§ MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he will now publish the document containing propositions embracing preferential tariffs and the taxation on food, which was brought by him before the Cabinet held on the last day of the session of 1903, as an alternative to the document on Insular Free Trade which he has already caused to be published.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe hon. Member is under a perfect misapprehension on this matter. I have stated more than once—I think I have stated it outside the House, and I certainly have stated it inside the House—that there was no alternative document presented to the Cabinet; and, there being no document of the kind described, I do not know that I need deal further with the Question.