§ MR. ANDERSONasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, When he proposes to move the reappointment of the Committee on Banks of Issue; and, 353 whether the Committee of last Session, in reporting a recommendation for their reappointment, in any way recommended the exclusion of further evidence, as lately stated by him?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,in reply, said, that the Government had not yet come to any decision as to recommending the re-appointment of the Committee on Banks of Issue. With regard to the latter part of the Question, he did not think he had stated that the Committee had recommended the exclusion of further evidence. What the Committee reported was that they had examined a considerable number of witnesses, and had presented a Report of the Minutes of Evidence taken to this House; but they had not had time to prepare a Report during the Session, and consequently they recommended that they should be allowed to sit again this Session. He understood that the Committee recommended their re-appointment, not for the purpose of taking evidence, but for the purpose of considering their Report, and he had stated this in answer to a Question the other day.