MR. STAFFORDsaid, he would beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Treasury would approve or reject the warrant in reference to the Army Medical Department, which had been sent from the War Office with the recommendation of the Secretary of State for the War Department.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, a proposition for the augmentation of the pay of the Medical Service of the Army had been communicated to the Treasury. It was a question of great magnitude and importance, as it involved not only an increase of the pay of the Medical Department of the Army, but also of that of the Medical Service of other branches of Her Majesty's Service. He was sorry to say that he did not think it consistent 170 with his duty to accede to the proposition, and he could not state that there was any prospect at present of that plan being carried out.