§ MR. SMEATON (Stirlingshire)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether in appointing the members of the Royal Commission on Vivisection he will make sure that both sides of the question are fairly and, as far as possible, equally represented, and that if any pronounced vivisectionist of the medical profession, who has practiced 69 vivisection, is appointed, an equally pronounced anti-vivisectionist member of the profession shall also be appointed, in order that the evidence to be laid before the Commission may be fairly sifted.
§ *MR. GLADSTONEIn my recommendation to His Majesty I shall endeavour so to constitute the Royal Commission as to secure the fair and unprejudiced consideration of the whole question.