COUNCIL OF INDIA BILL.
(Received July.Bth; 10.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 8. The House of Lords rejected th© Council of India Bill by 96 votes io 38.* Tho Bill was designed to reorganise the Council at Whitehall, and to mako tho appointment, of two Indian membors a statutory: obligation. ; Tho chief objection to the measure was grounded on the contention that to change the Council from an Advisory Board to an administrativ© body bestowed autocratic power on th© "Secretary .of Stat© for India.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15015, 9 July 1914, Page 7
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