Lord Salisbury maintained that the Government were going too far and oe fast, and that there were large numbers of people in India who would disapprove of the Committee's majority report when they understood its implications.
In the House of Commons, a Lanour amendment to the Gover ment resolution was moved to the Jeffect that provision should be made for the recognition of the-right of India to Dominion status and for its attainment by progressive development and expansion of responsible government and for placing in the hands of the Indian masses the possibility of obtaining political Power by constitutional means, Mr. F. S. Cocks, who moved the amendment, urged the House to remember that the goodwill of the Indian peoples was the strongest safeguard. He said the Labour Party wished to sweep away~ all" second Jchambers in India. In the Lower Chamber, ten per cent. of the seats should be eliotted to Labour so that they could work for the elimination! the
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