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WOMEN AND PARLIAMENT. GREAT MEMORIAL OF THE
RIGHT OF MEMBERSHIP, LARGE MAJORITY IN FAVOUR.
In the House of Common, on October | 23rd, Mr. H. Samuel moved: That in
WAR.
NEW PALATIAL CITY FOR LONDON.
A great sebeuse for an Empire War
the opinion of this House it is desirable Memorial that takes the form of rebuild- that a bill should be passed forthwith ing a large area in London and creating making women eligible as members of Parliament
a jalatial city has been adopted by the Ejare War Memorial Committee.
flo said the resolution was the natural consequence of the action already staken
*
The scheme has been proposed and med by Major Charles J. C. Pawley,
The scheme outlined broadly, will pro vide for public memorials in the form of thoroughfares, buildings, and intues, and for the transformation of a district in London already rich in historien! asso- ciapons
by Parliament in enfranchising women.tubiteet. If sex was not to be a bar to citizenship, At a private meeting of the committee followed that it ought not to be a was stated that Major Pawley has: bar to women taking part in Parlia been developing for more than twenty mentary life. In passing the Represen years an architectural scheme which, in tation of the People Act they had given the opinion of the Empire War Memorial up the old narrow doctrine that women's Committee, will both recall the great sphere was the home, and nothing bui past of our Empire and keep alive the the home; and that women's interests heroic suridents and episodes of this were not on a level with men's interests; War that, in short, woman was nothing better, than an adjunct to man: that she was not a row but an adjective Women had
distinctive point of view just as work ingmen, and it ought to be expressed, of secondhand and indirectly, but by their own representatives, Women would Dending with the War Memorials in bis of particular advantage o Parlia presidential address to the Royal In. mentary Committees, ny they were onstitute of British Architects, Mr Henry departmental commutters. Particular are said surely we could find som ly would women render services in the scheme strich would rise above and be House and The committee routs und a mere project of a State develop view of the new tasks that would devolve bent affording a promising field for the upon Parliament questions relating to activities of the speculative builder. tealth, housing, education, child welfare. Such a selime should be centralised in eplay merit. cost of living, and so some great momument uf
character forth. Women bad served on local excise the imagination of the share which governing bodies, where they had render every portion of our Empier had taken. ed most valuable service. It was not for He ventured to suggest that the scheme Parliament to decide whom the people for a new Charing Cross Bridge and its should elect. bus for the people them approaches and the removal of the station velve There was Parliament long ago] to the Surrey side of the river was such called the Unlearned Parliament, because a project. With proper support by the it was decided that no lawyers should be malin at large, it was capable of being returned (Laughter and beers.) That developed into a truly Imperial project, rule was very soon abrogated. There sasarths in every way of the great events should be elected for a county who was recently ** of Artists to assist in the mi-j a Parliamen that decided that He one w developing The Royal Academy had very properly established a not a gentleman born, Then there was the fanions statute of Queen Anne which tintion and execution of war memorials, decided that no one should be elected in necessary and useful officer if we were for a ecenty who had not the qualifiento yoid former failures. Could not this tion in land of £600 a year, and for borough of £300 a year. Then there had on somewhat broader basis take into a committee enlarged, perhaps, and put been attempts to exclude Catholies, Jews. fonsideration the question of this great Quakers, Atheists, and so on. There was national, memorial, and prepare a de The famous case of John Wilkes. In all fuite project which would be put for these cases the people had resented the ward, with all the authority of an entire action of Parliament, and insisted that and united budy of all the artists of the it was their function, and not that of Empire? What was wanted was RGING! Parliament, to decide who should repte- suel definite proposals, and at was need peat them. He submitted that thereed without delay. should be no age limit.
Sir F. Banbury opposed the motion. No one could say what the result of Homan suffrage would be, and until there was experience of it the House sheald not proceed with so revolutionary a change as was suggested by the resolu tion. The question should be left to a newly-elected House to decide.
stituency to elect them, to eats in that not be elected, if they could get a con- House. The case did not admit of argu
menta
They had sailowed the caniel, and ought not longer, to strain at the gnat. He had the greatest possible faith in his fellow-citizens that they would not choose, in the long run, unfit persong to represent them.
Mr. Adamson supported the resolution, observing that the Labour party regard
efforts to procure the entranchisement
Admiral Sir H. Meux (U., Portsmouth) upposed, contending that the hours of Parliamentary sittings, and especially of all-night sittings, would be beyond the strength of wonen.
Lord R. Ceri said what hon. members had to consider was whether it was good or a bad thing. If good, the sooner it was done the better; if bad. then it ought not to be done at all. Excepted as the logical outcome of their from the reactionary point of view he did not know what possible argument could uf women. be suggested against the proposal. All they were going to say was that there might be some women in the country whom it would be desirable to see in that House, and they did not desire to exclude them. No doubt there were times when import- ant ecclesiastical opinion doubted if women had souls (laughter) and when women were treated as were chattels, In the earlier Roman law they were un doubtedly very little removed from the Admiral Sir H. Meux said it would. condition of daves. The idea that they be a question not of Who goes home?" were a lower animal had been gradually but Who will take me home? (Laugh abanduned, and the time had come when ter.) He did not think there was u they were recognised ng human beings, single hon. member who in his heart of Mr. A. Ward regarded the present hearts wished to see women sitting there, proposal as one of the inevitable conse. and be was sure the majority of women quences of the action of Parliament last in the country did not desire to be 10-
presented by
He could not Be- and Army, which
year
Mr. Adamson interposed that if women were admitted they would insist on Parliament sitting at a reasonable hour, say ten nih, and going home before eleven p..
worben.
Sit H. Craik opposed the resolution et in the
never been on this matter,
He stigmatised as a falsehood, in this proposal would be at all popular. CRC. Lord Robert Cecil's statement that He had received no mandate from his those who opposed the proposal looked down upon women. He remembered a time when the noble lord, sitting with tical
constituency. This might be called poli-
on the benches opposite, said that the hind trencher, but he called it political because if the country had no decided opinion upon the question been consulted the suffrage would not of votes for women, and that his conduct have been carried. would be decided by whether he thought women
would support bim or not. (Laughter.)
Lord R. Cecil: The hon, member's re- collection is quite incorrect.
had argued that women should not be Mr. 8. L. Hughes said that Mr. Peto) dragged through the dirty business of politics Was getting into that House necessarily a dirty business? He thought Sir H. Craik replied that, on the con- Inquest of the Nation, and that an arbi- that was an honourable House, the Grand trary, his recollection was quite accurate, tion to get a seat there was a laudable and be could produce Hansard in sup ambi
part of it. (Voice: Fetch Hansard," ambition. There might be dirty incid and laughter.) The hon, member pro member sperk for himself. (Laughter.) ents in getting there, but let every ceeded to state that he preferred his re- pentance should not be so cataclysmal When he was first a candidate he looked as that of some her. members. This new Laughter.) He had heard many membera HP the qualifications regarding eanity. proposal was made at a most inopportune described as idiots, but he found that moment, before women had had an ok to call a member or a candidato an idiot portunity to any large extent of taking was technically incorrect, because accord- part in politics. What sort of women would seek to become members at the Sriting to law an idiot or a natural fool was election Would they be women of mode. not chgible. It occurred to him that ration and influence, the most worthy to though that might be the law it had represent the womanhood of England (Laughter.) But the law draw a distine not always весл rigidly applied. Rather, would not the militant suffragiststion between an idiot or be first in evidence; and did the women tool" and a "lunatic."
a natural of England. want to be represented by described ne one who had had memory A lunatic was. that class 7
and judgment, but who by reason of dir MR. "ARQUITH'S SUPPORT.
ense of accident had lost the same: But Mr. Asquith said he was for mahy it was agreed that such years opposed to the extension of the have lucid intervals, and it was provided a person might suffrage to women, and he must associate that if he were a candidate during a himself with Mr. Arnold Ward against lucid interval be could stand. The Rame the suggestion that those who took that law applied to the voter. An idiot or line did go either avowedly or in spirit natural fool could not vote, but a lunatio beenuse they despised or distrusted who offered his vote during a lucid in women. He did not wish to go back to terval must have his vote received. There what was totally irrelevant to the argu-fore one lunatic enjoying a lucid interval pents for and against the extension of might vole for afiother lunatic, enjoying the suffrage, except to say that he never a lucid interval, and the result was a failed
to point out that if they, one member of Parliament, (Laughter) gave the suffrage to worth they could How could anybody moet a brilliant, whom they had enlandiayed the to those the wildly or write club worn an
enfranchised the
You not expable of sit eligible to sit in that House. The one ting in Parliament but a lunatic who is step inevitably involved the other Odos voted thy by another Junalio is capable, they had declared that a claw was worry provided he is a male No reform and qualified to exercise the franching over was timely to those who did not. be could not we shy possible renson A want it. lugia ór policy why these persone should The floure
divided, and the figures. *Continued at foọt of neat columem.)(us; Majority for, 948.
were: For the tuntion; 974; Against.
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