§ 83. Mr. KINGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the Sinn Fein clubs and other organisations declared to be dangerous by special Proclamation on 3rd July are singled out for this treatment because their aims and objects are seditious or detrimental or because members of these organisations are suspected of committing or approving acts of violence or disorder; and whether, before issuing the special Proclamation, the law officers took steps to deal with lawlessness, sedition, or disorder by the ordinary law?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND (Mr. Arthur Samuels)I must refer the hon. Member to the Proclamation itself. It indicates sufficiently the reasons which induced the Irish Government to consider its issue advisable. The ordinary law has been fully resorted to.