asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will cause inquiries to be instituted as to the organisation of the engineering, tobacco, and licensing trades, and thereafter call a conference of all interests in the cotton trade to consider the best means available to improve trade methods and conditions therein by suggestions based upon the organisation of these before-mentioned three trades?

If any such action were desirable it would be more appropriate, I suggest, for the interests concerned to take or initiate the necessary steps.