Complex sentence: After the passing of a scheme compensating holders of extinguished public-house licences Caine resigned as Whip and his position in the house in protest, running for reelection through a by-election as an Independent Liberal, but was defeated.
Split into simpler sentences: After the passing of a scheme compensating holders of extinguished public-house licences Caine resigned as Whip and his position in the House in protest. He ran for reelection at the by-election as an Independent Liberal, but was defeated.