§ MR. CAINEasked the Judge Advocate General, If it is his intention to introduce any Bill dealing with those "low public houses," to which he ascribes the lamentable fact that 23,255 men, out of a total of 180,000 constituting the British Army, have received 43,656 punishments for drunkenness in a single year, besides many other punishments for crime and insubordination committed under the influence of liquor?
§ THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL (Mr. OSBORNE MORGAN)said, that, however desirable it might be to suppress "low public-houses" where adulterated spirits were sold to soldiers or other people, he was not aware that it was part of his duties as Judge Advocate General—which he could assure his hon. Friend were quite heavy enough, as it was—to bring in a Bill for that purpose; and he must, therefore, leave that task to his hon. Friend, and to those Members who made it a part of their Parliamentary mission to control that kind of property.