§ MR. GOURLEY (Sunderland)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, When Her Majesty's Government intend placing upon the Table of the House all Correspondence relative to the Anglo-American Fisheries Treaty, recently arranged by the right hon. Member for West Birmingham (Mr. Chamberlain); whether, seeing that the United States Senate has rejected the Treaty, it is the intention of the Government to negotiate for a new Commission, and, in the meantime, owing to the divergence of legal opinion relative to the meaning of the Treaty of 1818, it is intended to suspend enforcing its provisions, as interpreted by the Government of Canada; and, whether he considers that the modus vivendi under the Treaty is still in force?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)Her Majesty's Government do not propose to publish the Papers, or to make any statement on the subject at present. The modus vivendi is still in operation.