§ SIR G. BADEN-POWELLI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any negotiations or correspondence were entered into or carried on with the Government of the United States with a view to that "direct agreement between India and the United States," in reference to the silver question which is spoken of in the Despatch of the Government of India to the Secretary of State for India of the 21st June, 1892 (No. 160); and, if so, whether he can lay upon the Table any Papers indicating the nature of the negotiations or the correspondence?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. G. RUSSELL, North Beds.)No such negotiations were carried on. The Delegates of the United States at the International Monetary Conference pressed for an International agreement; but none had been, or seemed likely to be, arrived at when the Conference adjourned; and the position of the Government of India rendered further delay highly inadvisable.