INDEX

Althorp, Lord, repugnance to Office, i. 163

Army officers and membership of the House of Commons, i. 46

Balfour, A. J., question to, as Chief Secretary for Ireland, i. 244

Ballot Act, 1872:

elections under open voting, i. 53;

Chartists and violence of non-electors, 56;

how the ballot was carried, 57

Barry, Charles:

architect of Houses of Parliament, i. 93;

his fee, 94

“Big Ben,” the chimes, i. 95

Bishops in House of Lords, ii. 59

Black Rod, reception in House of Commons, i. 104, ii. 43

Bradlaugh, Charles, imprisonment in Clock Tower, i. 227

Brand, H. B., Speaker, motion of censure on, i. 134

Bright, John, and red tape, i. 142

Broadhurst, Henry, from stonemason’s bench to Treasury Bench, i. 152

Budget Night, ii. 147

Burdett, Sir Francis, arrested by Serjeant-at-Arms, i. 229

Burke, Edmund:

constitutional position of M.P., i. 11;

defeated at Bristol, 13;

as a Party man, 15;

on payment of salaries to Ministers, 197

Burns, John, first manual worker in the Cabinet, i. 198

Carlisle, A. M., interrupts debate in House of Lords, ii. 63

Chairman of Committees, ii. 150

Chamberlain, Austen, non-voter and yet Chancellor of the Exchequer, i. 43

Chamberlain, Joseph, as Party organizer, i. 18

Chancellor of the Exchequer, unpopular Office, i. 179

Charles I, raid on House of Commons, ii. 103

Clergymen and membership of the House of Commons, i. 45

Clerk, House of Commons, duties at opening of Parliament, i. 100

Cobden, Richard:

extracts from his letter bag, i. 68;

on lure of Parliament, 86;

service on Private Bill Committees, ii. 175

Cochrane, Lord, bribery at election for Honiton, i. 26

Commons, House of:

qualifications and disqualifications of membership, i. 39;

Members not racy of the soil of their constituencies, 40;

as a club, 81;

old men as Members, 84;

as a debating chamber, ii. 13

Comptroller and Auditor-General, ii. 164

Debate:

in House of Commons, ii. 9;

the closure, 11;

the guillotine, 29;

in the House of Lords, 61

Dickens, Charles:

on formation of new Ministry, i. 165;

as a parliamentary reporter, ii. 92

Disraeli:

as Party organizer, i. 18;

on the hustings, 54;

on making a Government, 149;

relations with Sir Robert Peel, 159;

his political pension, 189;

as Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 136

Divisions:

in House of Commons, ii. 15;

publication of division lists, 18;

in the House of Lords, 75

Elections:

canvassing and kissing, i. 25;

old forms of bribery, 27;

new forms, 30;

Corrupt Practices Act, 1854 and 1883, 29;

secret of success at, 32;

sending on the writs, 37;

nominations, 38;

money deposits by candidates, 47;

at the polling booths, 47;

how voting papers are counted, 60;

returning officer’s casting vote in a tie, 62;

preservation of writs in Record Office, 64;

trial of election petitions, 64

Foreign Secretary, onerous duties of, i. 148

Forster, W. E., author of Ballot Act, i. 57

Fox, Charles J., in Opposition and in Office, i. 193

Franking, old privilege of, i. 99

Games at Westminster, i. 82

George V, speech from Throne at close of World War, i. 215

Gladstone, W. E.:

canvassing at Newark election, i. 24;

making a Government, 150;

age and office, 162;

standard of living in office and in Opposition, 196;

on emoluments of office, 197;

as Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 138

Grand Committees, ii. 30

Guy Fawkes, i. 112

Hastings, Warren, kneeling at Bar of the Lords, i. 232

King, the:

veto on Ministerial appointments, i. 166;

receiving new Ministers, 367;

kissing his hands, 168;

part in Speech from the Throne, 201;

supplied with reports of proceedings in the Commons, ii. 98

Library of the House of Commons, historical relics in, i. 99

Lloyd, George, at Board of Trade, i. 183

Lobby of the House of Commons, ii. 95

London, City of, privilege of Members, i. 110

Lord Chancellor:

duties at opening of Parliament, i. 105, 109;

presiding in the House of Lords, ii. 67;

delivering judgment in appeal cases, 85

Lords, House of:

three classes of hereditary peers, i. 36;

Irish and Scottish representative peers, 37;

writs issued to, 116;

introduction of a new peer, ii. 60;

disorder in the Chamber, 70;

as the Supreme Court of Appeal, 78;

life peers, 80;

powers in regard to Money Bills, ii. 158

Lowther, J. W.:

Speaker, i. 123;

on infallibility of Chair, 131

Macaulay:

on canvassing, i. 24;

on woes of an M.P., 66;

in Commons’ smoking-room, 81;

offer of office, 141

Members of Parliament:

relations with constituency, i. 11;

as Party delegates, 16;

patronage of, 69;

epistles they receive, 69;

offer of bribes, 73;

controlled by the Whips, 77;

his compensations, 80;

ancient distinctions abolished, 103;

prison in Clock Tower, 226;

“naming” a Member, 228;

expulsion from House, 229;

breaches of parliamentary manners, ii. 9;

resignations, 14

Mill, John Stuart:

an independent Member, i. 23;

on the hustings, 55;

an opponent of the ballot, 57

Ministers:

qualifications of, i. 142;

distribution between two Houses, 147;

law of re-election, 171;

salaries of, 175;

pensions, 187;

their pecuniary worries, 195;

why they cling to office, 199

Morley, John:

on the daily round of an M.P., i. 85;

affirming in House of Lords, 117;

first appointment to office, 152

Oath of allegiance:

Lords, i. 115;

Commons, 117, ii. 121,

Privy Council, 168

O’Connell, Daniel, at Bar of House of Commons, i. 233

Pairing in House of Commons, ii. 124

Palmerston, Lord, “Where are the Colonies?” i. 143

Party:

Goldsmith and Burke on, i. 14, 15;

organizations, 16;

steadying influence on public opinion, 19;

overrides local interests, 32;

influence in House of Commons, ii. 116

Pepys, Samuel, at Bar of House of Commons, i. 233

Petitions to House of Commons, i. 239

Pitt, William:

long tenure of office, i. 193;

salaries, 194;

debts paid by Parliament, 194

Prayers in Lords and Commons, i. 239

Press and Parliament, ii. 87

Prime Minister:

place in precedence, i. 136;

town and country houses, 177

Public Accounts Committee, ii. 165

Pugin, Augustus W., decorator of Houses of Parliament, i. 94

Question-time in Commons, i. 239

Registration of voters, officers and their duties, i. 33

Returning Officers:

writs sent to, i. 37;

duties at nominations, 38;

on polling day, 47

Revenue and expenditure, ii. 143

Rosebery, Lord, on entering and leaving office, i. 174

Russell, Lord J.:

making a Government, i. 141;

on pecuniary worries of Ministers, 195

Schnadhorst, Francis, organizer of Liberal Party, i. 19

Serjeant-at-Arms, chief executive officer, House of Commons, i. 224

Shaftesbury, Earl of:

election as Lord Ashby for Dorset and free drinks, i. 28;

curious experiences in regard to office, 154;

contrasts Lords and Commons, ii. 63

Speaker, the:

election of, i. 105;

asserting rights and privileges of the Commons, 109;

duties of, 122;

continuity of tenure, 125;

disqualified from speaking and voting, 127;

casting vote in a tie, 129;

essential qualities, 130;

tested in emergencies, 132;

motions of censure for rulings, 134;

salary and emoluments, 135;

place in order of precedence, 136;

term of office, 139;

pension and peerage, 139

“Spying strangers”:

in House of Commons, ii. 194;

in House of Lords, 195

Terrace, the, as a society resort, i. 82, 101

Throne of England: in House of Lords, ii. 55

Treasury Bench, how to gain a seat on, i. 83

Victoria, Queen:

differences with Ministers relating to Speech from the Throne, i. 202, 204;

her first opening of Parliament, 208;

her last, 213

Westminster, Palace of:

the old, i. 89;

destruction by fire, 92;

building of the new, and its cost, 94;

extent of, 97;

St. Stephen’s Hall and Crypt, 98;

searching the vaults of, 112

Whipping in House of Commons, ii. 115

“Who goes home?” ii. 20

Wilberforce, William:

cost of election for York, i. 29;

on fascination of House of Commons, 87

“Wobblers,” influence on elections, i. 20

Women electors, how they first voted in 1918, i. 59

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