§ MR. JOHNSTONI beg, as an Orangeman of 45 years' standing, to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, under the proposed Government of Ireland Bill, the Irish Legislature would 194 have power to attempt to suppress the Orange Institution in Ireland?
§ MR. W. E. GLADSTONEIf the example of the hon. Member is followed every member of every Society in Ireland may rise and say as being a member of such and such a Society of so many years' standing, he asks so and so. The hon. Gentleman seems to suppose that there is in the Bill some special legislation in regard to the Orange Society. I am not aware of anything of the kind. If the Bill affects Orange Societies it affects all Societies alike, and I think the time for considering whether that power requires any limitation will be when we come to the discussion of the Bill in Committee.