INDIAN COUNCILS.
! OBJECTIONS LOSE FORCE. MOTION BY LORD MORLEY. REJECTION. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright-. (Received March 11, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 10th March. In the House of Lords, despite a telegram from the Government of India, to the effect that its former objections to Provincial Executive Councils no longer had the same force, and adding that the powers proposed under clausp 3 would be sparingly and gradually .used, Viscount Morley's motion on tha report stage, to restore the clause, was rejected. Lord Curzon urged the necessity for .-consulting the rulers and leading classes of India. Lord Curzon, formerly Viceroy of India, in the course of a letter to The Times a few days ago, pointed out that the Government of India was not refcponsible for the creation of the executive Provincial Councils. He dwelt on the magniture and importance of this change, and said' the proposal was due to the fact that Viscount Morley was acting on th& advice of the Decentralisation Commission. Lord Curzon supports the dictum of the late John (afterwards Baron) Lawrence, who was Viceroy from 1864 to 1868, that personal administration by a single head, without a Council, was the best form of Government for India.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1909, Page 7
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