Various parliamentary speeches delivered by Kuyper in the Second Chamber during the second half of the parliamentary year 1895/1896. His first address took place on March 4, 1896 in response to a bill proposing a change in the city limits of Amsterdam. Kuyper asserted, among other things, that this bill threatened the autonomy of the neighboring municipalities. Kuyper spoke during most of the parliamentary sessions from May 13 to June 5, when there was considerable debate about Van Houten’s proposed electoral bill (S. van Houten was the Minister of the Interior). The draft bill proposed regulations governing suffrage and the election of representatives for the Second Chamber. Van Houten had a vision of a flexible form of suffrage that would extend to males age twenty-five and older who either had achieved a certain level of wealth or had passed certain qualifying examinations. He proposed that the electoral law would be more equitable if suffrage were based on both “census” and “capacity.” By contrast (and in opposition to De Savornin Lohmann), Kuyper proposed to get rid of all forms of property qualifications and to extend suffrage to the heads of household, that is, to allot one vote to each household (pp. 1133–1134; see also 1929.08, pp. 137–139, and cf. 1894.04). His proposal, however, found very little support. Van Houten’s bill was passed by the Second Chamber on June 19, 1896.