Self Government to Come When Provinces Show Good-will Delhi, Feb, 18, The Council of State to-lay re-Jected without a division the resolution of the Bombay industrial mag-rate, Mr. Pheroze Sethna, for the immediate appointment of! a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the Constitution and formulate a scheme of responsible government.
Swarajist amendment, which Sir Alexander Muddiman, the Home member, described as a demand for immediate and complete responsible government was rejected, Sir Alexander Muddiman, opposing the amendment, said that, while the Government believed the atm phere had changed, it had not improved to the extent of causing the Government to change its decision anjiounced last September. Reforms were still not working in two pro vinees, though they wore working in a spirit of goodwill in the rest of the provinees, When unambiguous evidence of goodwill was forthcoming, the day which India had heart would be near, but the proper atmosphere would not be created by calling reforms camouflage, forming conspiracy societies, or opposing excential measures of administra-
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