The government of India, the Report states, should remain responsible
to the Imperial Parliament, but supreme in India. The Viceroy's Legislative Council should be replaced by a Council of State, partly-elected and partly nominated, with an official majority, and an Indian Legislative Assembly of a hundred members, two- -thirds of whom-should be elected and one-third nominated. Another -Indian member-should be added to the Viceroy's Executive Council. The Report proposes the creation of an. Indian Privy Council, and also of a Council of Princes to draw the Native States closer to British India. The Secretary of State's salary, it is added, should be defrayed from home revenues and voted annually by Parliament, which should appoint a Select Committee on Indian affairs each Session and a Commission of Inquiry every twelve years to review the working of the new system. We comment elsewhere upon this-Report.
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