§ MR. REDMONDasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the Government have power by Law to seize and summarily suppress newspapers which they consider pernicious to public morals; and, if so, why that power is not exercised in the case of the "Freethinker" and other papers of that nature now published and circulated in England?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTI stated the other day the reasons why I did not consider it would be wise to proceed at present in this matter.
§ MR. REDMONDI would ask whether the Government has the power to seize and suppress such papers?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTThat is a legal question, on which it would not be at all discreet that I should give an opinion.