§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that considerable dissatisfaction still exists among officers of the Indian Staff Corps 57 in consequence of their suppression by the line; whether he is aware that the concession of temporary rank to commandants and seconds in command of native regiments does not appreciably prevent their suppression by the line (seeing that officers having permanent rank take precedence of all those serving with them having temporary rank of the I same grade), while it creates wholesale suppression among staff corps officers themselves; and, whether he will ask the War Office to reconsider the decision arrived at last year, so as to meet the views expressed by Lord Lansdowne, on; behalf of the Government of India, as shown in the Return presented to this House last Session, entitled East India (Staff Corps Officers)?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORCE HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingNo further representation from the Government Of India has been received on the subject to which my hon. Friend refers, and in the absence of any such representation, I do not propose to reopen the question.