HC Deb 08 May 1893 vol 12 c331
MR. MACFARLANE (Argyll)

I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will reconsider the proposal to charge the cost of bringing Native Indian troops to this country to form part of a London pageant to the Revenues of India, and charge the amount to the British taxpayer?

SIR W. HARCOURT

My hon. Friend should address this question to the India Office. I have no cognisance of it. It has not been brought to the notice of the Treasury at all.

MR. MACFARLANE

Has no Correspondence passed between the India Office and the Treasury on the subject?

SIR W. HARCOURT

I am informed not.

MR. MACFARLANE

Then I beg to give notice that I will call attention to this matter in Committee of Supply, and move the reduction of the right hon. Gentleman's salary by the amount, leaving him his remedy against the Secretary of State for India.