London, Feb. 28.
By 283 votes to 89, the House of Commons to-day rejected a motion submitted by Mr. Winston Churchill to adjourn the debate on the Government of India Bill, of which he La. one of the bitterest' opponents in Parliament.
"The motion was based on the resolution adopted at the conference of princes in Bombay on Monday, to the effect that the Government of India Bill and the instrument of accession could not. in their present form, be regarded as acceptable to the indian States.
When the House resumed considera~ Yon of the bill in committee this afternoon, Mr. Churchill moved a journment in order to call attention to the resolution which, he declared, constituted a definite rejection of the proposed all-India federation and created a new political situation so far as the future of the Bill. was concerned.
Federation Scheme "Dead Mr. Winston Churenitt Churchill said that the question of the accession of the princes twas {he foundation of the "whole Bally tnt expressed the. view that the scheme for a federation was now dead, Sheers greeted "the Secretary of tate for India when he ose to reply. After saying he welcomed the opportunity to remove misunderstanding, Sir samuel" Hoare declared "that there were only" points of detail be= tween the princer and the "Govern ment Tt as not surprising, he declared, that such "misunderstandings should rset dealing with such. complex Questions: when the. principals were ton mile apart He refused to accept the sugrestion" that the Government had tone bck on agreements made with repre= Sontatives of the princes. It by tls-Shanee, there ad been failure Granting the HI to carry out thew Undertakings, he "wontd ye they wore futed.
had No reason to suppose that tne princes lid altered their concep Uon'ot what an aliindia federation Should be, buts if they had done 99, the soonct everybody knew the pos Mon the. better would be for all partes concerned.
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