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Commons Chamber section
Commons Hansard for 25 April 1901 (Volume 92)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
24 March 2018 at 10.55pm.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons
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Private Bill Business
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Great Eastern' Railway Bill By Order
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Private Bills (Petition For Additional Provision) (Standing Orders Not Complied With)
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Long Eaton Gas Bill
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Public Petitions Committee
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Wells Corporation Water Bill
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Wells Water Bill
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Thames Deep Water Dock Bill
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Glasgow And Renfrew District Railway Transfer Bill
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Gateshead And District Tramways Bill
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Henry Diaper And Company (Delivery Warrants) Bill Lords
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Drainage And Improvement Of Lands (Ireland) Provisional Order Bill
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Private Bills (Group A)
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Barry Railway Bill
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Message From The Lords
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Newry Port And Harbour Trust Bill
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Private Bills (Group H)
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Private Bills (Group G)
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North British Railway (Substituted Bill)
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Petitions
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Burial Place (Exemption From Rates) (Scotland) Bill
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Coal
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Coal Mines (Employment) Bill
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Elementary Education (Higher Grade And Evening Continuation Schools)
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Elementary Education (New Code Of Regulations For Day Schools)
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Gun Licence Duty
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Local Authorities Officers' Superannuation Bill
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Local Government (Scotland) Act (1894) Amendment Bill
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Marriage With A Deceased Wife's Sister Bill
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Mines (Eight Hours) Bill
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Sale Of Intoxicating Liquors On Sunday Bill
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Sale Of Intoxicating Liquors (Scotland) Bill
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Sale Of Intoxicating Liquors To Children Bill
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Sale Of Intoxicating Liquors To Children Rill
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Sale Of Intoxicating Liquors To Children (Scotland) Bill
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Sovereign's Oath On Accession Bill
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Returns, Reports, Etc
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Western Australia (Constitution Act Amendment Act, 1900, No V)
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Queensland (The Parliament Of The Commonwealth Elections Act And The Elections Acts 1885–1898 Amendment Act, 1890)
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Army (Medical Department)
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Army
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Trade Reports (Annual Series)
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Poor Relief (England And Wales)
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Ultimus Hæres (Scotland) (Account And List Of Estates)
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Questions
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South Africa—Administration Of Native Affairs In Annexed Republics
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British Indian Subjects In Natal
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Jameson Raid—Position Of Chartered Company
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Plague At Cape Town
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Boer Prisoners—Internment In India
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Beer Rations For Returning Soldiers
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War Expenditure—Details
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Boer Refugee Camps
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Members Of Parliament On Active Service
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Publication Of Despatches
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Peace Negotiations With General Botha
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Transvaal War Supplies
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Military Courts Of Inquiry
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Colonial Expenditure On The War
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Australian Troopers—Alleged Disturbances In Cape Town
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Canadian Contingent For South African Constabulary—Raid On Ottawa Hotel
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Return Of Troops—Imperial Yeomanry
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Imperial Yeomanry—Alleged Ill-Treatment Of Ex-Private Lee At Netley Hospital
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Soldiers' Pay—Allotments To Wives
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Deceased Soldiers' Effects
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Volunteer Uniforms
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Volunteer Officers And Jury Service
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Volunteer Establishment Statistics
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5Th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
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Fort Brockhurst—Case Of Private Bowles
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Case Of Private Thomas Ryan
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Mark Iv Bullets
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Imperial Yeomanry—Title
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Royal Irish Regiment
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Irish Guards—Forage Cap
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Militia Embodiments And Disembodiments
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Militia Officers' Gratuity
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Royal Garrison Regiments— Separation Allowances
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Official Language In The Maltese Courts
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Mauritius Judicial Vacancy
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India—Etah Murders—Commutation Of Death Sentences
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Cooper's Hill College
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China-Russia And Manchuria
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British Occupation Of Egypt
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Treatment Of Imprisoned Dervish Leaders
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Waima Incident
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Export Coal Duty—American And Canadian Trade
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Falling Coal Pricks And Freights
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American Coal Exports
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Incidence Of New Coal Duty
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Coal Trade With The West Indies
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Bunker Coal
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Returns Of Bunker Coal
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South Wales Patent Fuel And Coke Industries
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Coal Consumption In Pig Iron Production
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Duration Of Coal Supply
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Closing Of South Wales Collieries
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Dearness And Scarcity Of Coal
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Alleged Discovery Of Gold At Leith
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The New Sugar Duty
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Imported Honey And The Sugar Duty
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Preserved Fruits And The Duty
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Condensed Milk And The Duty
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Drawback On British Refined Sugar
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New Issue Of Consols
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Oxford Cemeteries—Martin's Act
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Child Hawkers—Licences
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Fishing Boats—Day Signals
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Poulton-Le-Fylde Boiler Explosion
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Metropolitan Poor Law Schools
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Pauper Children's Villages
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Poor Law Children In Metropolitan Workhouses And Infirmaries
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Tuberculosis Regulations
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Poor Law Officers' Superannuation
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Glanders Outbreak At Glasgow
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Post Office Pension Calculations
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Holyhead And Kingstown Packet Postal Staff
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Post Office—Appeal Regulations
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Postal Grievances—Refusal Of Fresh Inquiry
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Mallaig And Stornoway Mail Steamer Service
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The Post Office London Telephone System
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Land Tax Commissioners Meetings
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Customs Assistants' Grievances
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Scottish Sheriffs' Salaries
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Ventilation Of Parliamentary Division Lobbies
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School Attendance Regulations
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Scottish Congested Districts Board
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Glasgow Small-Pox Epidemic
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East Kerry Moving Bog
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Butter Substitutes—Dublin Prosecution
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Labourers' Cottages In Ennis
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Education Of Blind, Deaf, And Dumb In Ireland
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Agricultural And Technical Education In County Monaghan
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Royal University Of Ireland Examination Certificates
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Royal Irish Constabulary—Constable Black's Orphans
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Carrick-On-Shannon Waterworks
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Omagh Rural District Rates
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Lough Neagh Floods
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Mortality Among Calves In Ireland
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Armagh Magistracy
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Steam Trawling (Ireland) Bill
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Irish Railways—State Purchase— German State Railways
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Omagh Quarter Sessions—Case Of George Feathers
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Dublin Post Office—Telephone Operators' Wage Grievances
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Armagh Postal Officials
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Royal Commission On Irish Universities
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London Local Government— Equalisation Of Rates
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Road Labour In Ireland
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Crofters' Act (1886) Amendment
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Scottish Court
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Marriage With A Deceased Wife's Sister Bill
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Local Taxation Commission Report
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Business Of The House
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Suspension Of The Twelve O'clock Rule
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Sittings Of The House (Exemption From The Standing Order)
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Army (Annual) Bill
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Ways And Means
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Tea
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Continuance Of Additional Duties Of Customs
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Continuance Of Additional Duty Of Excise On Beer
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Glucose And Saccharin (Excise)
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Amendment Of Law
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