Plain Talk in Doncaster Speech: Simon Commission to Carry Out Mission Despite Obstacles New Dethi, Feb. 16, The Legislative Assembly was crowded to-day on the occasion of the debate on a motion by Mr. Lajpatrai of non-confidence in the constitution and scheme of the Indian Statutory Commission ed by Sir John Simon which is presont.in India on its first visit to inquire into the question of r2- forms, 'The public galleries also were packed, there being the keen est interest' in the result of the voting.
Mr, Lajpatrai, whose resolution pledged the Assembly to have nothing to do with the Commission in any shape or form, said that he did not believe in the British dona fides, The Commission's ignorance of In-Gian conditions, history and polities was its greatest disqualification. The Commissioners could only be the gramophones of bureaucracy and eventually the gramophones of the Secretary of State, Further more, the Indian problem was beyond the competence of any The speaker concluded by declar-{ng that the Nationalists were open to negotiations but refused to be victims of camouflage. "As long "the British ete! frame surrounds "he said, "it is impossible to achieve anything.
The session was adjourned owing to the sudden death of the Sind Non-Mohammedan Rural Member, Mr, Hahehandrai Vishindas, who although very ill came to ' Delhi from Karachi in response to an urgent Nationalist whip in order to vote against the Commission, He was being conveyed to the Hou nan ambulance-car when he died.
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