§ MR. JASPER MORE (Shropshire, Ludlow)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will ascertain whether it is true that the United States and the German Governments have introduced Bills to put down gambling in fictitious wheat contracts; whether he is aware that the United States Sub-Committees Private Official Report to the Senate on agricultural depression gave gambling in wheat as one of the causes of the artificial fall in prices; whether he would cause copies of the Bills, if introduced, to be laid upon the Table of the House, or the Library of the House; whether they 545 had received any communication from the Governments of the United States, Russia, France, Germany, or any other European country, in reference to such legislation; and, whether they proposed to take any steps to co-operate with foreign Powers in regard to an understanding on this important international question?
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SIR E. GREY,) Northumberland, BerwickCopies of these Bills are not at present in the possession of Her Majesty's Government, but Her Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin and Washington are being instructed to obtain copies of them.
§ ADMIRAL E. FIELD (Sussex, Eastbourne)Will the hon. Baronet also oblige by obtaining a copy of a Bill which, I understand, has been introduced by the Belgian Government?
§ *SIR E. GREYYes, Sir, if the hon. Member will give me a reference to it.