§ MR. STEPHENS (Middlesex, Hornsey)asked the President of the Board of Trade, with regard to the bounties on the exportation of live cattle and preserved beef and mutton from the Argentine Republic, Whether, for reasons and objects similar to those which prompted his intervention on behalf of the sugar industry, he proposes any action to relieve the struggling and depressed agricultural industry from the effects of foreign bounties?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)This is, doubtless, an important subject, and I have already given directions for the latest information with regard to it to be collected, with the intention of submitting it to the Agricultural Department and the Foreign Office, by whom it would be properly considered. But I may remind the hon. Member that the circumstances are by no means the same as existed in the case of the sugar bounties, and that the bounty given by the Argentine Republic is a very small one, amounting to about 1s. per cwt. of meat.