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ictions of hie own position, - "To disapprove the
annexation of a country is one thing; to abandon that
annexation is another,.. »fy
wo contracted new obligations. "
the annexation of the Transvaal
(2)
At one point
the House
was olnost counted out and only a minority of M. Ps, voted in
the division, Of 347 Liberal P4«Pc* and 65 Irish Nationalists
only 33 voted for the motion; there were 129 votes against.
Itylande and Cartwright refused to take part in the division,
feeling no doubt that they had carried their opposition to the
Government far enough. Just over half the 33 votes were fron
Irish tips. The Liberals included the two Lib-Labs Henry
Broadhurst and the minors' loader ThomaD Burt, J, Panomoro
Edwards, (the radical editor of the 'Echo and 2t. Po for Saliobury)
J. P. Thomassen (fß. ß's for Dolton)
s two Scottish fPs, J. D. Poddie
and Sir David Wodderburnyand the two tellers Lawson and Alfred
Illingworth (U. P. for Bradford)
$
(3)
Thera were a few other
Liberal M. Po, who did not vote but who played a part in the
(1) Thd, col. '1966.
t2) Ibid.
. aal. 1139.
(3) ßf 22nd Jonuury 18819 - division list.
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