§ 50. Mr. GINNELLasked whether the Government dispute and will submit to constitutional test any part of the reasoned resolutions of the Liberty Organisation, the Irish Nation League, the Dublin Trades Council and Labour League, and of Sinn Fein, in agreement with other bodies representing the majority of the Irish people repudiating the proposed Convention as being unrepresentative, composed of persons whom no section of the Irish people would now elect, held under martial law and the suppression of public opinion and of the right of public meeting, precluded from entertaining the only form of settlement now acceptable, denied power to give effect to any decision, restricted by the reference to a prearranged decision so detested by the Irish people that no power is now strong enough to enforce it upon them; and, the knowledge being now common abroad that a Convention thus restricted to pro-English purposes would be a betrayal of the principles and sacrifices of 1916 which have made a settlement urgent, whether a free Convention elected by adult suffrage will be held or the idea of a Convention abandoned?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWThe answer is in the negative.
§ Mr. GINNELLWill the Leader of the House answer the first portion of the Clause asking whether they will submit the decision to a constitutional test in Ireland?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI do not know what the hon. Member means by a constitutional test.
§ Mr. GINNELLA free election by adult suffrage.