§ SIR W. WEDDERBURN (Banffshire)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the terms of the Reference to the Royal Commission on the Opium Traffic will confer on them power to inquire what reductions can be made in the expenditure of the Indian Government in India and in this country, so as to balance the Budget in the event of the loss or further large curtailment of the Opium Revenue?
§ MR. W. E. GLADSTONEThe question of expenditure is not included within the scope of the Commission, and, as I have previously stated, one Commission could not discharge the two functions.