The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-21
SELF GOVERNMENT
SOON FOR INDIA
LIMITED HOME RULE is PROJECT
UNDER WAY


Service) -Eventually to set up in
India responsible self government is
the avowed purpose of the plan Of
limited home rule for that country
which has been prepared for submis-
sion to the British Parliament by Ed
win s. Montagu, Secretary for India,
and Baron Chelmsford, Viceroy and
Governor General If India
Before this goal Of selfgovernment
can be attained, however, the authors
Of the new plan say the Indian people
should have period of training. They
VOW that the proposed scheme of gov
eminent is a temporary expedient in
tended to provide method Of trains
ing in government and say the ulti
mate attainment Of the desired goal
depends upon the Indian people them
selves. at would not be fair to give it
to them until they fulfill the neves-
sary conditions" say the Secretary
Tor India and the Viceroy.
lushh rdlu shrlcmfwyp shrdlu etaoi
The report has been made public
by the government for purposes of
discussion and criticism. 1t has not
been definitely adopted n all is de-
tails by the War Cabinet.
Leading up to description of their
new plan, the official announcement
says that declarations Of both our
own and American statesmen con-
corning the liberalizing of the aims
of the Allies have given new force and
vitality to the growing demand among
the progressive section of the Qndian)
people for sel-government.
The Viceroy and Secretary Of In
dla propose that the new government
in India shall be composed Of the fol-
lowing:
Provivial legislatures to be compos-
ed Of directly elected representatives
A Viceregal Legislature for all In
dia to be composed of two chambers
the Legislative Assembly of India and
the Council of State.
The Indian Privy Council, members
Of which are to be appointed by the
King Emperor.
A Council Of Princes
According to the official announce
ment Of the provisions of the scheme
an increasing degree of responsibility
is to be Ven to the provinces. They
1 are to have~the largest measure of in
DEPENDENCE compatible with the
authority Of the Viceregal legislature
Certain subjects are to be reserved
for action by the Executive Council
of these provinces, excluding Burma
These Executive Councils will consist
! of the governor and two members, one
OF them to be an Indian.
"Devolution," says the official an
| nouncement, sis to take the form of
giving responsibility in certain sub
1ects, to be known as transferred sub,
1ects, to the provincial Legislative
I Council which will have a substantial
| number of elected members to be
! chosen on as broad franchise as pos
sible."
The Viceregal Legislature of all
India will be composed of two cham
bers-the Legislative Assembly Of In
dia and the Council of, State The AS
| sembly is to have a membership to
! 100 More than half thirty-six of the
members of the present Legislative
Council are nominated by the Cover
nor-General but under the new plan
this official majority would disappear
and two-thirds of the 100 members of
the Assembly would be elective. The
remaining one-third would be nomin-
ated by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
1he beCOHu CAdluUeI, VI COunCll VI
State, is intended to "develope some
thing of the experience and dignity
of body of elder statesmen. 1t is to
be the final legislative authority in
matters which the government re-
CARDS as essential. Besides the Gov
ernor-General 1t will consist of fifty
members, of whom twenty-nine are
to nominated and twenty-one elected.