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118.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [8] 17 JULY, 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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118.

Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [8]

17 JULY, 1868

PD, 3rd ser., Vol. 193, cols. 1370, 1373, 1381. Reported in The Times, 18 July, p. 7. For the Bill, see No. 89. Mill spoke in Committee first on Clause 46, which voided election of anyone found guilty of employing corrupt agents. Amberley moved an amendment to add the penalty of disqualification from election for three years (col. 1370). Mill’s comment was prompted by an objection that an innocent might unwittingly fall into the hands of a corrupt agent.

mr. j. stuart mill said, the Amendment would only apply to a candidate who knowingly employed a corrupt agent.

[The amendment was defeated, and the clause agreed (col. 1373).]

[Mill’s second intervention came during discussion of Clause 47, providing that people, other than the candidate, found guilty of bribery should lose their votes.]

Mr. J. Stuart Mill moved, in page 15, line 16, after “voting at any,” insert “Parliamentary and municipal,” the object being to extend penalties to bribery at municipal Elections.

[Brett, the Solicitor General, argued that at this time in the session, and in this Bill, they should confine themselves to Parliamentary elections (col. 1373).]

Mr. J. Stuart Mill said, that his proposition was simply that a person convicted of bribery at a Parliamentary Election should be disqualified from voting at future municipal as well as Parliamentary Elections.

[Disraeli objected that municipal elections would have to be considered later; Mill withdrew his amendment, and the clause was agreed (col. 1373).]

[Mill’s third intervention followed the introduction of a new Clause by the Solicitor General, providing for Commissions of Inquiry into corrupt practices (col. 1380).]

Mr. J. Stuart Mill said, he wished to express his acknowledgments to the Government for the great improvement which had been effected in the Bill.