ABSTRACT
The rejection of the Licensing Bill of 1908 was a good deal more uncompromising than the rejection of the Education Bill had been in 1906. The Campbell-Bannerman Cabinet completed by December 11, 1905, dissolved Parliament on January 8, 1906. The Parliamentary efforts needed to push the Bill through the forms of the British Constitution make up a great part of the Sessional story. The Parliamentary struggle on the proposals raged from the Budget’s introduction on April 29th until the House of Lords’ inevitable refusal to enact it during November 1909. The “Veto Conference” had completely broken down, however, when Parliament reassembled on November 15, 1910. Parliament was, in fact, dissolved on November 28th, and a General Election held which caused only the slightest alteration in the Parliamentary position. The last Parliamentary Session to open before the “Great War” shifted all political landmarks began on February 10, 1914.
