Mr William Redmond: Abolish the frontier. Then it would be done.
Mr William Redmond: 69. asked the Chief Secretary if it is the intention of the Government, on the disbandment of the Royal Irish Constabulary, to wind up the constabulary force fund and distribute it amongst the subscribers, or, alternatively, is the Government prepared to return to each subscriber the amount actually paid by him into the fund?
Mr William Redmond: Has any case of foot-and-mouth disease yet been discovered in Ireland?
Mr William Redmond: If that be the case, what is the reason for the detention of animals arriving at English ports from Ireland?
Mr William Redmond: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that three weeks ago a cargo of pigs was detained at Holyhead, and that since then they have had to be slaughtered, and no action has been taken to prevent this?
Mr William Redmond: They do form it.
Mr William Redmond: Poor Great Britain!
Mr William Redmond: Not at all.
Mr William Redmond: Unlike the hon. and gallant Member who has just sat down (Admiral Adair), as a mere Irish nationalist representative of Ireland—Southern Ireland it is true—I have not yet taken any part in the proceedings in this House in regard to this Treaty. I feel, however, that I should not let an occasion such as this pass without giving some expression to the feelings, not only of myself and my own...
Mr William Redmond: Separation was the cry in those days from those benches, and it is exactly the same parrot-cry to-day.
Mr William Redmond: The right hon. Baronet says it has turned out to be right. Has the Act of 1893 been put into operation in Ireland? If not, how can it have turned out right or wrong?
Mr William Redmond: I am grateful to the right hon. Baronet for his interruption, because the refusal of the Act of 1893 to the Irish people by another place is the very reason why 20 years after you have to-day, and shall have, to give more to satisfy the Irish people than was necessary at that time. The same note has been struck all through, and the Mover of this Motion by his speech to-night has done nothing...
Mr William Redmond: According to the terms of the Treaty, and if you can believe the word of an Englishman and an English Act of Parliament, it is so. I leave the rest with the right hon. Baronet. According to the terms of the Treaty, there is going to be an impartial chairman. At any rate, he is not going to be a North or a South of Ireland man. Hon. Gentlemen will not accept the Boundary Commission, for the...
Mr William Redmond: Are those Orange places?
Mr William Redmond: Then why worry about it?
Mr William Redmond: The Union was a fraud.
Mr William Redmond: Who has admitted it?
Mr William Redmond: I am an Irishman, and he is not.
Mr William Redmond: Why did you not give it to us?
Mr William Redmond: Why did you not give it?