 made an attempt to restore the clause abandoned in 1870 by the Compensation for Disturbance Bill of 1880. The bill passed the Commons, but in the Lords, although the peers were warned that its rejection would bring Ireland within a measurable distance...  Fifty Years of the House of Lords ... - Page 61881 - 95 pagesFull view - About this book
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...injustice of allowing the landlord to use a famine as a means of effecting a clearance, the Government made an attempt to restore the clause abandoned in...civil war, it was rejected by an enormous majority. The Irish Land Question, To that vote can be traced the excessive exasperation of the tenants against... | |
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