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90.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [2] 2 APRIL, 1868 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868 [1850]

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Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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90.

Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [2]

2 APRIL, 1868

PD, 3rd ser., Vol. 191, col. 702. Reported in The Times, 3 April, p. 5. Writing the next day to William Dougal Christie, his close ally in this matter, Mill said, “Mr. Disraeli’s answer to my question was civil but in no degree satisfactory”

(CW, Vol. XVI, p. 1383).

mr. j. stuart mill said, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether it is his intention to propose any measure, either separately or as a provision in the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill,1 for the prevention of bribery at Municipal Elections?

Mr. Disraeli: Sir, the subject to which the Question of the honourable Member relates is one of very great importance, but I am not prepared to deal with it in the manner he suggests. I shall make every possible effort to carry the Bill which refers to Parliamentary Elections before the dissolution. I think that that is a matter of the greatest moment; but I do not contemplate mixing it up with the subject referred to by the honourable Member.

[1 ]See No. 89.