§ COLONEL SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if the Government of India has with his approval determined to levy a countervailing duly on the importation of Foreign bounty-fed sugar?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingA Bill, under which countervailing duties will be imposed upon all bounty-fed sugar imported into India, has, I believe, been introduced to-day, with my approval, into the Legislative Council at Calcutta.
§ MR. MACLEAN (Cardiff)May I ask the noble Lord whether this Bill has been introduced with his assent?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAI have already said so.
§ MR. MACLEANDoes the noble Lord intend to submit this change of policy to the House of Commons before it is carried into effect?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAI have more than once told my honourable Friend I have no intention of interfering with the independence of the local Legislature.
§ MR. MACLEANDoes the noble Lord remember how he interfered with that independence in the case of the cotton duties?