§ LORD EDMUND FITZMAURICE (Wiltshire, Cricklade)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign 638 Affairs if it is proposed to bring to the notice of the signatories of the Berlin Act of 1884–5 the desirability of now constituting the River Commission for the control of the navigation of the Congo, which it was contemplated should be formed under the provisions of that Act.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord CRANBORNE,) RochesterNo complaints have reached His Majesty's Government as to any difficulties in connection with the navigation of the Congo; there would seem, therefore, to be no good reason for raising the question of the desirability of constituting the River Commission alluded to by the noble Lord.