HC Deb 08 June 1883 vol 280 cc26-7
SIR HERBERT MAXWELL

asked the Under Secretary of State for India, When the two Reports, complete and incomplete, of the Debate in the Indian Legislative Council upon Mr. Ilbert's Native Jurisdiction Bill will be laid upon the Table of the House, in accordance with his undertaking made on the 28th May?

MR. J. K. CROSS

The telegraphic summary of the debate on the Jurisdiction Bill will be presented to-day and distributed with the full report of the debate which was laid on the Table on the 28th of May, and is now being printed.

MR. E. STANHOPE

Will the hon. Gentleman ask the Indian Government that Reports from the Local Governments to Lord Ripon shall be sent home without any delay? My object, of course, is that they may be printed before the end of the Session.

MR. J. K. CROSS

We have already asked that they may be sent on as early as possible.

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL

Is there any precedent for a debate in the Legislative Council being reported and telegraphed at the expense of the Government, except in the case of the Budget debates, which are not controversial?

MR. J. K. CROSS

I cannot answer that Question without Notice.