HC Deb 28 November 1893 vol 18 c1911
MR. E. H. BAYLEY (Camberwell, N.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will ask the American Government to supply a sufficient number of the pamphlet on the Organisation and Methods of the United States Life Saving Service, by Sumner J. Kimball, General Superintendent of the Service, to supply a copy to each Member of this House?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFATRS (Sir E. GREY,) Northumberland, Berwick

A few copies have been obtained already, and one copy has been placed in the Library of the House of Commons and can be consulted there at any time. In order to supply copies to each Member it would be necessary to buy (if possible) about 700 copies, or else to ask the permission of the United States Government to reprint the work here. Unless there is a strong and general demand that this should be attempted, it would hardly be reasonable to make this addition to the great mass of Papers which are issued by the Foreign Office already.