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Commons Hansard for 23 March 1909 (Volume 2)

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Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House of Commons (item number 1) (id a274bda4-2609-4a43-83fd-1e5c5f00c784)
Private Business (item number 2) (id 46c0dbe6-0889-4a26-846d-11d66897913d)

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Admiral von Tirpitz's Speech (item number 1) (id c0f1d19f-e3fd-42ef-8322-4abf80e24822)
Affairs in Persia (item number 1) (id eed825ff-a027-4a00-9b8d-529d3268ae3a)
Egyptian Revenues (Army of Occupation) (item number 1) (id a4a3056a-b568-4783-ba62-32aea3a8d7a9)
Indo-European Company (Tabriz) (item number 1) (id d414e0f5-07e1-49ef-82ff-9529c7cd161e)
Limitation of Armaments (Germany and Great Britain) (item number 1) (id fd5f56dd-3fe5-47a9-98e7-240cbcb75fa6)
Europeans in Persia (item number 1) (id 0020f883-c8be-4076-ad63-affd443d61f9)
His Majesty's Visit to Russia (the King's Official Business) (item number 1) (id cbd4d2b2-189c-47e2-848e-ba9ed26c7fb1)
Indian Subjects (Opening of Letters) (item number 1) (id d704dfac-2231-47cd-bf9c-9a42f41adcf6)
Condition of India (Papers) (item number 1) (id 3a7ea2d6-c784-487f-b3c7-094dcadd994f)
National Telephone Company (Discharge of Staff) (item number 1) (id 37b37680-26cd-4af7-bd85-c82c454dce28)
South-Eastern District Post Office (item number 1) (id dfe8cd2c-2adb-4eaa-ab05-cf813b5dcc1e)
Telegraph Communication (Recent Storms) (item number 1) (id df69d212-940e-40d3-94b6-13b9cc92dd5b)
Postmen (Medical Attendance) (item number 1) (id 1a87f4fe-aa5e-4c42-a1e0-1afee654cea5)
Aliens Act (Regulations) (item number 1) (id 528480e8-8b83-4972-8227-cb8937e51e20)
Mail-Bag Canvas (item number 1) (id 6d76c430-158c-418f-ab73-e144216268c8)
Lighted Matches (item number 1) (id e32f5d90-fb87-41c3-9975-9e0241a2edf6)
Allowance to Policeman's Widow (Leeds) (item number 1) (id 94dc21c9-aec5-46fb-84cc-b3005930b7c3)
Disestablishment (Welsh Church Commission) (item number 1) (id be8d646b-22a2-4354-b8f2-38df9a8c85c4)
Infectious Diseases (School Attendance) (item number 1) (id d11d5aa3-6bce-4640-98ee-656b6b8e9d59)
Vaccination (Exemption) (item number 1) (id b35a3b9e-fd39-4b5c-8e35-b6fc015ebcfd)
Small-pox (Bristol) (item number 1) (id 17788095-bf6e-473f-b24a-725dd38c77a6)
Poor Law Superannuation (Metropolitan Asylums Board) (item number 1) (id ffb646bf-629c-45b0-8cec-9e67ca86c054)
Dairies and Cowsheds (Cleanliness) (item number 1) (id 37eb1d4e-0911-414d-a589-0b5ad4750a3d)
Costs in Criminal Cases (item number 1) (id 989d1c47-0cf6-4e6f-98a1-d093dcac4b61)
House-purchase Companies (Lottery Acts) (item number 1) (id 019fd40e-b667-4bff-89d1-602241d366c2)
Cost of Living (United States) (item number 1) (id ed113b20-fd6e-4b86-a42a-b578fb32f2fd)
Preferential Railway Rates (France) (item number 1) (id dd2a1ccc-bf75-48b8-937e-29917ba39039)
French Customs Tariff (item number 1) (id 939a1043-a3a4-4222-8cbd-f64ada6c4a37)
Quarrymen's Wages (Norway) (item number 1) (id fc4a8792-6b39-4af5-ac08-0eebf262d8f6)
Board of Irish Lights (item number 1) (id d63009b2-230d-4e06-942e-4c3c4820621f)
Buoy at Strangford Bar (item number 1) (id 351e4f00-2923-4dd3-a1c2-1e2b3aa0f79e)
London Tube Railways (Conciliation Scheme) (item number 1) (id 71630572-f0db-4477-aeb0-d0f92027945a)
Imports of Milk and Cream (item number 1) (id 042c6bac-92ef-4c44-b682-8719eac1f79e)
Exports of British Potatoes (item number 1) (id 815dab3a-8fdb-4676-b390-d40033b60731)
Training Colleges for Teachers (England and Wales) (item number 1) (id d555fec2-0328-4667-91ef-033185103083)
House Purchase Companies Drawings (item number 1) (id 7996f04a-53c3-4b9c-85d5-17f826a1ee32)
Scottish Railway Companies and Traders (item number 1) (id 8955ba03-7457-42d1-b44b-31ecfb079964)
Continental Railway Systems (Official Investigation) (item number 1) (id c5882896-0c48-4f67-805c-cce3a2dea574)
Navy (Scrapping old Ships) (item number 1) (id 78c09a2b-d80c-4d90-b6f9-b525ded1993d)
Hops Bill (item number 1) (id adca821f-8e07-4b10-ad03-49e1bb7e8e5d)
Absence of the Sovereign (item number 1) (id fa144a16-682d-4955-9828-4ed1116fdadb)
Foreign Office Vote (item number 1) (id 87aeebd1-ac56-4b95-abd6-307151b7ac85)
British and Foreign Granite (Official Inquiry) (item number 1) (id a774adfc-fb64-4d56-99c6-6c3f4c2fadd2)
Shipbuilding Programme (Thames District) (item number 1) (id 28416a8f-c5ce-42cc-b6ce-09922cd21259)
Kew Gardeners (item number 1) (id 74fd2195-1e8c-4d11-afa1-358a2c2cc7eb)
Thorney Estate (Purchase Negotiations) (item number 1) (id 1fd53b1b-1363-4791-ab7a-aa8714b59296)
Godfrey Ermen Memorial School, Eccles (item number 1) (id 3f344e09-c626-4b4b-9495-b8edc643354a)
School Attendance, Halifax (item number 1) (id 320d9283-8b09-4868-9ef9-a6bcb4b955a4)
Board of Agriculture (Housing Accommodation) (item number 1) (id 5b57b3af-20d9-4780-ad77-e5a1f5a1e427)
Paris Embassy (Reconstruction and Repairs) (item number 1) (id ebbc181a-31ff-422a-9a41-4b87d539b8e2)
Inland Revenue Officers (Instructions) (item number 1) (id 6e4025f5-08c4-42c1-bdcf-38d6d17c8fb4)
Old Age Pensions (Delayed Claims) (item number 1) (id e692a0af-0d2a-4f0d-af8a-c7a40ea6a54c)
Land Purchase Agreements (Land Act, 1903) (item number 1) (id d5fd9add-6b81-4391-8287-4efb3d8f8660)
Territorial Force (Water Carts Regulations) (item number 1) (id b3648549-eb8f-49c4-acba-d5cc83e92d6a)
Army Horses (Purchases at Home and Abroad) (item number 1) (id 319bf887-4f22-4c7b-ac38-0d356e1980fc)
New Zealand Offer of Battleships (item number 1) (id 84f4ae20-66c5-49e8-8fde-e89f705d7950)
Geeat Northern, Geeat Central, and Great Easteen Railway Companies (item number 4) (id f170a45c-53f9-43e5-88aa-a7fe25e6976f)
Proposed Working Union (item number 5) (id 9372915f-9e54-4c34-97da-8b0716910381)
Naval Policy (item number 6) (id 5bacd0c5-8910-45dd-8d0e-a812de2bd778)
Vote or Censure (item number 7) (id bfa11c16-1840-43ad-90ed-baf5109462f6)
Presentation of Bill (item number 8) (id 42289a07-378c-4197-956e-618b6fcc8a12)
Notices of Motion (item number 9) (id 78f564f1-e487-4a8d-afcb-626abeab261c)
Sweated Industries (Importation) Bill (item number 10) (id b5015ffd-9e48-4879-8960-002df66a6143)
Business of the House (item number 11) (id 57ac4049-871e-40b2-96f0-e888be9db4cc)
Army Annual Bill (item number 12) (id 925745e3-a271-46c7-bec4-930a48fef465)
Private Business (item number 13) (id 339fd1d2-6307-4f15-9c25-b48775db70ea)
Glamorgan Water Board Bill (item number 14) (id 5f3ba205-048d-4857-9f8e-a9afadb14ac9)
Oldham Corporation Bill (item number 15) (id fd5fc7e3-d466-441a-a2c1-624a743e54af)
Aldershot Gas and Water Bill (item number 16) (id 9061f389-84d0-4fe8-9cf0-a581d20ecde7)
Land Values Taxation (item number 17) (id 3316d461-9ffc-4f2e-8dd3-2921d3418054)
Imprisoned Suffragettes (item number 18) (id e2071387-2d3a-4cf6-94ad-6e1043599bef)

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Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment (India and France) (item number 1) (id 95aa0ada-de72-4a1e-80b1-ff9f615a69e9)
Official Report (House of Commons) (item number 1) (id 721f4158-9378-4755-825d-0d7ab5fb1b27)
Housing and Town Planning Bill (item number 1) (id 4b8ab42b-a1d3-4d4f-bc20-8ae83e2ec48e)
Small Holdings (Worcestershire) (item number 1) (id 0a6e96f8-6ee4-4be4-b308-54521d1955de)
Tuberculosis (item number 1) (id bdcc601e-7157-4f11-9469-86b763c92324)
Post Office (Southern Engineering Distirct) (item number 1) (id 3c7f7bf3-5bc7-49db-bad0-fc49ac50f4e2)
Potatoes Exported from Great Britain (item number 1) (id 420e659b-54a7-409d-a536-ef18c2669421)
Industrial Insurance Policies (item number 1) (id 688d4d95-c556-4212-94a7-333ea284fbdc)
Civil Service (Assistant Clerks) (item number 1) (id cd7e19b6-e4f1-49e5-9765-ff54059fa8fa)
Customs (Preventive Staff) (item number 1) (id dc05303c-3dd2-45ae-a373-f8afa6381741)
South Africa Garrison (item number 1) (id ce220d6f-f601-440f-8fb8-d306d97f9c93)
Murder Charge (Hong Kong) (item number 1) (id b100d4af-095d-4b5a-8b7e-16d1617ef217)
Kenmare Estate (Fair Rent Applications) (item number 1) (id 503f9262-6019-44ed-b745-d9d64227b809)
Imperial Tobacco Trust (item number 1) (id 3d47b5fc-ec4e-4dff-a9c6-44fea31306e9)
Status of Naval Writers (item number 1) (id 776246c2-27a4-4f86-9541-24eca75eb645)
Admiralty Works Department (Devonport) (item number 1) (id 1aef14ee-6f7c-4dcc-9cbf-7297ab55c131)
H.M.S. "Medusa" (A Fatal Accident) (item number 1) (id 302fd731-b804-44f8-802d-32ab6495d7ac)
Naval Lighters (item number 1) (id 2c53aee7-d596-4bb2-9504-8c4b4c8a57d7)
Post Office Casual Labour (item number 1) (id 06cea33f-1086-46cd-b846-c498b0bf5588)
Sale of Food (Wrappers, etc.) (item number 1) (id ae2fc436-6542-4c3f-9825-b249c5360d71)
Oriental Languages (Treasury Commission) (item number 1) (id 4a32de17-52b0-4662-bba0-ab5b3796f4cb)
British Potatoes (Natal and Malta) (item number 1) (id 0bfd6b99-33a4-401c-b787-04e7238995f8)

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