§ MR. T. R. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the decision conveyed in his Dispatch to the Government of India of 30th June, by which the ordinary expenses of the Indian troops at Suakin are to be borne by the Indian Exchequer, obtained the unanimous support of the Secretary of State's 663 Council; and, if not, what were the numbers and the names of those members of his Council who were opposed to that decision?
MR. CURZON (for Lord GEORGE HAMILTON)Seven members of the Council of India, irrespectively of the Secretary of State, voted in favour of the decision to which the hon. Member refers, and four members—namely, Sir Donald Stewart, Sir James Peile, Mr. Hardie, and Mr. Le Marchant—were opposed to it.