This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...single exception of those measures which relate to the maintenance of public order, and have in the immediateness of the demand that they make upon the Legislature and the Cabinet a preference above all others, there probably has never been a measure submitted to Parliament with regard to which the responsibility of unnecessary postponement would be greater, heavier, or more intolerable. We propose, therefore, to use every effort consistent with respect to the House and with the demands of absolutely necessary business to conduct this Bill through this House, and to send it to the other House at such a period as to give time for fairly and justly dealing with it in the hope of its becoming law in the present session. In announcing these views of the Government I feel that I am not liable to the charge of contumaciously or ostentatiously opposing myself ond my colleagues to the judgment of the House or of any large number of hon. members. We have been encouraged in our resolution to use every effort to pass this Bill by the manifestations of this debate. We have heard gentlemen arguing manfully their objections to particular portions of the Bill, and yet expressing their paramount and overwhelming sense of the necessity of the measure, and it was impossible not to feel that it was our duty to meet those manifestations as far as we could. I believe the latent conviction of this House to be that the public advantages contemplated by the Bill, and likely to be attained by it, are such that they ought not to be foregone and sacrificed on account of a blemish here and there, or of something which may not really be a blemish, but which is conscientiously supposed to be such, and which may prevent its receiving the entire and undivided adhesion...