Mr. Dix—I cannot allow this. This is not a place for making speeches. I understand you are not summoned here at all.
Mr. Murphy—He is only summoned as a witness.
Mr. Dix—When you (to Mr. Sullivan) are called on will be the time to hear you, not now.
Mr. Sullivan—I ask your worship, with your usual courtesy, to hear me while I complain publicly of endeavouring to place the editor of a national journal on the list of crown witnesses in this court as a public and personal indignity—and as an endeavour to destroy the influence of that national press, whose power they feel and fear, but which they dare not prosecute. I personally complain—
Mr. Murphy—I don't know that this should be permitted.
Mr. Sullivan—Don't interrupt me for a moment.
Mr. Dix—Mr. Sullivan wants to have himself included in the summons and charge.
Mr. Murphy—That cannot be done at present.
Mr. Sullivan—With one sentence I will conclude.
Mr. Murphy—I don't intend to have you called as a witness—