§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would beg to ask the right hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Gladstone), Whether he has come to any decision on the subject of the Dog Tax when he was in office?
§ MR. CHILDERSreplied, that before the late Government left office it received from the Inland Revenue Department the draft of a Bill reducing the tax on dogs, but as it had not been revised, they thought it better to leave it to their successors in the shape in which it was.