§ MR. SHAW LEFEVRE (Bradford, C.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Irish Members, Priests, and others at present in prison, under the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act for speeches made or for the publication of speeches in proclaimed districts have, since the issue of the new Provisional Prison Rules, been subjected, like common criminals, to the plank bed, deprived of the means of occupying themselves with reading and writing, and compelled to clean out their own cells?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURIn answer to the right hon. Gentleman, I have to say that the new Provisional Prison Rules have no relation to any of the points mentioned in his question.
§ MR. SHAW LEFEVREI suppose they are been subjected to the plank bed, and other things to which I refer.
§ MR. BALFOURThey are subject to the ordinary prison discipline.