The Annual Register of World Events (Volume 111); A Review of the Year (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: exceptions, in the terms of compromise?The Bill U again altered to give effect to the understanding between the two parties, and returned to the Commons?Mr. Gladstone moves the adoption of the Amendments as now settled?Unanimity of the leading Members of the House on both sides in favour of the arrangement?Dissatisfaction expressed by some of the Irish Members?The Bill is passed, and receives the Royal Assent on 26th July?Remarks on the character and history of the measure. After the Whitsuntide recess the interest of the political situation, which was centred on the issue of the Irish Church question, was transferred from the House of Commons to the House of Lords. Speculation was busied with conjectures as to the course which that august body would take with reference to the Bill. After the division of the previous year, by which their Lordships had rejected, by so overwhelming a majority, Mr. Gladstone's Suspensory Bill, there could be no doubt on which side the balance of opinion lay, and it was well understood that by no other process than a deliberate concession of their own judgment on the part of the Peers to the clearly expressed opinion of the House of Commons and of the nation, could the harmonious action of the two Assemblies be preserved. On the occasion before referred to, the Marquis of Salisbury, in his speech in opposition to the Suspensory Bill, had clearly and emphatically stated the constitutional limits within which the legislative powers of the Upper House should be exercised. " I am not blind," said the noble lord, " to the peculiar obligations which lie on the members of this House in consequence of the fixed and unalterable constitution of this House. I quite admit?every one must admit?that when the opinion of your countrymen has declared itself, and yo...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: exceptions, in the terms of compromise?The Bill U again altered to give effect to the understanding between the two parties, and returned to the Commons?Mr. Gladstone moves the adoption of the Amendments as now settled?Unanimity of the leading Members of the House on both sides in favour of the arrangement?Dissatisfaction expressed by some of the Irish Members?The Bill is passed, and receives the Royal Assent on 26th July?Remarks on the character and history of the measure. After the Whitsuntide recess the interest of the political situation, which was centred on the issue of the Irish Church question, was transferred from the House of Commons to the House of Lords. Speculation was busied with conjectures as to the course which that august body would take with reference to the Bill. After the division of the previous year, by which their Lordships had rejected, by so overwhelming a majority, Mr. Gladstone's Suspensory Bill, there could be no doubt on which side the balance of opinion lay, and it was well understood that by no other process than a deliberate concession of their own judgment on the part of the Peers to the clearly expressed opinion of the House of Commons and of the nation, could the harmonious action of the two Assemblies be preserved. On the occasion before referred to, the Marquis of Salisbury, in his speech in opposition to the Suspensory Bill, had clearly and emphatically stated the constitutional limits within which the legislative powers of the Upper House should be exercised. " I am not blind," said the noble lord, " to the peculiar obligations which lie on the members of this House in consequence of the fixed and unalterable constitution of this House. I quite admit?every one must admit?that when the opinion of your countrymen has declared itself, and yo...

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General Books LLC

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February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 20mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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370

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978-0-217-06899-4

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9780217068994

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0-217-06899-5



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