§ SIR JOHN ROLLESTON (Leicester)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the large purchases of boots in India for the use of the British Army and of this encouragement of their manufacture and increasing exportation, and considering that the Government in 1894 placed import duties on all goods entering India, but imposed countervailing duties on cotton goods above a certain limit in the interests of Lancashire industries, he will also place a countervailing duty on boots and shoes manufactured in India, so that the British may trade on equa terms with the Indian manufacturer.
§ LORD G. HAMILTONI can hold out no hope of imposing such an Excise duty as is suggested.