HC Deb 05 March 1903 vol 118 cc1575-6
MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he will consider the propriety of assimilating the practice in England to the practice in the United States of America, where the opinions of the Attorney General, as legal adviser to the Executive, are published officially.

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

I see no reason for varying the long and well-established practice which obtains in this country in this matter.

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

But having regard to the fact that the American Attorney General gets a salary twenty times less than the English Attorney General—

*MR. SPEAKER

Order, order!