'A Malcontent's Open Admission in Asserably: Challenge of Alleged Mandate Delhi, Mar. 17.
During the discussion of the Bill in the Legislative the It tax to one rupee spite of Sir Basil Biacketts warning that. the lose in involved would mean ridenment of relief to the provinees or certification of the unreduced tax.
Several Indian. members opposed the reduction of the tax on petrol by two annas a gallon, on the ground that it would benefit the rich man, but the reduction was} carried by 50 votes to 38.
The Swarajist motion reducing the postal rates was rejected by 5% votes to 52, after the Director-General of Posts had pointed on: that the reduction would involve heavy deficit, Mar. 18, The Legislative Assembly to-day by 75 votes to 40 carried the Fin-Jance Bill, the only change being a reduction of the salt duty by four faunas. The by the majority of the people.
Sir Alexander Muddiman, a me ler of the Executive " Counc! severely reproved an Indian member for alluding to the Government fas "the devil's Government.
Mr. Mahomed Ah Jinnah had a brisk' dud with Pundit Motil Nehru, who declared that he intend-fed to obstruct and wreck the Gov-fernment. Mr, Mahomed Ah Jinnah argued that the country could not make the Government's position impossible while the Indians them-mized and power.
He challenged Pundit Motilal Nehru's statement that the [Swarajists had a mandate from
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