§ MR. BRADLAUGHI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India (1) whether he has received copies of the resolutions passed at the Indian National Congress held at Allahabad in December 1888, embodying a tentative scheme of election of a moiety of members of legislative councils; and (2) whether be will lay the same upon the Table, together with such portions of the despatch from the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, relating to the reform of the legislative councils in India, as contain proposals, suggestions, and observations on the modifications in the existing system?
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Sir J. GORST,) Chathamanswered the first question in the negative, and, as regards the second said that no Papers on the constitution and functions of the legislative councils in India could, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, be at present laid upon the Table with advantage to the Public Service.
§ MR. BRADLAUGHCan they be laid upon the Table before the Indian question comes on for discussion in this House?
§ *SIR J. GORSTI am afraid that I Cannot name any day when the papers will be laid on the Table.