§ MR. BELL (Derby)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade whether he is aware that it is the custom on the North British Railway system in Peebles-shire to enter the cottages of the surfacemen in the names of the wives, and thereby to deprive the men of the franchise; and, if so, whether he will use his good offices with the board of the North British Railway Company to remedy this state of affairs.
(Answered by Mr. Bonar Law.) I have no knowledge of the arrangements to which reference is made, and the matter is not one in which the Board of Trade could intervene.