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Dr. JAMESON : That is the whole of it. 1 would like it put to the Conference. Sir JOSEPH WARD : I will support that. Mr. F R. MOOR : I support it. CHAIRMAN ; Do you support it, General Botha ? General BOTHA : No, I do not support it. Sir ROBERT BOND : Yes, I support it. CHAIRMAN : We do not; we dissent from it. Mr. ASQUITH : Sir Wilfrid Laurier is not here. CHAIRMAN : That will be recorded. Those are all the resolutions. Mr. DEAKIN : There are the subsidiary motions. I do not know if you would pass the others without discussion. Our resolution is : " That " the Imperial Government be requested to prepare for the information of " Colonial Governments, statements showing the privileges conferred, and " the obligations imposed on the Colonies by existing commercial treaties, " and that inquiries'be instituted in connection with the revision proposed in " Resolution No. 5, to ascertain how far it is possible to make those obhga- " tions and benefits uniform through the Empire." It only asks for information and inquiries as to all commercial treaties. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : We cannot answer you that on the spur of the moment. CHAIRMAN : We will do to-morrow such other business as I can arrange. Adjourned to to-morrow at 10.30 o'clock.

Twelfth Day. 7 May 1907.

Preferential Trade.

Resolution IX., v. viii.