DEPUTIES GUARDED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 46, 16 October 1931, Page 3

DEPUTIES GUARDED

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IRISH PARLIAMENT BAYONETS FLASH IN CHAMBER AS MEMBERS ARRIVE PUBLIC SAFETY BILL

By Telegraph — Copyright.)

DUBLIN, Wednesday. Bayonets were flashing in the Free State Parliament House, armed police squatted on the floor of the lobbies, and a police cordon was drawn round the Dail when the Public Safety Bill was introduced by Mr Cosgrave. The members of the Dail arrived each being attended by a conple of detectives carrying revolvers in their pockets and all visitors were examined for arms, by the newly-recruit-ed plain clothes branch of the Civil Guards. Mr Cosgrave declared that violence such as had been adopted was inexcusable, and the advocates of politieal ideals must not speak with a gnn in their hands. There was he declared, a conspiracy to overthrow the State by people who were prepared to use murder. The Irish Republican Army had allied itself to an organisation which was seeking to establish a Soviet State. Mr Eamonn De Valera opposed the Bill, contending that existing powers were adequate for dealing with the situation. The division resulted in the introduetion of the Bill by 82 votes to 64.