Know whether it is a very useful thing at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND EEVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "Is this the Vote for the Houses of Parliament Buildings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND EEVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Captain STANLEY WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain STANLEY WILSON", "preceding_text": "Other Members of the House are not going to be quite so kind to the right hon. Gentleman, the First Commissioner, as my hon. Friend has been. It is highly probable, in regard to this Vote, there may some criticism. In the absence of anti-waste Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND EEVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or champagne!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "ld Army pattern and to establish our printing machinery there. Thus all the documents were under our control, and the temporary buildings referred to in the Estimate are those particular huts which fulfilled so useful and interesting a rôle. I should say, in view of the remarks of some hon. Members, that I was not responsible for the clothes of the typists, or for the dances or for the bands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND EEVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–20.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "which is far larger and which is far more unsatisfactory, they are not prepared to take any definite step to force this to a Division. I notice the conspicuous absence of the hon. Member (Mr. Hogge), who laboured this question of £3,800, and now that there is a question of at least £220,000 for a certain item in connection with the Peace Conference, he is not here to challenge it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "RAILWAY SUPERANNUATION FUNDS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "Even if the State had not had the money actually to use, it has had the benefit of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "RAILWAY SUPERANNUATION FUNDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Special pleading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "We have lost sight now of the annuitants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.387.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN'S PROCESSION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "preceding_text": "Trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN'S PROCESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The conduct of the Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I may be wrong, but my recollection is that my right hon. Friend asked for an inquiry into the action of the police. If it was not that, what was it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-02", "file": "debates1920-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3403553123a4fd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN'S PROCESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A rabble!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "There was no procession, so far as I know, accompanying the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-02a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Sir A. Mond)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In three years' time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Sir A. Mond)", "preceding_text": "sed no objection to this scheme going through. In regard to further questions raised during the Debate, I think my right hon. Friend, when dealing with the question of economy, made out an absolutely overwhelming case. He pointed out that this scheme would save £2,000 a year in rent, and, in addition to that, it would bring in a large amount of revenue which is not now being collected.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Sir A. Mond)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Sir A. Mond)", "preceding_text": " the question of economy, made out an absolutely overwhelming case. He pointed out that this scheme would save £2,000 a year in rent, and, in addition to that, it would bring in a large amount of revenue which is not now being collected.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"In three years' time.\"]—Hon. Members say in three years' time. The building is supposed to be finished in about 15 months.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Sir A. Mond)", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS: \"Why a loss?'\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Sir A. Mond)", "preceding_text": "now well enough that it will not take three years. I assume that the site would be procured. On the one hand, hon. Members have asked me to postpone the building, and, on the other hand, it has been stated that the building will not be completed soon enough. It is obvious that the longer the building is postponed, the longer it will take to complete, and the greater the loss to the Revenue.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "d to erect the building. I will make a proposition which I think may meet the views which have been expressed. The token Vote would enable us to proceed with the negotiations for the purchase of the site. So far that would not interfere with housing at all. I will give an undertaking that we will not go on with the building at the present time unless after consultation with the Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "have been expressed. The token Vote would enable us to proceed with the negotiations for the purchase of the site. So far that would not interfere with housing at all. I will give an undertaking that we will not go on with the building at the present time unless after consultation with the Minister of Health. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I think I am making an endeavour to meet the Committee very fairly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about labour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "ith the building at the present time unless after consultation with the Minister of Health. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I think I am making an endeavour to meet the Committee very fairly. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] After all, what is the issue between us? It is contended that this scheme will interfere with housing. My advice is that for the type of building which is proposed we shall use steel and concrete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Liuet.-Colonel JOHN WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Liuet.-Colonel JOHN WARD", "preceding_text": "the sort of thing on which the House is asked to cheesepare in order to fulfil its pledges relating to economy. I shall certainly vote with the Government on this Motion. I represent a trade union, and I can see, if the arguments used in this case are held to be sound and to justify Members to go into the Lobby against the Vote, it will mean that the whole building trade will come to a standstill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. WOOD", "preceding_text": "t an adequate case has been made out by the Treasury or by the First Commissioner for the sanction of considerable expenditure at this moment. Those hon. Members who have, in my judgment, made a very fair offer to the Government, which was in effect this, that if the right hon. Gentleman the First Commissioner of Works would be content to receive to-day sanction by way of a Token Vote for his site", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "Cheers", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "where, but that there is no part of the country where it is a greater necessity than in Manchester, and my right hon. Friend the First Commissioner has already stated that in view of that fact he will under take that no building of this kind will go on unless the representatives of the Ministry of Health say that it will not interfere with the building programme. We were prepared to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.500.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Did they trust them at Paisley?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": " this without the smallest hesitation, that if in a matter of this kind, when the House of Commons has realised that the Government has given it its closest attention, they are not prepared to trust the Government, then the House of Commons must find one they can trust There is no question about that. I know what the feeling of this House of Commons is, and I believe they do trust this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"On the river!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I have been to Kingston once or twice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HOWARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Appointed by the Food Controller!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HOWARD", "preceding_text": "resent the meat trade and to grade the cattle in the first and second grades. According to their decision the bullocks were sold at a certain price. What happened? If they were graded too high there was an outcry from the butcher and a letter from the Live Stock Commission telling us of the mistake. We had letters from the Live Stock Commissioner who, by-the-by, was a professor of languages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HOWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What languages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HOWARD", "preceding_text": "from the Live Stock Commissioner who, by-the-by, was a professor of languages— [An HON. MEMBER:\" Appointed by the Food Controller!\"]—saying that we ought to be more careful in our grading in the future. If we under-graded the animals we never heard of it. The same with sheep. If a mistake was made we got another letter from the Live Stock Minister appointed by the Hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "If that is not so, we have promised that the farmer for his 1921 crop shall get the world price, with a top limit, a maximum limit of 100s. As regards 1920, my right hon. and gallant Friend asks, why do we not make that promise? It is an exceedingly difficult thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-03", "file": "debates1920-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "313d58f747948531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The inspectors!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "his 1921 crop shall get the world price, with a top limit, a maximum limit of 100s. As regards 1920, my right hon. and gallant Friend asks, why do we not make that promise? It is an exceedingly difficult thing to do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] How on earth shall we ever be able to tell what was grown in 1920 and what was grown in 1921? What is to stop growers holding wheat until the 1920 crop is past?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-03a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "preceding_text": "Is it usual for British subjects to be detained by the French authorities when entering their country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.613.11", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I must apologise to the House for the length of this answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.613.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Are they not being dismissed under the terms of an agreement come to between the masters and the trade unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "as been utterly ineffective for the purpose for which it was designed. Every step which he has taken in the way of persecuting these people, every kind of irritation which has been put into force, has only had the effect of organising the Irish people still more against the Government. I have spoken to many Sinn Feiners, and they have said that the Chief Secretary is the greatest friend they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Cheers", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " is a boy of 13, Joseph McCarthy, arrested for taking part in a concert at which national songs were sung. I do not know what happened to him, but be was arrested. What is going to happen to his family, to the father and mother of the boy? Are they going to love this Administration more, are they going to feel more inspired with a passion for the Union? I have mentioned some of these cases before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ruary, in one district in Monaghan 500 houses were searched, and, according to my information, in the month of February there were 4,000 houses searched by the Chief Secretary's orders. What is the position of the householders who find themselves disturbed in the middle of the night, their children and servants turned out of their beds by armed men, the drawers and the tables and chairs ransacked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did'.\" and \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "I never said anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Republic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "sty's Government, except as represented in the Bill which has been introduced. I do know that during the War we proclaimed to the world that we were fighting for the right of small nations to determine their own political destiny, and I believe you will never settle the Irish question until you allow Irishmen themselves to determine what form of government they are going to have in their own land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel P. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel P. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I cannot allow that statement with regard to class legislation to go by. I never made use of that expression.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "in his voyages for the discovery of truth, he had been in Ireland. He said that the only thing for any parallel to the state of things he found in Poland under the Russian Government was the state of things he found in Ireland under the British Government. We have liberated the Poles from Russian Government, and we have put Russian Government on the Irish people by way of vindicating our purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "e said that the only thing for any parallel to the state of things he found in Poland under the Russian Government was the state of things he found in Ireland under the British Government. We have liberated the Poles from Russian Government, and we have put Russian Government on the Irish people by way of vindicating our purposes. [HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!\"] Did I hear murmurs against that statement;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Ear! WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Ear! WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR EMERGENCY LAWS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "It is characteristic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-04", "file": "debates1920-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4e3489525abafa55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "not for the life of me understand. The Noble Lord (Viscount Curzon), the hon. Member for Maidstone (Commander Bellairs) and myself want staff appreciations of the War. I understand that a cheap edition is going to be put on the bookstalls, written by the Government. This will be nothing else but propaganda. I am sorry that a writer of such eminence as Sir Julian Corbett is being prostituted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-04a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-05", "file": "debates1920-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "786963480bfcb0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "he Land Act of 1894 provided that, in the case of agricultural property where no part of the principal value is due to the expectation of an increased income from such property, the principal value shall not exceed twenty-five times the annual value as assessed under Schedule A of the Income Tax Acts. That is the law of the land to-day, and it became so at the request of the landowners themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-05", "file": "debates1920-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "786963480bfcb0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. P1LDITCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, Hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. P1LDITCH", "preceding_text": "esses a building value, now or in the immediate future, practically the whole of that value. Take a piece of land contiguous to a town which for the moment is let for allotments used for agricultural purposes at £2 a year That could be purchased at not more than thirty years' purchase, which would mean £60. But that land may be worth £200 or £500 an acre for building to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-05", "file": "debates1920-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "786963480bfcb0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "preceding_text": "I assume that when you say a fair price you mean fair value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-05", "file": "debates1920-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "786963480bfcb0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.822.5", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "cue_text": "Cheers, laughter, and 'What about nationalisation!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "preceding_text": "e went on to say: That is, I believe, sound liberal doctrine. We have had curiously enough a rather crucial example of the application of that principle to the Land Acquisition Bill. The Liberal party in the House of Commons wished to apply that simple equitable principle to the valuation of land in that Bill. I am sorry to say that it did not receive very much support from the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.822.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-05", "file": "debates1920-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "786963480bfcb0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.822.5", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "cue_text": "Great cheers and laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "preceding_text": "pplication of that principle to the Land Acquisition Bill. The Liberal party in the House of Commons wished to apply that simple equitable principle to the valuation of land in that Bill. I am sorry to say that it did not receive very much support from the Labour party—[Cheers, laughter, and 'What about nationalisation!'] What has nationalisation got to do with it? It is a red herring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.822.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-05", "file": "debates1920-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "786963480bfcb0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.822.5", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "preceding_text": "tion!'] What has nationalisation got to do with it? It is a red herring—[Great cheers and laughter]. This Bill apparently is the effort of the right hon. Gentleman's party to put that principle into practice. I agree that it is not nationalisation. It is a great deal worse. Nationalisation of land, as I take it, would mean taking; the whole of the land of every person at an even price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.822.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-05", "file": "debates1920-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "786963480bfcb0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — READY-MONEY FOOTBALL BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "? Will they tell me that? Is it not a well known fact that in order to maintain their positions in the various football leagues teams are offering fancy prices to footballers? £2,000, £3,000, and up to £5,000 have been offered to get certain players away from one team to another, and the Gentleman who has moved this Bill has played that game as much as anybody. Is not that gambling?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-05a.867.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "How much has the Government lost in respect of this enterprise?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I think not. They came to the conclusion that it was not economically important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "That is primarily a matter for the War Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.906.7", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PASSPORTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I can assure my Noble Friend that the passport system, as far as the British Government is concerned, is now on a peace basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.906.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY, ETC.).", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "preceding_text": "t I do not feel that any of us is justified in doing that unless, when the opportunity comes in this House, we are straightforward enough to tackle the Government on that opportunity. I do not quite follow how my hon. Friends think that their Amendment is going to help us at the present time. There is no Committee of the House that can possibly add to the number of days between now and March 25th.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY, ETC.).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "y be made in their programme if the House is allowed unlimited discussion on the remaining Votes, and is it in order to avoid that that they are bringing in this guillotine? So, is the Motion brought forward really on account of the shortness of time? Now let us deal with the plea of shortness of time. The Government have left three private Members' evenings—Tuesday, Wednesday and one other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY, ETC.).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"The 30th!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "signed, and by now we ought to have had accurate estimates put before the House. There is only one reason why there should be all this hurry. It must be remembered that the only thing that goes to the House of Lords is the Consolidated Fund Bill. A couple of days would be quite sufficient for that. Here I must disagree with the Amendment. I think the date should be the 31st March and not the 25th.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY, ETC.).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A DAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A DAMSON", "preceding_text": "f the House will be well advised to give serious consideration to the Amendment moved by my hon. and gallant Friend. I do not moan to say that the Amendment should be accepted in its entirety. What I do suggest to the Leader of the House is that the principle of the Amendment should be accepted, on the understanding that the Members of the Committee be selected by the Whips of the various parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY, ETC.).", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": ", and it will le better to do that to-morrow when we shall have an opportunity of considering the matter. I recognise that there is an atmosphere of agreement, and anyone who makes a further suggestion will not be regarded with great popularity, but I suggest that this informal Committee should also have the power to say whether or not these days before Easter are to be given to the Home Rule Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY, ETC.).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put him on the Committee!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "he House against the country, and the country has a perfect right to say that the £56,000,000 of additional expenditure should not be voted without sufficient discussion. There has never been Supplementary Estimates like these before. The paltry time that is to be allocated for the discussion of these enormous Votes is utterly unworthy of the expenditure and the waste that is going on.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "e. I am afraid that he has not followed my advice. It is so easy for a Member of the Government to take a white passport and travel in comfort, that he does not realise what the ordinary traveller has to put up with. The ordinary traveller who crosses the Channel spends at least one hour, and probably two, packed like a sardine, on each side of the Channel, in order to have his visé examined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": " issued daily, and that a hundred of them have to fee specially examined because people put wrong names or photographs on them. A great many of us think that the whole thing, as far as foreigners coming into this country are concerned, is a bad thing. We think it is a restraint on commerce, and also that it is utterly opposed to the spirit that should prevail in the world now that the War is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "poleon left it uncertain which country he was going to attack next. There was no doubt then temporarily a state of peace and people were moving about and transacting business. The same conditions prevail to-day. There is no doubt that if there were any relaxation of this passport system people would come into this country who would be detrimental to the national interests and the national welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member for Spen Valley raised it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the hon. and gallant Gentleman for being released from the necessity of answering that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the hon. and gallant Gentleman for being released from the necessity of answering that question. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member for Spen Valley raised it!\"] I thought it was raised by somebody. The fact that the Government is a large shareholder is, I think, a very efficient guarantee that the profits are not likely to be allowed to be excessive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-08", "file": "debates1920-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8abdabe3459b4b2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "But we were to make preparations and the dye industry was to be ready for the next war. He also defended it passionately as a most effective piece of Tariff Reform. I did admire the singular fidelity to principle with which the hon. Gentleman supported Tariff Reform. It is a cruel thing for anyone to get up and defend the principles of Tariff Reform in the House of Commons at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-08a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-09", "file": "debates1920-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "7bf502b81c812005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1102.6", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRET SERVICE (REPORTING SPEECHES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to accept the word of an hon. Member of this House that an agent did visit a meeting and take a report of a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-09", "file": "debates1920-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "7bf502b81c812005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1102.6", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRET SERVICE (REPORTING SPEECHES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to accept the word of an hon. Member of this House that an agent did visit a meeting and take a report of a speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] If that is the treatment that an hon. Member of this House receives, what is the treatment that an ordinary citizen will receive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-09", "file": "debates1920-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "7bf502b81c812005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1156.2", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One of your officials!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "International Agricultural Commission at Rome, and he predicted a year ago that there was likely to be a break in wheat prices which would bring the price down within a few months to 45s. Hon. Members must give us credit for having consulted the man who was regarded as the greatest expert, and who was deliberately selected as our representative on the International Agricultural Commission at Rome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-09", "file": "debates1920-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "7bf502b81c812005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of FOOD (Mr. McCurdy)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not been called!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of FOOD (Mr. McCurdy)", "preceding_text": "ions made by various hon. Members to-night in a Debate which concerns the price of one of the necessaries of life of the people of this country, although a score of Members are heard explaining fully the special position, the special difficulties, and the special grievances of the producer, I have heard only one Member, or at most two, who have been moved to deal with the position of the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-09", "file": "debates1920-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "7bf502b81c812005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Mr. Neal)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Mr. Neal)", "preceding_text": "to regulate and control the internal management and working of the railways in this country. There is a common idea that if traffic is delayed, if there is a congested port, if there is a shortage of wagons, or if there are difficulties in other ways in connection with the working of the railways, that that is the result of some act or some omission on the part of the Minister of Transport.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-09", "file": "debates1920-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "7bf502b81c812005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "sing through Committee it had its critics, and they wished to have certain forms of transport undertakings reserved from the control of the Ministry. It is a rather strange change that those very undertakings which sought to be excluded from the operation of the Ministry of Transport are now themselves asking to go under its aegis. Knowing the assistance which the Ministry is able to afford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-09a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMY COMMISSIONS (TEMPORARY OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I have already sent this case to the Secretary of State for War, and the answer is that they are afraid he will not be able to get a commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINS", "preceding_text": "All. I can say is that the owners of these wagons complain very bitterly that they have not got control of their own wagons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "rgive me for saying so, by attempting a discussion of the economic and social conditions which brought about the railway strike, or by any attempt to apportion the blame for that strike. So far as the Minister of Transport is concerned, that strike exactly concurred in point of time with his appointment. The very day the Minister of Transport took over his duties, that day the railway strike came.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not have left her at Malta?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WILSON", "preceding_text": " the cost was really prohibitive. It was only a shell-riddled hull, and there were no engines. She had been brought back to Malta, but it would have been quite impossible to bring her through the Bay of Biscay without the expenditure of a very large sum of money in order, at any rate, to make her seaworthy. The cost of towage alone would have run to something between £20,000 and £30,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One-tenth,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Mr Whitley, I should like to know if you cannot give some reason to the Committee, why, on a Vote that obviously would have included nearly one-quarter of the Members of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1464.3", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "I rise on a point of Order, Mr. Whitley May I ask why you have chosen this particular Vote of those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1465.2", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "t I want to put is this: To keep this House sitting it is necessary to have 40 Members. When you asked us to stand up, as a matter of fact, all of us who had been voting were not in the House, as is usual when this House is taking a Division. The average Members do not all come into the House when the Question is put; many of them are in the Lobby. What I want respectfully to submit is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1465.4", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten pounds!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": " I beg to ask you, Sir, whether there is any precedent for acting as you have acted to-night. I wish also to ask whether this is the first time in the history of this Parliament that the principle has been established not only that vast sums of money may be voted without discussion, but, further, that vast sums of money may be voted without Members being allowed to record their votes against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1466.9", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": "I want to ask you, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1466.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I do not want to question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I do not want to question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order\"]—I have been in the House, all night when the Coalition Liberals were at the bar. I do not question your ruling, but I want your decision on this point. We are the representatives of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which!\" and \"Not you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "e been in the House, all night when the Coalition Liberals were at the bar. I do not question your ruling, but I want your decision on this point. We are the representatives of the people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—free and un-trammelled, without coupons. You are voting without discussion millions of public money here to-night. There are some of us here in the interests of our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I do not desire in the least to challenge the action of the Chair What I do want to point out is that the bargain, if it is to be kept on one side, must be kept on the other as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "I had no intention whatever, Mr. Whitley, of suggesting anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1473.2", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "st important precedent. It is creating a precedent to-night. It is something that has never happened before in the whole history of the British Parliament, and we ought to know from the Leader of the House to-night that it is not going to happen again so far as he is concerned, and that he will take care that the Standing Order conferring such discretion upon the Chairman of Committees is amended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1473.4", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "I am only suggesting this, Mr. Whitley, with the object of restoring harmony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1473.4", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "hitley, with the object of restoring harmony. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"] All right; go on with the fighting, if you like. I am quite ready to fight it out. I am just as well prepared to sit up all night as the hon. Gentlemen who interrupted. I therefore would like this point made perfectly clear. Where does the Leader of the House stand in this? I think that we ought to have a statement from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-10", "file": "debates1920-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "224bb504e7293661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a game.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I do not complain of the ruling of the Chair, whether that ruling is for us or against us. Anybody who has served in this House for a considerable time takes the luck, and regards it as part of the game which we say is sometimes played here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-10a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-11", "file": "debates1920-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c286bc956fa6bc5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HUNGARY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "We certainly shall find no difficulty at all in finding employment for them. It is true there is a difficulty when they are taken away from house building, but that is aggravated by the refusal of the unions to allow a relaxation of the rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-11", "file": "debates1920-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c286bc956fa6bc5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER, \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "hese various Departments touch our national life at every point, and I say, if you decide this question on the merits of the inclusion of a separate Minister in the Cabinet for the Air Service, you could not possibly decide without including three or four, or possibly five, of the other Ministries at the same time. It may be said, why not have a separate Air Minister without a seat in the Cabinet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-11", "file": "debates1920-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c286bc956fa6bc5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1632.5", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of dividing the House, and I will therefore ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1632.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-11", "file": "debates1920-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c286bc956fa6bc5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " at all. It is naval guns which the Turks are to be at the mouth of. Large charges which fall on the Army or the Navy might very well fall on the Air Service, and wherever the Turk went in Asia Minor it would be possible to keep him under control from the sea, not necessarily by seaplanes, but by air machines which might be flown off the decks of seaplane carriers, or they might even be seaplanes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-11", "file": "debates1920-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c286bc956fa6bc5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "nd airships than we are, and with the wave of economy which is now going over this country, everybody is saying that we have finished the War because we were victorious. I submit that it is the victorious nations that have to look more closely to their armaments at the end of a war than the beaten nations, and to suggest that because this War has come at last to an end, all wars are finished with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-11a.1655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-12", "file": "debates1920-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "59612db8fbb1b2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-12a.1733.0", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND (EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": " a small proportion, only about 250, are employed, and certainly not more than 500. There are a great many in various institutions—400. There are 700 in the workhouses, 500 receiving outdoor relief, and, 3,000 roughly, depending upon their friends. I think that a separate Bill would have been better for Ireland. Ireland deserves distinct recognition and differential treatment in this regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-12a.1733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-12", "file": "debates1920-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "59612db8fbb1b2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-12a.1743.3", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "LIQUOR TRAFFIC LOCAL VETO (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hex. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "; I would not try you anywhere. Even these gentlemen who rate the public intelligence of this Parliament lower than I do, and that is not very high, have declared many times on the public platform that it would be unfair to destroy the business even of publicans without compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-12a.1743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-12", "file": "debates1920-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "59612db8fbb1b2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-12a.1766.3", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "LIQUOR TRAFFIC LOCAL VETO (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Water!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "o whether or not men working in a harvest field could do a harder day's work in harvesting corn or hay if they had beer to drink or if they had water Several people wrote letters about it, and eventually it was determined to have a trial. A certain number of men were put in one field, and a certain number in another. Some were supplied with beer and some with water. Which does the House think won?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-12a.1766.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1793.4", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the British representatives, Captain Crombie and Mr. Lockhart, abused their privileges in Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1794.0", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I feel sure that the hon. and gallant Gentleman, on reflection, will perceive that the statement which he made was a very improper one. May I point out that the difficulty arises through the fact of these supplementary questions being fired off without any proper reflection? Had the hon. and gallant Gentleman had time to reflect he would never have put that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1793.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1869.9", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF FOOD (Mr. McCurdy)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about meat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF FOOD (Mr. McCurdy)", "preceding_text": " I know that there are other remedies proposed. One frequent remedy, which, I suppose, is proposed every day of the week from one quarter or another, is to remove control of every kind, to get rid of all war-time restrictions. It is because that remedy can only be urged by people who have not yet grasped the essential facts that we are living in a world which is short of all essential commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1869.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1869.9", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF FOOD (Mr. McCurdy)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ships!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF FOOD (Mr. McCurdy)", "preceding_text": "t?\"] I will say a word about that with pleasure. It is because people could not put forward that remedy day by day if they really understood the economic condition of the world as regards supply and demand that I ventured to lay so much stress in my opening remarks on what I regard as the fundamental and essential feature. Someone asks, \"What about meat?\" Yes, what about meat and what about sugar?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1869.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1899.0", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " body of opinion in this country to subject all those Votes to strict analysis, and point out to us possible forms of economy. I have often listened to speeches in this House charging the Government with extravagance, and enjoining upon them economy, but rarely have I found right hon. or hon. Gentlemen to be very helpful in directing attention to any particular point on which it might be effected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1924.1", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Carrying on the War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": " and heavier increases of profit, than in the past. I listened with very great attention to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith), and when one heard him criticising the borrowings of the Government as one of the principal causes of the high cost of living it made one wonder what the Government were doing at the time when he himself was a responsible Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1959.0", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": " should tell a Minister that he is to cut down his Department, but it should be left to the Minister to decide where it should be cut down. Surely the Minister is in possession of all the facts, and knows better than we can know where that can be done. I suggest that the House, on all the Estimates, should tell Ministers that they are to cut down their Departments. It is no use telling them where.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ld again on to a basis of flourishing reproductive work. On the contrary, everything they have done, instead of attempting to instil a spirit of international friendship, has all been based on a much narrower view of the needs of the Empire. There is the attitude to the Aliens Bill, and the Imperial Preference Scheme, and the failure of the Government to foster a friendship with the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1974.0", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARSHALL STEVENS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARSHALL STEVENS", "preceding_text": " and of suggesting the most adequate provision against its recurrence. He should not have any powers to enforce compliance with any orders or recommendations of the Committee, but should assist traders, port authorities, shipowners, railway, and other carriers to comply with such requirements. He should keep in close touch with the general traffic movements of the country, not only on land\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1976.0", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEVENS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEVENS", "preceding_text": "ll inquiries relating to cold storage could be addressed to one department, it would give general satisfaction. That was in 1917. To help the Food Controller I went back to Manchester and built a cold store with a capacity of 1,000,000 cubic feet, and at this moment there is accommodation in that store for 200,000 carcases of mutton. It had seven times the area and capacity of this Chamber.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-15", "file": "debates1920-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7246788ff4a9ab1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1979.4", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES. 1920–21 [VOTE ON ACCOUNT].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your remedy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "hese proceedings from aloft and I ought to have known I was transgressing. I apologise to you, Sir; I was led astray by the interruption. If the Prime Minister has anything to answer I am sure that with all his courage and capacity he will answer it, but I listened for fifty minutes to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley and I never heard so many platitudes delivered in a rotund voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-15a.1979.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-16", "file": "debates1920-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "62e73947415b2bec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-16a.2022.0", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "But will the right hon. Gentleman consider the popularising of housing bonds by making them a form of lottery bond?", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": " country will open a publicity campaign in connection with the issue of local bonds for housing immediately after Easter, and suggestions for the campaign have been communicated to local authorities, but I do not think that it would assist the campaign to suggest that the choice of tenants would be subject to review by a Central Department, and such a course would, in fact, be quite impracticable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-16a.2021.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-16", "file": "debates1920-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "62e73947415b2bec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-16a.2127.3", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "We have every intention of keeping it.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "Might I appeal to my hen. Friend, who was a Member of the Committee? He agreed, and we agreed, that we should divide at a quarter-past Eight. The whole advantage of an arrangement of this sort is that the arrangement shall be kept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-16a.2127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-17", "file": "debates1920-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f510c23aaa361ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2265.3", "colnum": "2265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–1920.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "I think it covers all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-17", "file": "debates1920-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f510c23aaa361ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2292.4", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–1920.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I have only half a minute in which to speak, and, as I did not take part in the previous Debate, hon. Members have not heard the arguments that I should have put before them,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-17", "file": "debates1920-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f510c23aaa361ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2292.4", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–1920.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I have only half a minute in which to speak, and, as I did not take part in the previous Debate, hon. Members have not heard the arguments that I should have put before them, [ Interruption .] I protest against the general attack made by the right hon. Gentleman, which may or may not be justified from a Parliamentary point of view. I am not dealing now with the rights of the ease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-17", "file": "debates1920-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f510c23aaa361ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2292.4", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1919–1920.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "] I do not think it is entirely English on the part of the hon. and gallant Member for Holderness (Captain Stanley Wilson), who is always so disorderly when he comes into this House. I do not think it is in accordance with the traditions of this House and of Parliament, as I understand them, to make an attack like this at the last minute, when we are precluded by our bargain from making any reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-17", "file": "debates1920-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "f510c23aaa361ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2346.1", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " regret the campaign of calumny that is going on in this country against America. You can see it on the newspaper bills anywhere in London, and it is very unfortunate. It can only be stopped really by a strong expression of opinion in this House, which, after all, must affect public opinion to a larger extent, and that is why I make this appeal. I have heard remarks below the gangway to my horror.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-17a.2346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2353.6", "colnum": "2353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh! Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "preceding_text": "Was it necessary, in order to carry out this raid, to wreck Mr. Childer's nursery and waken the children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2353.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2395.2", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCREASE OF RENT (RESTRICTIONS) ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the small shopkeepers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be well aware bow involved are the effects of legislation of this kind, and what care is necessary to scrutinise every proposed extension. As a rule the commercial community are pretty well able to look after themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2450.0", "colnum": "2450", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have not you been well paid?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "the total value of plant of all the firms would be about £2,000,000. £50,000 a year would not go very far to pay these five large armour firms to maintain this scrap for future use. I do not say we shall not do it. We shall; but I should like to press my right hon. Friend to reconsider it. It is not a figure which really is right, considering that this plant was put up for the Admiralty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2454.0", "colnum": "2454", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or none at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ry is production for export. I want to ask a word or two about the capital ships. I do not propose to enter into the argument between distinguished naval experts, but, of course, there is a naval preference for a capital ship, especially a ship of the Hood type, driving along with 150,000 h.p. We would, of course, all prefer a Rolls-Royce, but mose of us have to be eon-tent with a humble Ford car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2509.0", "colnum": "2509", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "Dr. MACNAMARA: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": " any delay in the completion of the examination and the findings of the Committee, the hurt pay should continue until the report is to hand. I am glad that the Parliamentary Secretary is now present, because there is no more sympathetic man in any Department, and I know it is not in accordance with his desire that any man should suffer through the machinery not being rapid enough to meet his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2523.0", "colnum": "2523", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the expense? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "man who was guarding the coast from the top of a cliff or along the beach. The machine in the air has a greater sweep of the surface, both of land and water, than the ordinary coastguard could have. All these duties, I think, could be performed by the Air Force; but, at any rate, I throw out the suggestion, whether some of the watching of the coast could not be much better done by the Air Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2563.3", "colnum": "2563", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. CORY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The miners do not get clear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. CORY", "preceding_text": "0,000 and you get £22,360,000. But if you deduct the income tax from that, as I have done in the 1913 figure, the amount-of net profit is £15,630,000, which is a decrease of £2,834,000 in 1919 compared with 1913. Instead of an increased profit they are getting less than they did in 1913. These poor shareholders, many of whom are small people, pay income tax according to their grade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2566.0", "colnum": "2566", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "t having no familiarity with the proceedings in Committee on this Bill, I think I can claim to bring an entirely fresh mind to this problem, and, I hope, an impartial mind. So far as the question before the House goes, I think it can be viewed with entire coolness of mind, and not at all from the point of view the last speaker took. It really is not a question at all of peace in the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2576.0", "colnum": "2576", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£19,000,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "not a question between the mine owners and the miners. It is a question between the mine owners and the public, and I think the public point of view ought to be amplified. We object to this Bill entirely, because although based upon five pre-war years the mine owners of the country ought to have got £11,500,000, under the Bill of last year that £11,500,000 was raised to £15,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2579.1", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "oon as I heard the statement I began to wonder whether there was a form of political disease among the Cabinet. I am reminded when I approach this question of a statement made in this House many years ago. It was made by that venerable old statesman whose name is revered, I believe, in almost every home in this country, I refer to the Grand Old Man, Mr. Gladstone. In 1854 Mr. Gladstone said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2582.0", "colnum": "2582", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAIRNS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAIRNS", "preceding_text": "f Northumberland, I could not understand where he got his 205 per cent. In our county the wages were 7s. 9d. before the War broke out. Including the war wage—Sankey wage—they are about 16s. 5d. now, an increase of about 120 per cent. I do not think it is fair to our men to come here and make such a statement. I happen to hold in my hand a long tabulation of figures from coal companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2585.1", "colnum": "2585", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cory gets it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "ham in my own Division the basis rate is only 6½d. per ton, and all told, with 107½ per cent. and war wage and Sankey wage added, makes it less than 2s. per ton. Coalowners say that they could not be economically sound and pay their way and at the same time sell coal for £1 a ton if it costs 21s. to produce. We say that if it costs 5s. a ton to produce, where does the other 15s. go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2587.2", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "er an hon. Member moving an Amendment that the firemen and, I believe, other men, should be granted a seven-hour day on the same basis as the other miners. The Government were shocked when this proposal was introduced in the House, and pointed out the amount of money that it would cost in order to give these men a seven-hour day. Now, at this time in the morning, we are listening to the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2587.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2601.1", "colnum": "2601", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": " I think that the whole of the mining fraternity will admit that those five years were exceptional. Therefore, it would seem to show that it would have been well within the region of ethics to have based the interests of the mines of something in the region of those years. One has been compelled to notice how very ready the Government has been to meet the interests of Capital rather than of Labour", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2601.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2611.6", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "That shows that, comparing the profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2616.2", "colnum": "2616", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ilar to that occupied by a colliery owner. The condition of life in which the individual lives is to me the soundest and surest way of judging whether he is making a good thing or a bad thing out of the industry in which he is employed and gets his living. The miner is the producer of these things. Is he receiving his just share of them? Is the consumer being treated in a proper manner? He is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2616.2", "colnum": "2616", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House of Commons!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ou are thrusting the whole question of industry on the workers outside. You are trying to prove to them that their desires and demands meet with little or no acceptance from the Government of this country; that there is little use for them coming into the House of Commons or sending up to their representatives Amendments to be put before the Government for the Government defeats them all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2621.4", "colnum": "2621", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about production?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "es so closely associated with this suggested Act of the Government, that eventually you will find it handicapping industry because industry in turn passes the charge on to the commodities which they manufacture. In fact, if my argument is developed, it will be seen that that is why the housewife has to pay so heavily for such domestic utensils as the frying-pan as compared with the pre-War prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2621.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2625.4", "colnum": "2625", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "them no more than the 1s. 2d., they come here to-night and find every possible satisfaction in it, because they know very well that not only does it give them the profits which they demanded, but even more than they dreamt of getting out of the Government. It is all part of one general policy. We are told that the Prime Minister has definitely decided that he is going to support private enterprise", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2632.4", "colnum": "2632", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "his provision, or whether they will consider the advisability, in the general interest of the peace of the industry, of accepting the Amendment. If they will not, we have given an indication of what effect it will have. If they care to take the responsibility of sticking to ii, so far as I am concerned, I have nothing to say. I do not think there is anything to be gained by prolonging this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2632.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2635.1", "colnum": "2635", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So they have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "d at this moment in order to carry on after the period is over, to meet a large number of difficulties raised by hon. Gentlemen in this discussion and to put the coal industry on a much better footing. There is one other point in regard to this Amendment and many others which have been moved. Every speaker on that side has spoken as if the Government have made great concessions to the coal owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2637.3", "colnum": "2637", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "ll. As my hon. Friends have pointed out again and again during the course of the discussion the Government really ought seriously to consider some of the Amendments we are putting forward. I can assure the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade that, so far as our opposition to this stage of the present Bill is concerned, our claim for an advance in wages had nothing whatever to do with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-18", "file": "debates1920-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3640a24caa0e0e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2641.2", "colnum": "2641", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "The Amendment which you have just stated to be out of Order (to omit Clause 9) is one that raises one of the most important points in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-18a.2641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-19", "file": "debates1920-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "9a60753bd4fdd439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2657.2", "colnum": "2657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. MAGNUS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not always\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. MAGNUS", "preceding_text": "at the Bill not only confers no advantages upon any of those persona whom it is intended to benefit, but that it is wholly unnecessary. I have not been able to gather from either of the speeches delivered why it is that the shopkeeper, among all traders, is unable to look after his own interest and to know what is best for himself and for his employés, if we suppose he is a human being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-19", "file": "debates1920-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "9a60753bd4fdd439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2657.2", "colnum": "2657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. MAGNUS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. MAGNUS", "preceding_text": "want to say a word or two with regard to the classes of person who, it is considered, will be largely benefited by this Bill. The mover and seconder have correctly divided those persons into three classes—namely, the shopkeepers, the assistants and the general public. As regards the shopkeepers, I should certainly have thought that they were best able to look after their own interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-19", "file": "debates1920-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "9a60753bd4fdd439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2668.0", "colnum": "2668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMM", "preceding_text": "ome on later. It is not surprising that we have again had it trotted out that the chief crime of this Bill is that it destroys the liberty of the individual. It is pathetic that that argument should come from one who is representing a great intellectual force in this country. There was a time, a little over 100 years ago, when women dragged tubs along the pit bottom with chains around their necks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-19", "file": "debates1920-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "9a60753bd4fdd439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2692.3", "colnum": "2692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No, No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "preceding_text": " hours at the expense of ruin to small shopkeepers. An hon. Member referred just now to tobacconists and asked why they should get special terms. The reason is that a large proportion of the little shopkeepers whose interests were endangered by the draft Shop Hours Order of 1916 are tobacconists and those tobacconists in the back streets would be absolutely ruined by a seven o'clock closing Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-19", "file": "debates1920-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "9a60753bd4fdd439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2705.4", "colnum": "2705", "heading": "DOGS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "hich ho has a special liking, why should he say \"You must not experiment on that particular type of animal which I love and admire,\" even for the purposes of alleviating human suffering. My third type of sportsman is the bon viveur. The barbarity we sportsmen do in that line! We put the lobster into boiling water merely to make it look better, we crucify the calf, and we cut the throat of the pig.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2705.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-19", "file": "debates1920-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "9a60753bd4fdd439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2718.1", "colnum": "2718", "heading": "DOGS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Divide!\" and Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "A lady doctor who was closely in touch with the new work done on nutrition has been sent out there by the Medical Research Committee, and her work has been of great help to the children of Vienna.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-19a.2718.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-22", "file": "debates1920-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "356553515d02c7c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HUNGARY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why should they?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " thanking the hon. Member for the answer, may I ask whether it is not the fact that the Allied representatives under the Bela Kun Government did, with success, intervene in the direction of amelioration in the trials under the Soviet Government, and cannot our representative in Hungary now take some drastic steps, in view of the fact that we are directly responsible for setting up this Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-22", "file": "debates1920-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "356553515d02c7c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MUNITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "preceding_text": "A straightforward inquiry was held—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-22", "file": "debates1920-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "356553515d02c7c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "road but in our own country A curious feature of this Debate is that hon. Members desire that the officers should be better trained, and that more money should be spent upon the training colleges. If we are going to have an army why should we have training colleges merely for one class? We have the training college at Sandhurst. Can a boiler-maker go there to be trained for the Army if he chooses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-22", "file": "debates1920-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "356553515d02c7c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.130.4", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "ask this House to sanction something after they have completely done it? I am also not satisfied that there is an absolute need of 161,000 men for Home Forces, unless, as was suggested by an hon. member in this House on the 11th February, it is thought fit by the military authorities to keep an armed force of that character to utilise machine guns and tanks against the miners and men of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-22", "file": "debates1920-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "356553515d02c7c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hoar, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "I will not waste time on these details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-22a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-23", "file": "debates1920-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "58604ea62ce8191d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY. [4TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I will not strain the point. I wish to dissociate myself from the cheers of Members of this House. The killing of civilians in the City of Dublin or anywhere else by military is too serious a matter to be treated lightly, or for Members to allow their passions to carry them away as was the case at the end of questions to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-23", "file": "debates1920-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "58604ea62ce8191d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY. [4TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame,\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "preceding_text": "o grossly disturbed. Surely it would be possible for these incidents to be carried out in the daytime without the necessity of armed men entering people's drawing rooms and offering sacrilege to the premises of individuals; and I am sure if the House realised the effect these incidents are having on the British public they would not laugh when British soldiers murder and kill poor Irish civilians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-23", "file": "debates1920-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "58604ea62ce8191d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY. [4TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ours of 12 and 5. During those hours an Irishman finds the streets of the capital of his country filled with a large body of soldiers wearing helmets, and driving tanks with all the paraphernalia of war. Why are they there? They are there, in the eyes of patriotic Irishmen, as representatives of the armed forces of this strong country to keep down the national aspirations of the people of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-23", "file": "debates1920-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "58604ea62ce8191d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "re will be a huge balance to be distributed. The Government comes along with this Bill, and says that, because of the impecunious state of the coalowners, it is necessary to assist them with one-tenth of the huge balance of profits which is likely to be created. Can we expect to have peace in the industrial community? We believe that this is a deliberate attempt to provoke revolt among the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-23", "file": "debates1920-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "58604ea62ce8191d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "COAL MINES (EMERGENCY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "in the country. The other trader takes 60 per cent. of his excess profits after his standards have been realised. The coalowner, under this Bill, can never take more than 10 per cent. after his standards have been realised. You cannot gay that the coal trade is being too generously treated in this manner. If so, then the treatment meted out to every other trade in the country is immensely more so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-23", "file": "debates1920-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "58604ea62ce8191d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "OVERSEAS TRADE (CREDITS AND INSURANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ar and civil strife in those countries as we have been doing. At the present moment Poland, a rich country with great potentialities, is of no use as a market to the British merchant for either buying or selling. There is nothing doing, for the simple reason that we are egging the Poles on to keep up a great army and to indulge in aggressive tactics. That sort of thing could be stopped in an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-23a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-24", "file": "debates1920-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "05bb50b19fddd53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.407.5", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Chief Secretary stated in this House, and it is in the OFFICIAL REPORT, that the military visited the house in order to find out any sort of evidence which would help them to trace the murderers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-24", "file": "debates1920-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "05bb50b19fddd53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.423.5", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman replies, may I ask if he is aware that this Bill affects the interests of the men, who have effected a settlement, though the money has not been paid? The management say they cannot and will not pay until this Bill has been debated in Parliament, and the men have decided that unless they receive their wages next week there will be no traffic during the holidays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-24", "file": "debates1920-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "05bb50b19fddd53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "May I say, so that there may be no misunderstanding, that I expressed no opinion as to the wisdom or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-24", "file": "debates1920-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "05bb50b19fddd53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.424.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-24", "file": "debates1920-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "05bb50b19fddd53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "A threat!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Get on with it. [ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-24", "file": "debates1920-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "05bb50b19fddd53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No.1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": " nevertheless causes great inconvenience to many thousands of people in a great industrial centre. The principal question to which I wish to direct the attention of the right hon. Gentleman is the extraordinary position into which air transport has fallen. The right hon. Gentleman may remember that he was at one time very anxious to take charge of air transport as well as other forms of transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-24a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Have we any sort of say in the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Four o'clock!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": " question, there is a general desire that, in order that hon. Members may be able to get away early, the House shall meet at 12 o'clock, instead of at the usual hour, on Wednesday. The Government offer no objections to that arrangement, on the understanding that, as the idea is to meet the convenience of Members, the Division shall take place correspondingly earlier, say, not later than 6 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "e it is a monarchy, and to re-crect on its ruins a free constitutional Soviet Government, because it is a form of government that appeals to hon. Members opposite. The people want to be ruled by a King. They know what he is, they can get at him, he is responsible, and his son afterwards is responsible. They have had one constitutional president like Karolyi, who was a gambler and a sluggard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIOT, DUBLIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British songs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "accompanied by some senior non-commissioned officers or police who would have represented to them that in the present state of feeling in Ireland it was wiser to abstain from such demonstrations. According to the account that I read, when the soldiers left the Theatre Royal they began to sing, and, very naturally, they sang distinctly English songs, such as \"Rule Britannia\" and \"God Save the King\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "By Order.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "This matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.747.3", "colnum": "747", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "increase in travelling expenses throughout London. I am not speaking for the strongly organised Trade Unionists of London, who can get what they want by industrial action; I am speaking for the people who cannot help themselves, the men, women, and children whose fares are going to be increased enormously by this Bill. We know what goes on upstairs. Generally, there is a certain amount of secrecy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Do not they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "he vested interest first, and the public nowhere. I venture to suggest that no proof has yet been given of the necessity for this Bill. Why have we a loss of £750,000 on the omni buses in one year? What profits are made by the Associated Equipment Company? If we are to have a Traffic Combine in London, why should not the people who make the omnibuses help the people who lose on the omnibuses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "s. It is the public who pay every time; it is heads they win and tails we lose. I venture to suggest that a Bill of this kind simply means trying it on the people, and it is nearly time the people said they were not going to have any more of it. Why should we have buses running if they cannot pay their way? It means that what is lost on the swings is gained on the roundabouts. The railways do pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Member for Derby?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "es running if they cannot pay their way? It means that what is lost on the swings is gained on the roundabouts. The railways do pay. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, according to your own evidence given before the Committee the railways did pay; but they had to subsidise the buses, they had to subsidise the trams, and because they had to do that they were brought into a position of financial incapacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "o try to bleed the public in order that I my get an increase in wages for them or for any other section. The people that I represent stand for real recognition of public responsibility. We are paying at the rate of £5,000 a mile for the maintenance of our roads. I know it is all one. The Metropolitan Tramways Company are part of the Combine, and some of their shareholders are interrupting me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-25", "file": "debates1920-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "428c6cecbf62b17c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about the rates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "service? Our own tramways have not come along and asked for the right to increase their fares. We have not asked Parliament to get us out of our troubles. We are facing our troubles, as we ought to do; but those who believe in private enterprise always beating public enterprise, who talk about individual property as against public property, come and say, \"For God's sake get us out of our trouble.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-25a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS:\"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": " Majesty's Government have given careful consideration to the subject, and they have definitely decided they will not release him, even though he should in consequence commit suicide by refusing to take food. Let me add, I have only this morning received information that while a Resident Magistrate in Dublin was proceeding by tramcar four men stepped in and took him off and shot him in the street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "y say that if the right hon. Gentleman's consistency is equal to his courage to-day, I do not think it will carry his party very far. I rise to support this measure because I feel it is a democratic measure which ought to be carried. It gives the power not to a handful of people, not as my hon. Friend opposite says to the magistrates, some of whom can be bought for 10s. to vote in licensing cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "eaking as a journalist with practical experience of this sort of thing. I remember recently asking a journalist what sort of people were dealing with the licensing Laws in Ireland at present. I said, when I was young it was possible to get some of these magistrates' support a publican for 10s. \"Why\" he said, \"you can get one of them to vote for this sort of thing now for half an ounce of tobacco.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seven!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "he minority. If the people have the right to give a vote and do not vote, that shows that they have not much interest in the matter. Therefore I say this is a real democratic measure. I am glad to see that hon. members on the Benches opposite are present in larger numbers than was the case a fortnight ago. There was then one Liberal and two Labour Members present. The numbers are increased to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REES", "preceding_text": "suggest that it has no climate at all. If I confess, as I propose to do, that I am not a teetotaler, I can still claim to be a temperance man. I do not drink to excess. I do not abstain to excess. From this Debate one very significant thing has emerged: that is that all those capable of expressing Welsh opinion have expressed themselves in favour of the Bill—with one insignificant exception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REES", "preceding_text": "was a failure, but nothing is further from the truth. One proposal of this Bill is to extend the Sunday Closing Act to Monmouthshire. The hon. Member for Central Cardiff (Mr. Gould), has seen sights that I have seen. Very near Cardiff runs the boundary between Wales and Monmouthshire, and those who are particularly anxious for a drink walk from Cardiff across the border and get into Monmouthshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REES", "preceding_text": "acilities let them have them, and if they do not, then they will have an opportunity of saying so. Surely that is a democratic measure that ought to commend itself to every hon. and right hon. Member of this House. It might be argued that, assuming local veto to be a good thing, why is this Bill introduced only for Wales, because if it is a good thing for Wales why not make it for England as well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ty politicians would like us to think. During the War we were always talking about ourselves as a Christian nation, and we were quite right, because we have got Christian ideals. I do not say that we always live up to them, but I would like to impress upon hon. Members that all those in authority who represent the Church, or the Chapels, or the Roman Catholic Church, are in favour of Local Option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "preceding_text": " that fact, and in view also of the great claims upon the time of the House this Session, I must not be understood to give any pledge whatever that the Government will be able to find further facilities for the discussion of this Bill. I hope that in the observations which it has been my duty to make, I have not shown myself wanting in sympathy for the very genuine temperance aspirations of Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.823.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Leave it to Wales.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "From Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "We have just listened to a very remarkable example of what we may be led to expect if this sort of legislation is allowed to pass without criticism. The Prime Minister is meeting the miners in an endeavour to protect this country from the nationalisation of mines. That is the whole issue, and that is why he is meeting them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "mines. That is the whole issue, and that is why he is meeting them—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—and yet Conservative Members in this House are attacking the Government for refusing to nationalise drink. I regard coal as an essential and drink as a non-essential, but the whole question is that this is the thin edge of the wedge as to whether the Government shall give way and nationalise drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-26", "file": "debates1920-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "dce21dc5aba216d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "or compensation in the Bill. I have had some experience as a licensing magistrate on that issue of compensation. I agree that compensation must be paid, and it has got to be paid, and provision must be made for compensation. But I want to say the whole present system of paying the compensation ought to be re-modelled. Who gets the bulk of the compensation to-day? The brewer and the property owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-26a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.866.7", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am not sure there was one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.866.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ns of party rancour and endeavour to treat this measure on its merits as expressed in this Bill. We are discussing it at a time when most abominable outrages are being committed in Ireland, but they are being committed, unhappily, when the vast majority of the people of that country look upon their present form of Government as the most abominable form of government that has ever ruled in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they would.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " was the beginning, there was the start, in the official encouragement given to Ulster to resist a law which was distasteful to them. I do not think Ulster Members themselves would openly and officially claim that they, more than their countrymen, have a right to resist the law, have a right to be placed in a privileged position and not to be expected to conform to the law if it is the law.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " by them. We must drop coercion. Political prisoners should be released and we should reverse the whole system of Irish administration. I do not know how many Members of Parliament in Ireland are in gaol without trial. As I said at the beginning of my remarks, the sure way to get to an English prison is to get elected for an Irish constituency. You need not commit crime; you need not incite crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Sinn Feiners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "med, in this instance, the negligible quantity of irreconcilable extremists who may accept nothing—would respond to the course I have suggested. Given a reversal of coercion, given a complete change in the attitude of force towards Ireland and the convening of a properly-elected body of this kind, I believe the great mass of Nationalist and Unionist opinion would respond to such an approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not a domestic subject.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ry much whether he will advance materially towards the conciliation of American opinion—if that be a proper object of our policy—unless you carry Irish opinion, or a very considerable section of Irish opinion, along with you. After all, I am not sure that our policy in dealing with a domestic subject should be governed very much by what is thought on the other side of the water.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": " get the best chance of getting their approval, and their affection, if you do what is the right thing from the point of view of justice and good administration, and leave American opinion to follow and understand what your action is without considering that opinion too much. I therefore come to the main question: Is this Bill going to improve the government of Ireland or the British Constitution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in 1906.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Was it not the promise of Home Rule?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "he interval since the Noble Lord's figures. Almost the worst crimes we have ever had have been within the last fortnight or three weeks. I call the right hon. Gentleman's attention to this fact. Everybody knows that the Dublin correspondent of the London \"Times\" is a well-known and very able Conservative journalist in Dublin. I say that lest any of the hon. Gentlemen should scoff at his testimony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1017.6", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw, withdraw,\" and \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I was going to answer the Chief Secretary. The matter of the murder is being examined now by a coroner's jury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1017.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "explanation of the division of opinion in Ireland. It is not because there are two nations in Ireland. It is because this country has always had some party in Ireland prepared to do the work of England. What is it the leader of the Ulster party said? That we, the men of Ulster, were put there to maintain the connection: they have done it honourably, and they would do it even at the cannon's mouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ory of Ireland you will find that one ascendency has been established after another ascendency. You first had the ascendency of the Episcopalian Church, then the Presbyterians were taken in, then the landlords, then the Ulstermen, and then the present Ulster party. In return for their ascendency in Ireland they have come to this House and voted for every reactionary measure proposed in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ts natural course the oppression of many other minorities in all parts of Ireland. The Southern Unionists are deserted. Tyrone and Fermaugh protest. The Catholic Bishop of Derry protests. So do others. The Bill really presents more difficulties, than it removes. The Divisions are unnatural Divisions. The real safeguard for minorities in Ireland is to give back to Ireland a normal public psychology", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " The Catholic Bishop of Derry protests. So do others. The Bill really presents more difficulties, than it removes. The Divisions are unnatural Divisions. The real safeguard for minorities in Ireland is to give back to Ireland a normal public psychology [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I will explain what I mean by that—to try and get the people of Ireland to think in the terms in which we think.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-29", "file": "debates1920-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "376f5f702c8e280a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "The words used by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Duncairn, were: There can be no half-way house between the full system of self-government that prevails in the self-governing Colonies and an united Parliament here. If the right hon. Gentleman thinks that is the right thing once the Union has gone, why does he not support it now? It is admitted by everybody that the Union has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-29a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1053.6", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The answer is a lemon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "Might we not receive something in the meantime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1053.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1107.6", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "r, another pledge given by me, not only for myself, but for my colleagues, not to the dissentient minority, but to the vast majority of the people of Ireland, which is equally solemn and equally binding. That pledge, embodied for the moment in the Home Rule Act, was that they should have what they had demanded for thirty years, and what after two elections the people of Great Britain had conceded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1107.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Votes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " cannot ignore the past history of this matter. To call this Bill a Home Rule Bill is a manifest and almost aggressive abuse of language. What has Home Rule always meant? I am speaking for a number of Home Rulers, some of whom have been in this contest almost as long as I have. What has Home Rule always meant to us who have fought and worked for Home Rule for more than 30 years? What does it mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "Irish Council, and still more remote from the world of actuality and life, is the spectral figure of an Irish Parliament. It is enough to say it is for an Irish Parliament that we have been waiting and struggling these 30 years. It is enough to say it cannot be brought into existence unless both the Parliaments, Northern and Southern, agree to call it into being. What probability is there of that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "Yes; if they ask for it, I am perfectly prepared to give it to any part of it. I am sure that that would be found in the long run both the simplest and fairest and most effective expediment. There is another suggestion that has been made, and it would not be respectful on my part to pass it by without notice, by that distinguished Irishman, Sir Horace Plunkett.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "isappointing. He talks about self-determination and all the rest of it, as if he were living in the world with his eyes shut, and he knew nothing of the facts of the situation. When he talks of self-determination, I put it to his party to say openly, Do they mean what their language implies? Do they mean that if the elected representatives of Ireland want a Republic they will give them a Republic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I did not consult the Ulster Members on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why six and not four?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "alf of Ulster, and he proposes, I suppose, if the six counties do not all exercise county option, to take a fourth of Ulster. I do not think that is a great improvement. Why have we taken the six counties? I will tell the hon. Member. In the first place, in the election manifesto of my right hon. Friend and myself we stated that we intended to deal with the matter on the basis of the six counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1132.5", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "ents. The Ulster Parliament, I presume, will at once work. The rest of Ireland will sec it is working satisfactorily. There will be before their eyes the evidence that they can have the same self-government the moment they like. Even suppose that, for the first Parliament, the Sinn Feiners refuse to have anything to do with it or refuse to take the oath of allegiance, we drop back to where we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1132.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1134.7", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "to accept any proposals they made. 6.0 P.M. May I point out that I have been on deputations on many vital matters affecting Ireland with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Duncairn (Sir E. Carson) and his colleagues, and the Irish teachers is a case in point? It is not long ago, even in the midst of our angry and bitter controversies, that we jointly waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1134.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1134.7", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ial responsibility, and by which every lawless and disreputable movement in any part of the Empire can be justified, and from which every street bully with a brick-bat and every crazy fanatic armed with a pistol may derive inspiration. There is a fine character sketch of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House by his most versatile and most distinguished colleague. I now come to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1134.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Protestant Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN WALSH", "preceding_text": "of these Parliaments coming together and you shatter the ideal for which every Irish patriot has fought for the last 120 years. At the risk of offending the susceptibilities of hon. Members, may I ask them to go back a little and consider what we are really proposing to do? A great robbery took place in 1800. There was a Parliament in existence then, not for a divided Ireland, but for all Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-30", "file": "debates1920-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f82ffd73aba904a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD GRITTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD GRITTEN", "preceding_text": "tion, I hope that provision will be eliminated. The objections to the fundamentals of Home Rule, I believe, are germane to the present stage of our discussion. These objections remain as firmly established as ever on the basic axioms of the political philosophy of the British Constitution. I could make the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley my text, but time will not permit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-30a.1212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "y choice between these two Bills, I certainly prefer the Bill in which the six counties of Ulster do not come under the Parliament in Dublin. What is the good of putting this kind of question? What is the Bill that any Irishman demands? Where is it? Why do not they produce it? \"Oh!\" they say, \"start a Conference!\" I think the ex-Prime Minister, in one of his references, said: \"Start a Conference.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "in which the six counties of Ulster do not come under the Parliament in Dublin. What is the good of putting this kind of question? What is the Bill that any Irishman demands? Where is it? Why do not they produce it? \"Oh!\" they say, \"start a Conference!\" I think the ex-Prime Minister, in one of his references, said: \"Start a Conference.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, set up an assembly to frame—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": " good of putting this kind of question? What is the Bill that any Irishman demands? Where is it? Why do not they produce it? \"Oh!\" they say, \"start a Conference!\" I think the ex-Prime Minister, in one of his references, said: \"Start a Conference.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, set up an assembly to frame—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Then perhaps it was my right hon. Friend who moved the rejection!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ulster!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "preceding_text": "ot only for England, but Ireland also. What was the response? There was no response. Immediately a campaign began in Ireland, and the Bill that is produced here to-day is the result of that campaign, of conspiracy to drive Ireland into disloyalty. Ireland at the beginning of the War, by voluntary recruiting, gave more soldiers accor- ding to her population than any other part of th three Kingdoms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1311.4", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "preceding_text": ", there were no more loyal soldiers than the Irish. Ireland is a nation, and as such she demands her rights, and she will not; have partition either of six, nine, four, or even one county. Ireland is a nation one and indivisible, and this House has no moral right or power to divide Ireland. In my humble judgment no power has any right to divide up a nation, except the people of that nation itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "last, I was very much surprised to find the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Duncairn stating to-day that Ireland had never been a nation. I can quite understand the Prime Minister or anyone on this side of the Channel falling into an error of that kind, but I cannot understand a man who professes to be an Irishman himself taking up the position that Ireland has never been a nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1316.0", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": " shut, and he knew nothing of the facts of the situation. When he talks of self-determination, I put it to his party to say openly, Do they mean what their language implies? Do they mean that if the elected representatives of Ireland want a Republic they will give them a Republic?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th March, 1920; col. 1126, Vol. 127.] In reply I want to ask the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is no answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "hat principle of self-determination in as emphatic a way as it is possible for any member of the Labour party to deal with it, and I should suggest to the Leader of the House that before he asks either the Labour party or any other section of the House what they mean by their repeated statements about self-determination he should adjust that matter with his friend and colleague the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1317.2", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER'S: \"And Ulster!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": " I want to say further regarding that matter is this, and it is to the Prime Minister. That is a statement that has sunk into the minds of every Irishman and into the minds of every people who are presently incorporated within the British Empire. That is a statement' that has sunk into the minds of every Irishman and of the citizens of India, of Egypt, and of the other parts of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dominions\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "went on to explain that Dominion Home Rule would hand over to Ireland the military forces and all the other parts of national government, and that, if carried to its logical conclusion, it might mean the setting up of an independent Irish Republic. With reference to that, I would ask the right hon. Gentleman if the granting of Dominion Home Rule to certain Colonies belonging to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": " were willing to hand them over to a Parliament of Sinn Feiners. He said to us, \"All that we want from you is to be left alone,\" and again he carried with him a considerable amount of sympathy in all parts of the House. I would remind him, however, that that is exactly what the majority of the people in the South and West of Ireland are saying. They are simply asking at our hands to be left alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": " position which they have taken up all through, then it is just possible that there is no alternative but complete separation. If, however, he and those who are associated with him in the representation of the Province of Ulster take up a different position, I have no hesitation in saying that there is a solution, short of separation, that would be satisfactory to the majority of the Irish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-03-31", "file": "debates1920-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "11675d4b793164d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1323.2", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "untry throughout the world. When you lay down a principle of that kind you must lay it down within the limitations which common-sense and tradition will permit. That is my answer to my right hon. Friend. Having given that answer I now ask the Leader of the Labour party, is he, speaking on behalf of his party, in favour of applying the principle of self-determination to Ireland? There is no answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-03-31a.1323.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-12", "file": "debates1920-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "943623ce1cf852ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1387.2", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "I admit that the notice is short: but I gave in the question early in the day, and it did not reach my right hon. Friend. He will see the urgency of the matter in face of the reports in the newspapers that many of these unfortunate men are at the present time in a deadly peril of death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-12", "file": "debates1920-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "943623ce1cf852ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [CREDITS AND INSURANCE].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And machinery!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "f these countries to-day is raw material, and this scheme, apparently, applies only to manufactured goods. I think one hon. Member to-day said that charity was not sufficient for these countries; they must expect to work. If we supply them with manufactured goods on credit they will not work. What is required is raw material, to enable them to get their factories going and produce their own goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-12", "file": "debates1920-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "943623ce1cf852ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [CREDITS AND INSURANCE].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RUTHERFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Money!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RUTHERFORD", "preceding_text": "way it is to be done. The way in which it will be done is this. Supposing £5,000 or £10,000 worth of new ready made clothing or boots is sent out to Rumania next week, if the scheme is not as I describe it, it will be wanting in the best way of carrying out its purpose. In that opinion I may be egotistical. If I understand the scheme aright the Rumanian purchaser will give an acceptance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-12", "file": "debates1920-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "943623ce1cf852ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [CREDITS AND INSURANCE].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no! The bills are paid in sterling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "y be discounted at a better rate of exchange than now. Suppose there is a bad harvest—what will happen then? The exchange will go against the Government scheme and the result will be a very large loss. It must be remembered that these bills which are given against the goods do not represent goods, because the goods will have passed away. What you are going to do is to gamble on the exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-12", "file": "debates1920-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "943623ce1cf852ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [CREDITS AND INSURANCE].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": " exchange goes against this country one of two things must happen: either the Government will have to make a loss by taking payment at a lower exchange or the people will not be able to pay. Am I to understand that there will be, say, a bill for £1,000 in sterling, and that that bill will be drawn on somebody in Rumania? Supposing the exchange goes against this country, will that bill be met?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-12a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-13", "file": "debates1920-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "fe4c3d4792663d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "s become weaker, is it not time that your eyes should be opened, and that you should see that this system only leads daily and hourly to greater disorder and disturbance and to a more hopeless position? Do you think that public opinion on account of these very grave and terrible crimes in Ireland will place the blame for this state of things upon Ireland herself and not upon the Government?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-13", "file": "debates1920-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "fe4c3d4792663d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "Certainly, and that observation clearly shows that men who hold certain views, who believe in certain doctrines, are regarded by some Members at present as criminals.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-13", "file": "debates1920-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "fe4c3d4792663d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1555.2", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I should be sorry if my right hon. Friend and others opposite thought they had a monopoly of right feeling in this House, more particularly in regard to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-13", "file": "debates1920-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "fe4c3d4792663d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1582.0", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I rise to make one or two suggestions about this matter, but, first of all, may I ask if it were not the case, as mentioned by the hon. and gallant Member, that there were different Regulations for the treatment of these political prisoners? Because, after all, they are not ordinary criminals; that is admitted on all sides of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-13", "file": "debates1920-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "fe4c3d4792663d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment of Section 46.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep it up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "Surely an explanation of that kind ought to be supported by better arguments. I know nothing at all except what I have heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-13a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-14", "file": "debates1920-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "aab1f32d8175d044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-14a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "DIVORCE LAWS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "s offence; but the man who refuses to perform all the duties of matrimony, either by desertion or other misconduct, is certainly committing offences which are as great as, if not greater than, the offence of adultery. Hon. Members who are opposed to my motion are en- tirely in favour of sex equality; that the wife shall have the right to divorce her husband for adultery. We are all agreed on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-14a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-14", "file": "debates1920-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "aab1f32d8175d044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-14a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "DIVORCE LAWS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "wo people indispensable one to the other. But how would those marriages fare if from the first that instinct of permanence did not exist in their minds; if it wtre known from the first moment they left the church or registry office that at any time, without incurring disgrace or reproach, that union could be terminated as easily as they could terminate the tenancy of the house in which they lived?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-14a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-14", "file": "debates1920-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "aab1f32d8175d044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-14a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "DIVORCE LAWS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "w would those marriages fare if from the first that instinct of permanence did not exist in their minds; if it wtre known from the first moment they left the church or registry office that at any time, without incurring disgrace or reproach, that union could be terminated as easily as they could terminate the tenancy of the house in which they lived? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] That would be the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-14a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-14", "file": "debates1920-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "aab1f32d8175d044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-14a.1788.0", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "DIVORCE LAWS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "preceding_text": "ay be done, but that those of us who follow the arguments for each of these different categories, varying in degree and varying in weight, shall not be compelled to vote either, on the one hand, in favour of them all, or, on the other hand, against them all. I feel that this is one of those rare occasions on which one is acting with the greatest straightforwardness by declining to vote either way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-14a.1788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-15", "file": "debates1920-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "123334f57c1c0d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is any change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-15", "file": "debates1920-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "123334f57c1c0d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1826.2", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I asked the clerk at the table specifically on that point about half an hour ago, and I was informed that I was entitled to put four questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1826.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-15", "file": "debates1920-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "123334f57c1c0d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' SEATS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the technical rules of this House are not subject to the good feeling of Members, and whether it is not in accord with what, I think, is the almost universal feeling in this House, that the only lady Member should be accorded every possible courtesy and consideration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1849.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-15", "file": "debates1920-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "123334f57c1c0d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS ESTIMATES, 1920–21 [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPE", "preceding_text": "However, the point I want to make is that the disposal Board are not philanthropists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-15", "file": "debates1920-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "123334f57c1c0d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At what price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "ay; he was told he was too late, as the Prime Minister always told the ex-Prime Minister. On going down next day he discovered that they had not been sold and that he was not too late. Once more he endeavoured to make a purchase. I am informed that as a matter of fact the whole of those blankets, if they had been put into the hands of a real business man, would have been cleared off within a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-15", "file": "debates1920-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "123334f57c1c0d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1964.0", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " of seeing what they could purchase. The largest of all was not shown to these merchants. It was sold to a firm of dealers, Thos. Ward & Co., of Sheffield, or, if not sold, it was put into their hands for disposal, and the gentleman who did not show this dump to the merchants and reserved it for Messrs. Thos. Ward & Co. to deal with, was afterwards found to be connected in some way with that firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-15", "file": "debates1920-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "123334f57c1c0d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1975.2", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": ". It is not fair to say that we had proper opportunity, in view of the business that was announced before Easter. We were told that the business we should take after Easter would be; on Monday, small Bills; on Tuesday, munitions; on Wednesday, the Austrian and Bulgarian treaties; and on Thursday, transport. The hon. Member (Mr. Tyson Wilson) and myself represent the two sections of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-15", "file": "debates1920-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "123334f57c1c0d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1978.1", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Children go to bed early.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "of the unfortunate illegitimate child is, I think, nothing short of scandalous. I would appeal to the right hon. Member in charge to see if something cannot be done to revise these Clauses and at all events give some greater measure of justice in instances of this sort. I feel that at this hour of the night it is unfair to treat hon. Members as if they were simply a lot of children instead of men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-15a.1978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-16", "file": "debates1920-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "42d37e88c1bb1515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2044.1", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How spurious?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "sities. So far from Home Rule and Devolution being one and the same thing, one is truly the antagonism of the other. Home Rule at this stage of our progress sets out deliberately to cultivate the idea of nationality. Devolution, on the other hand, starts on the presupposition that the nation has been absorbed in the larger political unit. That is challenged by the claims of a spurious nationality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-16", "file": "debates1920-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "42d37e88c1bb1515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2044.3", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "Home Rule is a constant and growing challenge to the supremacy of this Parliament, while Devolution sets out with the deliberate intention of not only not attacking the unity of this Parliament, but really assisting it in its labours. I think that is a perfectly fair definition of the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-16", "file": "debates1920-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "42d37e88c1bb1515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. YOUNGER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. YOUNGER", "preceding_text": "e phases which could pass muster in any Bill, but there are others of a very drastic character, and the Bill contains proposals which it strikes me no one in Scotland would desire to see passed. I do not want, however, to go into the details of the Bill at all. It is no good kicking a dead horse. So far as I can see, the Bill as it stands and following this Debate is as dead as a door nail.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-16", "file": "debates1920-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "42d37e88c1bb1515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2066.0", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. Munro)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. Munro)", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend (Captain Elliot) has made a speech which was interesting and thoughtful and witty, but I do not think the views which he has expressed are shared to any large extent by Scottish Members or by Scottish electors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2066.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-16", "file": "debates1920-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "42d37e88c1bb1515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Wasting time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTONE", "preceding_text": "May I be allowed to say that I entirely regard it in that way—as simply ventilating the question of Home Rule and inviting the House to vote on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-16", "file": "debates1920-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "42d37e88c1bb1515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2078.0", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": " an elector I said that I was not in favour of a Parliament in Edinburgh. I addressed my constituents last week, when no question was put to me about Home Rule, and to say that the representations which have been made in favour of this Bill represent the business community is absurd. Has there been a single request from a Chamber of Commerce or financial concern in Scotland in favour of Home Rule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-16", "file": "debates1920-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "42d37e88c1bb1515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2078.0", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "e before in any two Parliaments put together. You have had at least three first-class Bills passed. That is very good evidence that Scottish business is not neglected in this House. You have also now a Scottish Grand Committee which has done very good work. I hope we shall not go back to the old plan of trying to establish a number of separate Parliaments for Scotland and Wales as well as England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-16a.2078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "( by Private Notice ) asked the Attorney-General for Ireland if he can make to the House a statement with regard to the unfortunate events in Milltown Malbay, where three people were killed and several were wounded by the soldiers and, I believe, by the police 1", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.31.13", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "The hon. Member took a seat in one of the side galleries reserved for Members.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.31.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "While the Prime Minister is away?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y are, with the exception of the Mineral Rights Duty, either wholly or partially in abeyance, and can only be revived, if at all, by proposing legislation of a highly technical character. In these circumstances, if Parliament ever wishes to levy duties of that character it will have to begin over again. We have come to the conclusion that the proper course for us to pursue is to repeal the duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "TREATIES OF PEACE (AUSTRIA AND BULGARIA) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about our grandchildren?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "hey are marked by painted posts or whether the frontiers are the tops of alpine mountains. The outraged feelings of the people who have been sacrificed to strategical necessities will remain in the hearts of gallant people like the Tyro-lese, who have never yet been subdued, and who will never be subdued, and who, if this matter is not rectified, may yet plunge us or our children into another war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "TREATIES OF PEACE (AUSTRIA AND BULGARIA) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " be better to remodel these treaties now before we have another war than afterwards, and it is because I believe that, and to save the certain bloodshed and revolution in these parts of the world, that I propose to vote against these treaties and to make it quite clear that the parties with which I vote are going to remodel these treaties as soon as there is a change of Government in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.169.5", "colnum": "169", "heading": "TREATIES OF PEACE (AUSTRIA AND BULGARIA) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No, no! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " for support in restoring the conditions in Europe, and he pointed out that the terms of the Treaty must be revised. Therefore, we say to the Government with this opinion forming outside, and in the Press, and being advocated from public plat- forms, and with the democracy of this country at large conferences with practical unanimity demanding the revision of the Peace Treaties with Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.169.5", "colnum": "169", "heading": "TREATIES OF PEACE (AUSTRIA AND BULGARIA) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Peace Treaties with Germany—[HON. MEMBERS: \" No, no! \"]— it is an insult to ask this House to pass a Treaty which bears on it the hall mark of the vicious principles which are contained in the German Treaty already passed. I know we can be defeated by the Government rolling up their large majority on the same condition as some Members of the House already are to vote this Treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "TREATIES OF PEACE (AUSTRIA AND BULGARIA) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And not answered! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "I think it will suit the convenience of the House if at this stage I reply in a very few sentences to the speeches which have been made on the Third Reading. If I am exceedingly brief it will not be out of any discourtesy to hon. Members who have spoken, for in point of fact most of the points raised this evening are similar in character to those raised on the Second Reading Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-19", "file": "debates1920-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a04fb0090268774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "TREATIES OF PEACE (AUSTRIA AND BULGARIA) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "e sacrifice of millions of lives for their own political and commercial aggrandisement. They ought, no doubt, to pay. But then we are faced with the fact that neither Germany nor Austria can possibly pay as at present situated. They are both economically bankrupt. A wave of depression is passing over those countries. After all, Germans and Austrians, as nations, are far harder workers than we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-19a.178.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-20", "file": "debates1920-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "93552c9c1bafbaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON.MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No. no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider hard cases of men who were discharged from the Force in consequence of the late strike?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.215.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-20", "file": "debates1920-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "93552c9c1bafbaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS—AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " the Secretary of State for War in his place. Some of us, and he and I were among the number, even went so far as to speak messages into gramophones, which were circulated throughout the villages and hamlets in Great Britain. We fought the House of Lords. We dissolved Parliament—not entirely or exclusively, for we had other purposes—but largely, to get these duties on the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-20", "file": "debates1920-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "93552c9c1bafbaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS—AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They had rickets to begin with!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "since on the Statute Book. It is true, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer said yesterday, that they have not yielded all the fruit— the rare and refreshing fruit—which was anticipated from them. That was not at all the fault of their parents. On the contrary, they have been crippled in their infancy; they were crippled, and to a large extent mutilated, in Committee of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-20", "file": "debates1920-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "93552c9c1bafbaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS—AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Italy also.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "ed to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, but my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, had to consider it, and we all of us shrank from the task, for very good reasons. The wine duty raises most delicate and difficult international questions, and it so happens that they are questions which at this moment concern three countries—France, Spain and Portugal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-20", "file": "debates1920-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "93552c9c1bafbaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS—AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ction of its people to be its producers. We must all do our share, and if as a result of what we do extraordinary fortune and wealth conies to us, why then in an extraordinary way we should give back to our country that which we received as a blessing in such large measure. But whenever questions of production are referred to, people have in mind, I think, the ordinary manual workers or producers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-20", "file": "debates1920-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "93552c9c1bafbaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS—AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": "in this country with those with whom they have business relations. I can hardly think, with the responsibility he has, that he could get up and make that statement simply from some cheap political pamphlet which may have reached his hands in earlier days. I suppose he will admit that of all classes in this country who have derived the least advantage from the War it is the agricultural landowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-20", "file": "debates1920-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "93552c9c1bafbaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS—AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Is it the Ford?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": "r-car unfortunately possesses one of foreign origin, and this is because it is a cheap vehicle. I believe it is useful to have a vehicle, although there are things said about the motorcar to which I refer, but which shall be nameless. But I say that the average horse-power of these cars is something like 20. You are going to make—I will not say a victim of the man who can afford a cheap car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-20a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-21", "file": "debates1920-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "74805130a55f45b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-21a.387.5", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALBANIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From the Italians!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "How did the hon. Gentleman get his information and what is going on in Albania now that there are no British representatives there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-21a.387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-21", "file": "debates1920-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "74805130a55f45b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-21a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "ld that there would be no return. This Corporations Tax alters the whole character of the Income Tax. Whereas a man is taxed above £130 or £250, if he is getting half that amount from enterprises that come under the Corporations Tax, he will have to pay on the lower amount. With regard to what has been said about co-operative societies. I think you are going to tax co-operators unjustly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-21a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-21", "file": "debates1920-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "74805130a55f45b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-21a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES SYKES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES SYKES", "preceding_text": "r, and not tinker with it; and why should we have hanging over our heads the question of either a levy on War wealth or a capital levy? The Government are showing a weakness here of which I did not think they were capable. We are either going to be a country that is going in for nationalisation and socialistic legislation, or we are going back to pre-War conditions. Talking as you are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-21a.471.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-22", "file": "debates1920-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "4d4b49ecaa4d33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.535.11", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MALONE", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it is in order for Ministers of the Crown who have been accused of wilful murderߞ", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.535.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-22", "file": "debates1920-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "4d4b49ecaa4d33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.536.8", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether an inquiry is going to take place, in view of the fact that most responsible people have declared that the whole information which has been supplied to the right hon. Gentleman, and which he has given to the House as the Government's answer, is a series of falsehoods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.536.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-22", "file": "debates1920-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "4d4b49ecaa4d33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.536.10", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I repeat, a series of false-hoods, and I want to know whether an impartial inquiry will be set up to probe this thing to the bottom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.536.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-22", "file": "debates1920-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "4d4b49ecaa4d33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To be here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "ion in some places. But the London County Council, which is the body set up by Parliament with the responsibility of looking at one aspect of this matter—the tramway aspect—does come to this House and say, on its responsibility, that it is making a proposal to solve this particular problem. That is the position, and in these circumstances, what is the duty of the Minister of Transport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-22", "file": "debates1920-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "4d4b49ecaa4d33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "is House and say, on its responsibility, that it is making a proposal to solve this particular problem. That is the position, and in these circumstances, what is the duty of the Minister of Transport? [An HON. MEMBER: \"To be here.\"] Ought the Minister of Transport to ask this House to refuse so much as a Second Beading to a Bill which is put forward with the authority of the London County Council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-22", "file": "debates1920-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "4d4b49ecaa4d33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOWERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No, No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOWERMAN", "preceding_text": "pular year after year; certainly so far as the working people are concerned. The working people of London want to see their municipal tramway system extended. I am very sorry to find opposition coming from those—I must not say they are interested in private enterprise, but on any and every occasion the same hon. Members rise in order to defend private enterprise as against public enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-22", "file": "debates1920-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "4d4b49ecaa4d33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask Churchill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "preceding_text": "e like me, who have no other source of income, what I am asking for. It has been put to me that this £400 a year was never intended as payment of Members, but simply something towards expenses. Call a rose by any other name, we still know what it means. What does it mean? Some of the Sunday papers say, \"£400 a year! \"I wonder what the man who writes that is getting for his spare moments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.716.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-22", "file": "debates1920-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "4d4b49ecaa4d33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "preceding_text": "nted, it would be a temptation to everyone to try to get into the House of Commons. But the trade unions of the country are wealthy and powerful, and are determined to \"run' their own Members. Some of their Members are already subsidised to the extent of more than one-half of what they are receiving from the Government, and they also get their railway fares. That is the case in numerous instances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-22a.716.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " some who do not believe the statement, that trade unionism in this country has been an organisation which has conferred great benefits on the working classes and on the nation as a whole, and for that reason I wish, before I address myself to the Bill, to say that the Bill has been constructed in the interests of the whole community and more particularly in the interests of trade unionism itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "hat the gentleman from Oldham writes: I have been agitating in the trade union to which I am attached that we are misrepresented to be in favour of sections of arguments which are against the wishes of the general body of workers No general supervision of the ballot is taken This Measure of yours has most surely caused the trade union leaders to become more active Thank you for what you have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "e Thank you for what you have done. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"] No, I shall not give the name because you might victimise him. These men have trusted me with their names and I shall not abuse their confidence. Here is the letter from a man at Rugby: As a worker, I admire your trade union strike ballot and wish you every success We are supposed to live in a free country, but it is far from that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.739.3", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "detail The member is simply asked to place a cross against the word \"yes\" or \"no\" on the paper, although there are four questions, namely, (1) are you in favour of a 30 per cent, increase of wages, (2) of a six hours' day, (3) of full maintenance at trade union rate of wages for men while unemployed through demobilisation, and (4) nationalisation of mines? All these questions are married together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "for the purposes of the Trade Union Acts, 1871 to 1913, on any question relating to a proposal to stop work or arising out of a stoppage of work, a trade union may decide that a ballot vote of its members shall be taken under this Act, and thereupon the provisions of this Act shall be observed by the trade union and the members thereof. Do you think that they will take any ballots under this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "nder in introducing this Bill. Such a Bill does nothing other than irritate. It is all maybe but it never will be. If this Bill is given a Second Reading, trade unionists will come to the conclusion, and who will not say it is not the right conclusion, that other people's arms are opposed to them, and that if they are to defend their interests they must do it by adopting the doctrine of class war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "sent those professions play an insufficient part in the councils of the nation. How do we know that in the councils of the medical profession there is not any such intimidation? I am told that the actual management and direction of policy of the medical profession is in the hands of an aristocratic clique which has risen to the top, and they rule the medical profession with a very autocratic hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "d by the vast majority of trade unionists, because those facilities would give them democratic control. I am going to give a case of victimisation. An hon. Member of this House owed his victimisation to the political bias of a body of trade union officials. The hon. Member I refer to valued his membership of this House more than his membership of his particular trade union, the Miners' Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "., or at most 20 per cent, in different cases, so that 80 to 95 per cent, abstained from voting, the bulk of the trade unions were, affiliated to the present Labour party. I would like to give a few instances of the small numbers who voted on different occasions. I would remark in passing that I have been told that there are cases of lodges in which more voted than there were members of the lodge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.784.5", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We never heard of him !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "An extreme leader of the labour movement, Mr. J. Murphy, speaking at the National Conference of Working Class Associations which was held on May 30th, 1919, under the auspices of Ruskin College—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.784.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-23", "file": "debates1920-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b5cbfe0f1ad1dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN:", "preceding_text": "As one who has had twenty-five years' experience, may I say I do not recollect a single occasion upon which, had the provisions of this Bill been the law of the land, there would have been any change in the situation, or on which any single strike would have been averted. I desire to associate myself whole-heartedly with the sentiments expressed by my colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-23a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.817.9", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "I know it used to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.817.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.822.9", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROFITEERING ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Could not a committee of reliable salaried officials be set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.822.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Would the House be prepared to accept this proposal? On going through questions the first time, hon. Members should not be allowed to ask questions on behalf of others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" \"No!\" and \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "this proposal? On going through questions the first time, hon. Members should not be allowed to ask questions on behalf of others—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"No, no!\"]—will the House allow me to finish? After all those who are present have asked their questions. Then on going through the questions a second time, any hon. Member might ask questions on behalf of other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.858.6", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "Does it mean that when you reach a quarter to four, you will go back?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.858.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY. [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel AMERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel AMERY", "preceding_text": "t which they themselves contemplated. You cannot disentangle the debtor and creditor's interest in this way, and you must not involve the whole currency system of a country in complete chaos. As far as the legal situation goes, the position in East Africa was the same as in India, and by far the easiest course for the Colonial Office to have adopted would have been to have left things alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.910.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY. [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPOOR", "preceding_text": "#8212; As regards native policy, we must recognise in the first place that no hard and fast rules can be laid down as applicable to each and every tribe. We can only lay down a general policy allowing for elasticity to suit the various conditions of tribes. Our ideal must be to combine the progress and prosperity of the protectorate with the welfare of the natives. The white man must be paramount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.978.2", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY. [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "idence against the workers and the men who may be found in opposition to the British Government, and then the suggestion has been made that these men should be tried at the Old Bailey. I wonder what chance a political criminal would stand at the Old Bailey. We in the Labour movement in this country know something about political trials at the Old Bailey. A Labour man does not stand a dog's chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.978.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.978.2", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY. [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "oh!\"] I am making a statement upon facts, upon our knowledge of the kind of jury that is selected at the Old Bailey, arid I want to say that, so far as politics are concerned, those of us who are identified with the advanced Labour movement in this country know that our people at the Old Bailey have never got a fair show, because the juries have been selected by people who are political opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.978.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-26", "file": "debates1920-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "a42b02bf2909e651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY. [7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CROFT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that I was a rebel in Ulster. I would certainly have been prepared to go to fight for Ulster if any endeavour had been made to drive Ulster against her will out of a political system in which she desired to remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-26a.993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1046.5", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I withdraw the word \"impertinence,\" and I will say \"in his usual casual manner.\" May I ask the Home Secretary, particularly as he chooses to insult me in this way, which part of the question he considers to be as unfounded as usual? May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1046.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1047.7", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " in your opinion the rule so long in existence had not been abused, and that as a result of the alteration Members of this House who are to-day sitting in Committee upstairs, unable to ask their questions, have been deprived of the opportunity of having the questions asked for them, and that there are Members who never have sat, and have declared that they never will sit upon a Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1047.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he would take his courage in his hand, to meet the deficit resulting from the deletion of the tea duty. One Government official has estimated that the additional war wealth in the hands of 1 per cent. of the population amounts to £4,000,000,000. There is no suggestion of taxing that wealth, but the poor people who have made nothing out of the War—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"High wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e his courage in his hand, to meet the deficit resulting from the deletion of the tea duty. One Government official has estimated that the additional war wealth in the hands of 1 per cent. of the population amounts to £4,000,000,000. There is no suggestion of taxing that wealth, but the poor people who have made nothing out of the War—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—except sacrifices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "914, is greater in proportion than the in crease in wages. We have not kept up our wages in comparison with the in-creased prices. Let us be fair and under stand what these increased wages purchase for the people to-day. They do not purchase the same quantity or quality of commodities that people were able to purchase with their wages in 1913, and on top of this decreased standard of living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "preceding_text": "r of this increased duty, representing an addition of 15s. per lb. If the Leader of the House were present I would invite his support of my case, because when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer he once said that the enjoyment of an excellent dinner was largely dependent upon the quality of the cigar which followed the dinner. I cannot quite appeal on the same ground to Members of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no! We welcome it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "lessly inadequate income. They are the people who pay every time, and they are very inadequately represented in this House. They do not organise and have no unions. Any union they have ever attempted, so far as we have seen, has not proved politically successful. They cannot threaten to withdraw their labour. Probably hon. Members on the Labour Benches here would consider it to be of little value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are our principal supporters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": " ever attempted, so far as we have seen, has not proved politically successful. They cannot threaten to withdraw their labour. Probably hon. Members on the Labour Benches here would consider it to be of little value. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no! We welcome it.\"] I am glad to hear that we have at least that admission, that it is not only the person who soils his hands who labours in this country to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I have listened to three speeches at least of a remarkable character from the right hon. Baronet. In the first place, he wanted to get rid of the champagne tax; in the second place, he wanted to get the tax upon the separated incomes of the husband and wife, which is to get rid of part of the burden falling on the rich people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "er-Lampson) but the last speech of the right hon. Baronet has convinced me that I and the Labour party do not need to be lectured by the right hon. Baronet or the hon. Member below the Gangway on the methods of taxation. Now that the burden has got to be borne, the right hon. Baronet, and those associated with him, do not desire to meet the liability; but want to bear as little a part as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": " and those associated with him, do not desire to meet the liability; but want to bear as little a part as possible. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] The only conclusion anyone can arrive at to-night, after listening to the speeches of the right hon. Baronet, is that that side of the House do not want to bear direct taxation upon themselves, but they want to transfer it to the working-classes of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Baronet, is that that side of the House do not want to bear direct taxation upon themselves, but they want to transfer it to the working-classes of this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The time has come when the financial burden has to be faced. During the War, when a levy was made, the rich classes, to their credit, gave up their sons. But they are not now prepared to give up their money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I will, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I will, Mr. Speaker. [HON.MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] We will divide when I have finished. The effect of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I will, Mr. Speaker. [HON.MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] We will divide when I have finished. The effect of this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"]—I will wait—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Apologise!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I will, Mr. Speaker. [HON.MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] We will divide when I have finished. The effect of this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"]—I will wait—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] I will stand my ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Insulting remarks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I will, Mr. Speaker. [HON.MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] We will divide when I have finished. The effect of this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"]—I will wait—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] I will stand my ground.[AN HON. MEMBER: \"Apologise!\"] For what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.10", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "If my remark was offensive to the House, I will willingly withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-27", "file": "debates1920-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "0f165c917d11ed52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.10", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "If my remark was offensive to the House, I will willingly withdraw it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] But it does seem to me that now the time has come for payment, you are trying to evade your obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-27a.1179.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREEN", "preceding_text": "ifferences are not allowed, and that they are subject to the Excess Profits Duty. Then we have had the case of three partners who started in 1913, and also of those who served in the War. But what are the facts with regard to new businesses? The new business started to-day is entitled, before becoming liable to the Excess Profits Duty, to make 11 per cent., plus the directors' salaries, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Corporation Tax! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e for the taxation of the country. Since we have arrived at a stage at which there are, at any rate, no active military operations, due regard should be paid to the business objections to such a tax. I want to say at once that I entirely agree with the view of my right hon. Friend that there is no way of avoiding this tax this year. You have to provide the alternative, and I have not heard it yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "shonesty, and Members of this House cheered with such feeling that one assumes they must know something about it. We do not believe that it is fair in its incidence, but it is a remarkable thing that the same section of the House that fights the Excess Profits Duty is equally stern in its opposition to any other impost upon the War wealth which it owns and is unwilling to face the national burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "mate incidence of the War from a financial point of view. Whether this House likes it or not, this matter has resolved itself into a discussion as to whether the people have the ability financially to pay for the War, and to meet the needs for national development, or whether the masses of the people ultimately are going to be compelled to pay in money as they have paid largely in blood and tears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1315.2", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "here are more than 25 per cent. of the modern mills idle to-day. I will explain why later. In the steel industry there are several furnaces and section mills and bar mills and other kinds of mills idle to-day on account of the transition from producing shells to the production of steel used for purposes as in prewar days. If you go to Lancashire you have hundreds of mills idle in the cotton trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1317.2", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the cost of labour and coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "proprietor had no interest beyond the £48,000. The profits for the works that, year amounted to £203,991, subject to the Munitions Levy, so you see that in pre-war times this firm had an income of £30,000, and during the period of the War, with steel at £15 per ton, it made a profit of £203,991. What is the position to-day? Steel is not at £15, but at £24 a. hon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "and some of which I have put to those representatives of commerce and industry who have waited upon me with their objections to the Excess Profits Duty. I have heard a good deal to-day in the discussion about the inequality of a flat rate of Excess Profits Duty. I have suggested as an alternatitve to the representatives of commerce and industry that this tax should be graduated like the Super-tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " commerce and industry who have waited upon me with their objections to the Excess Profits Duty. I have heard a good deal to-day in the discussion about the inequality of a flat rate of Excess Profits Duty. I have suggested as an alternatitve to the representatives of commerce and industry that this tax should be graduated like the Super-tax. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Does the House like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Excess Profits Duty.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " will not do at this time of day. There might have been some case for it years ago, but it will not do now. The time has gone past. I leave it there to the right hon. Gentleman (the Home Secretary). I know and he knows the truth of all I have said. I am certain that he is in sympathy with me from his knowledge of the subject. While I make this appeal, I am not asking him for a definite answer now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Ulster Rebellion!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "ch have been suggested. I believe the Government are doing what they consider best in the interests of Ireland and this country, although I think they are making a great mistake. They are losing the support of British public opinion, and what is happening in Liverpool to-day is only a legacy of the weakness and indecision which has characterised their conduct in Ireland since the Easter Rebellion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "everyone whom you suspected or someone else suspected of something suspicious, and dragged them either to some prison in Belfast or here in England; and, again, you thought that these high-spirited people would remain silent. Having broken up the constitutional movement in Ireland, having driven 70 of my colleagues out of this House because we stood by you in your hour of Imperial emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: More.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "d, you introduce a Bill which the declared spokesman of the Government states is a Bill that will cause the indignation of every man, woman, and child in Ireland. If the Government are the Government I take them to be, I think the best thing to do is for them to get out of the country altogether. There would be as much order in Ireland if the Government was not there as there is now when they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-28", "file": "debates1920-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64284d49addc7444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "e is to be dislocated, a bad spirit is to be brought into the trade union movement, the forces of constitutionalism in the Labour movement are to be up against an attempt at direct action, not upon their own concerns, but upon the concerns of Ireland; and you have disturbed the Republic of America by bringing the poison of your Irish policy into the electoral conflicts that are taking place there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-28a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1459.2", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\" and \"Northcliffe!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": " to have an idea of the view of the British Delegation of what happened at the very important Conference at San Remo. The Conference was undoubtedly in many respects one of the most remarkable that has been held since the Armistice. Before the Conference there had been some misunderstandings, serious enough in themselves, but made grave by deliberate fomenting on the part of very reckless persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "haps the only democratic party which had retained any sort of weight in Germany. Take the Kapp revolution itself. There, too, we on these Benches had a sort of feeling all the time that our representatives—not necessarily our Foreign Office representatives—but our military representatives in Berlin were rather backing up and encouraging that movement, instead of urging its suppression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"That has been denied.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ion itself. There, too, we on these Benches had a sort of feeling all the time that our representatives—not necessarily our Foreign Office representatives—but our military representatives in Berlin were rather backing up and encouraging that movement, instead of urging its suppression. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The wireless station at Nanen, I think, was in charge of the British naval men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "entlemen opposite, the utmost indignation is exhibited, yet every speech that praises the Bolsheviks is cheered enthusiastically, and the names of Lenin and Trotsky are mentioned by them with every sign of approbation. I consider it is time we knew what exactly is the attitude of the Parliamentary Labour party on this question. I turn from that to deal with the subject about which I rose to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1525.3", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I said we wanted frankness. These reports have been published all over Germany, and they are known all over this country, and amongst the working-classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": " and I will come as near home as possible. Take our own Kitchen Committee. On the night the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced his Budget, and suggested—he did not carry it—50 per cent. ad valorem on cigars, the 2s. cigar in the smoking room went up to 2s. 6d. I know because I bought it. Is that a good example to set people throughout the country? Then wine and whiskey were put up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1584.3", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "t are you doing in the matter? \" The answer was: \" We have only received the rejoinder of the trade; we want to consider the rejoinder before we take action.\" I am not expressing any opinion on the merits of any of these matters; but I am saying that the public get the idea that there is deliberate and consistent delay in dealing with the charges that are made. I apologise for detaining the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1584.3", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": " on the merits of any of these matters; but I am saying that the public get the idea that there is deliberate and consistent delay in dealing with the charges that are made. I apologise for detaining the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"] Yes; I apologise, although the Government is to blame for bringing forward a Bill of this enormous importance at so late an hour. The country is watching this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-29", "file": "debates1920-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8b504039d59daf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1585.0", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAN REMO CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to detain the House with any useless words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-29a.1585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-30", "file": "debates1920-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "c1ffc50ae89efe58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-30a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-30a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-04-30", "file": "debates1920-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "c1ffc50ae89efe58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-30a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNISS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNISS", "preceding_text": " or may not be. If a Member wants to turn a Bill upside down it is not a Committee point. You are injuring a trade without any reason when the injury could be averted easily by this simple alteration of the Bill. Not only did Mr. Hobhouse apply himself to the list of birds which ought to be prohibited, but on our side also we prepared a list which contained far more names than Mr. Hobhouse's list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-04-30a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-03", "file": "debates1920-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "fe5240fedbfe9522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1700.6", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that the British Government will indicate their desire that no such Imperial Preference shall be applicable to the mandatory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1700.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-03", "file": "debates1920-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "fe5240fedbfe9522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1798.0", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEMNITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Elected person!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "rious to reflect that, after two or three hundred years, we should be contemplating in this House the passage of a measure which would very largely abrogate the rights and liberties secured for the people of this country when the Petition of Rights was passed through the House. That, however, is the case. I think it is Walt Whitman who speaks of the \"never-ending audacity of the executive person.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-03", "file": "debates1920-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "fe5240fedbfe9522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1822.0", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEMNITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MACKENZIE WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MACKENZIE WOOD", "preceding_text": "ould be quite prepared to support a Bill drawn on those lines. What is the principle we are asked to lay down in this Bill? It is simply this: that when the Government takes the property of any individual during a war, for the purposes of the war, presumably they should compensate that individual by paying to him the cost of the property whatever it may be, with a reasonable profit over and above.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-03", "file": "debates1920-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "fe5240fedbfe9522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1840.2", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEMNITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "n used for the purpose of prejudice, but how could it be otherwise than a statement of an ex parte character when put forward by those who are responsible for the Bill? Then the hon. Gentleman urged, at least I think he urged, that this Bill should not be read a Second time unless it was to be sent to a Committee of the Whole House. He knows, and I do not need to tell him why, that cannot be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-03", "file": "debates1920-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "fe5240fedbfe9522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1842.5", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEMNITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "egulation. What was the effect of that provision? It was that the go-by was to be given to the market price, but a reasonable price was to be paid, and, speaking generally, the basis was cost and a fair profit. What was the result? The vendors of that commodity got a very large profit, but if it had not been for that Regulation, they would have got an enormous profit more. Is that what is desired?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1842.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-03", "file": "debates1920-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "fe5240fedbfe9522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1842.5", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEMNITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": " Act of Parliament, the Act will point out to the claimant the tribunal to which he has to go. The award then will be a different kind of award. It will be either in the category of cases in which the claimant does not waive his official right, or in that in which the claimant has accepted a particular mode of satisfying the legal right, because the statute has pointed out to him what is the mode.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1842.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-03", "file": "debates1920-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "fe5240fedbfe9522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1854.0", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEMNITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Befor the Second Reading?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "it should be referred to a Select Committee, and before it goes to that Select Committee we will undertake to put in a clear form the ideas to which expression has been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1854.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-05-03", "file": "debates1920-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "fe5240fedbfe9522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1854.2", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEMNITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "In view of the promise of the Government to circulate in a White Paper the gist of the Amendments they are prepared to concede and also to commit the Bill to a Select Committee, I ask leave to withdraw my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-03a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-05-04", "file": "debates1920-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c697c237213dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.1894.3", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Economy!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "£45,000 was paid for the lease, and the ground rent is £3,850.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.1894.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-05-04", "file": "debates1920-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c697c237213dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.1942.2", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "How does the hon. Member know? What right has he to say that? I know of the case of a boy who told his mother that he would \"hate to be buried like a dog.\" Those were the words he used. That boy is dead, and that is how he is going to be treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.1942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-04", "file": "debates1920-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c697c237213dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISSION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "dominant note is that this is a national memorial and not a personal memorial. Something has been said in the same order of idea about the importance of making these memorials permanent. I cannot help thinking that is a mistaken view. You are going to have them erected very firmly in concrete. Is that sound? Is it really a reasonable thing to consider that they should last for three hundred years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-04", "file": "debates1920-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c697c237213dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.2036.0", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "SUPPLY [22ND APRIL].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"IS he there now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "Several hon. Members have alluded to the absence of the President of the Board of Trade. May I explain that my right hon. Friend is attending a most important meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.2036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-04", "file": "debates1920-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c697c237213dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.2036.2", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "SUPPLY [22ND APRIL].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman was interrupted during his speech by a number of hon. Members, who appeared to be anxious to discuss another question, and I understood that it was the wish of the House that that subject should be taken and not a matter upon which everybody is agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-04a.2036.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-05-06", "file": "debates1920-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "27528fd41fa7c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2209.7", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOUSTON", "preceding_text": "Is there any law or authority observed or exercised in the South and West of Ireland except Sinn Fein?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2209.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-06", "file": "debates1920-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "27528fd41fa7c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2310.4", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": ", between now and that date, a Bill must be passed to continue the life of the Ministry and to determine its functions. I ventured to recommend—again arising out of my experience—and after I had tendered my resignation, and therefore had nothing personal to serve in the matter—I advised the Government that the Ministry of Food should be kept in existence for a further five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-06", "file": "debates1920-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "27528fd41fa7c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2310.4", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "erefore had nothing personal to serve in the matter—I advised the Government that the Ministry of Food should be kept in existence for a further five years. [An HON. MEMBER : \"Oh!\"] I am telling the Committee what I did. My right hon. Friend interrupts, and his observation convinces me that I was correct in the advice I tendered. It has been urged that this would be a very protracted period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-06", "file": "debates1920-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "27528fd41fa7c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2320.5", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Double that! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ers' expenses have risen very high in the last two years, and therefore the old pre-War standards have gone. I would like to see the cost of production and the cost of the loaf come down. Is the Food Controller aware that last year the amount of wheat planted in this country went down 400,000 acres? Is he aware that wheat probably this year, planted last winter, will be down another 200,000 acres?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-06", "file": "debates1920-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "27528fd41fa7c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2320.5", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What about milk?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "u should encourage production. I do not want these controls one moment longer than is absolutely necessary. When control was taken off butter people said prices would soar; but the public had it in their own hands. They exercised their own remedy. They did not buy the butter at 5s. per lb. If prices are high then production is stimulated, but consumption is restricted. That is how the thing works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-06", "file": "debates1920-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "27528fd41fa7c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2365.0", "colnum": "2365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOWERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spotted dog!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOWERMAN", "preceding_text": "ed was that there is no reason why figs of inferior quality should not be sold at a lower rate than 1s. per lb., which the Minister explained was the maximum price. Then as to currants, they could well be sold at half the price at which to-day they are generally being sold. Perhaps I have a soft spot in my heart for currants, because as a lad I was very fond of what is known as spotted duff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-06a.2365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-07", "file": "debates1920-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "17c9d41554460710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-07a.2422.0", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASTARDY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY OF STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Shortt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY OF STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Shortt)", "preceding_text": "e at the Home Office, so far as we deal with children, are acting. I think it is the only true way in which to approach the subject, and I think measures which emphasise the difference, which perpetuate the brand of bastardy on a child, are bad in themselves. Of course, there are good points in this Bill, but most of them, as my hon. and learned Friend pointed out, are already the law of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-07a.2422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-07", "file": "debates1920-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "17c9d41554460710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-07a.2439.1", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASTARDY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TUDOR REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No, no! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TUDOR REES", "preceding_text": "these cases, and in a large number, undoubtedly, the sin or misfortune can be lived down. Private arrangements have been made, and the mother has been saved a certain amount of shame, while the father has escaped any consequences of what, after all, some people regard as a natural but unfortunate offence against our social order. This Bill is going to make a private arrangement utterly impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-07a.2439.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-05-07", "file": "debates1920-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "17c9d41554460710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-07a.2446.1", "colnum": "2446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASTARDY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Clause four.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel JOHN WARD", "preceding_text": "What Clause is that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-07a.2446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-05-07", "file": "debates1920-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "17c9d41554460710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-07a.2464.4", "colnum": "2464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITHE RENTCHARGE (RATES) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "then. It is a case where custom is stronger than law, therefore, I suggest that the whole of the legal part of the argument we have listened to justifying the parson escaping taxation is quite unsound. He shares in the produce of the land and he should take his share of the burden and pay his share of the burden on the land. That is the exact situation of the farmer who takes the other nine parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-05-07a.2464.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.34.8", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Certainly not.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the whole question of British relationship with Persia will be discussed by the Council at the same time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.34.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.116.3", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or too many inspectors!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "hat the middlemen are eliminated as far as possible. Every county market town to-day keeps going a large number of agents, auctioneers and dealers, all living on the industry, and to-day, when we ought to be applying our mind to some method of organising the industry, not merely in producing the food that is wanted, but in distributing it to the consumer, without too many people intervening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. GARDINER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. GARDINER", "preceding_text": "I desire to speak from the point of view of a tenant farmer, as I happen, as far as I know, to be the only tenant farmer in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. GARDINER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. GARDINER", "preceding_text": "sition to pay the agricultural labourers, and all round it was a pitiful exhibition. However hard it may be for such a man to give up being the proprietor of such an estate, for his own sake, I think, as well as in the national interests, the Bill makes it possible that that man should be dealt with. In Scotland, speaking generally, the cultivation is more advanced than it is in England generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.147.4", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": " at large, and especially by our Allies. Possibly that has been because of the difficulty of giving a full answer to a question on so complicated a subject. The history of the present Government in Russia is not altogether favourable to this country. When the revolution occurred, it overthrew the Government of Russia under the Tsar. The Russian Government immediately became hostile to this country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " Government action. The hon. and gallant Member who seconded the Motion spoke not only with wide experience, but indicated that his knowledge tended to show that Russia had nothing to export. The mover of the Motion made the same observation, which presupposes that if Russia had something to export, and if Russia, in their opinion, was full of good things, all the other objections would be waived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "bservation, which presupposes that if Russia had something to export, and if Russia, in their opinion, was full of good things, all the other objections would be waived. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am within the recollection of the House. If other Members make different deductions from the observations, they are at liberty to do so. I repeat what I gathered was the statement of the mover and seconder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "er is entering into negotiations with someone who is a representative of the Soviet Government. A distinction is being drawn between trading with Russia officially and trading with Russia privately. I submit that if we are not to trade officially with Russia because of the Red Terror, there is no justification for trading with Hungary, where there is a White Terror almost as had as the Red Terror.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "There are other pepole who do not work and they are never shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "al opinion, we are entitled to take a bigger view than the mere objection to the form of a particular Government. I repeat that our present methods in Russia are affecting the position in this country, because, whether this House realises it or not, there is a large mass of people in this country who feel that the continuance of the war with Russia is the continuance of a war on the common people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " suggest that those who get up and express an opinion contrary to that held by Members of this House necessarily endorse murder or outrage of any sort or kind. If that is not the suggestion the interruptions rather implied it. I merely state that not only in the opinion of the Members of the Party for which I speak, and in the opinion of the great mass of the working classes of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "ime Minister has said on many occasions how much he detests the Bolshevik regime, and I do not believe that there is any member of this House who would hesitate to express his opinion if he were asked whether he wanted the Bolshevik Government to be continued or not. I believe every Member, with perhaps some exceptions, would say that he desired the destruction of a Bolshevik Government in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lord Robert Cecil!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "e Bolshevik regime, and I do not believe that there is any member of this House who would hesitate to express his opinion if he were asked whether he wanted the Bolshevik Government to be continued or not. I believe every Member, with perhaps some exceptions, would say that he desired the destruction of a Bolshevik Government in Russia. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no\"] There might be one or two exceptions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am one of those who think that that is a very doubtful precedent. Supposing we had a right to do this; there was a war on between this country and France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.168.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why do you not let the Poles win it?", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ce established in the world is not an easy task. I wonder whether any of my hon. Friends who ride this particular prejudice have ever put themselves into the position of those who have got to consider the whole situation. We are responsible, not merely for what is to be done to-day, but we are responsible for the future. It appals me when I think what may happen unless peace be restored in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.170.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'GRADY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'GRADY", "preceding_text": "that, whatever may have happened in the past with regard to Russia, the question of commercial relationships being resumed with Russia should be undertaken now openly and freely. I throw out this challenge. I say that if I were to address the Chambers of Commerce of London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham or Glasgow, I should get a vote in favour of the action that the Government are now taking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-07", "file": "debates1920-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "be6dc4a5da1c2b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What were they doing there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "ia, and until they had released every British subject, naval, military, or civilian—not until then would he be prepared to meet the representative of the Bolshevist Government? On the very day Lord Curzon went to meet M. Krassin in this country, I received information that one of my greatest friends, a gallant officer in the Navy, and a number of his colleagues, were taken prisoners in Baku.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-07a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR WEALTH LEVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "a substitute, and that he discharged the functions admirably, though with somewhat of a Hibernian tinge of merriment, as if at a wake. These taxes, as introduced, would have produced money, but after they had stood the fire and criticism of all the hard cases which the House could not stomach, and which the Government could not justify, issued in a costly valuation which has never paid for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR WEALTH LEVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will have to increase it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Floating Debt. The Excess Profits Duty is more remunerative to the Exchequer. It is preferred, with their eyes open, by the classes who have to pay. That being so, they have had their choice and I shall now ask the House to maintain the Excess Profits Duty for this year at 60 per cent. I shall have to ask the House to maintain the Excess Profits Duty, or its equivalent, which I have not yet found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR WEALTH LEVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "men actuated by the ordinary motives of human action. I want most strongly to urge upon the attention of the House, and in particular upon the attention of those who sit opposite, this point. I would ask them, with all the seriousness and earnestness I can command, what are the fundamentals of the industrial and commercial situation to-day? I do not believe that their answer will differ from mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR WEALTH LEVY.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting for a moment that the right hon. Gentleman exercised any material and direct pressure, but I think he will agree that his presence at the Committee was bound to have its influence. I am not, however, dealing with that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " its independence was attacked again by Edinburgh and the House decided in favour of Leith. It was given a separate education area, and in 1918 the Boundary Commissioners granted the separate Parliamentary burgh to Leith and declined to include it in the City of Edinburgh. The whole of the inhabitants are practically united in begging this House to agree that Leith shall not lose its independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FORD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FORD", "preceding_text": "the sentimental question that this is a factious opposition which has been worked up by those working to the disinterest of Leith, and it is not in the interests of Edinburgh. I think we ought to make up our domestic quarrels, and cement a union which is not only geographical, and incidentally I would like to say, if I am permitted, that I would be prepared to bet my hon. and gallant Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "GAS RE0047ULATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "wise we should get. I realise the importance of an adequate supply of coal tar. It forms the basis of the dye industry, and it is required for a great many other purposes, but the coal tar supply should not be secured at the expense of the ordinary gas consumer. We should have some provision by which if the Board of Trade are going to impose this restriction the domestic consumer may be protected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "GAS RE0047ULATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed, agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I understood that that was so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.361.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "FIREARMS BILL [LORDS].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "e has, probably, Ireland in his mind, and he has, quite rightly, in his mind that somebody in Ireland ought to have the power to restrain people from carrying firearms, which may be right or wrong when we are discussing the thing in another direction, but when we know that the Resident Magistrates might grant the use of firearms to one class of people and absolutely deny it to another class—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.364.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-08", "file": "debates1920-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8207f9f4fad82620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.365.2", "colnum": "365", "heading": "FIREARMS BILL [LORDS].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"The 'Jolly George.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman will agree that that is a fairly possible outcome of the powers that are given in this Bill. Then he tells us that, among other things, it is to prevent the secret manufacture and the secret sale of arms to other Powers with which we may be on friendly relations. Does my right hon. Friend really at this time of night wish us to raise such a case as that of the \"Jolly Roger\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-08a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-09", "file": "debates1920-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb5716e50a07d93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.453.4", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And it is skilled labour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "e satisfied under those conditions, and I cannot help thinking that you have got the country into a thundering muddle over this matter. The agricultural labourer is not content to be sweated in this way, because he has to pay his share of the railway charges, and I think he is entitled to an equal wage with that of a railway porter, because he works harder and, more than that, he works more hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.453.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-09", "file": "debates1920-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb5716e50a07d93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "South Molton (Mr. G. Lambert). From beginning to end, it was redolent of the land, and I must say when I listened to it—and I listened to it with very great pleasure, and with a very great deal of agreement—I could not help thinking that it was curious that these staunch old Tory doctrines should have been put forward by a right hon. Gentleman who is a member of the Free Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-09", "file": "debates1920-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb5716e50a07d93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "preceding_text": "y compare the employment on the land with that in other industries, and one of the first things they will run up against will be employment as coal miners. The coal miners are getting very good wages—anything, I understand, from £4 to £6 per week. I say, without any disrespect to the miners, that it is an occupation that a man of ordinary intelligence could learn in several months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-09", "file": "debates1920-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb5716e50a07d93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A lot lost their sons, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ty. The old families fought in the War, they lost members of their families in the War; they have done their duty by England. I do not think the same can be said for the new landlords whom we are now establishing by this Bill. The tenant farmers of this country were not particularly forward in fighting for their country. Many of them sent their farm labourers to fight, and kept their sons at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-09", "file": "debates1920-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb5716e50a07d93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not such a coalition!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ion to the farmer, but also to the landowner, when it comes into effect. And that is to go on, no matter what change may come about in the composition of this House. You are attempting to tie the hands of Parliament, even when there is no longer a Conservative majority in this House. Suppose that at the next election we get a Labour majority, or suppose it is a Labour and Liberal Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-09", "file": "debates1920-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb5716e50a07d93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "cost of production. I hope that may be so, but I strongly suspect there is some rent entering into the figures given in the Bill as the cost of production of wheat at the present time. The Bill does state that in varying the prices rent shall not enter in. Good! But how about rates entering in? I understand that any increase in agricultural rates will be treated as an increased cost of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-09", "file": "debates1920-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb5716e50a07d93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.552.9", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was a temporary war measure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "t that for the first time we were imposing a heavy, severe, and disastrous control upon the farming industry, but we are doing nothing of the kind, because, as a matter of fact, we are largely freeing the industry by this Bill. The control we put in it is not only very much less than the control under D.O.R.A., but it is a great deal less than the control that exists under the Corn Production Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.552.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-09", "file": "debates1920-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb5716e50a07d93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "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 did not think it necessary to reply to that question, because the right hon. Gentleman (Sir D. Maclean) said he would press it through the ordinary channels. If it be the wish of the Opposition to have two days of Supply on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-09a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-10", "file": "debates1920-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c5d6fe6fb63c827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The sooner the better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I must warn the hon. and gallant Gentleman that, if he does not control himself, I shall have to ask him to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-10", "file": "debates1920-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c5d6fe6fb63c827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: The Attorney-General!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I believe the Chief Secretary is in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-10", "file": "debates1920-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c5d6fe6fb63c827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.586.6", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It has not been!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Member knows more about it than I do, why should he ask? The facts are exactly as I have stated, and it is important that that should be known, because, whatever may be the merits or demerits of our policy, it is very important that whatever action we take should be straightforward and above board, and in this case it has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.586.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-10", "file": "debates1920-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c5d6fe6fb63c827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.588.9", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.588.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-10", "file": "debates1920-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c5d6fe6fb63c827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.614.11", "colnum": "614", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "If there be any general desire not to take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.614.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-10", "file": "debates1920-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c5d6fe6fb63c827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. and gallant Gentleman wishes to misrepresent me. Might I point out that \"holiday\" does not necessarily mean a beanfeast. \"Holy day\" was the original sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-10a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-11", "file": "debates1920-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "58f721253f27be73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Companies to be liable for offences the same as individuals.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "icine as in human medicine, in animal surgery as in human surgery, and that the necessity for raising the status of these men, and giving them some sort of vested interest in their five years' work is not a thing entirely out of order. I would repeat again to the right hon. Gentleman that the county member is in quite a different position in this matter to the member for streets and streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-11", "file": "debates1920-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "58f721253f27be73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH RESORTS AND WATERING PLACES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote it fully!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "dmirable for invalids, but most unsuited to those who are in the most robust health. It is with the utmost regret that I find myself opposing any Bill introduced by my hon. and gallant Friend, whom I regard as far more than a Parliamentary character, but I do believe, with all my heart, that almost every Friday this House sits, it sits not but, to adapt the words of the Psalmist, it does mischief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-11", "file": "debates1920-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "58f721253f27be73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH RESORTS AND WATERING PLACES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "obust health. It is with the utmost regret that I find myself opposing any Bill introduced by my hon. and gallant Friend, whom I regard as far more than a Parliamentary character, but I do believe, with all my heart, that almost every Friday this House sits, it sits not but, to adapt the words of the Psalmist, it does mischief. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote it fully!\"] I could quote all the passage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-11", "file": "debates1920-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "58f721253f27be73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH RESORTS AND WATERING PLACES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HINDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Obviously!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HINDS", "preceding_text": "I support this proposal very heartily, and let me say why I intervene. I happen to be chairman of the Association of Health Resorts and Watering Places of the country. They are heartily supporting this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-11", "file": "debates1920-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "58f721253f27be73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH RESORTS AND WATERING PLACES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HINDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not Manchester?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HINDS", "preceding_text": "to be chairman of the Association of Health Resorts and Watering Places of the country. They are heartily supporting this Bill. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Obviously!\"] This Bill is optional. We do not make places spend if they do not wish to do so, but they are given the right if they wish to spend. At the present moment Blackpool has this power to spend. If Blackpool, why not Scarborough and other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-11a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.870.5", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!'", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I am the first hon. Member who raised the question of these prisoners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.870.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.884.5", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask the Prime Minister personally if his attention has been called to the intense anxiety of many of these temporary Civil Service men, and could he not take a personal interest in this matter, with the idea of setting aside a certain number of vacancies annually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "Can I have an answer to the last part of the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister use his influence to get them discussed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "r any such possibility still exists in the minds of right hon. and hon. Members on the Treasury Bench. In this matter we have come to the parting of the ways. If you want to test the type of power which you can give to this Council, you could not find a better type of power to give to them than the administration of the railways. Sectarian prejudices do not arise in the administration of railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Religious education!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ind a better type of power to give to them than the administration of the railways. Sectarian prejudices do not arise in the administration of railways. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] Some of my hon. Friends want to find sectarian prejudices everywhere. If two sets of people are determined to raise sectarian prejudices in everything, I dare say you could raise sectarian prejudices over a cattle market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "t see their way to go. To put the existing railways under dual control would be certainly to cause great anxiety, and I think it would cause confusion and chaos in the administration of the railways. Arguments have been used with reference to the Council. I do not propose to deal with any of them. I suggest that the discussion, interesting as it has been, has probably exhausted its useful purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "ured to make a speech, in which I said quite definitely that I could only support the Second Reading upon the assumption that the principle of the Bill was the ultimate unity of Ireland. This Debate has shown that a great many in the Committee, and the Ulster Members in particular, are regarding the Bill, not from that point of view at all, but from the point of view of making partition permanent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.984.7", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LONG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LONG", "preceding_text": "of the authorities in Ireland, and they pointed out quite clearly that this would mean that there would be three authorities in Ireland charged with dealing with the Fisheries. It may be quite true that here and there there are fishery waters wholly confined either to the Northern or to the Southern area, but in the great majority of cases these waters are partly in one area and partly in another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.984.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "nment may be able to tell us more than they have done as to how conflicts will be avoided, or, in the event of conflict between the Council and the Parliaments, who will have the overriding power? It occurs to me that a case may arise with regard to fares of workmen's trains. If this proviso passes will the local Parliament be able to impose the obligation to run workmen's trains at special fares?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-14", "file": "debates1920-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4fca5d4f006b730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.1026.3", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " Council should have some powers, properly safeguarded, to bring into law that which it has recommended for the good of the whole of Ireland, but which one of the two Parliaments, I care not whether it be the Northern or the Southern Parliament, has obstinately refused to put into operation. If this Bill is to be made a success and to lead to the creation of a happily united Ireland at any period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-14a.1026.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No, they are not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "Is it true that the police are now armed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1076.4", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To grapple with another ship?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I do not know. The officers on board the ships of His Majesty have not much use for their swords, but they have not been deprived of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1076.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They said it was too low a figure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "their principal object having been to establish this very figure, I do not see how at this stage the Government could be expected to throw them over. Let me point out another thing. The eleven members of the Royal Commission who recommended this figure included every single agriculturist on the Commission, with the solitary exception of the hon. and learned Member for East Grinstead (Mr. Cautley).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1195.2", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "stablish Home Rule. I should like to examine briefly the main arguments against the system especially with regard to Ireland. We have been told that it was introduced for Ireland without any mandate. Let us look at the reasons why it was introduced for municipal purposes. The late system of municipal elections in Ireland is completely broken down in one particular town. That was the town of Sligo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1195.4", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Nationalists' representatives. All parties were represented and were thoroughly satisfied. So great a success was it that when the Government talked of re-establishing municipal elections in Ireland they came forward to ask that that system should be applied to all municipalities in Ireland, and practically every party in Ireland, and all the newspapers, approved it and acclaimed the result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1195.4", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ction of municipal proportional representation in Ireland, and I say it is a gross misrepresentation of facts to say there was no mandate for it and that nobody asked for it. On the contrary, everybody asked for it, everybody was content with it, except the dominant party in Ulster, which is now opposing it. I do not wonder that they are opposing it. It has broken down their domination in Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ty, for instance. There were seven Sinn Fein Members returned; but when you came to the Dublin municipal elections in 1920 you found that the Sinn Feiners only got 42 of the seats, whereas the others together got very nearly the same number. That is a very considerable result. The Labour men got 15, Reform party 11, Nationalist 9, Independent 2, and the Unionists, in the name of Unionist, got one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nn Feiners only got 42 of the seats, whereas the others together got very nearly the same number. That is a very considerable result. The Labour men got 15, Reform party 11, Nationalist 9, Independent 2, and the Unionists, in the name of Unionist, got one. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Gentlemen who try to make a cheap joke upon that know perfectly well that a large number of the others were Unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-15", "file": "debates1920-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9350379247cb4c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. COOTE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only under Proportional Representation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. COOTE", "preceding_text": " in voting Unionist, we take it you vote to keep Ireland in bondage. Therefore, if you go to vote to-morrow, be prepared to meet your God, for you shall not return. What has been done in the South can be done in the North. The time for humbug is over. Signed by the black hand of Glenelly. Is this a fair method of electioneering? It is only under Proportional Representation that this could be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-15a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-16", "file": "debates1920-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de2f618f8ed40969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1312.2", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": " Associated Powers who, you say, have conferred this mandate upon you. The whole situation changed completely when you abolish the private company. The remark of my hon. and gallant Friend bears no relation to the new situation produced by this Bill which is an absolute innovation in the whole British Empire. Will this scheme be laid before the Council of the League before it comes into operation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-16", "file": "debates1920-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de2f618f8ed40969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "et us remember that—and while working under the German Government it traded freely with those who became subsequently the enemies of Germany. It traded freely with Australia and New Zealand, and I daresay with this country. Here we are going to preclude the possibility of a single ton of phosphate ever being sold to anybody except the three Governments concerned and for our own personal use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-16", "file": "debates1920-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de2f618f8ed40969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1331.3", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "he earnestness of which I am capable I would urge upon the Government, even now, to retrace this false step. Wherever you go the enemies of this country are manifold. There are large and powerful bodies throughout the world eager for any opportunity to misrepresent this country. We have not done well out of the war. This country has suffered in life and treasure in equal proportion to anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-16", "file": "debates1920-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de2f618f8ed40969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1344.0", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " nauseous to me. We have seized the island for strategical reasons; we propose to keep it because its deposits of phosphates are valuable. I admired the speech of the hon. and gallant Member in charge of the Bill. He told us the number of millions of tons of phosphates it was hoped would be got from the island. I think he said that the highest estimate was 300,000,000 of tons of phosphates a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-16", "file": "debates1920-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de2f618f8ed40969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it as read.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "what becomes of this one-half paragraph of Article 22 of the Covenant. The Lord Privy Seal has not dealt with that, and if the learned Attorney-General is going to reply, I should be glad to hear what his extremely acute legal mind can make of it. Article 22 has been read several times by hon. and right hon. Gentleman who have taken part in the Debate, and I only want to read the last three lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-16", "file": "debates1920-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de2f618f8ed40969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK NOTES (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "We are going to separate Ulster from the rest of Ireland, and this may have extraordinary effects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-16", "file": "debates1920-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de2f618f8ed40969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1413.0", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERTILISERS (TEMPORARY CONTROL OF EXPORT) BILL [LORDS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": " of the right hon. Gentleman made it perfectly clear that this Bill is a proposal for giving further assistance to farmers. The farmers are going to get the world price for their wheat. We are giving more financial assistance to the farming industry. There is, no doubt, excellent reason in the minds of those who favour this proposal for doing so, but the urban districts are being taxed to do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-16", "file": "debates1920-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "de2f618f8ed40969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1413.0", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERTILISERS (TEMPORARY CONTROL OF EXPORT) BILL [LORDS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "Debate and the judgment of this House. What is the bargain that has been struck with the French Government in return for introducing this Bill? The Defence of the Realm Act gives all the powers which are necessary at present. We do not know when the end of the War may be declared. It may not be for at least a year. Until that time the right hon. Gentleman can make whatever arrangements he pleases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-16a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"The Wearing of the Green!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "What does the right hon. Gentleman mean by \"disloyal songs?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1424.8", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "Does not this incident show how necessary it is to keep a British representative at the Vatican to put our case against that of the Sinn Feiners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1424.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1429.5", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman inquire as to whether there has been any contribution by the American Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The War Office!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ue; and he spoke eloquently and wisely upon both subjects. I do not think he exaggerated the power or the importance of the enemies. On the contrary, I should say he underrated them. In addition to the enemies he enumerated there are the whole of the forces of reaction, the whole forces of militarism and bureaucracy. They are all ranged against him. They must be against him from their very nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Conviction!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend who has just sat down, I am aware, thinks—how shall I put it—that while we have given an exposition of views, which on paper are not inconsistent with the opinions which he himself believes, yet that the Government has been so cold and calm, that I am quite incapable of dealing with the subject which, in his view, can only be properly approached in a state of red hot zeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Bolsheviks there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "e majority vote? If China be in it, what chance has Europe? I would beg this Committee to come down to the reality. It is a beautiful thing to speak about what the world should be, but East is East and West is West, And never the twain shall meet. We seem to overlook geography and climate. Picture for one instant what this House would be if we had Esquimos there, Red Indians there, Frenchmen here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "st, And never the twain shall meet. We seem to overlook geography and climate. Picture for one instant what this House would be if we had Esquimos there, Red Indians there, Frenchmen here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And Bolsheviks there.\"] Do you think—I am speaking quite seriously—that these various countries, each with a national character, will ever agree? It is so easy to stand here and talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "raid the League is abortive and a fallacy. America is laughing at us to-day. The Americans are essentially a practical people. Are we to disarm the whole of Europe and be the slaves of an armed American nation? America is building ships and arming them to-day. \"Be prepared\" is the motto of the Boy Scouts in this country and in other countries. It is a very fine organisation which teaches chivalry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "tion which we shall find ourselves very difficult to justify. The Leader of the House made the amazing statement that if the League of Nations did not approve of this bargain they could negative it. I could imagine nothing more harmful to this country and the practical ideals of the League of Nations than that one of their very first judgments should be to reverse a decision of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1610.3", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "3;3,500,000 for £1,200,000 of share capital, on part of which only 10s. per share has been paid. On his own showing, that is not such an excellent bargain. But the point as to whether it is a good bargain or a bad bargain is not really germane to the issue as to whether as the mandatory Power we are seeking to reserve for ourselves and our Colonies privilege which we are not giving to others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1610.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1611.2", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-17", "file": "debates1920-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6681578865edd61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAURU ISLAND AGREEMENT [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " of our pledge, diverted to another course altogether. Of course, the whole thing will be a farce. Our good faith will be impugned, and, one is bound to say, impugned with good reason. This arrangement should, of course, have been subjected to the criticism of, in fact it should have originated from, the Council of the League. [HON: MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because we have pledged our word that it should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-17a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1647.4", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "With all due respect may I say that, although I do not live in the country, I visit the country and post offices are open on Sunday night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "t has been found there, in spite of the sympathy we have for the small shopkeeper, that it is quite impossible and that it would be highly inequitable to make an exception on his behalf. The reason is very simple. If you enforce the rule as against one man because he has an assistant you must enforce it in ordinary fairness against his rival who is in the same street, but who has not an assistant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh! Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "preceding_text": " anybody else what they desire and what is in their own interests, and I hope the House will not listen to statements made by hon. Gentlemen who do not understand the shopkeeping class at all; and although they may say they represent them, my experience of such districts is that the Member very seldom visits the district and comes into personal touch with the shopkeepers, except at election times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "preceding_text": "e House will not listen to statements made by hon. Gentlemen who do not understand the shopkeeping class at all; and although they may say they represent them, my experience of such districts is that the Member very seldom visits the district and comes into personal touch with the shopkeepers, except at election times. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh! Withdraw.\"] Well, I am speaking from my own experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "preceding_text": "aking from my own experience. [ Laughter. ] I am sorry I have made the House laugh at my own expense, but I was speaking of my forty years' experience as a shopkeeper, and not of my few months' experience here. I represent here the district in which I have carried on business all my life, and therefore I am in personal touch with my constituency, which is more than the majority of Members can say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I think it may meet the general view of the House if we can come to some compromise or arrangement with my hon. and learned Friend, provided we are assured that he will help us to facilitate the progress of the Bill, and if it was the general desire that instead of the hours in the Bill we should take the middle course and make them eight and nine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "I sincerely hope the promoters of this Bill will not accept the proposed Amendment. I also appeal to the House that the House itself should not accept the suggestion to make the hour eight, because it has been pointed out that in doing so you will be putting the country in a worse position than it was in pre-War times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "of the spirit of the British people—I am sure with regard to this Amendment that it is one more attempt to encroach on the liberties of the British people for whom I have a right, as most hon. Members have a right, to speak. When the hon. Member who last spoke said that we were shedding tears over the ex-soldier, I assure him that I have in my wallet scores of letters from ex-soldiers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1700.3", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "If the Noble Lord, whose courtesy we have noticed for many years in this House, will keep himself composed for a few minutes, I will sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1700.3", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed? \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "If the Noble Lord, whose courtesy we have noticed for many years in this House, will keep himself composed for a few minutes, I will sit down. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I am surprised that I am exciting so much heat. This Bill, as far as I am concerned, matters very little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "Before the Amendment be accepted, I wish to say how much I congratulate the promoters of the Bill in coming to their decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-18", "file": "debates1920-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "59f8c326fedca9e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (EARLY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed, agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "Before the Amendment be accepted, I wish to say how much I congratulate the promoters of the Bill in coming to their decision. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"] It is all that we have been contending for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-18a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-21", "file": "debates1920-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc2f1428b64de092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-21a.1888.0", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends who have moved and seconded this Amendment have made the Clause a subject for more anxious controversy than the case warrants. As to the dire eventuality that has been shadowed forth, I do not think that any colliery company would be so silly as to act in the way described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-21a.1888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-21", "file": "debates1920-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc2f1428b64de092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-21a.1892.0", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I desire to put a point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-21a.1892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-21", "file": "debates1920-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc2f1428b64de092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-21a.1892.0", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " the omission of this Sub-section have made out a very strong case, and it is equally obvious that if the Sub-section is simply cut out great hardship would be inflicted on the other side. I would suggest that the addition of words similar to those at the end of Sub-section 3 \"and in the opinion of the Court greater hardship would be caused by refusing an order for possession than by granting it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-21a.1892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-21", "file": "debates1920-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc2f1428b64de092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-21a.1892.1", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Occasionally there are men who get notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-21a.1892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-22", "file": "debates1920-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e1722d344f028e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2087.0", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": ". I believe personally that these provisions are put in because the authors of this Bill desire to emphasise the difference between the North and the South of Ireland. They desire to keep alive as far as possible, to entrench, as some of my hon. Friends on these Benches have said, the North as far as they can so as to make it more and more difficult in future for there ever to be union in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-22", "file": "debates1920-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e1722d344f028e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What about the Rebellion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "ose same methods. They sounded a note of despair in respect of the futility of the operations that are proceeding, and they make a demand for those operations to be intensified—an absolutely illogical position. I think the outstanding fact of the situation at the moment is the change of feeling in Ireland. During the operation of the War no such feelings prevailed in Ireland as prevails now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-22", "file": "debates1920-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e1722d344f028e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2122.3", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh, oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "Murder was unknown in Ireland at that time, and Sinn Fein, as we understand it to-day, was hardly recognised as a force in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-22", "file": "debates1920-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e1722d344f028e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENRY", "preceding_text": " in Dublin and the detective department of the Metropolitan police. Does anyone suggest that they have been guilty of dereliction of duty? Does anyone suggest that the Royal Irish Constabulary have been guilty of dereliction of duty? They have given the lie to such assertion by the sacrifice of their lives. Is there any complaint against them? There may be a complaint against the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-22", "file": "debates1920-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e1722d344f028e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2132.1", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Terrorism!", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": "at he complains of, that they cannot get evidence. It is not only that apparently anyone can go and shoot a policeman in Dublin if he so desires, but it is the fact that that crime is seen by hundreds of people—as he says, by 25 respectable persons in a tramcar—and yet the feeling of the populace is so much with the criminals and against the Government that you cannot get any evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-22a.2132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-23", "file": "debates1920-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d615bcabb8419f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-23a.2287.2", "colnum": "2287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "been strongly aroused, and national sentiment is of much more importance than the extravagant whims of Whitehall. I have received hundreds of letters on this subject, not only because I have taken a somewhat prominent part in the matter in the House, but because from my peculiar position I get a great number of letters on any subject which touches the public mind or seizes the popular imagination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-23a.2287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-23", "file": "debates1920-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d615bcabb8419f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-23a.2313.3", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": " strength. We must get recruits. We do not want to find ourselves in the position we were in if there should be another war. We have to have an Army. One of the results of our policy before the late War was that we endeavoured to spend little, and we later found that we had to spend many millions which need not have been the case if we had had foresight. Recruiting is not good at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-23a.2313.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-23", "file": "debates1920-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d615bcabb8419f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-23a.2320.4", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "I see that it is quite necessary for the band to have red uniforms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-23a.2320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2348.5", "colnum": "2348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that this case was included in the official list of outrages published by Dublin Castle?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2432.0", "colnum": "2432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E.GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"For one railway\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E.GEDDES", "preceding_text": "But the agreement was made in 1915 during the War. In 1920 the estimate of the amount as given in evidence, is £1,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2433.2", "colnum": "2433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E.GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was the man that made the muddle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E.GEDDES", "preceding_text": "The agreement was made for the period of the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2436.10", "colnum": "2436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E.GEDDES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E.GEDDES", "preceding_text": "ilway of the country, and I have had a varied experience. I have had a representative investigating this matter in the principal hotels. He has just finished his work, and he reports that in 33 per cent. of the hotels the cost of the wines and other charges might well be raised to keep them in line with the cost outside. If these prices were put up to the extent of 5s. a bottle on champagne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2436.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2454.1", "colnum": "2454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": " after full consideration, has decided not to recommend national ownership. At the same time, the Cabinet is profundly impressed with the need for enabling the railways to economise in every possible way, to encourage them to economise, and to remove the handicaps under which they are suffering, which are great. I could enumerate the handicaps, and if the Committee wishes me to do so I will do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2457.5", "colnum": "2457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "Apart from any objection that might be taken, time is the essence of the matter at this period of the year, and I am afraid I cannot promise that. My right hon. Friend's wish is to meet the general desire of the Committee. I have spoken to him now, and he is quite ready, instead of making his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2457.5", "colnum": "2457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "jection that might be taken, time is the essence of the matter at this period of the year, and I am afraid I cannot promise that. My right hon. Friend's wish is to meet the general desire of the Committee. I have spoken to him now, and he is quite ready, instead of making his speech—[HON. MEMBERS \"Go on!\"]—to circulate the proposals of the Government in the form of a White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2457.5", "colnum": "2457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "iod of the year, and I am afraid I cannot promise that. My right hon. Friend's wish is to meet the general desire of the Committee. I have spoken to him now, and he is quite ready, instead of making his speech—[HON. MEMBERS \"Go on!\"]—to circulate the proposals of the Government in the form of a White Paper—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—if that will meet the wishes of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2465.1", "colnum": "2465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two thousand a year!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "The Government propose to create a Minister of Mines who is not to be a separate Minister, but an additional Secretary to the Board of Trade with a salary of £1,500 per year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2485.0", "colnum": "2485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. FANNERY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. FANNERY", "preceding_text": "I am in the recollection of the Committee, and I shall be quite content to abide by a comparison of what appears in the OFFICIAL REPORT to-morrow. I repeat that the suggestion of the Member for Paisley was that the country should be contented with the audit of the companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2524.0", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "I desire to reply very briefly to my right hon. Friend (Sir D. Maclean) on the subject of the agreement in which Lord Ashfield's name has been mentioned. It was suggested that I had attacked Lord Ashfield, and that I had suggested that something which he had done was improper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2524.0", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "I desire to reply very briefly to my right hon. Friend (Sir D. Maclean) on the subject of the agreement in which Lord Ashfield's name has been mentioned. It was suggested that I had attacked Lord Ashfield, and that I had suggested that something which he had done was improper. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] That was suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-24", "file": "debates1920-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f43cb84c552e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2532.0", "colnum": "2532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "hey were requisitioned, quite irrespective of the cost of replacing them. The railway companies have received entirely different treatment. Nothing but good can come of postponing this discussion. This Debate does not present a very pretty picture to the country in which one Minister is attacking his predecessor, and in which the head of a great Department proceeds to discredit another Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-24a.2532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-25", "file": "debates1920-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4656243eae88d8dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-25a.2565.1", "colnum": "2565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESIDENT MAGISTRATES (IRELAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Beaconsfield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "abolishing the different classes of magistrates. There must have been some reason for it. The suggestion was made by the hon. Member for Woodvale that these resident magistrates were the result of a measure passed by an ultra-Tory-Radical Government. The Bill was passed in 1874, and I am under the impression that Lord Palmerston was Prime Minister and that was not an ultra-Tory-Radical Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-25a.2565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-25", "file": "debates1920-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4656243eae88d8dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-25a.2610.2", "colnum": "2610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS [PENSIONS AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are all friends of the blind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": " the difficulties, and I think the Minister in charge of this Bill should take advantage of our experience in this matter, and should alter his proposal. I suggest he should do away altogether with the qualifications, and give a pension to the blind at the age of 50, irrespective of their income. All the speeches this afternoon against this financial Resolution have come from friends of the blind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-25a.2610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-25", "file": "debates1920-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4656243eae88d8dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-25a.2617.2", "colnum": "2617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS [PENSIONS AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Gainsborough were in business and he was going to advise someone who was about to engage in a business transaction, would he advise them to accept every offer they received, without question? If so, he would not make a very profitable business man. If we pass this Resolution as it stands no better provision will be made for the blind for a number of years, possibly for a generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-25a.2617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-25", "file": "debates1920-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4656243eae88d8dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-25a.2630.2", "colnum": "2630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS [PENSIONS AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"Divide, Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Where an hon. and gallant Member who was instrumental in getting the House to vote additional millions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-25a.2630.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. WILLIAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The wrong word!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WILLIAMSON", "preceding_text": "That is the word use in the Press and elsewhere. I suppose the telegraphist thought it was most convenient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 56.—(Allocation of Existing Officers between Southern and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "—that their own Civil Service is honeycombed with Sinn Fein, and the party of tolerance which is always afraid of Popery in Ireland sweeping away Protestants, desires to get power to sack all the Sinn Feiners employed in the service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 56.—(Allocation of Existing Officers between Southern and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sack the lot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "y Protestants, desires to get power to sack all the Sinn Feiners employed in the service. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not!\"] Therefore, we find that the cry of intolerance is not entirely true of one party, and not true of the other. This is an Amendment to give power to the Northern Parliament to sack everybody who does not agree with them politically, and to do it at the expense of the British taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.100.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 64.—(Repeal of s. 16 of 21 & 22 Geo. 3, c. 11 (Irish).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What is the Act here referred to?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This is purely a drafting Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 70.—(Short Title and Repeal.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "overnment for Ireland through Parliament. It took six years and two General Elections to do it in the past. All that achievement it is proposed to sacrifice by Sub-section (2) of this Clause. The Subsection is the justification for violence. When the Act of 1914 was under consideration opponents of that Measure proceeded, with the assistance of the First Lord, to organise rebellion. They have won.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.155.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 70.—(Short Title and Repeal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTONE", "preceding_text": "May I explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.172.4", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 70.—(Short Title and Repeal.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "d that they are able to solve any question. But with all that great ability not a single member of it has come down here and made any solid suggestion which would carry out their ideas or their pledges. Instead of that, we have occasionally had an excursion of a genial character from the right hon. Gentleman (Sir D. Maclean) and of an insolent character from the hon. Gentleman who sits beside him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-28", "file": "debates1920-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "7ca05fc724cb0323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 70.—(Short Title and Repeal.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "atisfy Irish aspirations? Is it a Republic? Is that the only alternative? No one from Ireland has said that there is any other alternative. There is none that I know of. No one comes from any section in Ireland and proposes any other. Nobody comes from any section of the Labour party and proposes any other alternative. No one comes here from any section of the Liberal party and proposes any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-28a.174.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-29", "file": "debates1920-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1b067a25e52bc26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I only desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-29", "file": "debates1920-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1b067a25e52bc26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-29", "file": "debates1920-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1b067a25e52bc26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPARTMENTAL ANSWERS (POSTAGE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Post them in the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT", "preceding_text": "st Office, it is necessary that it should be posted in some recognised way in the Department and by the Department, before it can be passed through the Post Office. Otherwise, any individual in the country could simply get a number of these envelopes and print on them \"On His Majesty's Service\" and the name of some Department, and post them, and they could go through the Post Office without check.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-29", "file": "debates1920-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1b067a25e52bc26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPARTMENTAL ANSWERS (POSTAGE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT", "preceding_text": "the Government grant this concession to the limited extent to which they are prepared to grant it, and which is the only extent to which they can grant it—in regard to the Post Office, how much more should they grant it in respect to the railway? The increase in Members' expenses in regard to Post Office matters is only a tithe of the increase of Members' expenses in regard to railway fares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-29", "file": "debates1920-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b1b067a25e52bc26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.404.7", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPARTMENTAL ANSWERS (POSTAGE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ILLINGWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ILLINGWORTH", "preceding_text": " in getting a very great deal more correspondence to Members. I think the offer which has been made is a very generous one. If any hon. Member does not wish to pay the postage, he has only to send to the Department and to ask that that reply shall be sent from the Department. I think that that meets the point entirely. Hon. Members who have spoken have simply wanted to save the expense of postage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-29a.404.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-30", "file": "debates1920-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6870b3009867997f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.437.9", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TURKEY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.437.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-30", "file": "debates1920-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6870b3009867997f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": " grounds which would extend nationalisation, not only to the ownership of the minerals, but to the ownership of the whole of the land of this country. He has talked of the possessions of these people in coal and the minerals in the earth, and he says that because they are put there by nature or Providence, and not by the act of man, they ought, therefore, to be the property of the nation at large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-30", "file": "debates1920-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6870b3009867997f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "Member who spoke about the risks attendant upon men who go underground. I think they are terrible risks. The casualties amongst the coalminers are terrific. There are, I believe, about 1,500 deaths per year, and ten times as many casualties. I saw it put down that the casualties in our coalmines during twelve months were equal to the whole of the casualties of the Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-30", "file": "debates1920-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6870b3009867997f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Whose opinion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "ll us whether it is really possible that this financial Resolution might be put forward in a more generous spirit. I see my hon. Friend opposite who has done more than any man in the House to get generous treatment of the pre-war pensions. I hope he will join with me, and I congratulate him on the measure of justice he has obtained in this Resolution, but in our opinion it is not sufficient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-30", "file": "debates1920-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6870b3009867997f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\" \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "if he would save some of the millions he is going to spend on keeping girls and boys at school until the age of sixteen, a little more money might be given to these unfortunate people, who have struggled and done good service to the country in the years that are past. These unfortunate people have to meet the higher cost of living, and it is only right that they should receive adequate assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-30", "file": "debates1920-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6870b3009867997f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\" \"Take it as read!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "has been done by teachers in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, who have spent the best years of their life in teaching the younger generation, deserve better treatment than is proposed in this Resolution. It is proposed that pensions exceeding £50 but not exceeding £100 in the case of an unmarried person, or £130 in the case of a married person, should be increased 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-06-30", "file": "debates1920-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6870b3009867997f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "aking on Wednesday evening. On Monday we voted the money for the Government of Ireland Bill not provided for in the Budget. On Tuesday we voted a credit of £26,000,000, and we voted this sum of £850,000. To-day we have set up a new Ministry the charge for which no man can possibly foresee and to-night we are adding a permanent charge of £1,750,000 to the expenditure of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-06-30a.607.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.620.7", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Get evidence!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is impossible for the Secretary for Ireland to take legal steps until we have evidence, which is legal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.620.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the right hon. Baronet for asking that question. That certainly is a view which is arguable on the part of the railway companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " were presented by the Minister of Transport last week. I took occasion then to make some observations on the character of this Estimate and to point out that, in my judgment, and I gave reasons for that judgment, there was no justification for the creation of this gigantic Department, and that by a proper and necessary addition to the most efficient Railway Department of the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" The North-Western Railway Company.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " was come to by the Cabinet. I was Prime Minister. The right hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Bonar Law), and I think the right hon. and learned Gentleman (Sir E. Carson), were Members of that Cabinet. It was told to every railway company in the Kingdom. There is a suggestion here in this speech that it was only discovered by the casual reading of a letter written to the North-Eastern Railway Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who voted against it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "lato although he did not always do so—were of opinion that the highest life, and the best exercise of the energies of man, was the life of contemplation. They thought it greatly superior to the life of action and practice, immersed, as they said, in matter. How they, in those ideal communities which they were fond of creating, would have rejoiced at the erection of the Ministry of Transport!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir JAMES REMNANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JAMES REMNANT", "preceding_text": "I beg to move \"That the Vote be reduced by £100,000.\" This is the second day of the Debate on this subject, and we have not very much longer to debate this question, as I understand that another Bill is to be taken at 8.15.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARSHALL STEVENS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, not in the new Parliament!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARSHALL STEVENS", "preceding_text": "tary in his speech said: The Government propose to set up a Ministry to maintain for the two years dur-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 those two years to consider the whole question and to consider it with the assistance of the Committee of this House, which is still in existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.797.2", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "ting with the farmers on the mainland in the markets? None whatever. It is simply a corner of the map to the right hon. Gentleman and the Ministry, but I claim that the right hon. Gentleman ought to take these islands into his purview when drawing up a scheme for co-ordinating and developing the transport services. Then there is the passenger traffic. I have not been to my constituency for a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.797.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-01", "file": "debates1920-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e43e08295e8872b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [15TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Common sense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is a judge. You are asking a permanent official of the Government to decide what is in the public interest Now, what will guide him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-01a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-02", "file": "debates1920-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "4b9cfccb6dde1ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-02a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "e friendly society movement in this matter—I say that I am concerned with the practical possibilities in this matter. I am one of those who seek to establish and maintain harmony in the State. I have risked a good deal and have done much in recent years to create better understanding between employers and employed. There is much behind this proposal of the class antagonism to which I object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-02a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-02", "file": "debates1920-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "4b9cfccb6dde1ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-02a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "h in recent years to create better understanding between employers and employed. There is much behind this proposal of the class antagonism to which I object. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No!\"] I have always expressed myself fearlessly here, but with due regard to the feelings of others. At least I may put it this way: I have the apprehension that there is much class antagonism in support of this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-02a.972.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1002.9", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TURKEY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Straits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "Did I understand the right hon. Gentleman to say \"protection of the States\"? What States?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1002.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1022.6", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MESOPOTAMIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "Are you aware that Mr. Speaker was not willing to allow a discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1022.6", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MESOPOTAMIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "Are you aware that Mr. Speaker was not willing to allow a discussion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]—as to whether the League of Nations was going to take action in regard to Poland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1022.6", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MESOPOTAMIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "Are you aware that Mr. Speaker was not willing to allow a discussion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]—as to whether the League of Nations was going to take action in regard to Poland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]—which obviously was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer quoted Mr. Gladstone as having said that direct and indirect taxation were twin sisters. I would ask the right hon. Gentleman in other respects he is endeavouring, or will endeavour, to found himself on the model of Mr. Gladstone? As I understand it, twins are born at the same time. They are of about the same weight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "f the country; I do not care how small it may be. Of course it is much easier as an electioneering move to go down to one's constituents, and suggest doing away with all duties on tea, sugar, and so on, but the honest thing for Members of Parliament to do is to tell their constituents that there has been a war, that it has been for the benefit of the wage-earning class as well as of other classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "f the amount of evidence that was taken. I have some knowledge of Committees and more perfunctory sittings I cannot imagine than are shown in the Report which I have before me. Two of the witnesses were associated with the company, and the third, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. J. H. Thomas) actually came before that Committee not caring two pence about the poor of London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon if I have transgressed the rules. The Bill has not been properly considered. The Instruction of the House was wholly ignored by the late Committee, and if the House allows that sort of thing to happen we will never know whether or not an Instruction of the House will be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "I propose to withdraw my first Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-05", "file": "debates1920-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb1ea74202ef6c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the end of August!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend shakes his head again. How will he prevent it going into the pockets of the Exchequer? So far as the Exchequer is concerned, so long as the period of control lasts, precisely the same result will happen so far as the money is concerned as has been happening during the previous period of control. It is perfectly right to say that when we have emerged from the period of control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-05a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1206.4", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why avoid it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I hope I may be permitted to make a personal statement. I have not personally the slightest desire to avoid any Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral ADAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has gone dry, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral ADAIR", "preceding_text": " on champagne, it will be, if my Amendment is carried, only 2s. this year. I do that by way of encouragement to these devastated districts. The champagne industry has been very seriously prejudiced in other ways. The United States of America, one of the largest markets for it, has gone dry. Russia, which was also a very large market has gone red, and, I presume, will not hereafter drink champagne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral ADAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is\" and laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral ADAIR", "preceding_text": "conomy is going to pay a couple of pounds for a bottle of champagne. Anyhow, that is my opinion. He should rather buy Exchequer bonds. I am glad to say that the City companies are setting an example in this matter. One of them actually notifies in the press that at their entertainments in future champagne will be banned. There goes one source of revenue. At public dinners it is disappearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "classes who open bottles of champagne on the occasion of weddings, christenings, and so on. They are going to be hit very hard by this additional duty. The profiteer does not care for this champagne tax. He will only charge a little more for the necessities of life in which he is profiteering. You are going to still hit another class. The people in the mining villages of Yorkshire drink champagne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRESCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRESCOTT", "preceding_text": "he proposed new tax. That represents an increase of something like 10 per cent. for the pleasure motors, whilst for the commercial motor user it represents an increase of well over 300 per cent. Those are facts which I think the hon. Baronet will find it difficult, if not impossible, to refute. I fail to understand why it is alleged that an excessive burden is being placed upon the pleasure motor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!'", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "pertax may be abused, and that in the supertax you are getting day by day and year by year more and more gross evasions. After all, dividing property among the children is not so much an evasion, but there are many less reputable ways of evading the Income Tax than that. I think it is actually a Member of this House who has invented perhaps the most skilful way of evading Income Tax that is known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The scheme!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "gross evasions. After all, dividing property among the children is not so much an evasion, but there are many less reputable ways of evading the Income Tax than that. I think it is actually a Member of this House who has invented perhaps the most skilful way of evading Income Tax that is known. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!'] He is not here. I would not give his name. I would not give him away for worlds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MINES [SALARIES AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENWICK", "preceding_text": "Am I correct in interpreting what has been said by the President of the Board of Trade, that this £250,000 will be largely used in connection with the raising of the wages of the miners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1386.3", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MINES [SALARIES AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two syllables\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": " pool, the amount received by the Exchequer would have been so much more, and therefore in effect the argument was that the Exchequer was paying the expenses of the Coal Control Department. I ventured to say that the Exchequer had no right whatever to touch that pool, and nothing but an Act of Parliament could enable it to do so. He greeted that remark of mine by the monosyllable \"nonsense\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MINES [SALARIES AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "Personally I am entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MINES [SALARIES AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "ssary. It is an outcome of the passion of the Government for a new bureaucracy. It is part of the desire of those who are in power to-day to fix upon the people burdens which they cannot possibly bear. I beg my hon. Friends who have listened to the speech of the Member for North East Derby (Mr. Holmes), who has shown that my right hon. Friend has not put the matter candidly before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MINES [SALARIES AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "se before they commit the country to this new expenditure. My right hon. Friend opposite has been as fair as he can, and I am sure everyone will recognise the courtesy with which he has answered my hon. Friend. Last night, he frankly admits, he was mistaken in certain particulars. To-night he has come here and with all courtesy has put his case before the House, but he has not convinced the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-06", "file": "debates1920-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2c86c7e6c382cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF MINES [SALARIES AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "at more than that. We are putting a burden of £2,000 on the back of the taxpayer. I see the Leader of the House here now, and even he is smiling at my sincerity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-06a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Why,\" and \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": " Dyer from his employment in India and that he has been informed that no further employment will be offered to him in India and that he has in consequence reverted to half-pay, and that the Selection Board in India has passed him over for promotion. These decisions the Army Council accept. They do not consider that further employment should be offered to Brigadier-General Dyer outside India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1414.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1414.3", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "That is very improper and disorderly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1425.9", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I think it will be wise for the hon. Member to wait—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1425.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1441.5", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that over and over again public Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1441.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1486.7", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [CIVIL CONTINGENCIES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I beg my right hon. Friend's pardon, but I did not hear him. May I with very great submission say that I am not alone in this matter, and that those of us who sit up here rarely hear what right hon. Gentlemen on the Front Bench say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1486.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1496.3", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": "Is the income still aggregated even when they are living apart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1522.4", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ing political economy much more quickly than did the upper and middle classes. Above all things, they are learning that it, is not the person who first pays a tax, the person who actually puts down the cash, who ultimately pays the tax. It is the indirect effect of taxation that really hits them. After all, we pay this Income Tax, but we know that we do not really pay it; we pass it on, you and I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1522.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1577.3", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I want to enter my protest against the Stamp Duties, because they are doubling the charge for every transaction connected with stocks and shares and property generally, while leaving all charges in connection with real estate as they were. This is a direct penalisation of industry for the benefit of the landed interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "a Second time. I have never yet understood why the Government were able to increase the ordinary penny postage without legislation, and when we come to such an ordinary transaction as the amount that shall be paid for receipting accounts, it requires legislative sanction. On the general question of the amount of the increase, after all it is 2d., and it does not sound much, but it is 100 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Church\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "Committee; and I do want to have my hon. Friends with me in the lump if we go to a Division. If, however, the right hon. Gentleman doubts what I am saying, I may have to read the whole of this correspondence. As a matter of fact, I think I will spare him that. I will give him a short summary of it. There is the question of stamped receipts, for instance, for such worthy objects as church purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1580.0", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "We are acting under the authority of the Post Office Act of 1908.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-07", "file": "debates1920-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2ff7b77b011c2189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would be a very good cause!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with my hon. Friend opposite that that indeed would be a charity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-07a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1709.5", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "preceding_text": "As you grind your machinery and turn your graduate out of the University you are going to dub him as belonging, at any rate, to the class from which your opponents come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1709.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1710.6", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "preceding_text": "you enforce it both in the keeping of order and in administration. I am trying to avoid any discussion of details which do not, to my mind, affect that broad issue. I am going to submit to this House this question, on which I would suggest with all respect they should vote: Is your theory of domination or rule in India the ascendancy of one race over another, of domination and subordination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1710.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1710.6", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "preceding_text": "this House this question, on which I would suggest with all respect they should vote: Is your theory of domination or rule in India the ascendancy of one race over another, of domination and subordination—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—or is your theory that of partnership? If you are applying domination as your theory, then it follows that you must use the sword with increasing severity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1710.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1710.6", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "preceding_text": "n or rule in India the ascendancy of one race over another, of domination and subordination—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—or is your theory that of partnership? If you are applying domination as your theory, then it follows that you must use the sword with increasing severity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—until you are driven out of the country by the united opinion of the civilised world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1710.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1710.6", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bolshevism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGU", "preceding_text": "ia the ascendancy of one race over another, of domination and subordination—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—or is your theory that of partnership? If you are applying domination as your theory, then it follows that you must use the sword with increasing severity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—until you are driven out of the country by the united opinion of the civilised world. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1710.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1711.4", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "So should Ulster!— [Interruption.]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD GRITTEN", "preceding_text": "He ought to resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1711.4", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "preceding_text": "So should Ulster!—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1711.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "der, I won the approval of the Lieut.-Governor of the Province—the man best acquainted with the situation—I was given promotion, I was sent to do more and more difficult jobs from day to day, and eight months after you tell me that I shall never again be employed, and that I have disgraced myself by inhumanity and by an error of judgment.\" I suppose he will have to bear his punishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member opposite may be sure he is so beneath contempt that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1726.3", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I agree, and it is in regard to Ireland that I am specially making this remark—or until they have actually begun fighting. Armed men are in a category absolutely different from unarmed men. An unarmed crowd stands in a totally different position from an armed crowd. At Amritsar the crowd was neither armed nor attacking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1733.0", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " made no attempt of any sort or kind to meet the points which have been submitted to the Committee by the Secretary of State for War. He had two suggestions, and two only, to support his general allegation of hardship and grievance. The first was an extraordinary one—that General Dyer had not had a trial General Dyer's case has been considered on his own evidence before the Hunter Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1733.0", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "he General saw fit to prohibit the holding of a public meeting, and he went round the town with an escort and with drums for the purpose of communicating that prohibition to the population. The meeting, nevertheless, was held. As my right hon. Friend has just pointed out, it was a meeting of unarmed persons. I think that I am right in saying that there were women and children there as well as men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1791.3", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member would prefer in this connection Gibbon's \"Decline and Fall.\" But the real point is this: Are we to try to carry on the great position we have to-day by the terrorism of subject races?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you out for the job?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "preceding_text": "o is supporting those who are trying to carry out the law. If the right hon. Gentleman continues, we are going on the right road to lose India The most graceful thing he could do now would be to resign. I would even prefer that the usual method of the Government should be proceeded with and that he be given, if necessary, a more important appointment rather than he should be allowed to ruin India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1806.0", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "neral Dyer's difficulties, and I would remind the Committee of this also, that in the dispatch sent by the Secretary of State for India those difficulties are pointed out, and are emphasised. The majority of the Hunter Committee came to this decision, that, in their view, General Dyer was open to serious criticism on two grounds. The first was, that he had not given notice before he began to fire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "The Hunter Committee express the opinion that the firing without notice would have been justified had General Dyer thought he was in danger of being attacked by the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!\" and\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": " would have given notice.\" That, I think, in itself is a proof that notice ought to have been given. When a soldier is in the position of representing the Government, as, of course, a soldier exercising martial law is, if it would have been right for him, from the point of view of his own protection, to have given notice first, it was his duty also to think of the moral position of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-08", "file": "debates1920-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6f8d6983320b7d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "PUNJAB DISTURBANCES. LORD HUNTER'S COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "ch would be worse, not only for the country, but for the Army. Are you really going to take the view—for that is what it amounts to— that if a soldier make a mistake in any portion of his life or activities—on the battlefield for instance—he has to pay for it, but if he make a mistake when dealing with civilians, whatever that mistake may be, then the Army must back him up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-08a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1837.0", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "er for 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 members of friendly societies of the working classes who are not trade unionists. I want to be brutally frank over this job. I am a trade unionist and speaking in the interests of trade unionism, and if the scheme is accepted by the Minister of Labour the hon. Member for Edmonton and his friends will set up an organisation that is going to compete with trade unionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1837.0", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": " his friends will set up an organisation that is going to compete with trade unionism. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Let me complete my argument. Trade unionism to-day is created for the purpose of protecting its interests rightly or wrongly, rightly in my opinion, against an economic system that has compelled the creation of trade unionism. To protect its interests effectively it must be watertight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1837.0", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "he creation of trade unionism. To protect its interests effectively it must be watertight. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If we have the friendly societies setting up machinery to compete with trade unionism, what is going to happen? It is said that it would set up a trade union. It would not be a trade union within the actual meaning of the word, but would be a trade union to which employers can go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1837.0", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "must be watertight. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If we have the friendly societies setting up machinery to compete with trade unionism, what is going to happen? It is said that it would set up a trade union. It would not be a trade union within the actual meaning of the word, but would be a trade union to which employers can go—[HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"]—and there are employers who will go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1839.1", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a friendly society.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": " nearly related to it. He called my attention, when outside, to the fact that these people were applying for qualification under the National Health Insurance Act with this title. Let me put another case. I may be a little mixed in my titles, because there is such a multitude of friendly societies. I want him to imagine the Master Builders' Association going to the Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1843.1", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "Then they are absolutely certain to get a monopoly of the administration of sick insurance. Very few people will take the trouble to belong to two societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BELL", "preceding_text": "ll are going to benefit trade unions or friendly societies, and I am very much afraid that those who are advocating that friendly societies should be brought in are not desirous of administering the benefits merely to present members of friendly societies, but that they are desirous of increasing the membership of friendly societies through the administration of the benefits provided by this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BELL", "preceding_text": "yment benefits, and that, because they do not, friendly societies can do it as well as the trade unions, I would point out that trade unions now have the machinery for paying benefits to their members. It may not be unemployment benefit, but, even so, the trade unions have the knowledge of what is required in the different industries of the country. 1.0 P.M. My last word will be in this direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BELL", "preceding_text": "ERS: \"Divide.\"] As this interruption has driven a thought out of my head, I think that I shall be justified in going on talking until the thought comes back. We who know something about the business know that the greatest benefit which is going to be provided under this Bill is not, after all, the payment of the unemployed benefit. Friendly Societies may be able to provide that particular benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BELL", "preceding_text": "o that you will get competition between the two societies, and I do not think it is going to lend itself to the efficient working of this Bill. When it is a question of payment of benefit whilst unemployed, or filling vacancies, then I think all the arguments are on the side of the trade unions, who know something about industry, and who are in a far better position to find the right kind of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "I desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "for the purpose of administering unemployment benefit, because it is not in the interests of the unemployed man himself. In saying so I do not impugn in any way the excellent work that has been done by the friendly societies in days gone by. I myself am a member of a friendly society, and have been so for thirty years. Many of the Members who sit on these benches are members of friendly societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-09", "file": "debates1920-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c127425e26ae8fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ill create new Trade Unions. You must of necessity do so. They cannot use their funds on the health side for unemployment purposes, and they will have to create an unemployment fund. They will have to give increased benefits to operate the Act, and, as a result, new Trade Unions will be created and will come into competition with the present Trade Unions, thus creating disturbance and ill-feeling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-09a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-12", "file": "debates1920-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "958fcddb285d723d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.1941.3", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "Would it not be worth while to alter our rule of the road in conformity with the rest of the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.1941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-12", "file": "debates1920-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "958fcddb285d723d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.1950.3", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain S. WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" They have been proceeding for months!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain S. WILSON", "preceding_text": "Is the House to understand that negotiations are now proceeding between our Government and the Soviet Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.1950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-12", "file": "debates1920-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "958fcddb285d723d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2053.0", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": " to say only a few words from the point of view of a plain business man. I agree with the right hon. Baronet the Member for the City of London (Sir F. Banbury) that we should refuse taxation in order to force economy on the Government, but I do not agree that it should be this tax which is refused. What better source of taxation can there be than profits which were a direct consequence of the War?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-12", "file": "debates1920-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "958fcddb285d723d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2053.0", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": "the small man that he should bear in mind that, before the War, a man starting in business was quite prepared, and fully expected, to devote the best portion of his life to building it up, whereas the small man who started in business during the War, or who starts to-day, is or has been able in five years' time to arrive at a position which it would have taken him 15 years to reach before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-12", "file": "debates1920-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "958fcddb285d723d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2096.1", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the Chancellor.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "th that stringency? I maintain that it has nothing at all to do with it. I am quite aware that many hon. Members believe that it has a great deal to do with it. In my view, what has happened is something that has often happened before, will often happen again, and is quite irrespective of the fact whether there be in existence or not an Excess Profits Duty. Why did the banks restrict their credit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-12", "file": "debates1920-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "958fcddb285d723d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2117.7", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "is is a bad tax, one that our industrial life cannot stand, and whatever political consequences we shall do our duty and vote against it.\" But, no! Those who do not like this House and do not believe in the Coalition have described this House as one of \"hard-faced men who look as if they had done well out of the war.\" None of us probably are quite aware of how our features may strike the outsider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2117.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-12", "file": "debates1920-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "958fcddb285d723d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2119.0", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide,\" and \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Whitley, but my remarks were not intended to be of a personal nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-12", "file": "debates1920-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "958fcddb285d723d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2119.0", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "personal nature. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide,\" and \"Go on!\"] It is all very well for hon. Members to shout when they have made up their minds, and are indifferent to the industrial consequences or afraid of the political consequences of this issue. But the matter is a grave one for the industrial life of the country, and anyone who feels strongly—and, I venture to say, hon. Members so feel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-12a.2119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2126.5", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he would be doing justice to those who died for their, country in being \"easy\" to those people who deserted for their own convenience? Will the right hon. Gentleman be good enough to do all he can to penalise these people, remembering the sacrifices of those who volunteered all they they had? Pandering to the Bolshies!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION PROFITS TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At lunch time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "wo-thirds of the whole of Europe. From the case as submitted by them they might have represented more than half of Europe. What about the reservation? I am not going to try to defend my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh (Mr. W. Graham). The Committee will appreciate his ability to defend himself, but I suggest that that reservation was done between the morning Session and the afternoon Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2253.4", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION PROFITS TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BIGLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BIGLAND", "preceding_text": "ised by any debenture or any preference shares, and tax us to the full on the ordinary shares. That seems to me to be quite unfair. I know many companies where all the shares are ordinary shares, and they count on getting a big overdraft from the bank instead of debenture bonds. In the one case the shareholders will pay 2s in the pound. In the other case they will only pay a shilling in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2278.4", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION PROFITS TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "icular issue which they think of subscribing to is or is not subject to a particular tax. No doubt a lawyer can tell, on looking at the documents, whether an issue is subject be the tax, but I do not know that anyone else can. You will have to say in the prospectus, \"It is understood that a person subscribing to this issue will be in a different position from other shareholders in the same issue.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2278.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2280.5", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION PROFITS TAX.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The proposal with which my right hon. Friend concluded his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2303.2", "colnum": "2303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION PROFITS TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": " upon the total profits of the company. Therefore, although there might be enough to pay some very poor people the very small dividend of one per cent. before a single penny of it reached them it would be absorbed by this tax, where other people would pay nothing. May I add this—for really this is an important matter and a national issue—and though I do not want to defend the Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2306.1", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION PROFITS TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "I wish to say a few words on the subject of this tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2306.3", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION PROFITS TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "It is only on very rare occasions that I address the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-13", "file": "debates1920-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a160c643a7aaa19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2307.1", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION PROFITS TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "ittee, both of them admittedly bad. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has told us he must get the money, and it is therefore a choice between two evils. The Corporation Tax is, I think, the less harmful of the two, because there is in it a measure of equality in the sacrifice which has to be made. I shall, therefore, on this occasion, support the Government. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-13a.2307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2354.2", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that any attempt to prosecute Mr. Gandhi would be worse for our hold upon India even than the Amritsar affair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2385.3", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to reply to a question of that kind. I would like the hon. and gallant Member to know, however, that these gallant constables were shot in pursuance of their duty to try and arrest, probably, some of the very men who shot them. I protest against this reflection on a force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2385.3", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I would like the hon. and gallant Member to know, however, that these gallant constables were shot in pursuance of their duty to try and arrest, probably, some of the very men who shot them. I protest against this reflection on a force— [Interruption] —when, in the most difficult circumstances, by reason of the permitted introduction of firearms during the last ten or more years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2387.8", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Arising out of this question of urgency, which is the only question on which you are seemingly inclined not to permit the House to adjourn, is it not a very urgent matter if the allegations be true, and that is a question which we wlil have to decide here in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2387.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2388.1", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "e matters raised by the two hon. Members are well worthy of discussion; they are founded, as I understand, upon a report of a speech which was made and which the author of the speech repudiates the accuracy of altogether, and the Chief Secretary says it is an entirely distorted account. I am bound to accept those statements, and thereupon am I to interrupt the ordinary business of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2455.2", "colnum": "2455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "preceding_text": "e tax? We will tax the man who is getting something he never earned, that he never produced, and that by no law of justice or fairness ought ever to belong to him. Holding those views, he endeavoured to give legislative effect to them in the Budget of 1909–10. I admit at once that, in my view, his legislative achievement did not fully realise the anticipations he had held out to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2455.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2474.0", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is I.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "the Government, said—it was in the month of January—on the question of the rating and taxation of land values: You may depend upon it that the Government definitely intend to utilise the valuation, which they are putting through at great expense, for this purpose. In the following month there is an allusion to myself. The Government have already, through their Chief\"— That is me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2518.0", "colnum": "2518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" \"a Tory,\" and \"Fisher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "and which we have succeeded in obtaining by the legitimate means at our disposal. I notice that the Minister of Overseas Trade has come back. When the Chancellor has finished talking to the Minister I trust I may have his attention for a few minutes. I am sorry to ask this privilege from the right hon. Gentleman, but, after all, he is the only Liberal who has appeared on that Bench this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-14", "file": "debates1920-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "19cc59e0cff64f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2518.0", "colnum": "2518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lime-house!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "d us this afternoon that the Prime Minister had certain qualities which he admired—those were qualities which he approved—and certain other qualities not so good, and they were the qualities with which he disagreed. After all, the right hon. Gentleman ought to remember that the whole reputation of the Prime Minister is staked upon these taxes. The Prime Minister has made many speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-14a.2518.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-15", "file": "debates1920-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae6f809241bb609", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2578.1", "colnum": "2578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MESOPOTAMIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Are some of these casualties due to the very intense heat at the present time, and are proper steps being taken to mitigate the undue effect of the heat?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I do not see how a committee would help at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-15", "file": "debates1920-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae6f809241bb609", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2639.9", "colnum": "2639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [17TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": " it in the Division Lobby last night that with regard to the acquisition of land, at all events, the Ministry of Health, who have sanctioned the acquisition of 51,000 acres of land by local authorities for housing, have the satisfaction that they can rest on achievement rather than song? Therefore I felt quite disposed to join in the chorus in the other Lobby, knowing that we had actually done it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2639.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-15", "file": "debates1920-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae6f809241bb609", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2644.0", "colnum": "2644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [17TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "How many are finished?", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "ags behind the figure just given just as that figure lags behind the figure for con tracts approved. Of course, many of the contracts cover two years' work. A man will begin his work in sections of ten or eight, and at any one moment there will only be a certain number under construction. The total number of which we have details at various stages of construction, finished or otherwise, is 37,511.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2639.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-15", "file": "debates1920-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae6f809241bb609", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2645.0", "colnum": "2645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [17TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "erous contributions towards this scheme, and in some places the great trade union organisations, the railwaymen and so on, have contributed very large sums. I have at the bottom of the list a small village where the initial contribution was £15,000, representing more than £3 to every man, woman and child in the village. That is a very encouraging sign of the real interest in the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-15", "file": "debates1920-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae6f809241bb609", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2661.5", "colnum": "2661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [17TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would not be a Labour Council!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "l men have submitted to me evidence on this matter, and to my mind it is overwhelming. At every turn one meets it. I have had instances put to me by practical men of what has happened as regards the building scheme at Woolwich. This was commenced, as I understand it, in August last. The scheme started there, as I am informed, was with an energetic and sympathetic council mainly composed of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2661.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-15", "file": "debates1920-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae6f809241bb609", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2683.0", "colnum": "2683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [17TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": " getting labour, and also dealing with the available labour to the best advantage. In my own town two or three large cinemas have been put up since the War. We find our own housing scheme—we have some hundreds of houses under weigh—are held up by a shortage of materials and labour, because the cinema buildings are taking up all the bricks and all the cement and all the labour required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-15", "file": "debates1920-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae6f809241bb609", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2697.0", "colnum": "2697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [17TH ALLOTTED DAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the cost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "preceding_text": "or his mate to do. We all know that the average workman has that feeling. I want to say that to my mind the workman in adopting that attitude is simply paying homage to a stupid fetish—because it is nothing else. Instead of being good for himself, or his class, or to any human being it is to a large extent the cause of this slowness which we all regret in the maturing of the housing schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-15", "file": "debates1920-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "eae6f809241bb609", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2747.0", "colnum": "2747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of PENSIONS (Mr. Macpherson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of PENSIONS (Mr. Macpherson)", "preceding_text": "rt time you would have an outcry that this particular independent body should remain as it is now, centralised in London with full powers in the matter and dispensing its bounty in a uniform manner over the entire country. I hope my hon. and gallant Friend will not press this. It is my own personal desire and wish that they should get issues in Edinburgh as being the centre of the Scottish region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-15a.2747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2035.1", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "No one on this side of the House has ever said that 10s. per week was sufficient to provide for the maintenance of a widow. No one on this side has ever suggested that 20s. is sufficient for that purpose, though that appears to be the view of certain hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2035.1", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are very few of them! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "nt in the observations that have just been made by hon. Members opposite. As I have said in the first place, these pensions are not sufficient in themselves to enable the woman to keep a home for herself, but why should hon. Members opposite assume that everyone of these aged poor who claim the benefits under this Bill have no other resources in the world than they are going to get under the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2035.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2042.2", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2081.1", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the shipowners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Yes. We have, in fact, already consulted them on this proposal with reference to this Bill. I, myself, received a deputation, I think, from all those interested in this matter, and they came to a unanimous decision, as I understand it, on this very suggestion, which we hope will be embodied in future legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2120.2", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member undertook to inform us what was the truly Imperial spirit, I must admit that I could not take that seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2121.3", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Or the Channel Islands?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "That question is raised on another Amendment, and therefore I have not discussed it. The effect of the Clause is that temporary absence does not deprive them of anything, except that they do not get the pension until they come back. The term \"Great Britain\" does not include Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2136.8", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did he say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "I might reply to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2136.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the trade unions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "l less do I like to have it suggested that we are doing anything which would hinder the free passage between this country and the Dominions of those who may desire to find better scope for their activities abroad. Therefore, I have every inducement to say, \"Yes, I accept this Amendment.\" But I cannot do so, because I cannot find how it is possible administratively to work a provision of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2163.1", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CHARTERIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CHARTERIS", "preceding_text": "or some other Amendment which we would have to propose. I half expected that an Amendment would be put on the Paper by Labour Members. Possibly they might make the taunt, in reply, that they expected that we would put down an Amendment. The reason why we did not do so was that all on this side of the House realise that the case has only to be made clear to the Treasury Bench for that bench to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-07-21", "file": "debates1920-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef0cadf7dfc78db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2170.0", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ven, I think the House will not take it amiss if I suggest that they should give me a few hours to consider the matter, and if I can find a way to meet the case that has been put up. I can make a statement upon it when we resume the proceedings to-morrow. That is a course which I think would be best for the House, best for the people whom we want to serve, and, incidentally, best for the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-07-21a.2170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-09", "file": "debates1920-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "af65f0bd0526f6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Which are left?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "n\" trains, available to all members of the public without distinction, at fares less than the ordinary fares, will be run at an early date—possibly in the week commencing 16th August—by the principal railway companies, with the exception of the Caledonian, Cambrian, Glasgow and South Western, Great Western, London and North Western, London and South Western, and North British Railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-09", "file": "debates1920-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "af65f0bd0526f6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Don't answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "It depends upon what is meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-09", "file": "debates1920-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "af65f0bd0526f6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIREARMS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To Heaven!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "preceding_text": "ted match into the waste-paper basket I should be accused of carelessness and that would be the end of it. If I lit my pipe at the London Docks and threw the match into one of the warehouses where wool and other things are stored, I should very probably be fined 40s. and costs for my carelessness. If I lit my pipe and threw the match into a powder magazine I should very probably be sent to prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-09", "file": "debates1920-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "af65f0bd0526f6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hull.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " share in it? Personally, I should say that all our allies should be invited to take part in it. If we are told that the object is to improve British trade, I cannot understand why the Government should not be prepared to invite every nation to help us, so as to assist in opening markets for us in all parts of the world. Where is this exhibition going to be held? Is it to be at the Crystal Palace?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-09", "file": "debates1920-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "af65f0bd0526f6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e in the fair. We have at present an exhibition of War relics and memorials of the Great War, and we have had proposed a pylon, which was to be a mighty monument of the War, but that idea has been suddenly dropped. Had we better not wait until we know whether we are going to have peace? I seem to remember entirely similar circumstances to these with which we are now faced over a hundred years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-09", "file": "debates1920-08-09a.xml", "sha256": "af65f0bd0526f6d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "certain commercial gentlemen. They proposed to hold it as a commercial concern, and, no doubt, would have made a great success of it. The Board of Trade thought fit to step in, I am sure with very good motives—the Government does everything with good motives, good intentions; but the way to a certain place is paved with good intentions. They came in with very good motives, but we are to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-09a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman made that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman made that statement—[ Interruption ]— what are hon. Members afraid of?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TWO-SHIFT SYSTEM (WOMEN).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I know there was a vote against it by this House, and in Committee. I also know that a very large body of Members in this House approached me upon the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TWO-SHIFT SYSTEM (WOMEN).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Is it not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in the iron and steel trade and the tinplate trade in South Wales the engineers and fitters are paid £6 per week, while these men are only paid £4 19s., and that these men live in the same streets and that their wives have to provide the same necessities of life—clothes for the children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "id £4 19s., and that these men live in the same streets and that their wives have to provide the same necessities of life—clothes for the children—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"]—I am asking the hon. Gentleman if he is aware—that the wives of the engineers in the trades already mentioned, who are earning £6 per week, and the wives of the engineers on the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why separate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "hen from that moment, whatever it was a week ago, or a month ago, the Soviet Republic becomes an aggressive Imperialist State which is a menance to the freedom and independence of the whole world. I cannot assume that; and I am not going to assume it until I see the result of the Minsk Conference, but I have taken two contingencies, and I am bound since the House is separating in a few days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " position of jeopardy by Providence as Poland. She struggled for centuries; she fell; she was torn to pieces; but there was a resurrection of Poland and she was starting a new life. But it was a new life without training, without discipline, without a tradition, with none of her leaders trained either in government or in war. Of course she made blunders. They were the blunders of irresponsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.265.5", "colnum": "265", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Through the League?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am not going to enter into that question, but I believe the hon. and gallant Gentleman is one of the great supporters of the League of Nations, and he will render the League of Nations futile and nugatory if he says that every time you bring economic pressure to bear upon a nation which is acting in conflict with the dictates of the League such action means war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.265.5", "colnum": "265", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you receive them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " the League such action means war. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Through the League?\"] We shall consider whether it is through the League or otherwise. I now come to another point to which I think it is essential that I should refer, not merely in view of statements in the Press—particularly the subsidised Press—but especially in view of representations made to me to-day by Labour representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.265.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Coupons!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "in a Soviet, but in a Parliamentary system we are accustomed to listen to disagreeable things about each other and about our friends. This is what Mr. Russell says about this great democratic Government: No conceivable system of free election would give majorities to the Communists either in town or country. Various methods are therefore adopted for giving the victory to the Government candidates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: There are no misconceptions.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ly out to destroy a workmen's Government in Russia. There are no work [...] and peasants, except one or two possibly, in the Government of Russia. Lenin, I believe, is an aristocrat, and Trotsky is a journalist. In fact, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War (Mr. Churchill) is an embodiment of both. I want to say this, because of the misconception which is in the minds of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bonds!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " The first Government was a moderate one, and we recognised that. The second Government was a mixed one, a moderate one with Socialists interspersed. The third Government there was a purely Socialist Government, with as good a Socialist as is sitting on those Benches at the head of it. We recognised that, we supported it, we gave munitions, and as long as they were faithful to Russia's bond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.270.4", "colnum": "270", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not facts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I want to make it clear to the people of this country, because up to the present moment we have had propaganda, and now is the counterfoil. We will have the real facts in the minds of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.270.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.270.4", "colnum": "270", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear' \"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "mere revenge on Poland, mere punishment of Poland, mere destruction of Poland, is enough in itself, unless there is some other motive, to induce the Soviet Government to decline peace with the world. The point is this. Are they for peace, or have they something else in their minds? Frankly, I think they themselves are divided. In every land you get men who urge wild, extravagant, irrational views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.270.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I have no desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.272.8", "colnum": "272", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "Still on the point of Order, I have no desire to underrate the distinguished position which the right hon. Member for Paisley holds in this House and the country, but I want to say quite frankly, both to you, Sir, and to the other Members of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.272.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "ls whose reports favoured the case he wishd to put before us. He chose the reports of a very few individuals—two out of some two or three dozen—who have reported to the contrary effect; and of those two whose reports he selected, one has been disowned by a large section of the Independent Labour Party. I am told that resolutions of protest are pouring in from every part of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have all been murdered!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "e people in the time of Rasputin knows what a benefit to the Russian people the disestablishment of that Church has been. People who have been to Russia know quite well that religion is free in Russia to-day, with this difference over the past régime , that the clergy have to obtain their pittance from the contributions of the faithful and not from the taxpayer—a very beneficial change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "as disestablished its old reactionary religion? I believe Russia is just as religious and as Christian as we in this country, and probably more so. The third point was that there is no democracy in Russia to-day. But have we really got democracy in this country to-day? The Prime Minister spoke about elections. Are our elections really free? Are they any freer than the show of hands he referred to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How did you get in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "as we in this country, and probably more so. The third point was that there is no democracy in Russia to-day. But have we really got democracy in this country to-day? The Prime Minister spoke about elections. Are our elections really free? Are they any freer than the show of hands he referred to? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] I do not think so. ( Interruption .) I got in by the same method as you got in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "ow what is going on, and why the people who are sitting here cheer anti-Bolshevik action. Does the House imagine that hon. Members behind the Prime Minister who cheer his rhetoric, who cheer his socialist bosh, do so with any feelings of humanity in them? Do they want to save life, do they want to have peace in Eastern Europe? No, they want to save their bonds and their dividends in their pockets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "be made up again. Those are the alternatives. Is peace to return to Eastern Europe or are the profiteers who support the Government to continue to get their profits out of the Russian workers? What I do object to, and what I do think is despicable, is that any member of the Government should be connected with this business; that a member of the Government should have financial interests in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lucky dog!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "t is a very delicate matter, but this is a very serious business, and it is very necessary that the people should know all the facts about the Russian business. Let us put all the cards on the table. Let us know all the facts, and let everybody in the country know exactly who is getting money out of Russia. I find that in the Shell Company the Prime Minister's secretary holds 9,861 £1 shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "nd military officers whose names also appear on this list, but I am going to observe the ordinary courtesy of this House—which I must say is not always extended to me—by declining to give the names. I will read out the names of the gentlemen who control the British Trading Corporation, the Supreme Council which dictates its policy, the people who control hundreds of millions of pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.297.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Did you give notice?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I presume that the hon. Member has given notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are dealing with men's reputations!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "out of date. Extract from the annual return of the Anglo-Russian Trust, Limited, made up to the 14th day of January, 1920. Name, Rt. Hon. Walter Hume Long. Address, Rood Ashton, Trowbridge. Occupation, Member of Parliament. Number of ordinary shares held, 3,000. I am sorry to have had to raise all these matters, but we are dealing with men's lives; we are dealing with the lives of hundreds of men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To whom are you referring?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "I have too much respect for the Chair to do that, because I know it would be my last speech if I did so. What I was referring to was the dirty transaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.306.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Repeat your charge. Be a man. Do not be a coward.", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Long)", "preceding_text": "here entered the Chamber .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Repeat your innuendo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "nglo-Russian Trust, Limited, I find that £500,000 worth of debenture stock are held in his name as a mortgagee in connection with someone else. But the more up-to-date feature which I read out just now, and which was copied this afternoon at the company's registration office, is his holding of 3,000 shares in the Anglo-Russian Trust, Ltd. Those are the two facts which I read out to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you not repeat the charge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": " to the House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Repeat your innuendo.\"] I merely asked for an explanation. I shall be very glad if any individual concerned will explain his connection with this company. In the mass, these financial interests are behind the Government in waging war against Russia. The right hon. Gentleman may have nothing to do with it, but I cannot leave out one name, however much I may like to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not say it is a dirty financial operation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "ividual concerned will explain his connection with this company. In the mass, these financial interests are behind the Government in waging war against Russia. The right hon. Gentleman may have nothing to do with it, but I cannot leave out one name, however much I may like to. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you not repeat the charge?\"] The mere fact that millions of pounds are behind the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.307.2", "colnum": "307", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LONG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£500,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LONG", "preceding_text": " Government in regard to the conduct of the operations with Russia. Why he limits it to Russia I do not know. I have no doubt that if he were equally industrious, he would find that Members of the Government have holdings in various financial interests in other countries besides Russia. He tells the House that he finds I have a holding of, I think he said, £3,000 and £5,000 as a trustee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And still are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING", "preceding_text": "ions, should send a vast armed force to Poland? What is the position, then? It seems to me that the League of Nations is acceptable to every nation so long as the decisions of the League are in the best interests of that nation, and directly the interests vary, the League will collapse in actuality. It was born in panic, and it will be killed by ridicule. It was born because we were all war-weary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.324.5", "colnum": "324", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "ed the Debate as an opportunity for being rather unnecessarily abusive to a Minister of the Crown. I think if the Minister had considered the position for one moment, he would not have taken the attack quite so seriously, because we have to remember that the Minister in question was the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was responsible for. cancelling the hon. Member's commission in the Royal Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.324.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In favour of whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ily satisfied, when the newspapers have told us that everything in the garden is lovely, we are going suddenly to discover that we are helping Wrangel and very soon Russia will again be devastated by Wrangel and his mercenaries. I want more information on this question. I venture to assert that if this Government by these negotiations runs us into war it will not last 48 hours; it will have to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO one wants it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "The leader of the National party in this House last Session said he would send an army to Russia, but I venture to say that not one Member here has the courage to get up in favour of war with Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Threats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ved at a right decision or a wrong decision on this important question to-day, if that decision be one that is going to plunge this country into another war, it will not be truckling be the Labour movement in this country. He will find that by refusing to listen to the Labour movement there has been brought into this country a revolution which will sweep him and the party he represents-from power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I tried all through the War to stop it, and I am here because of the attitude I took up during the War. I am quite prepared to take un the same attitude in this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I tried all through the War to stop it, and I am here because of the attitude I took up during the War. I am quite prepared to take un the same attitude in this war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What war?\"] The proposed war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I tried all through the War to stop it, and I am here because of the attitude I took up during the War. I am quite prepared to take un the same attitude in this war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What war?\"] The proposed war. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"] There have been suggestions, always from your side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I tried all through the War to stop it, and I am here because of the attitude I took up during the War. I am quite prepared to take un the same attitude in this war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What war?\"] The proposed war. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"] There have been suggestions, always from your side of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Your side!\"]—from that side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ght about by Poland attempting to invade Russia. Russia retaliated and drove her back. Russia is now within easy distance of Warsaw. I hope, no one more sincerely, that there will be no further occasion for fighting in Poland or in Russia. I hope that it will be possible to bring about between these two powers a satisfactory peace that will leave Poland her independence, free and unfettered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " and drove her back. Russia is now within easy distance of Warsaw. I hope, no one more sincerely, that there will be no further occasion for fighting in Poland or in Russia. I hope that it will be possible to bring about between these two powers a satisfactory peace that will leave Poland her independence, free and unfettered—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—to work out her destiny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "leave Poland her independence, free and unfettered—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—to work out her destiny—[HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—just as I believe we should leave Russia alone to work out her destiny. There are no cheers now. Hon. Members opposite believe in Poland working out her destiny but there is silence when I appeal for Russia to be left to work out her destiny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister, and that we are prepared to send munitions, material, and naval assistance, if necessary, to the Polish people to fight against Russia. I want to finish in the spirit in which I began and to say that if the Government make any attempt to send munitions, material, or to lend naval assistance to Poland in the fight against Russia, the people of this country will rise against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " is prepared to offer to Poland have been made public, and if those terms are in the hands of the Government, obviously an entirely new position has arisen. Hitherto we have been groping about in the realm of conjecture and hypothesis. If the terms have been received, we should have a statement from the Government of their views on those terms. I have here a newspaper containing the terms set out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "RUSSIA AND POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A special edition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "lic, and if those terms are in the hands of the Government, obviously an entirely new position has arisen. Hitherto we have been groping about in the realm of conjecture and hypothesis. If the terms have been received, we should have a statement from the Government of their views on those terms. I have here a newspaper containing the terms set out. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What paper?\"] The \"Daily Herald.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.350.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Russian Terms for Armistice and Preliminaries for Peace.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": " while these negotiations are going on, can the right hon. Gentleman give the House an assurance that we and our Allies will cease from hostile action against Russia, both as regards sending munitions to Poland and as regards any assistance to Wrangel or anybody else acting against Russia, and will the right hon. Gentleman, if he is as sincere as we are in desiring that peace should be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Russian Terms for Armistice and Preliminaries for Peace.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "If we are to have peace, it is essential that we ourselves should abstain, not only as regards the Polish side of the situation, but as regards Southern Russia, from any offensive action against Russia by ourselves and our friends, and also from any attempt to break up the peace negotiations by the Secretary of State for War or anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-08-10", "file": "debates1920-08-10a.xml", "sha256": "47b87df7eab7b7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Russian Terms for Armistice and Preliminaries for Peace.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "s essential that we ourselves should abstain, not only as regards the Polish side of the situation, but as regards Southern Russia, from any offensive action against Russia by ourselves and our friends, and also from any attempt to break up the peace negotiations by the Secretary of State for War or anybody else. [ Interruption .] We are simply anxious to get peace, and we want an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-08-10a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "d with such a measure and to ask us to give unlimited time to the Government in order to deal with it, is to invite us to be parties to a sinful waste of parliamentary time. We suggest that instead of asking for the full time of the House for the purposes named the Government of Ireland Bill should be dropped, and that the Irish question should be dealt with from a different standpoint altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Sir Robert Home)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Sir Robert Home)", "preceding_text": "with an industrial issue at all. Therefore I think it is perfectly plain that nobody really sincerely believes that the Government was not going to give immediate effect to any decision upon the wage question which might be given by such a tribunal. In point of fact, the suggestion of a reference to such a court was endorsed by no less a person than the President of the Miners' Federation himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Sir Robert Home)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have got it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Sir Robert Home)", "preceding_text": "m right, by 365,000 against something between 400,000 and 500,000 on the other side. All that showed that at least a very large body of opinion in the Miners' Federation itself was in favour of such a reference in preference to a strike. If it was only the constitution of the tribunal that they were afraid about, that matter could very easily have been arranged between us. What is the alternative?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tion was at the rate of 248,000,000 tons a year. In the second quarter of he year it dropped to the rate of 232,000,000 tons, and, even at that low rate of production, with the increased rate of wages which the miners obtained in March, the average earnings throughout the coalfields of this country, including the women and boys who were at work in the coalfields, were £226 per annum per head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " above all things, to give the miner an incentive to give us of his best. What then did we propose? We proposed that, as the miner asked for an increase of 2s. a day, he would get that if he gave us the output which he gave us in the first quarter of this year, namely, at the rate of 248,000,000 tons per annum. The same facilities, the same equipment, are there to-day as provided that return then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "hat remains? Well, the Government is open to every form of suggestion by which a peaceful solution of this great question can be obtained. I have read with great assiduity all the suggestions which have appeared in the Press. A large number of them simply consist of saying that, because we are in this horrible trouble, give them something. Well, that would be one way of getting out of the trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Finally?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "nd got a decision, but in three months' time you would have had exactly a repetition of what is here now. One reason why men like myself would not favour a tribunal for the settlement of the 2s. was that we were convinced it was not the kind of instrument that ought to be used for the solution of the problems now before the mining community. Anyhow, whatever the cause, that suggestion is rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\" and slight interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "ed upon the datum line being at the rate of 248,000,000 tons, many of my colleagues, with myself, felt we were unable to go out and support the datum line—the figure having been put so high! The datum line is rejected. Why did the workmen reject the datum line in that decisive manner which the vote demonstrates? First, because they have an objection to having their wages regulated by output.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACE", "preceding_text": "an immediate reduction of 14s. 2d. per ton in the price of domestic coal. I know the President of the Board of Trade made comment upon our dropping of the 14s. 2d. demand without asking, why did we drop it? We dropped it for two reasons. This demand was based upon the amount of money we thought would be in the pool, and when we found the money was not in the pool we dropped it. Why did we drop it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including boys!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "ng raised, and rightly so. They have had their wages made up to meet the increased cost of living, and rightly so. There are other classes of the population who have not enjoyed the same privilege, and who are not in receipt of wages or of salaries with which to permit them to enjoy all the comforts which the miners enjoy, and who are not receiving £226 a year, if that were a reliable figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not with coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "which he is faced. This Debate has done, I am sure, a great deal of good in clearing away some of those difficulties and those awkward corners. I think too much weight has been placed in this controversy upon the necessity for increased production. I think increased production is the wrong word. There may be increased production which is not profitable. You may produce goods which you cannot sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-19", "file": "debates1920-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3a5ffd7dd0dc8a24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "king a strike. Naturally, the nation would have been very reluctant, and the Government would also have been reluctant to start a fresh controversy of that character. If my right hon. Friend's proposal is accepted it is a complete acceptance of the demands of the Miners' Federation, and we should have had no right to have kept the country in suspense for all these months in contesting their claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-19a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "things that had brought about the change in Ireland was the repressive character of the administration of the Government. And I would like to say in passing that I thought that if the Prime Minister had put that question to me about how long I had been in Ireland I should have liked to ask him when he last visited Ireland. If I am not misinformed, the next time he visits Ireland will be the first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "e described to the nearest market. We cannot wonder if with the figures I have just recited and the policy to which I have just referred this policy should have produced a very serious change in the outlook of the Irish people. Probably the Government case will be that the sacking of towns, the shooting down of people and the arson by police and military were the result of intolerable provocation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Murdered!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ly or too emphatically condemn the policy of outrage that then was in such full operation. Since then, I have availed myself of other opportunities, in the Press and at meetings, to express our horror of the policy that, we shall be told, has led to the provocation to which I have referred. I remember that during our visit we reached Thurles one morning. The night before a policeman had been shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " that must inevitably result in some of the things which most of us deplore. So far as the Government and many of their officials are concerned, what has been taking place during recent months are reprisals, and reprisals of the most disgraceful and the most humiliating character. These reprisals appear to us to be part of a deliberate and calculated effort to destroy the Irish political movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"] I mean the Irish Nationalist political movement. I say that no Government, much less a Government associated with a people with the magnificent traditions of the British, should ever dare to identify itself with a policy of this character, unless its object is, as we think, to stamp out the legitimate aspirations of people who desire to be a free democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chief Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ndemn the outrages on the one side, may I ask him why he has not thought fit as yet to condemn the outrages on the other side? I think that is a most important point. We are constantly challenged on this matter, and I want to challenge Members of the Government and to ask whether in any speech they have condemned the outrages associated with one part of Ireland during the last two or three months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" \"Where did you get that information?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "me give one or two cases in order to bring it right home to the House. Take the case of Balbriggan. In that case punishment, if what happened was intended for punishment, undoubtedly fell upon a number of innocent people. The killing of two policemen in this affair last September resulted, as I understand the case, from efforts by the local Republican Volunteers to restore order in a public-house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.929.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who shot him?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " English name unless some stop is speedily put to this atrocious campaign of vengeance, and to the blood-guilty incitements from high quarters to which it is directly traceable. This can only be done by human men of all parties combining to insist upon an investigation of the truth—instant, public, and above suspicion. Mr. O'Brien sent me a second telegram that the man Turner had since died.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "vilian or of a soldier murder. There is no Irish paper to-day in the south and west of Ireland that dares to refer to the most horrible assassination of a Royal servant of the Crown as murder. The reason for that is that the owners, the editors, the reporters and the linotypers either acquiesce in the non-use of the word \"murder\" or they are intimidated by the terrorists of the Sinn Fein Movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " of becoming the Chief Secretary of Ireland in April last, the Government, to show its goodwill, let out scores of men who were arrested on suspicion, and justifiable suspicion. Many of them have been rearrested since for shooting policemen. The Government let out every hunger-striker. The Government let out certain convicted hunger-strikers. It may have been right or it may have been wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " a policy of assassination, Let there be no mistake. A policy of paid and organised assassination is the policy of the Irish Republican party in Ireland to-day. It is not a question of Home Rule, it is not a question of the ordinary Sinn Feiner, who is entitled to his political views. I have never myself arrested, or allowed anybody to be arrested, merely because of his political views in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not with knowledge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "and organised assassination is the policy of the Irish Republican party in Ireland to-day. It is not a question of Home Rule, it is not a question of the ordinary Sinn Feiner, who is entitled to his political views. I have never myself arrested, or allowed anybody to be arrested, merely because of his political views in Ireland. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] I am speaking from this Box with authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "the force have always considered membership of this force a fine, honourable and patriotic career. They have recently been reinforced from two distinct sources. The first source is that of ex-soldiers and officers who have enlisted as ordinary members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. These are the men that were the heroes of yesterday to everybody in this House. To-day, some accuse them of murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "he courage of his driver. He commands, let us say, 10,000 troops in the Cork area. He drove at once to his headquarters in the car, and he issued the most drastic commands that every man in his command should fall in, including officers. Why? Because he did not want any reprisals in that force of his, and there was not a sign or a suspicion of reprisal. These are the forces accused of lawlessness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And in Ulster!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "and this refers to the whole of Ireland—is that owing to the success in the past of the Irish Republican movement under the name of Sinn Fein there is a reign of terror that extends throughout the country, and the Irish Republican army, organised, remember, in brigades, in companies, in platoons, armed, throughout the whole country, with branches in Scotland, in England, and in Wales.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "no innocent person has ever suffered death or injury because of it. I know, in the language of the Irish Republican Army, murdering a policeman is a political crime. It may be called an execution. It is sometimes called a removal. I like the plain statement of fact. It is a murder. But when one of the members of the Irish Republican Army is shot by the police or the military that becomes a murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "his face full of gunshot pellets. That was the scene that met some soldiers and policemen who came along afterwards. They saw Brady on the floor. They knew him. They loved him. Soldiers and policemen trained under the British Flag love their officers. They so love them that they go to their death for them. I admit when they saw Brady's form on the ground they saw red. I admit there was a reprisal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No wonder'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "pattered with blood and the mutilated remains of the four. The fifth, though badly wounded, managed to crawl away from the car for 400 yards. He was pursued. Shot guns were used within a foot of him to blow his body to pieces. The car was on the road, with these men mutilated beyond recognition, when, within ten minutes, another car containing soldiers and police came along. They lost their heads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ounded, managed to crawl away from the car for 400 yards. He was pursued. Shot guns were used within a foot of him to blow his body to pieces. The car was on the road, with these men mutilated beyond recognition, when, within ten minutes, another car containing soldiers and police came along. They lost their heads. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No wonder'\"] They went to the villages of Ennistymon and Lahinch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "tion, will, at any rate, give mo their sympathy in trying to bring peace out of chaos in Ireland. It is true chat reprisals followed the brutal murder of these five gallant men. Sixteen houses and shops were damaged or destroyed—houses that were considered to be occupied or owned by notorious Sinn Feiners. Here, again, I am convinced that the people of these two villages knew of this ambush.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "The HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have the evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ing to bring peace out of chaos in Ireland. It is true chat reprisals followed the brutal murder of these five gallant men. Sixteen houses and shops were damaged or destroyed—houses that were considered to be occupied or owned by notorious Sinn Feiners. Here, again, I am convinced that the people of these two villages knew of this ambush. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"] On the evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And justifying it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "e. [The HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have the evidence?\"] I will. The place of ambush covered a long stretch on both sides of the road, and from the evidence of the bandoliers, haybeds, haversacks, coats, blankets, meat tins, and so on, it was clear that the bivouac had been there at least 12 hours, and possibly 24 hours. The place was within sight of many houses. I am admitting what is called a reprisal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take Balbriggan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ts, blankets, meat tins, and so on, it was clear that the bivouac had been there at least 12 hours, and possibly 24 hours. The place was within sight of many houses. I am admitting what is called a reprisal. [An HON. MEMBER: And justifying it!\"] I am putting to you the provocation that comes to brave men. I hope the evidence I have given has shown what I wish to show; and I can go further with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.947.5", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"He is a rebel!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "cluding Ulster. I am very much condemned sometimes by Ulstermen. Only last week a preacher came to Dublin from there and preached a violent sermon, in the course of which he accused me of being a Sinn Feiner with a Papist wife—my splendid wife without whom I would not go on with this job in Ireland. I warn the right hon. Member for Duncairn that he may be suspect soon of being a Sinn Feiner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.947.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "it for which I would sacrifice almost anything rather than lose it, and no one will agree with that more than the Secretary of State for War. The cowboys were arrested and they were going to be tried. Right hon. Gentlemen might seem to make a joke about it, but no sympathy will be aroused in the country by jokes of that kind. I know the Secretary of State for War has no respect for law or justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "ouses was destroyed. On the other side of the street five cottages recently built by the local authority were burned down. In the other houses all the windows were broken. In other parts of the town single houses, and in some cases two together, were burned, and in the opinion of people there some part of this destruction was obviously wrought by the use of bombs. In all, 35 houses were destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"! and \"One of hundreds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "tendering some evidence. Let me tell the House what the case really was. We are told the so-called reprisals are mainly provoked by people in hot blood, who have witnessed or heard of the murder of their fellow officers in the police or in the military. This was a case in which a girl keeping company with a soldier—I suppose it is an unpopular thing in Ireland—had had her hair cropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"And so were you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "ember of the Government, of which the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Asquith) was the head, not twenty-four, but hundreds of men were deported on suspicion without any evidence. My right hon. Friend beside me has given me the number. It was twenty-four in our case; it was 1,836 during the Government of which my right hon. Friend the Member for Paisley was the head, and of which he himself was a Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.988.5", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "very big one—according to their convictions. They are being quite plainly divided on the big issue. It is only a few months ago that many of our own friends were telling us that they would beat us, and that we must give way to it. Here is this murder conspiracy. There are two camps in regard to it There is one body represented by my right hon. Friend which says: \"We must surrender to crime.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.989.2", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is not often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.989.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.989.2", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "n the territory belonging to the Allies occupied by Prussian troops. We denounced lawlessness by the men who had broken every law, human and divine. If it was wrong for the Prussians and for those who occupied Belgium to break all the laws of God and man, then we say that the same condemnation ought to be expressed against the representatives of this country in another who are doing similar deeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.989.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ll give the case that the right hon. Gentleman makes. Supposing the man was a member of the murder conspiracy, is it to be argued that because you suspect a man, even on the best of evidence, of being either a potential or an actual murderer, you are entitled to execute that man then and there, without trial, without inquiry, on the ipse dixit of a soldier who may be sober and very often is drunk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1017.2", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "given by the right hon. Gentleman an unsolicited testimonial of having no responsibility for these murders. I should think not. The party which I represented has been destroyed. We came to this House and proceeded in a constitutional manner—and I think all good Irishmen are beginning to ask themselves whether it is wise to desert the path which we have followed with such success for Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "preceding_text": "r having unconsciously misrepresented him. I agree there is a considerable difference. But to say that the putting down of a Motion of this kind, or voting for it, is a surrender to crime is practically to say that those who support it are surrendering to something which is to be triumphant, and therefore they do it deliberately with the idea that course will he assisted in their course of action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The result has been that for several months every day large numbers have been suspended and dismissed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "eatment should be meted out to Ireland than England. For months these men have been dismissed. They have accepted their dismissal. They have not complained. But now, in addition to dismissal, in fact, as a substitute for dismissing them, immediately a railway man decides that he will not assist in the carrying of munitions or troops, it is not dismissal now, but arrest, and they put him into gaol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "overnment say, \"We are going to insist upon railway men carrying any goods that are offered to them.\" I am sure the overwhelming majority of the House agree with the Government. But who is there who can support the Government when the railwaymen are not only penalised for refusing to carry the traffic, but the military and police are used deliberately to provoke and force the railwaymen to refuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-20", "file": "debates1920-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf9279823da4dd9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did he say in 1864?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "o the South, who were asking for trade facilities, by an American General of the North in 1864. I think the House will agree that if the right hon. Gentleman, instead of affording facilities to our enemies in Ireland for the economic development of Ireland, would give the answer of that American General in the Rebellion, he would do much more to secure peace in Ireland than he is doing at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-20a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DONALD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that Sinn Feiners have been caught in Ireland dressed in soldiers' uniforms, and that they are carrying out in large numbers of these cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The accused people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Inquiries are made through the high officers of the British Army and the high officers of the Royal Irish Constabulary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1124.5", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\" and \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "ding trade we have been training 4,331 disabled ex-service men to fill the ranks depleted in the way which I have described. We have 771 disabled ex-service men awaiting training and now I am suddenly confronted with the resolution of the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives, passed on September 1st, stating that they will not agree to take any more trainees after the end of September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessarily!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "eate unemployment and to maintain prices and profits. Again, we have the tea companies who propose to restrict the quantity of tea this year by 10 per cent. of the average of the last five years, and next year they propose to cut it down 20 per cent. These things are done openly and definitely for the purpose of maintaining prices and profits, and they are creating unemployment all along the line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "whether employers or members of trade unions, know that the average amount of work done by the majority of trades is very much less than it used to be six or eight years ago. There are people in this country, and one or two Members of this House, who say that the only salvation for the human race, and the only way of prosperity for the working classes, is to do as little work as they possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "justly, and that it is a view which should be placed before the House. I need not go back to the period of the War. It is sufficient for my purpose to discuss what has happened since the Armistice. Since that time, there has been a perpetual encouragement to industrial unrest in every part of the country, and we find that that encouragement to a very large extent comes from the trade union leaders", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Older!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "oods. There is, however, this great fear of unemployment, and we have the case of Northampton pointed out. In my opinion, that state of affairs ought not to exist, namely, that you should suddenly, after asking for every effort from the workers in the boot factories, close down the factories, and that these men, who have been doing splendid work, should suddenly find themselves without employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I regret the tone of my hon. Friend's concluding remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-21", "file": "debates1920-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "3b6f809f80e857b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "every day the strike continues must inevitably lead to complications, I ask him to keep clearly in mind, as he has already indicated, that however much he may deplore the decision, and whoever may be responsible for that decision, I, speaking individually at the moment, would beg him not to allow even that decision to prevent peaceful negotiations continuing. This strike has only now lasted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-21a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-22", "file": "debates1920-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa2f0eb6c8711698", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINTRINGHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINTRINGHAM", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman will have to sit out the dance, and small blame to him if he seizes the intervals to rush away for refreshments. But let me be a little more serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-22", "file": "debates1920-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa2f0eb6c8711698", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINTRINGHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Malta!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINTRINGHAM", "preceding_text": "t something more than what applies to the interior conditions of the United Stales and of Canada. The Minister in charge of the Bill knows perfectly well that you would not dream of reserving any taxation, direct or indirect, when you come to any of the self-governing Colonies of this country. I defy the Minister who has spoken to go and even argue this Bill in any of the Dominions of this Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-22", "file": "debates1920-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa2f0eb6c8711698", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION [CONTRIBUTION AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "The Air Navigation Bill was taken in August last, and owing, I daresay, to pressure on the House, it was, I thought, very much scamped. It was not the fault of the Government. There was practically no interest taken in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-22", "file": "debates1920-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa2f0eb6c8711698", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION [CONTRIBUTION AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "fore very long, and the country that does not pay her homage now and look after the little Cinderella, and clothe her decently, is going to be very much out of favour in the court of the world. These are my two objections to and disappointments in connection with the right hon. Gentleman's speech. However much I criticise the right hon. Gentleman in other matters or attempt to criticise him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-22", "file": "debates1920-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa2f0eb6c8711698", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION [CONTRIBUTION AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " position at the War Office in connection with this important subject. I suppose most hon. Members read the very interesting proceedings of the loosely called Air Parliament, a sort of air soviet, which met recently. It was a most encouraging meeting, and the commissaries who attended delivered some extremely interesting facts and opinions about the air. I regret very much that I could not attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-22", "file": "debates1920-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa2f0eb6c8711698", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1295.2", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION [CONTRIBUTION AND EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " of the Bill. A great deal of the criticism of my hon. and gallant Friend is obviously not relevant to this proposal, though I do not share the view of hon. Member opposite that a great deal of such criticism is not necessary from time to time. A great many hon. Members do not realise what they are being asked to spend. Probably not one Member in ten has seen Command Paper No. 729, which explains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-22a.1295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRES: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can read the newspapers. The right hon. Gentleman can get a report of the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1331.8", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman mean to say that the case of Balbriggan was one of legitimate self-defence, and does the Crown refuse to pay anything in that case and expect the local authority of Balbriggan to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1331.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KEN WORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KEN WORTHY", "preceding_text": "Was that a case of legitimate self-defence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1334.5", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ILLINGWORTH", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ILLINGWORTH", "preceding_text": "I am told there is no cargo space available", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "nd liable to fine. Those Regulations may be easily construed when plainly put down and when we know what they are, but for the distribution of any commodity necessary for life, such as water, fuel and light, this would mean, as the Bill stands, that if there was a strike, or threatened strike, of municipal servants in a municipal water works they would be liable to be tried or imprisoned or fined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "ot have taken the slightest objection to the machinery proposed by the Leader of the House, but one or two sentences occurred in his speech which gave me pause. One was that whatever legislation was proposed it would not be hurried. Why has it been hurried now? I assume, not only the Second Beading, but the Third Reading of this Bill is to be rushed through if possible in one sitting of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": " possible in one sitting of the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It may be delayed a day. The right hon. Gentleman says if Parliament is not sitting, no action can be taken without summoning Parliament, and the example he gave us was the railway strike. But may I remind him that Parliament was not sitting at the time and he took the powers he is asking for now without asking Parliament to meet at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Thorne!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "What is \"substantial\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "sday. Are we then to have the conference assemble in a mood of suspicion such as I am certain that the passing or forcing of a Bill like this through the House to-day and to-morrow would be absolutely certain to produce? If this Bill became law that conference on Wednesday would think more of this Bill, and talk more about it, and would probably be moved more by it than by any other consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1442.2", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, Paisley!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "to the enlightenment of these Benches. I approach this Bill naturally, as I would approach all similar proposals, with an attitude of suspicion. I listened very carefully to the two speeches of the two right hon. Gentlemen who lead the Opposition to ascertain on what grounds they based their opposition to the Bill. There was first of all the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for East Fife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1444.2", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "even if you could, it would merely be playing their game, because you would be providing them with free sustenance and free lodging. If a strike, involving large numbers of men, were proceeding week after week until the men's funds were exhausted and the women and children were feeling the pinch, then, as a means of prolonging the strike, the whole of these men would welcome being put into prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1444.2", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for 14 days, though.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "er which it confers is based upon the consent of this House and upon the consent of the elected representatives of the people. It is provided that if any Regulations are made under this Bill, the House, if it is not sitting, should be called together within a fortnight, and that these Regulations shall lapse altogether unless both Houses of Parliament pass a Resolution accepting and adopting them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1444.2", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If Parliament is not sitting it must be 14 days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "ting and adopting them. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for 14 days, though.\"] My right hon. Friend said it was the intention that the Regulations should lapse if the House of Commons, immediately on its meeting, failed to endorse them. Seeing that that is so, even if it were held that under the wording of the Bill as it is at present there must be an interval of 14 days, that could be altered in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ld seek which this House would not give them very speedily indeed. Everybody knows that perfectly well. I will take some of the language of the Bill, and I will deal with one Clause only. Regulations must be framed for which the Government are responsible, and one Regulation is to the effect that if the railwaymen this week chose to meet and threatened to strike, that is actionable under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1456.0", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, Divide! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "correct the view expressed by my right hon. Friend that this was part of the policy of the Government. I say this further: We were asked this week to meet and discuss what the Government considered to be a much more important matter from the point of view of the unity of the Empire; we were asked to come together this week and discuss from day to day until it was finished the Home Rule Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " discuss, I believe, at a quarter-past eight to-night—surely they are as keen on discussing that, and on providing machinery for its solution, as they are on providing machinery to deal with a situation which has not arisen. Earlier in the Debate we had a speech from the Leader of the Government, and I do not think I ever heard a poorer speech delivered by any Minister from that bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEM-BEES: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "ple Alliance can come to no decisions without reference to the different bodies that make up that part of the Triple Alliance. Then what does the Prime Minister mean? He wants us to face the facts, to talk quite frankly to each other. If he wants us to talk quite frankly to each other, why does he, at that box, make a statement which cannot be true, and which he knows is not true when he makes it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1471.2", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or in Lisburn!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "I want no promise. I am under the control of Mr. Deputy-Speaker, and not under that of the hon. and gallant Gentleman, who is not now in Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "h in his pursuit of that scientific preparation for rebellion, every one of these policemen or soldiers would have gone down mercilessly before his followers. Fortunately for himself he had the military on his side. Therefore he had not to fight. I believe that there vas a coastguard man who did attempt to do something to prevent the progress of the right hon. Gentleman's friends, and he was shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ic preparation for rebellion, every one of these policemen or soldiers would have gone down mercilessly before his followers. Fortunately for himself he had the military on his side. Therefore he had not to fight. I believe that there vas a coastguard man who did attempt to do something to prevent the progress of the right hon. Gentleman's friends, and he was shot. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]. In Larne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1497.5", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter and Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "and because they were Labour men and Socialists. They were driven out of Queen's Island because their propaganda, their democratic ideas, their progressive spirit, their enlightening influence, were luring the ignorant followers of the right hon. Member for Duncairn from the darkness of their economic and industrial environment, and because they were rallying to the standard of a common democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1497.5", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman and they occurred before there ever was a Sinn Feiner heard of in Belfast or in Ireland. One of my earliest recollections as a boy was the sight of hundreds of working men at Queen's Island being driven from their employment every time there was any sort of political crisis in regard to Home Rule. It is not new at all. When I find these hypocrites on the Front Opposition Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "England of this House of Commons—profiteers, self-interested, the claimors of seats that are slipping away from them, the expediency politicians playing fast and loose with principles on the Front Bench, irrespective of the evil consequences that may come to these islands and the British if these things go on. England is losing the friendship of France; it has lost the friendship of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-25", "file": "debates1920-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "00101fc38ca4307b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "elf-interested, the claimors of seats that are slipping away from them, the expediency politicians playing fast and loose with principles on the Front Bench, irrespective of the evil consequences that may come to these islands and the British if these things go on. England is losing the friendship of France; it has lost the friendship of America. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]. Your Colonies are up in arms", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-25a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "o make a Proclamation. There is no punishment for a breach of the Proclamation. All that is to happen or can happen when the state of emergency is declared is the issue of Regulations, closely defined by the Bill as Regulations for securing the essentials of life to the community, and those are to be laid on the Table of this House and, consequently, will have to secure the approval of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1618.6", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And never will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "The speeches by the representatives of the Government and their supporters have not convinced us on this side of the House that this is not an anti-strike Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1618.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel PENRY WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel PENRY WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "and are in the position of being a party to the dispute, and directly interested financially in whether they win their dispute or not. They are now engaged in a dispute with their workmen, who demand an extra 2s. per day. If they give that 2s. a day, the profit accruing to the Government will be reduced, and they come down and ask this House to give them power to beat their workmen in the dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1631.4", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\" and \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "uld come out on Sunday night in a certain contingency, would the interpretation \"or is immediately threatened\" be fitting? If it does fit, as I think it does, it means that all the powers of this Measure might be put into operation for a contingency which did not mature. There was no railway strike on Sunday night in consequence of the fact that the Government climbed down from the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1631.4", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "diately threatened\" be fitting? If it does fit, as I think it does, it means that all the powers of this Measure might be put into operation for a contingency which did not mature. There was no railway strike on Sunday night in consequence of the fact that the Government climbed down from the position—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\" and \"Shame!\"]—climbed down from the position taken up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1634.0", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "ed last week. That happened to be the case where a state of emergency arose through the action of a strike. That is only one instance. There need not of necessity be a strike. There may be many other reasons which may produce a state of emergency other than a strike. I notice that hon. Gentlemen opposite suggest—I suppose they really believe it—that this is an attack upon trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1636.3", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "t was being performed by blackleg labour, and the Government might hold according to these words that it is not blackleg labour, and there you have the Trade Disputes Act clearly violated and superseded by these very words. All I can say is that I think that could be done, and it is because we are here debating these difficult and delicate points in an atmosphere which is totally unsuitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "their men from certain power-stations in London, and, perhaps, eventually, in different parts of the country. Is anyone going to make me believe that, if this Bill had been an Act at that time, the Government would not have decided there and then that an emergency existed, and that the result would not have been that a certain number of men in the executive would have been subject to imprisonment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "decided there and then that an emergency existed, and that the result would not have been that a certain number of men in the executive would have been subject to imprisonment? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] It is all very well for you to say \"No.\" These things are all right on paper, but yon get into the Law Courts. You will get the Judges, of course, who do not belong to our class, but to your class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "e things are all right on paper, but yon get into the Law Courts. You will get the Judges, of course, who do not belong to our class, but to your class. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Yes; it is the interpretation of the law that gets you down every time. If I were a Judge, and belonged to the class to which I belong now, naturally I should take the interpretation according to the view of my own class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": " upon to meet the employers in connection with the gas industry. They were not prepared to give what we thought was fair and reasonable, and they absolutely refused to submit the case to arbitration. Our only alternative was to threaten a strike If this Bill had been in operation, what would have happened? The Executive Council who advised the men to come out would have been liable to imprisonment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1671.2", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether they come under the head of \"fuel\" or \"light!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are honest!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "overnment should accept the Amendment which will confine the operation of this Bill to the categories they have already accepted. This would show that they are honest in their intentions and professions, and that they do not aim at breaking strikes and other things which we have alleged. I hope the Government will be honest with the people outside, and not speak in the vague manner they are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1681.5", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When the strike is settled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "ting at the time, to be re-assembled every day during the whole of the vacation by simply threatening, like the railway leaders threatened, a crisis last Thursday and calling it off on Friday and threatening it again on Saturday and calling it off on Sunday. The idea appears to me to be absolutely preposterous. It has been suggested as to who is to decide when the state of urgency has passed away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1683.5", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ost if not all hon. Members recollect, what took place at that time. We recollect that whilst the Government possessed those powers during the War under the Defence of the Realm Act there were food queues in the East End of London, and in the West End there were luxurious dinners and suppers being served at the Kitz and the Carlton for people who were willing to pay 30s. for such dinner or supper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "We have hungry people in the community when there is no strike, and we do not hear talk of feeding the community. What I believe is meant really by feeding the community is that hon. Members who are voting for this Bill do not want to go short because there is a strike, and they are less interested in the necessities of the community than in their own luxurious living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " that hon. Members who are voting for this Bill do not want to go short because there is a strike, and they are less interested in the necessities of the community than in their own luxurious living. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am here to state my opinion. I know the attitude taken up by hon. Members opposite towards our party and our people in the country. I am not concerned with how they look on me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.3", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I ask the Government if they are prepared to put this Clause into operation on the day this Bill becomes law with regard to the landowners of this country, who are putting land out of occupation and preventing the growing of food in this country and who have, during the last two years permitted 800,000 acres of land to go out of cultivation, thereby shortening the food supply of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.3", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ll becomes law with regard to the landowners of this country, who are putting land out of occupation and preventing the growing of food in this country and who have, during the last two years permitted 800,000 acres of land to go out of cultivation, thereby shortening the food supply of the country. [ Laughter .] Hon. Members laugh now, but are they prepared if a Labour Government goes into power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.3", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "crity with a Labour Government as they are voting now with the present Government, if we had stated definitely that we were going to put this Clause and the rest of the Bill into operation in the case of men who had reduced the food supply of the country by allowing their estates to go out of cultivation by allowing farms to cease to be farms, and by adding the land of those farms to deer forests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1689.0", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "r; because in point of fact, although I daresay very high charges were made for what was given in those hotels, probably a great deal higher than the food was worth, the ration throughout the War at those places was most strict. It was no more possible to get more than a person's share of sugar, butter, bread, or whatever it might be, at the Ritz or Carlton than at any house in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1692.0", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS dissented .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": "I think we can assure the Committee from these Benches that it is not from any purpose of obstruction that we are opposing this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1692.0", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": " something of the terrible experience through which the working classes had to go before trade unions were established, and especially before they became effective units in the social and industrial life of this country. It is because we see at once that this Clause—the operative Clause of the Bill—means a serious attack upon the effective power of trade unions that we are opposing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1699.2", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ency, but to abrogate the whole of the laws of the land— make such provisions as may appear to His Majesty to be required for making the exercise of those powers effective. That is giving the Government absolutely the power to declare a state of emergency and to abrogate all the laws of the land. You might say inside 14 days there will be an opportunity for Parliament to consider the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"You are talking about another Clause!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "Exactly. Then what is the use of telling me that it is five days when the Bill says it is 14 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-26", "file": "debates1920-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "31f4eb84ada51b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1702.2", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "It is the reason for the Clause. The reason the Labour party are opposing this Clause is they know that they will have to give an account to a certain section of trade unionists. The hon. Member said that every trade unionist would oppose this Clause tooth and nail. That is wrong. I am also an employer of labour. I represent trade unionists in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-26a.1702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1736.9", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL and Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL and Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "rose .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1736.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1737.2", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Why, if English papers publish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1808.0", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Bolsheviks.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ut it is suggested when any agitator comes along and complains of grievances that you should have power to send him to prison and to fine him op to £100. We suggest that this Amendment ought to be accepted, not indeed that it will make any great difference to the working classes but because these tremendous powers ought not to be given to the Home Secretary or any other Government Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "the employers thought they would get the men up against the miners; that they would divide one section of workmen against the other. Is that a crime, or will it be a crime under the new Bill? Suppose on the top of that a body of employers say: \"These men are in the wrong.\" They are going about now saying to the people the reason why you are in the condition you are is because of the miners strike!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have got it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ners; that they would divide one section of workmen against the other. Is that a crime, or will it be a crime under the new Bill? Suppose on the top of that a body of employers say: \"These men are in the wrong.\" They are going about now saying to the people the reason why you are in the condition you are is because of the miners strike! [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to get that applause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "e reason why you are in the condition you are is because of the miners strike! [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to get that applause. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You have got it!\"] It demonstrates beyond the possibility of doubt that behind this Bill there is something more than the safeguarding of the mere supply of the necessaries of life for the people. There is the spirit of venom and bitterness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ho strike have to depend upon the efforts of the men who have no legal protection when they are peacefully picketting. The man who goes on picket as a rule has to run all the risks of losing his individual liberty, while other men are now being enrolled at from £1 to £2 a day to blackleg in the case of a possible strike. Pay our men £1 to £2 per day and you will have no strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drop the Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " shut down, not because they had not the coal to carry on—for they had plenty of coal—but they have been compelled to cause unemployment, much to their regret, because they have had to carry out the instructions of the Coal Mines (Emergency) Act. I think it would be better if we were to try at this period to create a better and not a worse feeling between all sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1882.0", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "The arguments of my right hon. Friend were addressed rather against the discretion of the police and the common sense of the courts of justice than against this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I understood the right hon. Gentleman to say that I had voted for something in this House which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1884.6", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Read the Prime Minister's speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "Why labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1889.5", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "y it will be ashamed to approve of them. If they are false, I call on him, notwithstanding the unintelligible interruptions of men who never come to the House unless at a time of all-night sittings, who think that the English Parliament is not the greatest constitutional assembly in the world, but a merry night club, to say, what is he going to do to these papers? I take the \"Westminster Gazette.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1889.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "tire factory promises were seen to be completely demolished. The entire damage is estimated at about £50,000. Mr. Joseph Brennan's private residence, Kilbrogan House, was then attacked by soldiers, who first broke some windows and glass sidelights at the door. They entered the bedroom of Shaun Brennan, who was an officer and fought in the late European War, and smashed some furniture. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Scotsman' \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "uropean War, and smashed some furniture. —[ Laughter .] I rejoice that, coming back to this dull House of Commons, I am able to make merry the sad-faced gentlemen who have made money out of the War. The report goes on: Mr. Joseph Brennan, the son of the owner of Kilbrogan House, is private secretary to Sir John Anderson, one of the Irish Under-Secretaries. Sir John Anderson is an Englishman,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "r was poured over him. The party then broke into a room where Miss Grady and her mother were sleeping and pulled Miss Grady out on the road, put her on her knees, and cut her hair. On their return from the creamery, which they burned, the party entered the house of a man named Lovett, knocked his son on the floor with a blow, went next door and cut his sister's hair. Are you ashamed of yourselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Lieut.-Colonel Sir Hamar Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Lieut.-Colonel Sir Hamar Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "I am not going to pound this box, and I hope I never do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1896.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1897.4", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Same thing.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "r which I consider the only bar to the settlement of the Irish question. I am sorry if my method and manner offend the hon. Member. I do my best, and I hope, in spite of the difficulties that I have to face, that my method and manner will not offend any other hon. Member. The hon. Member talks about the tribunals composed of the criminals. The tribunals in Ireland are composed of British officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1897.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1898.0", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Shame! Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "preceding_text": "Same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1897.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-27", "file": "debates1920-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "aac15e5a88fa63e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1898.6", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "yal Irish Constabulary. I am the last person to wish any slackening of discipline in that force, but I cannot, and I will not, accept these accusations hurled against the constabulary and soldiers on the strength of reports in any newspapers, though I am only too happy to investigate them. Just a word about Bandon. Bandon is now being inquired into through General Macready and by General Macready.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-27a.1898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1905.2", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DONALD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I had an interview with this widow myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1930.3", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"Or your speeches!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Will the Government consider some means whereby greater publicity can be given to the proceedings of the League, the same, say, at least, as that given to the speeches of the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1930.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1932.7", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL CONTROL BOARD (LIQUOR TRAFFIC).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Very select!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "Will this Committee be a Select Committee of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1933.6", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL CONTROL BOARD (LIQUOR TRAFFIC).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the following informal Committee of hon. Members of this House would be agreeable to the Government to advise them on this subject as suggested:—Mr. Raper, Mr. Terrell, Mr. Higham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1933.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1938.3", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-GERMAN VESSELS (FIRES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Do you know the cause of the burnings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.1938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How about the Scots?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "not run in Ireland. They do not believe in the honour of an English gentleman. The word of an Englishman is a pledge which has been taken all over the world. It is a proverbial word of good faith wherever the human family meet together, yet in one part of the world alone, 20 miles from our own shore, it is regarded as an absolutely negligible thing which no reasonable man would trust for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2044.1", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " which they will learn. It is said that this discussion has entirely turned on giving the Customs and Excise to South Ireland, and has entirely neglected the difficulty that that would involve to North Ireland. I would ask North Ireland whether, at this moment, owing to the strain that has been set up in Ireland, the economic ties between Ulster and the rest of Ireland are not snapping one by one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2050.0", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain COOTE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain COOTE", "preceding_text": " a Customs barrier between Ireland and this country. That, I hope, was sufficiently answered by my hon. and gallant Friend (Captain Elliot). What I would ask those who oppose the Amendment is to consider the question of the possibility of the establishment of a Customs barrier between the North and South of Ireland. Is it seriously to be considered that that would be a possibility under this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2050.0", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain COOTE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain COOTE", "preceding_text": "have in their own hands. If I did not believe that by refusing this Amendment we are destroying one of the fairest chances which the Government's own plan gives them, I should not be supporting the Amendment. It scorns to me that this Amendment really docs raise in a concrete form the old difference between the Liberal point of view and the Tory point of view with regard to responsible government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2096.0", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": " labour and diminishing the casuals. It must be in a trade of this sort, a fluctuating trade depending upon the weather, the tide, the arrival of vessels and so on, it must of necessity be very largely worked by casual labour so far as regards the handling of goods. But there are stevedores who are in a totally different category to the persons to whom the hon. Member referred to as casual labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-10-28", "file": "debates1920-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e09c69691732a201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruptions .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "ks, then it is very remarkable. Men who have special knowledge of unloading vessels and dealing with cargo ought never to be in that position. If skilled men of this description are to be found daily in the crowds clamouring for tallies, it is a remarkable thing that the dock companies are not more alive, and that the men's unions are not more alive, to seek out those men and have them registered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-10-28a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-01", "file": "debates1920-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7ed5a710cedb5e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "preceding_text": "May I put one simple question: Has the right hon. Gentleman traced in his own experience any unemployment in this country directly due to dumping?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-01", "file": "debates1920-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7ed5a710cedb5e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "Do you still claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-01", "file": "debates1920-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7ed5a710cedb5e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You cannot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I give notice that I will raise this matter on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-01", "file": "debates1920-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7ed5a710cedb5e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.37.7", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "All sections of the House are represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.37.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-01", "file": "debates1920-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7ed5a710cedb5e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MESOPOTAMIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said he took it we agreed to a certain arrangement. While we are all agreeable to that, would he take into consideration this point, that those of us who represent individual constituencies might have a recommendation in our constituencies of the widow and the mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.48.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-11-01", "file": "debates1920-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7ed5a710cedb5e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.48.5", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MESOPOTAMIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I take it the House is prepared to surrender its privileges in this respect, and I gathered from the reception that that was the feeling. I think they ought to be surrendered altogether because there is really no time to go through that process. Therefore I will communicate with the Committee in charge what the feeling of the House is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.48.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-01", "file": "debates1920-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7ed5a710cedb5e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUVENILE COURTS (METROPOLIS) BILL— [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "se an existing police court solely for the purposes of a juvenile court. What can it mean but that? And that must be what those who have written to the newspapers thought it did. I venture to think those who promoted this Bill never understood it, find I further say that in my judgment it is a Bill for the convenience of women magistrates. They want to assert some right with regard to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-01a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-03", "file": "debates1920-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "135fd9d4a0a13eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": "May I submit this, that the House will be put into a very great difficulty if a Minister of the Crown may always avoid a discussion by being unable or unwilling to produce information. If my right hon. Friend can say that he will be prepared to produce the information, either now or as soon as ever he can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-03", "file": "debates1920-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "135fd9d4a0a13eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "e—I agree that it is only the evidence of newspapers—that within the last two days, for instance, a woman with a baby at her breast was killed, and that a man was called out and killed, I think in the town of Tralee. I have several other instances of the same kind. I am sure you will quite sympathise with my desire to put an end to these outrages, which are a dishonour to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-03", "file": "debates1920-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "135fd9d4a0a13eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "apers—that within the last two days, for instance, a woman with a baby at her breast was killed, and that a man was called out and killed, I think in the town of Tralee. I have several other instances of the same kind. I am sure you will quite sympathise with my desire to put an end to these outrages, which are a dishonour to this country. [ Interruption. ] Yes, to put an end to all of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-03", "file": "debates1920-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "135fd9d4a0a13eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "athise with my desire to put an end to these outrages, which are a dishonour to this country. [ Interruption. ] Yes, to put an end to all of them. [ Interruption. ] And, I think, if you will allow me to follow that interruption, I will best put an end to assassination by private bodies of men if I attempt to prevent assassinations under the connivance and by the order of the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-03", "file": "debates1920-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "135fd9d4a0a13eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was a War measure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "sted? Until the arbitrator has given his award, there will be no cultivation Order carried out at all, and the award will only be given if it is proved that the change proposed is in the national interest and that it will not injuriously affect the interests of those who are interested in the land. I say that the power is infinitely less than that which exists to-day under the Corn Production Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-03", "file": "debates1920-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "135fd9d4a0a13eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "mes vacant does not endeavour to sell it or otherwise has to take it in hand to cultivate it himself. The change is becoming extraordinarily rapid. We are going to become a nation of cultivating owners, and not a nation of landowners with tenant farmers. There is a good deal to be said for and against, and it may be urged that this Bill is one of the minor causes that is hastening on this process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-03", "file": "debates1920-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "135fd9d4a0a13eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": " perhaps, whose land is not suitable for growing wheat, and orders that farmer to plough up a field, that it will do any good? You cannot make a farmer grow wheat under this Bill. All you can tell him is to plough up a field. What will he do? He will do it at a minimum of expense. He will plough it three or four inches deep, and then leave it. That is the best thing he can do. What else can he do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-03", "file": "debates1920-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "135fd9d4a0a13eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": "In all probability they went down to grass during the period of great agricultural depression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-03a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.545.8", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "Would it not be better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.545.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.551.10", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Who are the baby killers now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.551.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.622.4", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MIS- CELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The ratepayers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "ed by these local authorities, and the innumerable journeys members have to make. Many men cannot afford the travelling expenses and the cost of subsistence they have to incur, unless they get some reasonable form of assistance, and it is in the interests of good government that we should face that responsibility. It will be provided that this proposal shall not involve any charge on the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.622.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MIS- CELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "Yes, and there are enormous waiting lists, with a dismal prospect for the people at the bottom ever getting in at all. At the same time in the same place you have hospitals maintained out of the rates with a large number of their beds empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MIS- CELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under what Statute?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "roposals of this Bill. Some authorities, as a matter of fact, owing to the necessities of the case, have taken the law into their own hands. There was a proposal some time ago from the City of Birmingham, which has a large poor law infirmary there, which, however, I could not accept. In the City or Bradford, and at Willesden, they have converted hospitals under the Poor Law into general hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MIS- CELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": ". On the other hand, they had the feeling that it was highly important, as far as possible, to economise the charges on the rates. I understand we are going to have recourse to this extraordinary resource. We propose to call things by a new name, although we do not propose to alter their real character. Is there to be any power to charge people who go to Poor Law infirmaries who can afford to pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "It is nine o'clock now. In the old days, when there was a Debate on a Motion for Adjournment, the Minister always rose and made his reply. Then other Members rose and were able to crticise the policy advanced by the Government. I hope my right hon. Friend will intervene in this Debate in time to be followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a Sinn Feiner!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "e outbreak in Dungannon. The right hon. Gentleman is constantly telling us—I think this is about the only defence he has ever offered—that the real cause of these so-called reprisals is because the community will not denounce murders. There were policemen wounded in Dungannon the other day, and the first man to stand up and denounce this wounding of the policemen was the parish priest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "affold not as a coward; he was a studious boy, loved by everyone who know him, brave and educated. He was 18 years of age, and he walked to the scaffold as a man, saying: \"I believe I die for the good of my country.\" But he goes beyond that, and he says, \"I am only following the example of General Wilson, who has taught me this policy.\" General Wilson was the private instructor to the Ulster Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.711.5", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You may get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " the Forces of the Crown; and (2) if the case is made out that they have been so destroyed, the question is, has the Government the moral responsibility to make what compensation they can in the way of money? Those are the two points I am considering with the Government at this moment, and if anyone has any evidence which will assist me in coming to a conclusion on that matter I should welcome it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "and killed—a man who had served his country for four years in Persia and Mesopotamia, and who went to Ireland at the call of the British Government to serve the country there; who was the main support of a widowed mother—a working-class mother living here in London. I think it ought to bring home vividly to this House the realities of the situation. All the tears ought not to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are a Sinn Feiner!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I say he was not. I deny that he was murdered by Sinn Feiners. How do you know they were Sinn Feiners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. The Courts of Inquiry composed of military officers as set up by this House, found that in one case a man met his death because he resisted arrest, and in two other cases the men were murdered by persons unknown. The only impartial Court you can get in Ireland to-day is the military Court of Inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMRBES: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " have myself gone out of my way to provide motor cars and facilities of every kind for the Press of all parts of the world to see Ireland as it is, because I believe, whatever may be said against the Government, the more publicity Ireland gets from people who visit it, the stronger and the more united will be the support, not only of this country but of civilisation, behind the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-04", "file": "debates1920-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "946162bd9809e3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.719.5", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"War on women?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ace here, but they've declared war on us.' Speaking with deep feeling, he then went over the list of his comrades who had been stealthily assassinated. 'We are all loyal men here and all true blue. We fought in the War, and I have the Military Medal, but they've declared war on us, and I suppose war it must be.' War it will be until assassination stops for ever. There can be no mistake about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-04a.719.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-05", "file": "debates1920-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "2f80ba830a21a91c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-05a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL INJURIES (IRELAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You may get it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENRY", "preceding_text": " the Forces of the Crown; and (2) if the case is made out that they have been so destroyed, the question is, has the Government the moral responsibility to make what compensation they can in the way of money? Those are the two points I am considering with the Government it this moment, and if anyone has any evidence which will assist me in coming to a conclusion on that matter I should welcome it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-05a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-08", "file": "debates1920-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2bb42c6046db93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED HUSBAND'S BROTHER.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am neither defending nor criticising. I am indicating that it is quite impossible, in the present state of public business, when there are so many things to be done, to bring in a Bill dealing with this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-08", "file": "debates1920-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2bb42c6046db93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In war!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman knows perfectly well that that was a most unfortunate accident, and no one, no decent person, would suggest that it was deliberate. That is one of the unfortunate incidents that always happen in war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.829.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-11-08", "file": "debates1920-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2bb42c6046db93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Malone!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he can take steps to prevent inflammatory speeches, by Members of his Cabinet, inciting to war against Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.845.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-08", "file": "debates1920-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2bb42c6046db93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Second Chamber for each!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "I understood the Clause was to establish, if it were agreed upon by both Parliaments, one Council which should be a Second Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-08", "file": "debates1920-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2bb42c6046db93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIXTH SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" The House will no doubt desire to know why I have not moved the first of these two Clauses standing in my name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-08a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " accuracy of the statement of the right hon. Gentleman as to a number of houses having been burnt or wrecked in Granard. Can the right hon. Gentleman suggest by whom this was done? Apparently the suggestion in the answer to the question is that it could not have been done by any of the forces of the Crown. Does the right hon. Gentleman suggest that it was done by the people themselves in the town?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By Sinn Feiners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "k arising out of that answer, is it a fact that the reign of terror still continues in Tralee, and that, instead of cessation, it increases in vigour; whether the privations, especially in the case of the poorer classes, are not simply appalling, and that many of the community are now starving; whether at the point of the revolver people are prevented from purchasing the necessities of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Or by Sinn Feiners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "t is admitted that a great number of houses have been wrecked or burnt in Granard, and this is confirmed by the illustration in the newspaper, reminding an hon. and gallant Gentleman near to me of Ypres. I would like to ask the right hon. Gentleman what theory he has to account for this partial destruction? Was it done by the soldiers, by the policemen, by the victims themselves, or by the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "When will there be some effort made to get at the truth in regard to these most horrible proceedings? Why do not the Government go over and burn the houses themselves, and not get their minions to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Do not answer! Do not answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "May I inquire whether, when the forces of the Crown were gathered in the town of Nenagh, they burnt down the shop of a man who sent three sons to the War? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of that. Further, what steps have been taken to bring these uniformed malefactors to justice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LORDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LORDEN", "preceding_text": "'s holiday down at the seaside. I think the third-class fare was something like 15s. pre-War, and I put in the sheet for 15s. When the agenda paper came out with the amounts that were to be paid there was \"Lorden 15s.\" and there was another man who accompanied me and his amount was 45s. I said \"This is a most extraordinary business,\" I may say he was a gentleman who called himself a Labour Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "d the assistance of members of the working classes on these local authorities unless we are going to compensate them for the actual loss they incur by doing their duty as members of any particular authority. This is not a new principle, nor does it appertain to any Party in this House. I think it was certainly from the Unionist side that the original proposal was made for payment of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "gnised by a long succession of Ministers or Ministries of Health, or Local Government Boards, shall be passed as they have been passed for county councils and county borough councils, for medical officers of health to enable them in the matter of expenses and also of security of tenure of office to carry out the particular terms of this House. I would end with one last plea against the economists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "the taxes. It need not add to the rates at all, because the matter of the rates is in the hands of the local ratepayers. That is what I object to, this constant difficulty as regards the ratepayers and the question of economy. Surely the ratepayer is not a child! Surely he can take care of himself in this matter! I admit that he is often pressed unduly by Government Departments to spend the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "t there would be no Ministry of Health at all. On the one side, you have got dogma and on the other side you have got humanity. I think most of us will not range ourselves on the side of the doctrinaires. It has been very significant, as has been hinted by an hon. Member, that all the speeches which have been made against this Bill have proceeded from hon. Members who represent universities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": " unfortunate people are no longer required; we are going to put them under the tender mercies of a bureaucracy, and make hospitals a State Department entirely.\" Therefore I hope that if this Bill reaches the Committee stage the Minister will consider in the interests of the country—never mind the Government—the fact that the opposition to his Bill from every quarter of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-09", "file": "debates1920-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "05f0ce9a6f68d8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MOLSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MOLSON", "preceding_text": "nto an A1 population, and I think by curative and preventive medicine and public health that might have been done. Instead of that, the Minister of Health has been burdened with measures which might have been carried out by private enterprise. To try and carry out as an economic principle putting the working classes into houses costing from £1000 to £1200 a year is absolutely impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-09a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-11-10", "file": "debates1920-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e036bc16b952a883", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-10a.1180.4", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh, oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "The Committee know what they are to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-10a.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-10", "file": "debates1920-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e036bc16b952a883", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-10a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I am going to object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-10a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-10", "file": "debates1920-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e036bc16b952a883", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-10a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOULD", "preceding_text": "le speeches from the Proposer and Seconder of this Amendment. We have been told that it has been found inexpedient to levy a tax of this nature in this country. We have also been told that the Chancellor of Exchequer is opposed to a tax of this nature, not only now but in the future. The Proposer and Seconder seem to forget that at one time the Leader of this House was in favour of a capital levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-10a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1349.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Name,\" and \"Take action.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that very high legal authorities are of opinion that the action of the Executive in the arrest of Mrs. Bryce was wholly illegal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Is no person, however eminent or however free from the possibility of charges of this character, to be immune from being seized by the police?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1351.2", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "They will be published in a few days. As a matter of fact, the documents are in front of me now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1357.5", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that no such unfriendly acts have, as far as we know, been committed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1364.8", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Irish Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "Seeing the time is so short, could not the right hon. Gentleman substitute this legislation for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1364.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "land repudiating this so-called boon, and it is to be refused representative institutions either here or in Ireland and committed both for legislation and administration to a non-electod and irresponsible body of Crown nominees. This is the Bill which my hon. and gallant Friend (Lieut.-Colonel J. Ward) has just described as the most generous form of Home Rule which has yet been offered to Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "ise, let alone o [...] practical result, in the solution of this secular problem. Since the Second Reading, social conditions in Ireland, and particularly the condition of the country in regard to the maintenance of law and order, have steadily deteriorated We are face to face with a situation which is without a parallel in our own country. I am not going to enlarge upon that aspect of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "stoms to its constituent parts has always ended by surrendering to the centre. In the Dominions that has happened. In Australia, South Africa, I believe in Canada, wherever there has been unity they always began by surrendering the powers of Customs to the centre, and there are obvious reasons why that should be the case. I do not think the United States of America ever gave Customs to the States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1438.0", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope you will!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": "carried on up to the present, and I cannot but think the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith), in the touching speech which he made to the House, brought us all back to a sense of the realities of the clay which we are celebrating, and of the touching function which took place this morning. As far as I am concerned, I shall try to follow the example of the right hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Withdraw!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CARSON", "preceding_text": " we find them, and we know perfectly well that the Act of 1914 is upon the Statute Book, and we know perfectly well that if there were a change of Government to-morrow, we would not gain our old position if my right hon. Friend opposite (Mr. Asquith) came into power or if the Labour party came into power. We know perfectly well the hostility of the Labour party to the Labour party in Ulster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "preceding_text": "—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1472.5", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS' SALARIES.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "There is one other aspect of this matter, on the question of appearances. There never was a time when the country more strongly demanded economy. We have been proud of the fact that Ministers' salaries have not been increased, and now Ministers come forward, without a single Member of this House having suggested it, and propose that a Committee should be appointed to investigate this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-11", "file": "debates1920-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "5926fc4d60026bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS' SALARIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"TWO hundred guineas!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": " be tempted to do so or to make money other than by means of his office. But every Sunday when I take up a newspaper I find Cabinet Ministers cutting in on the work of journalists, who have to earn their living as journalists, contributing articles for which they obtain enormous rewards. I believe that it is not an unusual thing for certain members of the Government to get a hundred guineas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-11a.1473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1493.4", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROFITEERING ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "There is a certain amount of cement going abroad at the present time at a higher price than is obtained here. I know my hon. and gallant Friend will realise that in not charging the full market world price to the homo consumer a cetain sacrifice is being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1508.4", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "With reference to the shooting of the two children in Dublin, is it surprising that young men run away when they see an armoured car coming in Dublin, in view of the reckless firing which is continually taking place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1509.5", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "May I ask how it was, when these men refused to halt and were fired upon, that none of these men were murdered, but an innocent girl and a little child were murdered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1509.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1511.9", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who made it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Notice must be given of that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1511.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1562.6", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "I am very unwilling to claim any special privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1562.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " We were to have all sorts of things—new houses, railways, transports. Still if the Government have abandoned that I am quite content and will not go back upon it, but my right hon. Friend says that the Government will welcome suggestions for reducing public expenditure. My suggestion is— and I will not engage in any polemics—that this Resolution and the Bill should be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1564.5", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "is a limited amount of material for building, while you have got an unlimited demand caused by the Government and the local authorities. I want the prices of houses to come down. A reduction of public expenditure is the first social reform that this House can carry out. I want to ask another question. Are there any provisions which the Government will regard as vital which will increase the rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1564.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "Whatever may be the measure of agreement in the House with regard to the announcement we have heard, I am quite certain that those in the country connected with local government in industrial areas will be grievously disappointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite impossible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "hat ruling for a similar kind of house, and at the same time they are, of course, entitled to the £260 Government subsidy on each house. In short, the directors of the Standard Housing Co. estimate that in selling in competition with brick houses they can ensure a minimum profit of £760 per house.… I have no idea as to whether that is or is not possible. It may be quite impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1592.5", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, we should be voting in the dark!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "to circumstances over which none of us have control that it could not be brought in until November. It was very unfortunate. I do not think it is desirable now to enter upon a long recital of the Clauses to be dropped, as it would only lead to lengthy discussion. I would suggest to my hon. Friend that the practical course to take will be at the opening of the Committee stage to make this statement", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1592.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1592.5", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Clause 6 has also gone\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "ld mention the following Clauses, all of which make for economy, both in the raising of money and in regard to local administration. I think that, as my right hon. Friend said, the Committee upstairs, when it has the Clauses in front of it, will not want to throw them out; but, if the Committee is so minded, we shall not press them, because they are not vital now. These Clauses are 7, 8, 15—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1592.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1598.0", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": "he House on another matter, that it is enough to justify expenditure to say that it is wise and is required. That is true if the country is rich, but it is not true in the present state of our finances. We must make a real sacrifice for economy. We are told that the worse form of economy is that which makes a C3 population. We must have a C3 population at this moment in order to save our finances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [GRANTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep to the Resolution!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Let the hon. Baronet go and tell the industrial population—not the City—that it has nothing to do with the War. Let him go to the East End of London, where 10 and 12 people are living in one or two rooms. During the War you scrapped the builders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "o has just, sat down, I represent an agricultural district, and this Amendment, I am sure; is entirely in the interests of a great and important industry. After the figures given by the Prime Minister, I fail to understand how anyone representing an agricultural constituency can oppose this Amendment. Alarming figures were given. We were told by the Prime Minister that £500,000,000,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WILSON", "preceding_text": "I do not think the Government have realised how strong are the feelings of agriculturists throughout the country with regard to the imposition of this Government control, and I believe that every hon. Member who represents an agricultural constituency will go into the Lobby against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1645.4", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir B. STANIER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did they not do so before?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir B. STANIER", "preceding_text": "Due to the patriotism of the farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1652.2", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen)", "preceding_text": "in reply to some of the speeches that have been made. I have been accused of asking the House to take a very strong course in reversing the decision of the Committee. I think it is only fair to myself to say that I made it perfectly clear when the Government was defeated in Committee, that the matter could not rest where it was, and that, in return for the very substantial guaranteed prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1654.3", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "What is the condition of the land to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1658.1", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw it:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "gest, I tell them that it is a policy which the country will not adopt. It is an impossible policy, and my hon. Friends know that it is impossible. I put it to the House that this Bill has been produced, has been carried through its Second Reading by a very large majority, and has been passed through a Committee, and it must either proceed on its present main lines or it will have to be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-15", "file": "debates1920-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2477e4620850b1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "is a much larger production of wheat? If they do, they must pay for it, and they must tell the farmer that if he will grow wheat to satisfy the desire of the country for a national reserve of wheat in the country itself, they must guarantee the price to the farmer which in ordinary years will pay for the cultivation of wheat. I am not talking about this particular Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-15a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "How would the safety of the witnesses be involved in a case of this character, where this little girl was murdered—killed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1833.0", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e else in the House—the right hon. Gentleman made certain observations. I do ask the House to observe that if they vote with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to-night their municipalities will be affected just as we are affected at the moment. It is not a question of creating a new trust as described by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is a question of taking away a trust already existent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1833.0", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU cannot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I do ask the House to observe that if they vote with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to-night their municipalities will be affected just as we are affected at the moment. It is not a question of creating a new trust as described by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is a question of taking away a trust already existent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No no!\"] Very well, then, if I can prove that it is so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ham, Sheffield, and Leicester, as individual corporations, obtain all the power that is necessary, but because in the interests of the community they combine to give cheaper water and more facilities to the people they represent, this Parliament is asked to say that there is less security by the four combining than if they stood alone. That is the issue before the House which we have to determine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ining than if they stood alone. That is the issue before the House which we have to determine. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] You will say \"No\" by your vote, but that will not alter the facts of the case. It will not alter the fact that instead of the House being called upon to vote to extend the trustee security, they are being called upon to vote to take from the trust security power that already exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Servants of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " the tone and spirit of the right hon. Gentleman in dealing with these cases of reprisals, that it is quite a justification for the uniformed forces of the Crown to organise and wage war upon innocent and inoffensive citizens who an; discharging their duties lawfully to themselves and to the State, and they are to be subjected to this atrocious treatment at the hands of what he calls his servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "s when my right hon. Friend told him that he intended to raise the question on the Adjournment. I prefer the declarations of the people whose property was destroyed to the declarations either of the District Inspector or any interested person in the town of Tipperary. I would not believe the oath of a single one of the informants of the right hon. Gentleman who send lying briefs which he can read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "in a state of complete terror. This is war, we are told by the Chief Secretary and the Prime Minister, but was there ever war of this character waged in any civilised or savage community in the world, a war on innocent people? Show me a single civilised or uncivilised community in which these things occur. Let me say here, that most of the shooting of policemen by Sinn Feiners is done in the open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-16", "file": "debates1920-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "88071a82c44e70d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1849.1", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "powers they sought for, everything they have asked for to put down these murders. What I am concerned with is the appalling condition in which innocent people are placed in every parish and town in three and a-half of the provinces of Ireland to-day. Much as an Irishman may feel intense indignation at what is going on in Ireland to-day, the shame does not rest on Ireland, it rests on this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-16a.1849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1892.3", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon Gentleman say what has been done with those who arrested the doctor when he was attending a wounded man. The right hon. Gentleman has admitted that the doctor was attending a wounded man. What proceedings are to be taken against these barbarous savages who arrested a doctor when he was attending a wounded man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1893.6", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has changed the phraseology of his answer. He has admitted that this doctor was attending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1893.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1893.6", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has changed the phraseology of his answer. He has admitted that this doctor was attending—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"]. It is enough to fight the Black and Tans in Ireland without fighting you. The right hon. Gentleman has stated, in reply to my question, that this doctor was arrested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1893.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "piring after the 1st of January, whether the notice was given before or after the Bill was passed. I think there is very good reason for this. My hon. and gallant Friend suggests we should take the 20th of May and I agree that something can be said for that, but at the same time is it not true that ever since the Caxton Hall speech every owner of land has been perfectly well aware that legislation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1991.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1992.0", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You are driving the Prime Minister away.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "the 1st of January, whether the notice was given before or after the Bill was passed. I think there is very good reason for this. My hon. and gallant Friend suggests we should take the 20th of May and I agree that something can be said for that, but at the same time is it not true that ever since the Caxton Hall speech every owner of land has been perfectly well aware that legislation [ Laughter ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1995.2", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": ", but we get a complacent Minister, who is anxious to placate ail sections of the community, and he introduces a Clause like this to make this provision retrospective. It is hopeless. Seriously, I do not doubt the authority of this House to pass any law it likes, but I do doubt whether you would find judges to carry that law into execution, because I think the question of equity will come in here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1999.1", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Major M. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major M. WOOD", "preceding_text": " minister unless he misconducts himself in some very material way. All this year, every time I have met farmers—and during the recess I saw a great deal of them—the question they always put to me was this: \"Will this Bill come into operation before 28th November? 'because, they said, immediately the Caxton Hall speech was delivered, notices to quit were sown broadcast over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.1999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2013.0", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bankruptcy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GREIG", "preceding_text": " \"Had been during the tenancy convicted of serious crime.\" What crimes are serious and what are not? You will be immediately plunged into investigations which certainly no arbitrator is capable of undertaking. This is obviously in addition to something else that is in the Clause. What are the other things which take a man out of the right of getting compensation? They all relate to good husbandry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2025.2", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": "Would the object not be better met by saying six months from the time the rent has been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2030.3", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "n's action, but what I am objecting to is that at one moment I am asked to put n a sum not exceeding one year's rent, and when that is rejected, we have another Amendment which brushes aside the average sum of one year's rent and puts in the actual expenses due to quit- ing. I say we came to a certain arrangement in Committee. I think it was a fair arrangement, and the House ought to adhere to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2030.3", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear,\" and \"No, no\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "d, we have another Amendment which brushes aside the average sum of one year's rent and puts in the actual expenses due to quit- ing. I say we came to a certain arrangement in Committee. I think it was a fair arrangement, and the House ought to adhere to it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Surely I can express my own opinion. I say in my opinion the House ought to support what is agreed to in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-17", "file": "debates1920-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d20214f22b33ed6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2031.2", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "his Amendment, that I regard this as one of the most dangerous steps, even in his own interests, which he could take, because, as far as I am entitled to join in representation from the farmers of Scotland—and I have a very large number of farmers in my constituency—I will say that they regard the provisions of this Bill as it now stands as falling very far short of security of tenure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-17a.2031.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2051.3", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman guarantee the safety of witnesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2052.2", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of police!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman taken any steps on this question, of which notice was given a week ago, to hasten the report or to get a telegraphic report, or is murder such a small thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2066.6", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "n the papers be longing to the chief-of-staff of the Republican Army, which were captured during recent raids. Then follows a series of remarkable and, I think, horrifying statements which refer to the spread of typhoid fever among the troops and glanders among the horses. I think the answer is so long that perhaps the House would prefer me not to read it, but to publish it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2066.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2068.6", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Weeks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "How is it that such voluminous and extensive information can be given on a Private Notice question within a few hours, it takes days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2068.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "How many more prisoners will be killed in this way? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of this that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2079.4", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman answers, may I ask whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2079.4", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman answers, may I ask whether—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2079.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2092.0", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say when the new hours are going to come into operation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2092.0", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say when the new hours are going to come into operation [ Interruption. ] This is creating a considerable amount of dissatisfaction throughout the country. Even the Church Councils in various parts of the country have passed resolutions in favour of the extended hours of 7 to 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2166.0", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (RELIEF WORKS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"State Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "d use it on unproductive employment we are at the same time being urged to shut down the building of factories because the bricks are wanted for housing. It would be more sensible that the building of factories should be carried on with the utmost speed, and if there is a shortage of bricks, let us make bricks. Why make roads which nobody wants instead of bricks, for which everybody is clamouring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2166.0", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (RELIEF WORKS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"What about stone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "nt works. It may be said that we in Scotland must buy our bricks from England, but if you use every brick made in England for houses they would only build 125,000 houses in a year, and I understand that estimates have been arranged for 160,000 houses. If every brick made in England is used in building houses, there will still be 35,000 houses which will need to be built out of card-board or paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2183.2", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (RELIEF WORKS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "If one has to be quite personal, I speak of a factory of which I happen to be Chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (RELIEF WORKS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "at is supposed to be fit for heroes to live in. Unemployment is here. It is no longer a spectre, but is a body clothed with flesh. This Bill is introduced with the hope of finding employment by one Member of the Government, and we had the awful irony last Monday of another Member of the Government consenting to drop thirteen Clauses of a Bill which would produce employment for men in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2231.2", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "No, that is not so. The Bill now hangs together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-18", "file": "debates1920-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a11d2bd70247a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2236.0", "colnum": "2236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes,\" and \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "r's rent as a figure to average the cost of removal, I think it is very likely that the maximum will become the minimum, that it will become so in every case, and that one year's rent will be paid. In that respect the tenant farmer will get rather more than under this particular Amendment. I realise the Amendment is intended to go further. It is confining the whole compensation to one year's rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-18a.2236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-19", "file": "debates1920-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "00c36007227ff7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2258.1", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Obviously from the right hon. Gentleman's answer it is clear that it was the officers of the Crown who have kidnapped this clergyman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-19", "file": "debates1920-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "00c36007227ff7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2305.0", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "preceding_text": "ee months. In the case of unreasonable disturbance, under the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1908, two months' notice is required, but in the case of the Small Holdings Act, 1910, and the Small Colonies Act, no notice at all is required. You have no actual precedent in any of the statutes which you can follow, but, if my hon. Friend would be content, say, with one month, I am perfectly ready to agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-19", "file": "debates1920-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "00c36007227ff7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2313.0", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "some substance in it, and we ought to have the matter cleared up. In regard to England the position is clear. Speaking from one's own personal experience, one makes an agreement and accepts the tenant as a man. You do not think particularly of his wife. I try not to think about any of his domestic arrangements, even whether the lady who happens to be living with him in his farm is his wife or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-19", "file": "debates1920-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "00c36007227ff7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2313.0", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the capital he puts in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "mong the sons of other tenants, who are always waiting for farms and buzzing round with their applications as soon as a farm is vacant. I do not think it is generally assumed by tenants themselves that the widow has something like a customary right of succession. I do not think when the ordinary tenant is thinking about security that he is thinking about his widow's security or his son's security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-19", "file": "debates1920-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "00c36007227ff7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2313.0", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why the Bill at all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "y. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the capital he puts in?\"] I refuse to assume the idea; I cannot conceive, except from the point of unexhausted manurial improvements, for which the man gets compensation, that there is anything which the tenant normally puts into the farm at present or is likely to put into the farm in future which justifies his widow or his son in expecting some special compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-19", "file": "debates1920-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "00c36007227ff7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2318.0", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not subject to Acts of Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "e man has invested in the land. That happens when the landlord gets rid of him, but if, instead of the landlord getting rid of him, the Lord gets rid of him, there is no compensation. If the man dies and leaves a widow and son, they are to receive nothing of this insurance money, because in their case it is the Lord who has intervened and not the landlord. There is no notice to quit from the Lord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-19a.2318.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-22", "file": "debates1920-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d6494739e182349d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.38.6", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.38.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-22", "file": "debates1920-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d6494739e182349d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister why it is, when a question is put to himself and the Chief Secretary to recite all the horrible occurrences that have taken place last Sunday in Dublin, that we have heard nothing about the appearance of the military forces at a football match.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-22", "file": "debates1920-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d6494739e182349d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister why it is, when a question is put to himself and the Chief Secretary to recite all the horrible occurrences that have taken place last Sunday in Dublin, that we have heard nothing about the appearance of the military forces at a football match. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] At which ten people were killed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-22", "file": "debates1920-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d6494739e182349d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.39.8", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " out that you, Sir, are not only the Speaker of this House, but you are the custodian of the rights of minorities in this House. We, as a minority in this House, consistent with Parliamentary Order, demand protection from the attempts that are made to howl us down when we are asking legitimate questions. When you, Sir, declare that questions are not of an orderly character I always resume my seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.39.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-22", "file": "debates1920-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d6494739e182349d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.41.8", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Revolvers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Was there a single incriminatory document found on any of the 3,000 people searched?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.41.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-22", "file": "debates1920-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d6494739e182349d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.42.10", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the provocation given.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "I presume, Mr. Speaker, that you heard the observation made by the right hon. Member for the Duncairn Division—\"You are a liar!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.42.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-22", "file": "debates1920-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d6494739e182349d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. HOPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. HOPE", "preceding_text": "or him to make, because it drives a nail into the coffin of the hopes of many a would-be small holder. £2,500,000 has been voted for small holdings in Scotland. That has been spent already, and there is not a great number of small holders on the land yet. What does this Bill do? When a farm is taken for small holdings it is necessary to compensate the occupier to the extent of one year's rent", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-22", "file": "debates1920-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d6494739e182349d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FITZROY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FITZROY", "preceding_text": "t smallholders who rent land from the local authorities at the present time are in a much worse position than those smallholders who rent small holdings from private purchasers. In the first place, they are called on to pay an economic rent, and to pay for a sinking fund for the purchase of the land. If this Bill becomes law they will now be called upon to pay compensation to the outgoing tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-22a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-23", "file": "debates1920-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "0effb02c69632983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.201.4", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU never do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that any machine guns were used, nor do I believe that a boy of ten was bayoneted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-23", "file": "debates1920-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "0effb02c69632983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.233.6", "colnum": "233", "heading": "IMPRISONMENT OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"and \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have the honour to inform you that I have this day convicted Cecil John L'Estrange Malone, Member of Parliament, of an offence against the Defence of the Realm Regulations, and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment in the second division.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.233.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-23", "file": "debates1920-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "0effb02c69632983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ROYDS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ROYDS", "preceding_text": "sense. But as the Government have brought the proposal in let us discuss it and let us understand what we are going to do. I understand no compensation is payable if the employment of the workman is for a year or half year and the man goes away at the end of the particular period. Then in that case no compensation will ever be payable at all because the man will be engaged for a year or half year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-23", "file": "debates1920-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "0effb02c69632983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.351.6", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I said I had received it. I did not say I had it in my pocket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.351.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-23", "file": "debates1920-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "0effb02c69632983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.351.6", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I said I had received it. I did not say I had it in my pocket. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did!\"] We have all got it. I will find it and send it to the right hon. Gentleman as soon as I possibly can. What the Clause was I remember perfectly well; it was that they were in favour of the Bill providing that the other Clause dealing with labourers' cottages was omitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.351.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-23", "file": "debates1920-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "0effb02c69632983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I want to ask one or two questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-23", "file": "debates1920-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "0effb02c69632983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir OWEN PHILIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir OWEN PHILIPPS", "preceding_text": "I want to appeal on behalf of the people in a number of moderate-sized boroughs of the county who, at the beginning of the War, gave up their parks for allotments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-23a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether this statement is correct? May I have an answer, Yes or No?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that no building can be undertaken without some skilled men to lead the work; and is it not the fact that the skilled men have refused to lead the unemployed ex-soldiers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "to-day? 4.0 P.M. We have evidence, not from Sinn Fein sources, or that or anybody connected with that movement, but of a vast body absolutely independent, impartial, representing the great organs of the Press not only of this country but of America, France, and other parts of the civilised world—we have the evidence of men who, without any prepossessions or prejudices, were sent there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "Some of them were eye-witnesses, and many of them have been on the scene within a few hours after the event. Whatever the hon. Member opposite may think, I am sure that I am speaking the opinion of a large number of unbiased people when I say that there is a large body of evidence on this subject which in any other country would be accepted, not only as presumptive but conclusive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Piffle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "can see the British Government is determined to make Ireland a desert by wrecking its towns and industries, rather than allow the Irish nation to control its own affairs. And I do not see any power in the world which is going to lift a finger to prevent this wreckage. The British Government has the power to do it, and so far as I can judge by the action of its agents here it has the will to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.490.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Because there are no troops there.", "preceding_speaker": "The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Colonel Sir Hamar Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "f the Government, emphasis will always be put upon this provocation, the cessation of which means that Ireland automatically becomes peaceful. From the speech of the right hon. Gentleman one would think that policemen and soldiers were going about Ireland in motor cars burning and slaying. In two-thirds, or nearly three-fourths of Ireland, there is as great peace as there is in the county of Kent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.497.5", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From your imagination.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am trying to bring vividly before this House some of the realities of the Irish situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "xiliary Division men went to the manager's house, knowing his record and knowing they had been fired at from the house; but they found a wounded Sinn Feiner inside, and naturally, being chivalrous British soldiers, they did not touch the house, but left it over the head of the wounded Sinn Feiner. These are the men called \"wilful murderers\" at the National Liberal Club by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.501.3", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "as well? Who is there to punish in Dublin? He wants punishment for reprisals, but who is to be punished? There is. no case in the history of our Empire, with all its stress and struggle, in which discipline has been so sternly maintained under such frightful provocation. It is when you get a murder in the far West of Ireland, from which a correspondent can send the news that suits his paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "der of a policeman or soldier—not one. I was glad to see in the resolution of the Labour party passed the other day that they emphasised that fact. I agree with it. Why do they not condemn these murders? Because those who are called the intellectual leaders of Sinn Fein are leaders in name only. The controllers of the Sinn Fein movement are the organisers of the assassination of last Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true!\" \"You cannot prove a word of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "nder the stress of great provocation commit the sins for which the Government of this country must assume responsibility. There is overwhelming evidence, from the former speeches of Ministers, from the evidence produced in this House and from the speech of the Chief Secretary this evening, that this policy of reprisals is a deliberate policy carried out by the Government with a deliberate purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": ". He said there are always in every army and every nation some black sheep, and he said these men who had taken part in these reprisals, having seen their comrades murdered, were black sheep and had committed sins. I want to suggest that this Motion is in fact, however much hon. Members may try to deny it, a vote of censure against all ranks of the Army and the Royal Irish Constabulary in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is your remedy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": " of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Roman Catholics, who have gone to attend Mass, and who, as they are coming out of the church, have been shot actually in the porch. Such a case occurred three days ago. Imagine the position of these soldiers and police in these terror-stricken areas. It is not war. In war you know where you are and you have a clearly defined frontier, and you are in your trenches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "of civilisation, of Sunday last that this Motion is brought forward in this House. The day was asked for, and even yesterday it was asked that it might be postponed for one week. I suggest that if the hon. Members think it wrong for the Motion to be introduced this week, it will be no more right next week. The fact remains that for some reason or other this was considered to be a good party stunt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": " be felt in thousands of cottages throughout the length and breadth of this country. Of everybody who is taking this so-called anti-reprisals line, I would ask: When did the young British soldier become a sort of ghoul or savage who could not be restrained? When did the young British officer assume that role Day after day that is the suggestion which is flung out in speeches from the Benches here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "ht responsible for the crime. I admit it is regrettable. I want to suggest that this House should take a greater responsibility in dealing with this question. I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman who moved this Resolution would have been the last person in this House to move a Resolution of this description. Everybody who has studied the history of Mr. Gladstone, that great patriot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did Carson say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": " I want to remind the House that when the right hon. Member for Paisley was in power the Irish Republican movement started, and the leaders of that movement in Ireland were ready to get up and announce themselves as leaders of the Irish Republic. The right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister of that day did not carry out the law of the land and arrest those men for high treason, and have them tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "So long as it was clearly understood that if a murder took place in a certain area, then the two most responsible leaders you could find would be taken as hostages, tried, and immediately executed if another murder took place, I believe you would bring this thing to a stop at once. I put it to the Labour party, and even to the Wee Liberal party, whether they would not assent to a policy like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "leman was looking for revolution three years ahead, but his revolutionaries are now in the seats of the mighty. They sit upon that Front Bench opposite. They are administering justice as judges, resident magistrates, and Crown prosecutors in Ireland to-day. But the lessons he taught and the doctrines he preached have fructified in these hideous evils that the House of Commons is to-day discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Malone one got six months for less!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "to us, then we ought to be told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This speech of the Chief Secretary has been made up of a series of some truths, some half-truths, and many statements that were not truths at all. The right hon. Gentleman was reciting this hideous story, this saturnalia of blood in Ireland, and you were all deeply moved. Yet from the lips of your leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.537.4", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh. oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ut to crush her. I believe your policy to-day is intended—I do not say deliberately, but that will be the ultimate of it—to devastate and destroy Ireland. An English friend of mine told me that he was travelling over with a Black and Tan, and he was told that the soldiers were going to draw a cordon round Ireland and shoot every man, woman and child who showed the slightest opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.537.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.537.4", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "AN HON MEMBER: \"Murder!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Black and Tans are burning the Court Houses— Joseph Tierney, £10,000: Claims for more than £1,000 are for goods, including dry goods. Let me read this, of last Saturday: The acquittal by a Dublin Court-martial of the two men, James O'Neill and Patrick Blake, had a tragic sequel. Here were two ex-soldiers, and they were tried for being Sinn Feiners, or some crime of that sort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.537.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I gathered so much, and I rather think that a number of people in this country, who ought to know better, are supporting methods, which are irregular and indiscriminate, of frightfulness in Ireland, because they think that these auxiliary police and so on, who have been armed in Ireland and made callous by the burning of towns, villages, and so forth, may become extremely useful in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wearing it out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "—and, as the hon. and gallant Member for Maidstone reminds me, I have asked more questions than other hon. Members. So that I do not think I can be accused of not using the constitutional machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "rror on the idea of frightfulness being used to crush opinion. I am afraid that the temptation to use these forces may be very great in certain eventualities in this country, and that the people of this country, once they are aroused, are going to be very, very dangerous to their oppressors, as has been shown in the past. I want to put it to hon. Members who stand for property in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.576.2", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was Father Trant there at the time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "out half the creamery was burned, but most of the machinery escaped injury. This account by Father Trant entirely differs from the account which has been given to us by the Chief Secretary for Ireland. The account given by the right hon. Gentleman of this incident was heard by the House, and Father Trant, who, I believe, is a gentleman of the highest character, gives an entirely different account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.586.2", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ost parts I listened with very great regret. Whilst acknowledging that he was moved by sincerity of motive, I most profoundly, and indeed, indignantly repudiate the suggestion which he made that the Liberal party on this side of the House, and in particular my right hon. Friend who moved this Motion, were actuated by feelings of hostility and animosity towards the soldiers of the Crown in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ich was levelled against him. I am not ashamed, with my detestation of the crimes committed in Ireland on the Forces of the Crown, and with my admiration for the servants of the Crown in discharging a most difficult task, to follow the example set many years ago by standing by an unpopular cause, no matter what aspersions may be cast upon it. There was a suggestion made that this was a party move.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"] There is no party advantage in it, as I know well—not the slightest; quite the contrary. Charges of that kind are greeted with resounding cheers from Members on the other side and other parts of the House. In the history of this House such cheers have always met men standing up for progressive forces and for unpopular ideas which sooner or later must achieve their reward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " that sort greeted Bright and Cobden and others who have stood for what they thought to be the cause of righteousness and justice. They are familiar sounds within these walls, and I suppose they always will be as long as there is conflict between right and wrong. I am glad that the Debate has, at any rate, cleared up one thing. We now know that reprisals are the policy of His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "nment. [Interruption.] In the policy to restore order, reprisals are a predominant part. On the 20th October, in this House, the Chief Secretary stated, with regard to creameries, that there was not a tittle of evidence of the participation of the forces of the Crown in their destruction. We know to-day, from what he has told the House, that it is practically a case of war on the creameries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ened, and that by their speeches here Ministers should lead those poor and unfortunate men to believe that such acts will again be condoned in future. This House has a duty to perform. It has a duty to remain impartial as between various causes. I am afraid that any cause like the Irish cause, which ought to be considered with impartiality, has a very poor chance of such treatment in such a House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "r three-fourths of Ireland. How does it present itself to the average Irishman? It is a Bill which Ireland has never considered. The Committee which drafted it had not a single Irishman among its members. It was piloted through this House by a gentleman who was a stranger to Ireland until he became Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the Prime Minister, under whom he serves, is a stranger to Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They would not come here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "a measure which we were told was to settle the Irish problem, Irishmen should have been consulted in the drafting of that measure, Irishmen should have been on the Committee that did draft that measure, and when that measure was being introduced and passed into law, it should have been supported by the majority of Irishmen and Irish opinion, and, if not so supported, it should have been withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am the only Irishman in this House representing an English constituency who has taken part in this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "g an English constituency who has taken part in this Debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] I am about the only Irishman, with the exception of my hon. Friend the Member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool (Mr. O'Connor), who has not spoken in this Debate, and to that extent I hope I shall not be speechless. It seems to me most extraordinary that, whenever the Government find themselves in a hole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Withdraw, with draw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "eption of my hon. Friend the Member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool (Mr. O'Connor), who has not spoken in this Debate, and to that extent I hope I shall not be speechless. It seems to me most extraordinary that, whenever the Government find themselves in a hole—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—yes, absolutely in a hole, they have to fall back upon the political prostitutes of labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-24", "file": "debates1920-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2d0ac86d361334b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With draw!\" and interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] If I might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-24a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-25", "file": "debates1920-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6568b4cfb1181510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.615.8", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that ex-service men are forced to frequent workhouses because certain trade unions will not allow them to work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.615.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-25", "file": "debates1920-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6568b4cfb1181510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.620.7", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Manners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "Then you ought to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.620.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-25", "file": "debates1920-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6568b4cfb1181510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "If we can give the right hon. Gentleman an assurance that this is not only the expressed will of industrial Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-25", "file": "debates1920-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6568b4cfb1181510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "If we can give the right hon. Gentleman an assurance that this is not only the expressed will of industrial Ireland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not!\"] —but also of agricultural Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-25", "file": "debates1920-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6568b4cfb1181510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It happens now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "d between landlord and tenant, but they said the tenants could afford to pay more rent, and they could have, although none of them ever offered to pay any more. In the future, instead of giving a man notice to quit because you want his rent raised, the landlord and the tenant get together, and if they can mutually agree as to what the rent shall be, that settles it. What is there wrong about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-25", "file": "debates1920-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6568b4cfb1181510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want any more wars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ason for bringing in this Bill was that it would increase the arable area of the country, but I have not heard in all the Debates that have taken place that the proposals of this Bill will in fact increase that arable area and bring a larger amount of corn land into cultivation. One of the ostensible reasons for the Bill is that we are to grow more food in this country to prepare for the next war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-25a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "are on this Committee, are sufficient to form a quorum—three will form a quorum. The Committee is formed at the tail-end of the Session, when Members are tired out, and those who are interested are more likely to attend. When Members inquire into their own salaries, the practice is capable of widespread imitation. Why should not the colliers in the coal trade inquire into their own salaries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "c Government to bring forward such a proposal seems to me very dangerous. I ask what is the evidence on which we are going to base the necessity of the inquiry? There is no evidence of a widespread demand of which I know anything. The only evidence of impoverished Labour Members of Parliament is the alacrity with which certain Labour members write for what is called by them the \"capitalist Press.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "f Members and Ministers of those Parliaments. In 1911, when Members of Parliament were first paid, it was freely prophesied that we were entering on the slippery slopes of \"the spoils for the victors.\" I remember that the argument was used that the United States Senate began with salaries of £180 a year. The salary in the United States Senate now is in the neighbourhood of £3,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He had just been attacked before you came in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. Member who is now speaking one of those whom it is proposed to nominate as a Member of the Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WHITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WHITE", "preceding_text": "I have not mentioned up till now what part I am going to take on this Committee, neither am I going to do so. I was giving my own experience. Perhaps I am the only man in the House who has to live on his salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LINDSAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only two.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LINDSAY", "preceding_text": "I want to raise a point which seems to me of some importance with regard to procedure. I always understood that Labour Members were appointed to Committees according to the strict rule. I would, therefore, draw attention to the fact that there are three Labours Members suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (RELIEF WORKS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MCLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MCLAREN", "preceding_text": "I listened with some amazement to the remarks of the Secretary for Scotland, though there is a good deal to be said for his view. When unemployment comes upon a community, the first men to be dismissed are those who are not good workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN, YOUNG PERSONS AND CHILDREN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "owledge of the hon. Member on this question. We cannot put restrictions on a factory which would cause it to stand idle for such a long period. Take the very case of the education of a young person to which the hon. and gallant Member (Major Grey) referred. If the shift is only to be one of eight hours, is it suggested that the necessary educational facilities will have to be given at the factory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN, YOUNG PERSONS AND CHILDREN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "That is not the statement which the hon. and gallant Gentleman made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-26", "file": "debates1920-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "e8ef46fd3cd0277b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.884.6", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN, YOUNG PERSONS AND CHILDREN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "anyone imagine what would be the atmospheric condition of those rooms—I am speaking now particularly with regard to the spinning rooms—after a period of 16 or 17 hours' working! It would probably be a continuous run of 16 hours, because I see the hon. Members who were on this Committee seem to pay very little regard in their Report to the-question of any provision of proper meal hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-26a.884.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-29", "file": "debates1920-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc935221073317fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "No adjectives; give us an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-29", "file": "debates1920-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc935221073317fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.922.7", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "That was to acquire land in and around London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.922.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-11-29", "file": "debates1920-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc935221073317fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.922.10", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Where have you been over the week-end?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; there is no-such Bill to take over any such roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.922.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-29", "file": "debates1920-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc935221073317fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.926.3", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider where the criticisms come from? I think\" the right hon. Gentleman will find that the only criticisms come from the trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.926.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-29", "file": "debates1920-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc935221073317fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.927.8", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of that. The syllabus, so far as it relates to drink, is substantially in the same form as that in which it has appeared since the year 1908.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.927.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-29", "file": "debates1920-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc935221073317fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.1080.9", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows sufficient of me to know that I have not a word of justification for an act of the kind which has taken place to-day. I have no intention of leaving any such impression when I say that there are tragic events happening in Ire land for which both sides must carry responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-29a.1080.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-30", "file": "debates1920-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "89049a0e4b485e26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-30a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacVEAGH", "preceding_text": "Did the petrol tin which was found in the \"Freeman\" office belong to any Government Department?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-30a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-11-30", "file": "debates1920-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "89049a0e4b485e26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-30a.1123.6", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DYESTUFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I am not in the least aware of any such proposition. I am, on the contrary, aware that the system of prohibition and licensing has the approval of certainly the vast majority of the users of dye-stuffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-11-30a.1123.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1292.4", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you take them on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "indeed, in fact, will be lower than those of the ordinary contractors. One of the reasons why we were asked to undertake this work by the Minister of Health and the local authorities was that they had found it difficult in many cases to get anyone to tender at all, or to get a reasonable tender. We are not getting the easiest jobs in the country; on the contrary, we are getting the most difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " of the Government. The Government is the Cabinet, as my hon. Friend ought to know. Does he imagine that a Government Department undertakes work like this and all that is involved, without a Cabinet decision? It is the most extraordinary observation I have ever heard an hon. Member make. I have explained, generally, the position, and I have gone into it in perhaps greater detail than was required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "led smoothly. Materials have been secured by the Office of Works and the work is proceeding. The Office of Works recruit their own staff and exercise their own supervision, and in every detail have complete control of the work. Surely we are not going to condemn a Government Department which can exercise as effective supervision and can get the work done as reasonably as under a private contractor", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1307.6", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "ideal which some people believe in, but I do not. Whether I believe it or not, this is not the way to do it. What encourages me to say this is that those who were in the last Parliament have a very vivid recollection of what the Government attempted to do in the way of building houses and other things during the War. Somebody behind me says they did it very successfully. At Chepstow, for instance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1307.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"The same work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "in another branch of the work of my Department which has adopted direct labour as against tenders. It may interest hon. Members if I give some cases in which work can be done more cheaply by Government Departments than by giving it out to private tender. Repairs had to be done to a wall, and the lowest tender sent in was for £2,225. The actual work carried out by direct labour cost £832.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including material?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " has adopted direct labour as against tenders. It may interest hon. Members if I give some cases in which work can be done more cheaply by Government Departments than by giving it out to private tender. Repairs had to be done to a wall, and the lowest tender sent in was for £2,225. The actual work carried out by direct labour cost £832. [An HON. MEMBEE: \"The same work?\"] Yes, and better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any bathroom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "chemes which are going on in various parts of the country. We deal with this matter as an ordinary builder would, and put them in the most convenient places. As I have told the House, these houses are being built under the supervision of, and with the approval of the Ministry of Health, and the type of house is that which costs us £880 and contains a living room, a parlour and three bedrooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "I have listened to this discussion with a great deal of interest, and, really, it is surprising to find hon. Members in different parts of the House apparently angry because houses are being erected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a good job too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "en I take my mind back to the demands made by hon. Gentlemen opposite as to what the Government intend to do in the way of housing and the ex-soldiers, I am surprised to hear the criticism forthcoming now that the Government have extended their services in that direction. You must bear in mind what is taking place in different parts of the country. Houses are being seized and occupied by soldiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "preceding_text": " well known that where you bad workmen employed by a local authority they did less work, and the cost of their service was, consequently, infinitely more. Those who have knowledge of, and are connected with, municipal affairs, know that the municipalities in regard to tramways, electric lighting and gas supply, have worked these services as economically, and in many cases, more economically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "local authority they did less work, and the cost of their service was, consequently, infinitely more. Those who have knowledge of, and are connected with, municipal affairs, know that the municipalities in regard to tramways, electric lighting and gas supply, have worked these services as economically, and in many cases, more economically—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] —than private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-01", "file": "debates1920-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "394e06a0686fdf86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ted with, municipal affairs, know that the municipalities in regard to tramways, electric lighting and gas supply, have worked these services as economically, and in many cases, more economically—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] —than private enterprise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The figures which are published every year confirm the statements I am making. I do not wish to pursue the matter further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-01a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-02", "file": "debates1920-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0bb8d4fec896b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1412.3", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Might I have an answer, please? Is the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-02", "file": "debates1920-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0bb8d4fec896b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1423.6", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ere going to quench these fires; whether the Government will see that this constant and wholesale destruction of property in the city of Cork will be immediately brought to an end? I have had a letter, received from Cork, since I gave notice of this question, saying that last night being Saturday night was the worst we have had in Cork. It was a veritable hell. Innumerable bombs and shots. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1423.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-02", "file": "debates1920-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0bb8d4fec896b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "Did masked and armed men enter the offices of the \"Irish Times\"? That masked and armed men did enter cannot be denied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-02", "file": "debates1920-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0bb8d4fec896b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1425.5", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "Is it suggested that there were any masked or armed men but servants of the Crown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-02", "file": "debates1920-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0bb8d4fec896b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It ought to be £50!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKEY", "preceding_text": "er of his fellow-creatures, but if you do not send him to prison for that, a very modest fine is considered adequate to the occasion. On the other hand, if a motorist unfortunately forgets something it is laid down in the Act or violates a regulation, apparently he is considered such an exclusively aristocratic person that a fine of something like £20 is considered necessary to meet his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-02", "file": "debates1920-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0bb8d4fec896b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1520.4", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And not one cyclist!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "with Advisory Committees which to some extent could control his action. I do venture to suggest that a particular Advisory Committee set up by this House—The Roads Advisory Committee included in the Ministry of Transport Bill—was carefully formed. It was composed of not less than 11 members, five of them representing the highway authorities and the rest representing the users of roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1520.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-02", "file": "debates1920-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0bb8d4fec896b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICIAL SECRETS BILL. [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ppropriate—barricades in Downing Street, secret police scattered about this very building, the galleries cleared, everyone apparently in a panic—the fear of the people. It started before the wonderful Sinn Fein documents were discovered. It started on Armistice Day this year, when barricades were put up to keep people from seeing the Cenotaph, the monument to their own fallen soldiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-02", "file": "debates1920-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e0bb8d4fec896b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICIAL SECRETS BILL. [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "the people, and a Government that can show its fear of the people in that way is well fitted to bring in this Bill, and deserves the support that it has had. The hon. Member for Royton who, I am sorry to say, is not now in the House, talked a lot about the terrific efficiency of the German espionage system, and shared the admiration of Prussianism that the hon. and gallant Member for Rusholme had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-02a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-03", "file": "debates1920-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1a543cb78977c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1633.1", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCURDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For how much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCURDY", "preceding_text": "If the Noble Lord will repress his anxiety, and read to the end of the line, instead of getting up before he has got to it, he will find the words and for delayed claims. The reference to delayed claims was a claim by the British Expeditionary Force for the loan of motor lorries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-03", "file": "debates1920-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1a543cb78977c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very generous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "body, that is, the Ministry of Agriculture. Last year I was subjected to a great deal of criticism, in fact, it was difficult for me to get a hearing in some parts of the country, on the matter of milk prices, but there was the difficulty that we had no data to guide us. You had to make your own investigations, and you had to fix prices—may be on a generous scale in order to ensure supplies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-03", "file": "debates1920-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1a543cb78977c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1671.0", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel D. WHITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel D. WHITE", "preceding_text": ". G. Roberts) that the discussion was far more appropriate on the salary of the Minister of Food. He implied that those of us who criticised these Estimates were actuated by a dislike of the Ministry of Food and of control. That was not a strictly accurate statement as to the position of most of those who oppose. I think most hon. Members agree that the Ministry in the past has been very valuable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-03", "file": "debates1920-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1a543cb78977c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "We have had a very varied discussion on this Estimate, and I must say at once to the Committee that if I were to reply in detail to all the questions addressed to me, I am afraid it would make too large a demand on the patience of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-03", "file": "debates1920-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1a543cb78977c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "12,000 a year. The story does not stop there. We have explained on the face of the Vote that from a cost of £1,000,000 in June we have now got down to £412,000, and within three or four weeks it will be reduced to nothing. If that is not economy, I do not know what my hon. Friends want. It is said, \"You have no business to spend even £210,000 without coming for a supplementary Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-03a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-06", "file": "debates1920-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "0d76ecbe753f00d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-06a.1792.0", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "in Scotland, and the so-called hewing and facing, which engaged large numbers of men in the past in a fairly remunerative calling, has practically disappeared, in the main because of the introduction of machine-faced stones, and my right hon. Friend would be the last to suggest that we should turn aside or divert what is a pronounced economic tendency of a beneficial character in Scottish housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-06a.1792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-06", "file": "debates1920-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "0d76ecbe753f00d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-06a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WHITLA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WHITLA", "preceding_text": "ny power to strike a rate. Consequently, all these teachers have been starving. It is a scandal to the nation and to this House. When the last speaker was addressing the House, I could not help remembering that when a Bill was brought in to remedy this state of affairs and to enable us in the North of Ireland to strike a rate, so that the teachers could be paid, it was blocked by the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-06a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-06", "file": "debates1920-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "0d76ecbe753f00d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-06a.1865.11", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I was not discussing it. I was my hon. Friends below me. All I was going to say was that the grievances of Ireland seem to me to be disappearing, because so far as I can make out the whole sum spent on Irish education comes out of our pockets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-06a.1865.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1954.1", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "That is the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1955.3", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "tead of merely being content with the old position this large and important committee of colour users said: It will always be a matter for wonder that great and powerful trades like the British textile trades should have allowed themselves to sink into a state of complete dependence upon a foreign country in respect of the supply of materials vital to their industry. Is that dissented from to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1955.3", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " colour users said: It will always be a matter for wonder that great and powerful trades like the British textile trades should have allowed themselves to sink into a state of complete dependence upon a foreign country in respect of the supply of materials vital to their industry. Is that dissented from to-day? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] If it is agreed to, then the whole case for the Bill is made out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1956.2", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pay them back!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "on all that you have done in this matter, and there is one good reason why you cannot go back, and it is that that pledge being given with the acquiescence of the Government, it was put into the prospectus on which people subscribed to the shares of the British Dyestuffs Corporation, and unless you are going to break faith with those who put their money into that concern you must keep that pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1970.1", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "ste there, and they have studios all over the world with men preparing designs and studying the tastes of the people on the spot, and sending home to this country the ideas that are wanted. In the ordinary course of events, when the calico printer gets that information, he has the world's supply of dyes to draw upon. Under this Bill, if it be passed, he will be limited to the British supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1993.1", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sir William Perkin!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "ountry is one of the most humiliating chapters in British trade. I do not know anything more discreditable. We had the whole trade in our hands, and at our feet, and if our men of business had shown intelligence and foresight, if they had not been wrapped in lethargy and apathy, there is no reason whatever why these inventions, which proceeded largely from British brains and British capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1993.1", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Plus protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "ason, I say, why this should not have been from the very beginning, and continued throughout, a British and not a German industry. It is no use blaming the Germans or throwing stones at them. They had the foresight to see the potentialities of these discoveries, the energy to pursue them and the wisdom to enlist in their service the skill and zeal of the most eminent chemists of their own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.1993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2000.0", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is not that bureaucracy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ies depend, and, secondly, it is necessary for the defence of the Empire. If so, is it not better that private interest should be eliminated entirely, and that the nation should by itself, of its own-initiative, and without the private prompting, manufacture its minimum requirements, and enter into research work in universities and other places, so that the nation may be safeguarded in the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2021.2", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Yes, after the trial. What happened after the trial?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2021.2", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ve. Before sentence was delivered, before even the decision of the court-martial finding them guilty was submitted to whatever tri bunal ultimately determines the final decision, they were put into a military lorry, brought off to prison, and were not allowed even to apply for bail; and most extraordinary of all, the Judge Advocate-General who, I understand, is the prosecutor in these cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2022.3", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "defence to military headquarters to appeal to allow these gentlemen to stand out until sentence, if any, was imposed on them, and yet they were subject to this indignity of being dragged along on this military lorry by uniformed officers of the Crown and put in prison before any sentence was imposed on them. According to your ruling, Sir, and I confess it is an extraordinary ruling, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2032.5", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " three sentences, I want to ask the Chief Secretary, above all, not to allow this Debate, or the circumstances leading up to the Debate, to prevent the Government taking advantage of the opportunity that is now offered. I do not know how many Members of this House read the \"Freeman's Journal,\" but they will have observed the efforts made lately for a real understanding between England and Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2032.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2035.3", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "Ah, in Ireland! \"I thank thee, Jew, for that word.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2038.1", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "May I give this analogy? Take a person who has been tried under the criminal law, and who is awaiting the decision of the jury, and who before the trial began was on bail, would he be let out while the jury were considering their verdict? Of course he would not. That man is on bail. He is free just as much as these men are free until trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2044.0", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ional safety, which we shall all support, that it means the perpetuation of bureaucracy and interference by the Government in trade and that it challenges those of us who still hold Free Trade principles in the sense that it commits this Government to the policy that all industries which are fortunate enough to secure themselves under the classification of key industries are to receive protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2047.1", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I am not. What I am saying is that this House is being put in the curious position of being asked to pass a piece of legislation on the ground of a prospectus, which I say is a most extraordinary suggestion to make to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ck built. This is the way we are going on. So long as the Government pursues the policy that you must live in dread of war, until you base your foreign policy upon a proper calculation of the elimination of old enemies, a fair and liberal calculation of possible enemies and the balancing of your forces according to your foreign policy, then you need Protection and you live in constant fear of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Saving a man's life in battle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ver falters. To him a key industry is any industry that needs protecting. What is a key industry? Would the President of the Board of Trade mind telling us in his reply the principle upon which he relied which enabled him to determine the dye industry as a key industry, in order that we may have a little illumination as to what other industries may hope to be sufficiently fortunate to be included?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2054.1", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "That is British Dyes, for short. The place is only fit to scrap and put on the mudheap. Then what did Levinstein's do before the War? Before the War their £10 shares were standing at a shilling. They paid no cumulative interest for eleven years, and in 1918 and 1919 those shilling shares were £180.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2055.6", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "What percentage of the dyes used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2055.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "cular instance of the cotton trade we have the argument used that we must not allow this great industry to be dependent on foreign sources of supply for dyes. Gould any more ridiculous argument be put forward? The whole raw material of the cotton trade is imported from abroad, yet there is not the faintest suggestion on the part of the right hon. Gentleman that we should start growing cotton here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2060.0", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be carried by a large majority\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "with the Government Whips on, and all sorts of persuasion and force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2060.0", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no; not to-day!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "with the Government Whips on, and all sorts of persuasion and force—[An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be carried by a large majority\"]—for one must remember that during the course of these Debates the average attendance here has been ex tremely small—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2060.0", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "se Debates the average attendance here has been ex tremely small—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no; not to-day!\"]—well, I hope the House will not allow itself to be persuaded to bolster up another failure—the third!—of this Government in entering into negotiations with commercial interests and put ting the taxpayers' money into concerns they have not properly investigated be forehand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-07", "file": "debates1920-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "59ea64525ecb2ed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2060.0", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y!\"]—well, I hope the House will not allow itself to be persuaded to bolster up another failure—the third!—of this Government in entering into negotiations with commercial interests and put ting the taxpayers' money into concerns they have not properly investigated be forehand. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] There is no need for me to remind the House of the examples to which I refer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-07a.2060.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2075.3", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Who are they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2086.1", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE RAIDS, CORK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, all the difference.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is there any difference between the law of sedition in England and the law of sedition in Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2116.1", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "ASPERSIONS ON MEMBERS (NEWSPAPER ARTICLES).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": " cognisance, I think, of nearly every Member of this House. A certain section of the Press has for a week past been engaged in publishing every day a list of Members who took a certain course and voted in favour of Government proposals on two days last week. I do not propose to allude to these cases of different papers. In some papers Members were called \"wastrels,\" in others \"wasters,\" and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2200.0", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NALL", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman will not waver upon this matter. We have already got the Government involved as a shareholder in dye-stuffs and sugar growing, and goodness knows what else, and I really do not know how far we shall go if this Clause is adopted. It is all very well for hon. Members to give the case of one particular association which, one rather gathers, has got into difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2232.4", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LORDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LORDEN", "preceding_text": "to carry out its work. The Schedule of the Bill covers the whole of the ground which would be necessary in the case of houses taken for two and a half years. There is nothing in the Bill to prevent sanitation, amendment of drainage, painting, cleaning, repairs to woodwork or brick or slate work or to do what is necessary to make the house habitable. Reconstruction means turning a house into flats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2256.2", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "nd naturally they do the trade. You ought to have taken away the incentive for it, and the local authorities ought not in the first instance to have sanctioned plans for the erection of mere pleasure palaces whilst at the same time calling out for labour for houses for the working classes. But the local authority having passed the plans can also ration the particular contractor so many operatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2267.5", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": " who are paid high wages because they are worth them, and there are workmen paid low wages because they are only worth low wages. There are men dear at Is. per hour and others who are cheap at 3s. per hour. I want to impress upon the House that in this Clause we strike a knife right through the principle of payment by results We strike a knife right through the principle of any kind of piece work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2280.2", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "preceding_text": "mber that number had risen to 471,000. Surely the solution for unemployment is productive work, further employment? The principle has been laid down that anything, whether luxury building or otherwise, that provides employment is to be restricted; that will fail as a remedy for unemployment. Let me give a concrete case. It may be proposed, as it was in Lancashire the other day, to build a brewery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2294.0", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "preceding_text": " about the restrictions and safeguards of this particular Clause. The hon. Member put it perfectly plainly. You have a man who ex hypothesi is insane. Starting with that assumption, he is asked to sign a document. Is that document of any value when he does sign it? When he gets in, is he to know he has the power of getting out? Is any notice to be put up in the institution which will let him know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2303.2", "colnum": "2303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did not have Standing Committees.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " the House of the fact that this clause was the subject of discussion for a whole day and part of another day in Committee upstairs, and certainly it was thoroughly threshed out. After all, all of us who have been in this House for any length of time know very well that ten minutes past one o'clock used to be thought very early. It is not very long since it was the habitual practice of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2305.2", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "immediate future, and it appears that if the suggestion of my hon. Friend were adopted and we brought the discussion to a close at the end of this Clause that the only way to deal effectively with the re maining business of the House would be to begin Clause 9 at eleven o'clock to-morrow night. As far as I am concerned, I do not mind a bit, but after all this is not an unusual time for Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2332.0", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " would happen if this Amendment were carried. Supposing A or B goes into a home. A or B might also be suffering from some form of physical disorder as well as mental disorder from a cold or influenza or something of that sort. If they are to be certified as insane they will be taken away to their homes and their private houses and there certified as insane. That would be an absurd state of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-08", "file": "debates1920-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5785babaf6720615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2349.3", "colnum": "2349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "are the medical profession is to take in the administration of these hospitals when taken over because they will largely need to be controlled by the county councils and that control will need to be exercised by some committee of which the medical men staffing the hospitals and doing work at the hospitals will need to have pretty large representation. There is only one point I should like to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-08a.2349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2392.2", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because they ran away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Are the wives and families of these men supposed to be accessories to the crime? Why punish the families and not the men themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2412.2", "colnum": "2412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POET LAUREATE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "Is this distinguished poet paid by-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2475.1", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "I cannot help feeling myself that if you are giving men employment for employment sake, it is better to give them the unemployment dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2475.1", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It ought to be scrapped, and the Minister as well!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " launched out into a great house-building scheme. I cannot understand why the Chancellor of the Exchequer consented to it. I see the Minister of Food is in his place. I understand his Ministry is being wound up. If that is not the case, may I say at any rate it has outlived its usefulness. As regards the Transport Ministry, transport in this country has never been so bad, and never so inefficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2475.1", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "on their work. It is a very serious thing for industry that they have to offer such high interest for accommodation at the present time. What can you expect if the Government is on all hands offering new security. The Health Minister is undismayed. He goes on. He brings in another Bill. He brings in the Ministry of Health Bill, which we are to discuss in a few days, and against which I shall vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2497.1", "colnum": "2497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Housing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "en Departments have already been altogether closed. Of 90 trading accounts arising out of the Vote of Credit, 56 have been already closed, and 14 are being closed as rapidly as they can. All subsidies will have stopped by the end of the year—the bread subsidy, the coal mines subsidy, the railway subsidy, and the subsidy for the postal service. By the end of the year all subsidies will cease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2497.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2497.2", "colnum": "2497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman mean the financial year?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "r closed. Of 90 trading accounts arising out of the Vote of Credit, 56 have been already closed, and 14 are being closed as rapidly as they can. All subsidies will have stopped by the end of the year—the bread subsidy, the coal mines subsidy, the railway subsidy, and the subsidy for the postal service. By the end of the year all subsidies will cease. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Housing?\"] War subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2501.0", "colnum": "2501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "rose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2503.1", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"For the same number?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "0,000 under the head of Civil Service expenditure were the expenditure on the Civil Service staffs. As a matter of fact, the pre-War salaries of the pre-War staff of the Civil Service, excluding Industrials, as far as I could make out, cost £29,500,000. The salaries of the same people now, owing to the added cost of living and the general rise in salaries elsewhere, comes to £65,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2563.0", "colnum": "2563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "I trust that I shall not sound too discordant a note when I dissociate myself entirely from the concluding observations of my hon. and learned Friend, just as I dissociate myself from the opening observations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, both of whom have thought it essential to their case to cast aspersions upon the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2563.0", "colnum": "2563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "tirely from the concluding observations of my hon. and learned Friend, just as I dissociate myself from the opening observations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, both of whom have thought it essential to their case to cast aspersions upon the Press. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, upon that section of the Press, which I say deliberately, did more to win the War than all the politicians put together", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2565.4", "colnum": "2565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "Then the right hon. Gentleman had better wait and hear the maiden speech of the hon. and gallant Member for the Wrekin Division of Shropshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2565.4", "colnum": "2565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Remuddle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": " our expenditure, and when you have a huge item called \"Civil Service\" which is reduced on examination to an infinitesimal figure, it only shows how misleading the whole of these accounts are. I urge for the Chancellor of the Exchequer's consideration the suggestion that he should bring in a chartered accountant of some experience to remodel the whole system of accounts as presented to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": " grave to convert that into a mere sort of ragging conspiracy. It is a matter for grave, solemn and careful examination by everybody throughout the whole of the community, for we sink or swim together. For that reason, I regret that an impression has been sought to be created that the gigantic expenditure of the country is attributable, in the main, to three causes. Take the Ministry of Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "verybody throughout the whole of the community, for we sink or swim together. For that reason, I regret that an impression has been sought to be created that the gigantic expenditure of the country is attributable, in the main, to three causes. Take the Ministry of Transport. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Well, there are apparently followers of that theory here. There is the Education Act of 1918.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister of War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "r we sink or swim together. For that reason, I regret that an impression has been sought to be created that the gigantic expenditure of the country is attributable, in the main, to three causes. Take the Ministry of Transport. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Well, there are apparently followers of that theory here. There is the Education Act of 1918. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"] The next is health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "r of War.\"] I am coming to that. I am just dealing with these three matters upon which the most of the criticism has been directed outside. I am dealing with facts. It really is no use when you are approaching a problem of this kind with a view to affecting improvements to get hold of wrong ideas. Take the three things I have mentioned. The total cost of the Ministry of Transport is £300,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "!\"] It may be, but at any rate it is not £1,400,000,000. It is a very small proportion of the larger sums, and if you were to cut it out to-marrow you would not solve your problem. You would not make an appreciable approach to it. I am not going into the question now, but my right hon. Friend has pointed out that you may lose a good deal more if you withdraw the supervision that is exercised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2593.1", "colnum": "2593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE OF THE REALM (ACQUISITION OF LAND) [COMPENSATION.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BILLING", "preceding_text": "I understand there are certain buildings upon certain land which the Government wishes to get control of for the purpose of disposing of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-09", "file": "debates1920-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3d34f3835e37c857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2593.3", "colnum": "2593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE OF THE REALM (ACQUISITION OF LAND) [COMPENSATION.]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel PENRY WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel PENRY WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I think we should have a little snore explanation as to what the money is really required for. I understand it is required to sell land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-09a.2593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-10", "file": "debates1920-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "5bd1de9feb160dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2607.0", "colnum": "2607", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give us the names?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-10", "file": "debates1920-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "5bd1de9feb160dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2612.0", "colnum": "2612", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS>", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS>", "preceding_text": "Before the Prime Minister replies, I should also like to ask him whether, having regard to the fact that an All Ireland Conference of railway men is convened for Tuesday week in Dublin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-10", "file": "debates1920-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "5bd1de9feb160dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2675.1", "colnum": "2675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "doubtedly, rightly or wrongly, motorists have a feeling—as some of us know—there may not have been a reason for it—on the subject that the revenue from fines on motorists is an important consideration to the local authority. If that is in the minds of hon. Members, let me say that this Bill provides for all these fines going into the Road Fund; that is a very important safeguard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-10", "file": "debates1920-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "5bd1de9feb160dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2675.1", "colnum": "2675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "feguard. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] If the Committee will allow me I will look at the matter with the Parliamentary draughtsman and see if I cannot in some such way and by words suggested by the right hon. Baronet, \"wilfully or negligently\" meet the case. But I would point out that this very provision has been in force for 17 years, and I do not think there has been any great cause for complaint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1920-12-10", "file": "debates1920-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "5bd1de9feb160dba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2706.0", "colnum": "2706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. PHILIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And ships!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. PHILIPPS", "preceding_text": "s, but what has that to do with the Ministry? This provision is going a great deal further than the country is in any way aware. This is compulsory conscription for motorists under a scheme, it appears to me, worked out by the Army Council for military purposes of which we have been told nothing. You have not got this sort of thing today except in relation to the sale of land or stocks and shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1920-12-10a.2706.0"}