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The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
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would state the general heads of his redistribution scheme. The
subject was not named at the Cabinet of the 3rd, which dealt with
Egypt only. But the Cabinet adjourned to the 4th, and on January 4th
discussed South Africa, and also ... received a statement from Mr.
Gladstone as to his intention to state the heads of our
redistribution scheme in "very general terms." On the 10th I noted:
"The Cabinets have resulted in peace between Lord Hartington and Mr.
Gladstone, but the Reform Bill will be less complete than I had
hoped." "Mr. Gladstone calmed Hartington by promising not to run
away from us after franchise and before redistribution, which was
what Hartington feared he meant to do."'

Discussion upon the detail of the Bill was resumed, and on January 23rd,
1884,

'the Chancellor (Lord Selborne), Hartington, Kimberley, and Dodson,
supported by Mr. Gladstone, forced, against Harcourt, Chamberlain,
and myself, a decision not to attach any condition of residence to
the property vote.'

'On January 28th there was a meeting of the Committee of the Cabinet
on the Franchise Bill in Mr. Gladstone's room. Chamberlain was
anxious to "make Hartington go out on franchise." I asked him how he
thought it was to be done, and he replied: "If he is restive now,
raise the question of Mr. Gladstone's statement on redistribution,
and oppose all limitations in that statement"; and he added that Mr.
Gladstone had only agreed to make the statement unwillingly to quiet
Hartington, and that if Hartington were not quieted Mr. Gladstone
would go back about it. Chamberlain and I on this occasion tried to
make the Franchise Bill more Radical, but failed, Mr. Gladstone
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