§ Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire whether any responsibility rests upon the British directors of the Peruvian Amazon Company in respect of the atrocities in the Putumayo district; and whether any changes in the law are desirable to prevent the machinery of the Companies Acts being used in connection with similar practices in foreign countries.
§ Ordered, That the Committee do consist of fifteen Members.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of Mr. Carr-Gomm, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Hastings Duncan, Sir Thomas Esmonde, Mr. Douglas Hall, Mr. Joynson-Hicks, Sir Clement Hill, Mr. King, Mr. Swift MacNeill, Mr. Malcolm, Mr. Jowett, Mr. Charles Roberts, Lord Alexander Thynne, Mr. Wright, and Mr. William Young.
§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ That five be the quorum.—[Mr. Gulland.]