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Mr. L. Harcourt Followed With A Powerful And Trenchant...

on the amendment, which he maintained was in effect a proposal for the enfranchisement of all women, and would lead logically to their presence in Parliament and on the Treasury......

Mr. Bonar Law Then Stated That If The Unionists Were

returned to power they intended to do three things. (I) They would impose a tariff lower than existed in any industrial country in the world on foreign manufactured goods. (2)......

The Duke Of Devonshire, In Moving The Rejection, Spoke Of

it as an hereditary task, but made it clear that it was a matter of personal conviction as well. Lord Crewe, he pointed out, had failed in his historical survey to prove that......

The Archbishop Of York Said That He Had A Strong

bias in favour of self-government for Ireland and of relieving the Imperial Parliament from the pressure of business which dangerously increased the influence of Government......

On Thursday Lord Curzon Put The Case Against The Bill

with the force and brilliancy to be expected from so great a master of public eloquence. Quite admirable was the way in which he dealt with the question of Ulster. " He......

On Monday, In Reply To A Direct Question From Mr.

Asquith, the Speaker ruled that by the insertion of any of the suffrage amendments the Bill would in effect become a new measure, which ought to be withdrawn in accordance with......

Mr. Bonar Law Was Enthusiastically Received In Edinburgh...

week when he spoke on Unionist policy. Dealing first with the recent crisis in the party, he remarked that probably he would be told that after saying at Ashton that he would......

Lord St. Aldwyn Resumed The Debate On Wednesday With A

long and damaging criticism of the financial proposals of the Bill. Nothing was done to place the Irish Government in a position of self-reliance; Ireland did not contribute to......

Lord Crewe Moved The Second Reading Of The Home Rule

Bill in the Lords on Monday. In a long but somewhat dis. pirited speech he dealt at length with the relations of Great Britain and Ireland from the seventeenth century onward.......