§ SIR JOHN SIMON (Dewsbury)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the subject of protection in Morocco will be one of the subjects for consideration at the proposed Conference at Madrid, and how is it proposed to deal with it; will it be discontinued entirely, or only modified; and, if it is to be discontinued, what will be substituted for it on behalf of those in whose favour it has hitherto existed?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N. E.)The request of the Moorish Government for a modification of existing Treaty stipulations in regard to foreign protection will be considered in the approaching Conference. No preliminary decision has been come to respecting the abolition or modification of such protectorates; and no opinion can now be given upon the measures which might be expedient in an altered state of circumstances, until the proposals of the Conference have been made upon the case to be submitted to them.