§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Mr. McGivern, police pensioner and agent of Colonel Tottenham, at the last Poor Law election in county Leitrim, said to Bartle M'Morrow, who refused to vote for Maguire, the favoured candidate of Colonel Tottenham, "I will be revenged on you for that; "whether Mr. McGivern also threatened a man named Meehan, of Lacoon, that he would process him, for £10 for cutting a tree in his garden if he did not vote for Maguire; whether, if above statements are true, the Government will prosecute him for intimidation; and, whether by such conduct he has forfeited his pension?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, Bartle M'Morrow alleges that M'Givern threatened him, as stated, and M'Givern denies having done so. There is no corroboration; and I am informed that there is no evidence which would sustain a charge of intimidation against M'Givern. As regards the case of Meehan, it appears that M'Givern did say something to him about processing him for cutting down a tree, but not that he would do so if he did not vote a particular way. Meehan himself states that M'Givern used no threat against him in connection with the election. M'Givern has not forfeited his pension.