§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether men charged with 1426 cattle-driving and committed to gaol in default of entering into sureties to be of good behaviour are treated as unconvicted prisoners; and whether he will state in what respect their treatment in prison differs from that accorded to the women suffragists now incarcerated in England.
§ MR. CHERRYThe Answer to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative. The treatment of prisoners committed to gaol in Ireland in default of entering into sureties to be of good behaviour differs in so many points from that of prisoners of the second division in England that it is not possible to institute a comparison within the limits of an oral reply.
§ MR. LONSDALEAre these men compelled to eat prison food and to wear prison clothing?
§ MR. CHERRYThey may procure their own food and I think wear their own clothes.
§ MR. LONSDALEIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that woman suffragists in England, guilty of similar offences—
§ * MR. SPEAKEROrder, order!