§ MR. KNOX (Cavan, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has now been called to the resolution approved by the Grand Jury of County Cavan, calling for the increase of the Government guarantee to the shareholders in the Cavan, Leitrim, and Roscommon Railway Company to three per cent. and the abolition of the baronial guarantee; whether he is now aware that a strike against the extra cess is likely to take place, and was only averted by the hope of Government intervention; whether his attention has been called to the references made at the Carlow Assizes to the difficulty of collecting the extra cess in that county; upon whom the cost of executing warrants for such extra cess falls by law; and whether, upon further consideration, and in the interests of economy, the Government will accede to the proposal already made, namely, that a Committee should be appointed, consisting of the Members for the district concerned and the Member for North Armagh, with power to draw np a scheme, to be embodied in a Bill dealing with the question?
§ * MR. JACKSONI have not yet seen the resolution of the Grand Jury of County Cavan referred to by the hon. Member; nor am I aware of any likelihood of a strike against the payment of county cess in that county or of difficulties in collecting the extra cess in the County Carlow. The effect of such a strike in the County Cavan would be to relieve the Treasury from the payment of the 2 per cent. contributed by it under the Tramways Act, 1883. The costs of executing a distress warrant for the cess falls on the defaulting cesspayer. The 213 circumstances of the case do not seem to me to call for Government interference.