§ MR. HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to the resolution passed on the 11th inst by the United States Senate, calling on the President to negotiate for securing the modification of the present rules regarding the importation of American cattle into the United Kingdom; and if Her Majesty's Government will, in the declared absence of any other commercial lever for the reduction of hostile tariffs, require that the modification by America of the proposed prohibitive duties upon the products of the United Kingdom shall be a condition precedent to any negotiations whatever?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUS-SON,) Manchester, N.E.Restrictions upon the importation of cattle into the United Kingdom are based solely upon sanitary considerations, and have no regard to the fiscal system adopted by other countries.