§ SIR J. BRUNNER (Cheshire, Northwich)asked the Home Secretary whether he was considering the advisability of according to the women who were arrested on Tuesday outside the House treatment as first-class misdemeanants, and whether he was also considering the advisability of taking them into safe custody until the House had risen, and thus avoid giving them the notoriety they desired.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI have had no notice of the Questions.
§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDIs it not a fact that these ladies are simply agitating for the passage of the Bill which has passed its Second Reading by an enormous majority in this House?
§ MR. GLADSTONEI cannot be responsible for that.
§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDWell, if you pass a Bill you ought to go on with it.