§ MR. J. D. FITZGERALDsaid, he rose to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether Mr. Cecil Moore, who has been recently appointed Sessional Crown Prosecutor for the County of Tyrone, is the same Mr. Cecil Moore described in the Appendix to the Report on the Belfast Riots, page 289, as Cecil Moore, of Cottage Hill, Aughnaclony, Grand Secretary of the Tyrone Orange Lodge?
§ MR. WHITESIDEsaid, he could not answer the question whether Mr. Cecil Moore was the same person as the Cecil Moore whose name appeared with two hundred other names in the appendix of the Report to which the right hon. and learned Gentleman referred. The small office to which Mr. Cecil Moore had been appointed became vacant while he (Mr. Whiteside) was attending to his Parliamentary duties, and that Gentleman was recommended to him by the two Members for the county, and by several other persons, as a most respectable and competent person, but that he refused to make the appointment until the Assistant Barrister had made his Report. In that Report it was stated that Mr. Cecil Moore had practised as an attorney in the Court of which he (the Assistant Barrister) was the sole Judge, and also in the Court of Quarter Sessions for twelve years, and that he considered him to be a person of most respectable character. He (Mr. Whiteside) had not instituted any inquiry into his politics or religion, but he would correspond with him on the subject of the hon. and learned Gentleman's question, and take good care that his conduct in his office was such as befitted a person who held that situation.