of prison discipline, hate that as to other
Matters such as flogging and deportation,
the Secretary of State cannot take action upon the strength of his fugitive criticisms though willing to accede
to the appointment of a Commission.
14
may
A wise decision at the present stage upon any
discussion of
05
the merits of the questions raised by M.
so as to leave the Secretary
of State wholly
uncommitted to any
opinion one way
or the other at the time, and
better position to consider
the results of the Commission if one is
appointed.
4511.
5626. 6382.
246
In W. Stemusy's Speech in Council he
ingeniously
endeavoured
to make out
that he has created all this disturbance in conformity to the wishes
of the Secretary of State. This he did
by the very ingenuous falsehood of
publishing despatches
and endeavouring to create a belief that there are some
very strong reasons permitting the Secretary
of State to write the despatch; whereas he knew perfectly well that the Secretary of State regarded the question of prison discipline
left undisposed of
as mere
by Sir A Kennedy and the majority