The Annual RegisterEdmund Burke Rivingtons, 1912 |
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Page 107 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 41 - If any Public Bill (other than a Money Bill or a Bill containing any provision to extend the maximum duration of Parliament beyond five years) is passed by the House of Commons in three successive sessions (whether of the same Parliament or not...
Page 214 - Extensive dismissals took place, and on August 15 delegates of the Executives of the four railwaymen's Unions (the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, the General Railway Workers...
Page 206 - His Majesty would assent to a creation of peers sufficient in number to guard against any possible combination of the different parties in Opposition, by which the Parliament Bill might be exposed a second time to defeat.
Page 198 - His Majesty will doubtless agree that it would be inadvisable in the interests of the State that any communication of the intentions of the Crown should be made public unless and until the actual occasion should arise.
Page 196 - That the advice given to His Majesty by His Majesty's Ministers whereby they obtained from His Majesty a pledge that a sufficient number of peers would be created to pass the Parliament Bill in the shape in which it left this House is a gross violation of Constitutional liberty, whereby, among many other evil consequences, the people will be precluded from again pronouncing upon the policy of Home Rule.
Page 119 - Lords in the third session and agreed to by the House of Commons shall be inserted in the Bill as presented for Royal Assent in pursuance of this section: Provided that the House of Commons may if they think fit, on the...
Page 122 - ID the Abstract and throughout the detailed Estimates comparison was made, according to the usual practice, with the total grants made for the service of the year 1913-14 in the Appropriation Act, 1913 ; these grants, including the Supplementary Estimates for 578,5552.
Page 367 - Eeichstag in 1912, to be 22,861,3152., showing a decrease of about 40,0002. on that of the previous year. For the Army the total was 38,525,4162., or an increase of about 3,000,0002. over that of the previous year. A speech made by the German Emperor at Hamburg on August 27, in which he spoke of the German Navy as a defence for German commerce, and expressed a wish that it should be strengthened in the future " to ensure that nobody should dispute with Germany her place in the sun " was interpreted...
Page 198 - His Majesty's Ministers cannot, however, take the responsibility of advising a dissolution, unless they may understand that, in the event of the policy of the Government being approved by an adequate majority in the new House of Commons, His Majesty will be ready to exercise his constitutional powers (which may involve the prerogative of creating peers), if needed, to secure that effect should be given to the decision of the country.