§ MR. LUNDON (Limerick E.)On behalf of the hon. Member for the St. Patrick Division of Dublin, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the fact that India in future will have to pay £786,000 annually for military charges which Lord Curzon has stated that the Government of India has not asked for and does not approve; and, seeing that this increased expenditure arises as a result of the South African War, and that the protest of the government of India, contained in Lord Curzon's telegram of March, 1902, was not submitted to the arbitrator, whether the case of the Indian taxpayers will be re-considered
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONI am aware of the fact stated in the first clause of the Question, but I am unable to accept the hon. Member's views as to the cause which has made the increased expenditure necessary. The statement in the last clause of the sentence is incorrect. The Viceroy's telegram of the 8th of March was included among the papers submitted to the Lord Chief Justice.