HC Deb 14 June 1906 vol 158 cc1104-6

Names of Persons Guilty of Treating,

Thomas Hugh. Walter Church.
John Bridges.

The Second Schedule.

Names of Persons who have been furnished with Certificates of Indemnity.

Francis Stephen Clarke. William White.
John Hughes,
John Fincher. Charles Thomas.
John Price. George Edward Griffiths.
John Cox.
John Phillips. Thomas Edward Andrews.
Charles Gregory.
Thomas Collins. John Gough.
Nathaniel Turner. William Henry Prodger.
Alfred Verrier.
Thomas Henry Burton. John Taylor.
Edgar Billings.
William Henry Smith. George Brant.
Thomas Joseph George Andrews.
Elijah Bunn.
Henry Willis. Robert Brant.
George Manton. Edwin Elcock.
Alfred Boister. Thomas Pugh.
Daniel Taylor. John Bridges.
Arthur Hall. Walter Church.
Walter Poole.
Dated this 13th day of June, 1906.
J. C. LAWRANCE.
JOSEPH WALTON.

And the said certificate and Report from Mr. Justice Lawrance and Mr. Justice Walton, Judges of the High Court of Justice, was ordered to be entered in the journals of this House.

Copy of Shorthand Writer's Notes laid upon the Table by Mr. Speaker.

THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (Mr. GEORGE WHITELEY,) Yorkshire, W.R., Pudsey

asked whether it would be open to the Government to advert at a future date to the declaration just made that corrupt practices extensively prevailed.

MR. BLAKE (Longford, S.)

asked whether it was not usual in such cases to have the evidence printed.

*MR. SPEAKER

If any hon. Member or right hon. Member moves that the judgment and evidence should be printed of course that would be done.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir JOHN WALTON, Leeds, S.)

moved that the judgment and the evidence be printed.

*MR. SPEAKER

said it was not necessary for him to put the Motion.

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)

asked whether it was not in accordance with precedent that in a case where corrupt practices extensively prevailed the issue of the writ should be opposed; and whether this was not a ground for disfranchisement.

*MR. SPEAKER

That is not a proper Question for me.

MR. GEORGE WHITELEY

said that notice of Motion for a new writ had to be on the Paper for forty-eight hours before it could be moved.

*SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)

presumed the Government would follow the usual practice of themselves calling attention to this subject.

Ordered, That the Copy of the Shorthand Writer's Notes of the Judgment of Mr. Justice Lawrance and Mr. Justice Walton on the Trial of the Election Petition for the City of Worcester, also the Minutes of Evidence taken at the Trial of the said Election Petition, be printed. [No. 198.]—(Mr. Attorney-General.)

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