By the casting vole of the President, the Legislative Assembly to-day rejected the bill, sponsored by a mem= ber of the Indian National Congress, proposing the repeal of the Criminal Law Act of 1908 and authorizing the Government to declare any asso-lation unlawful, Congress members had promised the electorate to secure the repeal of the Act.
The issue was thus regarded as 2 trial of strength between the Government and the Congress, Sixty-six voted on each side, whereupon the President voted against the bill amid oficial cheers.—Reuter.
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