§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanark, N.W.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if, at the Berlin Conference, the British Delegate will be empowered to discuss the question of the international limitation of the hours of labour in mines, inasmuch as the subject is specially mentioned in the German Emperor's Rescript?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH, Strand, Westminster)The reply of Her Majesty's Government to the invitation to a Conference accompanying the programme placed before them by the German Government will be laid before Parliament as soon as it has been received by the German Government. Until then it would not be usual to state what the purport of that reply will be, or what instructions will be given to the British Delegates.