[516:3] Ibid., 1891, pp. 87, 96.
[516:4] Ibid., p. 42. On other occasions he repeated the statement, adding that the practice saved the Council the risk from which the Union of Conservative Associations had suffered, of having alterations made suddenly under the magic strains of eloquence. Rep. of 1895, p. 58; 1896, p. 57.
[517:1] As late as 1894 the General Committee declared that the Registration Bill of the Liberal government was not satisfactory and urged its amendment. Rep. of 1894.
[517:2] Rep. of 1889, p. 129.
[517:3] Ibid., 1896, pp. 73-78; Rep. of 1897, pp. 77-80.
[518:1] Rep. of 1890, p. 29.
[518:2] Ibid., pp. 6-8, 58.
[519:1] These were special conferences of delegates from the associations of the whole, or of some part, of the country. They were not infrequently held.
[520:1] Rep. for 1891, pp. 42-44.
[520:2] "Now whilst the Council of the Federation declares what the party as a whole desires, the General Committee attempts by preliminary discussion to arrive at what the desires are. As the General Committee examines but does not declare, the freest and fullest discussion takes place at its meetings." Rep. of 1898, p. 42.