More about names / [Leopold Wagner].

  • Wagner, Leopold, 1858-
Date:
1893
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Credit: More about names / [Leopold Wagner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this case the servant of the Sovereign. The Cabinet Ministers, collectively styled The Cabinet, are those colleagues of the Prime Minister who possess the privilege of consulting the Sovereign in the Privy Chamber or private cabinet of the palace. The Whippers-In are the officers employed to hunt up the members of the House of Commons when special questions are being put to the vote. The word Cabal originated from the initial letters of Charles II.5s Ministry in 1670, thus : Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale. Cloture is a parliamentary term signifying the closing of a debate at the instance of the Speaker, who claims the prerogative of declaring it. The Cloture was first put in force February 24, 1884. The American word Caucus, by which is meant a private meeting of the leading politicians, in order to agree upon a settled plan of action during a forth- coming session of Congress, traces its origin to the Caulkers of Boston who came into open conflict with the British soldiers shortly before the Revolu- tion ; whereupon meetings were held in the caulkers’ houses for the purpose of drawing up measures to obtain a redress of their grievances. A Caulker, or, as the word is sometimes written, Calker, is one whose business it is to drive oakum into the seams of a vessel to prevent leakage ; probably a corruption of the Spanish calafatear, and the Arabic galafa, to fill up crevices. In Hungary and Denmark, and formerly also in Germany, the Assembly of the National Represen-