HC Deb 14 February 1881 vol 258 c774
SIR HERBERT MAXWELL

I beg to give Notice that I shall ask the Vice President of the Council, If he is correctly reported in the public journals to have stated in a recent speech at New Cross, that— The Conservatives were always ready to vote for coercion, and to make it as hot and as strong as possible; and whether those terms were intended to describe the motives of the support which had hitherto been given by the Conservative Party to Her Majesty's Government in a matter which the Government declared to be urgently necessary to preserve peace and order in Ireland?

MR. MUNDELLA

I think I can answer the hon. Gentleman at once. I did use those words, but I used also other words which he has not quoted, and which were to the effect that the Conservative Party had behaved exceedingly well in the present juncture.

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL

Perhaps I may be allowed to say that I did not read those words in the Report.