§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Government to make a statement and to lay a Memorandum upon the Table of the House as to the formation of the Committee of Arbitration on Indian and War Office Claims, and to explain whether the views of individual Members of Parliament will be received and considered by the Committee of Arbitration?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERI do not know that we can lay any Memorandum on the Table at the present moment. There are communications going on with regard to the formation of this Committee, and I think it will be composed of one member nominated by the India Office, one by the Treasury, and three by the Lord Chancellor, so as to obtain an arbitration which will be considered fair by all parties. We shall be able before long 824 to settle the details of the reforms; but we could not lay any statement of them before Parliament at the present time.