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1 qt. Martell's XXX Brady..

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INDIA'S REFORMS.

DEBATE IN THE COMMONS ON THE COMMISSION.

OPPOSITION APPROVES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nev., 25th.

The House of Commons has un-

ment

animously approved of the appoint

of the Indian Statutory Commission as nominated by the Clovernment.

The Indian revenue will bear the cost of the Commission, but His Majesty's Government will con tribute £20,000, **

Mr. Baldwin declared that the Commission was the most effective cheme for a constitutional settle ment of the future of India, and the Government desired that the opinions of every man of goodwill should be given the fullest weight. by the comunission.

GOVERNMENT'S STATEMENT.

Parliament's Responsibility."

If, his contention were accepted. that the 'responsibility of Partia- ment was supreme, was it really contended that Parlament could not carry out its obligations un- der the Declaration of 1017, and [ its obligation under the Act of 1919 of surveying and reviewing the Indian situation, through the agency of the commission, and tak ing the necessary action 1

OIL FROM COAL.

GERMAN EXPÉRIMENTS.

MOTOR FUEL PRODUCT.

(THROCOR EEUTER'S AGENCY.]

With

It was absurd to say that a com

BERLIN, Nov. 26th. mission containing representatives

an expenditure of from carefully chosen from both Houses twenty to twenty-five million of Parliament, with a chairman pounds sterling, Germany would who was in the very centre of the be able within the next ten years front rank bath in Parliament and

to erect sufficiat, "coal refining in the legal profession, was not plant to produce two and a half an instrument whereby Parliament million tons of motor fuel which was able to discharge its respon- she requires annually, declared Dr. sibility.

Brueckmann, Director of the Ger- man Mineral Oil and Coal Utilisa Continuing, Earl Winterton said tion Company, lecturing at Berlin. was perfectly possible to be a He said that the estimate was policy, without abating one jot or of the Bergin process for recover realist in this matter of high based on the latest developments sympathy with, the ideals of laws on divan coal and the process was so advanced already as to make dians in public life. Were the it possible to extract twelve ent members of the House who were of motor fuel from a ton of coal. going to be members of this com miston less likely to be sympathethousand tons could work with a A plant with an output of fifty tie to the Moslem minority or the net profit of about fifty marks, millions of untouchables" than the Brahman or Hindu majority 1

one tittle of consideration for, or

Clearly, so, the committee of the central legislature and the com mittees of the provincial councils | would be more than mere witnesses. !! They would be able to prepare the case for further self-government as it appeared to them, and present (BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

it to the commission. They would be available for consultation with the commission, and would all be RUGBY, Nov. 25th! elected non-official members. He In the House of Commons to-day, refused to believe the Indians would Earl Winterton, the Under Seene formidable taak of revising and Parliament in the tary for India, moved the appoint reinforcing the constitutions of an ment of the Indiair Statutory Coan-empire within the Empire, which | mission.

India was.

not assist

·Labour Party's Support. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour, leader, supported the ap- pointment of the commission.

ton.

He said there were two points to consider. The first was that upon Parliament lay the responsibility and ultimate decision upon the issues to be raised by this enquiry He said the Labour Party's only - responsibility which it could concern was the relative status of not share, with, nor hand over to the commission and of the commit. any other country. The second | tes of the Indian legislature. It point was that the composition of had been suggested that an Indian the committee, and every detail of committee would be in the relation the method contemplated for its ship of interiority to the Statutory enquiry, formed one integral whole, Coumission. He urged that it. should be emphasised that there which stood or fell together.

no such sense of in- Earl Wintertan recalled the is would be

feriarity. cumstances under which the Mon- tagu-Chelmsford Act was passed

Mr. Ballwin, the Premier, wel- in 1019, with the assent of all par-comed the tone of the debate and ties in the House.

the general acceptance of the coin- Parliament would not be doing right, but mission. He added, "It may be as wrong, if it divested itself of well that I should say this. Let the responsibility by repudiating its Indians dismise from their minds duty under the Act.

any thought of inferiority. They There will be approached as friends and he thought, much falsified history regarding the situation which the equals But the responsibility of British found when first they went Parliament remains, and no pro to India, when they first assumed cedure which suggests that their responsibility be formally the responsibility of any part of shared with representatives of an that country. The British saved other parliament would really ad India at the time from going into a well of anarchy. When they a5 hive at beart Subject only to that vince the cause which the Indians sumed it as trustees for the present and for the future of the Indian Proviso, we identify ourselves with

the remarks of the leader of the| people, and specially as trustees for the various minorities in that Opposition."

country...

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The resolution was agreed to.

In the Declaration of 1917, and

Co-Operation Wanted. Proceeding, the Premier said that by the Act of 1919 which imple- mented, that declaration, the Gov- the fact there should have been any ernment of the day, on behalf of misunderstanding was particularly the people of this country, and with regrettable, because it had led to the support of all parties in the premature rejection of the proposal House, stated, they were prepared by distinguished" statesmen in gradually to hand

the India, who had worked and co- trusteeship to the Jadians them-operated with the Government dur selves, as and when they were in a ing some very difficult years since position to exercise it with due re- the reform first-come into, force. gard to the interests of all com- The Government regarded the cerned.

scheme as the most effective meats of satisfying the proper ambitions of such mea to take part in a settle- ment of the constitutional future of Ladia, and he took this oppor- tunity of assuring them that His Majesty's Government earnestly desired that their opinions, and the opinion of every man of goodwill, Indian or British, who had any thing to contribute to the very difficult problems of India's future, would be acceptable to the com mission and would be given the fulleet voice in the conclusions of the commission

Falacious Comparisons. Attempts had been made to draw a comparison between the condi- tions prevailing in India and the conditions prevailing in Southern Ireland, or Egypt. Anyone who had any knowledge of the three countries would know that such a comparison was profoundly fal lacious. Both Egypt and Southern Ireland were far more homogeneous than the great subcontinent of India had ever been.

He wanted to lay stress on one part of the scheme. When the com- mission had reported, but before Parliament was committed in any. way to its recommendations, or the Government had acted upon them,

.

With regard to the composition of the commission, Earl Winterton. pointed out that the Act of 1919 was silent on that point. It merely laid down that the members were to be selected with the concurrence of Parliament. Obviously it was very desirable that the commission the Government proposed that the should not be unwieldy in numbera question should be referred and that the members, differing in joint committee of Parliament, and gutlook towards Indian problems the Indian Legislature should have Arising from differences of opinion an opportunity, by means of a in their own political views, should delegation.of examining: the be moved by the same fundamental proposals and discussing them conceptions of the duties which the thoroughly with this joint com Act of 1010 imposed upon them, mittee. Would mixed commission satify that consideration !

The Indian people would in this way be given an opportunity of Referring to the proposal made in taking part in the framing of their some quarters that one or two reconstitution which had never been presentative Indians should be ap of any people in a similar position. given before in the whole history pointed on the commission Earl Winterton said no Indians or Europeans who knew India could for one moment suppose that In dian gentlemen, of whatever, posi- tion or intellectual attainments, could possibly represent all the various political, religious, racial and economic factors which went

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ENCOURAGING BREADTH

OF VISION.!!

(BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

Ruam, Nov. 28th. Commenting on the acceptanc

to make up British India. They of the Indian Statutory Com could do no more to aid the commissionBy all parties in the mission in its findings than would House of Commons the Tigies says: be done by their numerous fellow." The unnianity of the prin countrymen who would assist the cipal spokesmen and the general commission with evidence and tenor of their speeches showed advice

an encouraging breadth of vision

They 'could not do as much to and a strong senso of po casist the commission as would twal responsibility. Nothing could properly accredited representatives have been more antisfactory than of the Indian. legislature, who the signal proof that all parties in would have every opportunity of Parliament have Igreed to treat the presenting and emphasising their composition of the Statutory Com

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Commission To Leave In The Middle Of January.

As both Houses of Parliament have now signified approval of the pro- posed membership of the Statutory Commission, the formal appoint ment of this body, will follow-in due course and arrangements will be completed for the first of the Commission's two visits to India. It is understood, says the Daily Telegraph that Sir John Simora and his colleagues will leave for the East on or about January 19th, which means they will arrive in India early in February. Accord ing to the present programme they will leave for home about the end of March and will return to India

October next year. During their first visit the Commission will be expected to devote a considerable portion of time to investigating the actual working of the fegislative machinery and the methods of ad- ministration, and it is not unlikely that this will entail visiting one or two of provinces,

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