HC Deb 25 October 1899 vol 77 c599
MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)

I beg to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House what course he intends to pursue with regard to the publication and circulation amongst Members of the House of a pamphlet referred to in debates entitled, "Are we in the right?" in which the Colonial Secretary is charged, as a Member of the House, with deliberate falsehood in a speech in the House, and with having signed the Report of the South African Committee knowing it to be false.

MR. WILLIAM JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)

That is one more of Stead's slanders.

THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.

I have not read the pamphlet to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but, if the account he gives of it in his question is in any way correct, it appears to be a some what scurrilous document, which I think need not disturb the hon. Gentleman at all.