§ MR. J. R. MACDONALD (Leicester)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Papers promised to be laid upon the Table upon the administration of the Congo State will contain a copy of the Report of the recent Commission of Inquiry, and of such of the evidence produced before the Commissioners as may be in the possession of His Majesty's Government; and whether he can state when these Papers may be expected.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYIt seems unnecessary to reprint as a Parliamentary Paper the whole Report, which has already been published, and the only reports of evidence produced before the Commissioners which have reached His Majesty's Government have already appeared in the public Press. But copies of the Report of the Commission will be sent to the Library.
§ * SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)Are you not going to ask for the evidence?
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI understand the Congo Government are not publishing that. I will inquire, however.
§ * SIR CHARLES DILKEThey came-very near to promising to publish it.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI will inquire.