I beg to ask the. Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieu-tenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the Report of a recent meeting of the Sligo County Council, at which a speaker declared, amid applause, that they in Sligo wanted neither Home Rule nor devolution, as the law of the national organisation was supreme there and that the branches of that organisation should visit with their curse everyone, landlord, policeman, or anyone else, who showed the least opposition; and is it intended to allow meetings of county councils to be used for delivery of seditious speeches and incitements to outrage.
I have had the advantage of reading a report of the speech referred to in the Question. This speech was delivered in support of a resolution, unanimously passed by the Sligo County Council, to the effect that nothing short of Home Rule will satisfy the people of Ireland. I do not propose to take any steps in regard to the speech.