28th Session held in Karachi
The Twenty-eighth National
Congress met in Karachi ,
Sindh, on the 26th, 27th and 28th December,
1913. The Pavilion was dignified and well decorated, and each of the sixteen
gates was ornamented with a motto descriptive idea. The delegates were 550 in
numbers, distributed as follows:
U.P … … … … … 13
Behar … … … … … 4
Sindh (Reception
Committee)… … … 201
550
Some notable
figures were absent from the Congress. The heart-effection which killed him in
1915 kept Mr. Gokhale away, and Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, Mr. Surendarranath
Bannerji and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya were all absent.
The Hon. Mr.
Harchandrai Vishindas, the Chair-man of the Reception Committee, welcomed. The
President-elect and the delegates, and gave a short sketch of Sindh and its
special difficulties, such as its decinial revision Settlements and its
irrigation problem. He then turned to the various questions which lay before
the Congress for discussion, and finally called on the delegates formally to
elect the Hon. Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur as President. The proposal was moved
by Rao Bahadur R.N. Mudholkar, seconded by Rai Baikunthanath Sen, supported by
Mr. Gopaldas Jhamatmal and Pandit Rambhuj Dutt Choudhuri, and carried with
acclamation.
After speaking
of the necessity of the continued work of the Congress, he alluded to the
King-Emperor’s message on leaving India , and urged that the unity hoped
for by His Majesty should be sought, and that Muhammadans, Christians, Parsis,
and Hindus should advance together, rather than in separate groups. He noted
the rapprochement of Hindus and Musalmans, as shown by the hope expressed by
All-India Muslim League that the leaders on the both sides should meet periodically
“to find a modus operandi for joint and concerned action in questions of public
good“. He next spoke of the troubles of the Indians in South Africa , then reaching their Climax, and he
advised retaliatory measures against South Africans whites, such as shutting
out Natal coal,
and closing the door of the Civil Service against them. He then turned to the
India Council and the need for its radical reform; it must be only an advisory,
not an administrative body. He repeated the condemnation of the Regulations
which had spoiled the reforms, showed ho dilatory was the action of Government
with regard to Local Self-Government, emphasized the enormous importance of the
Primary and Technical Education, and the need of Permanent Settlement to
relieve the grave economic situation. The President alluded also to the Public
Service Commission then in India ,
and urged the granting to Indians of Commissions in the Army, Quoting some
recent remarks on the subject by Lord Minto in London , the previous year, relating his
efforts to bring it about. He then said a few words, fraught with deep emotion,
on “the subversion of the Ottaman power in Europe and the strangling of Persia ,”
and expressed the grief with which all the Muslims had felt the blow to their
Turkish brethren. He concluded with an earnest plea that Hindus and Musalmans
should clasp hands, and work for the motherland. “The tide of the National
Unity….by God’s Grace, will surely sweep away in its majestic onward course the
unnatural and artificial barriers of race, colour and religion”.
The President
resumed his seat amid loud applause.
The second day’s
work began with the moving from the Chair of Resolution I, regretting the
deaths of Mr. J.Ghosal and Mr. Justice P.R. Sundara Aiyar. It was passed
standing.
Resolution II,
dealing with the Indians in South
Africa , was moved by Dewan Bahadur L. A.
Govinda-raghava Aiyar, and seconded by Lala Lajpat Rai in Hindustani. It was
supported by six more speakers, who urged the arguments so familiar to us all,
and was carried.
The second day
began with the moving of Resolution III, the Separation of Judicial and
Executive Function, by Mr. C. P. Ramasami Aiyar, who quoted Sir Harvey
Adamson’s condemnation of a judge having the police organization at his back;
Mr. R. C. Dutt and Sir Pherozeshah Mehat had showed that the reform would not
entail extra expenditure. A re-distribution of functions among munsiffs,
magistrates and judges could be made without greater cost. Mr. K. C. Ganguli
seconded, complaining that the Congress had passed an annual resolution since
186, but the bureaucracy opposed it. Messrs. Lalchand Navalrai and Abdul Rahman
supported,and the resolution was carried.
Resolution IV
welcomed the adoption be the Muslim League of the ideal of Self-Government for India , and
declaration of the necessity of the harmonious co-operation, to be found by the
leaders deciding on joint concerted action. It was proposed by Mr.
Bhupendranath Basu, saying that Hindus and Muhammdans must concentrate their
attention on the one united ideal, for the India of to-day was not the India of
Hindu or the Muslim, nor of the Anglo-Indian, much less of the European, but
the India in which all had a share. “ If there have been misunderstanding in
the past, let us forget them.” If they were united, “the India of the future will be a stronger, nobler,
greater, higher, aye, and a brighter India
than was realized by Ashoka in the plentitude of his power, a better India
than was revealed to Akbar in the wildest of his visions ”.
Rao Bahadur R.
N. Mudholkar seconded, and said that the Congress and the League now stood on a
common platform, and could work together. Mr. Jehangir B. Petit said that many
had thought that if they did they would be a powerful instrument for good and a
force a force to be reckoned with. Mr. D. A. Khare said that Self-Government
would be won by the brotherhood of Hindu and Muslim. Mr. Mathradas Ramchand
further supported, and Mr. C. Gopala Menon welcomed the pronouncement of the
Muslim League as marking an important epoch in the history of Congress. Mr. D.
E. Wacha said that the Congress had entered on
a new Nativity and with the new Star they would achieve new success. The
Resolution was carried with great applause.
Resolution V was
on the Reform of the India Council. It was moved by Mr. M. A. Jinah, who
pointed out that the Council as composed of old official who had served in India , and non-official India had no
voice. The Secretary of State of India was responsible to nobody, and was a
greater Mughal than any Mughal who had ever ruled in India . Mr. N. M. Samarth seconded,
and said that secretary of State of India should be elected by Indians.
The Hon. Mr. Krishna Rao supported, and gave a short review of the changes that
had taken place in the constitution of the Council. The Resolution wad further supported
by Messrs. Gopaldas Jhamatmal and Surendarnath Malik, and carried.
The Congress
then adjourned.
On meeting for
the third session, the Congress took up a new question, the “continuous journey
clause” of the Canadians Privy Council Order, No. 920. the ingenuity of this
clause was that it forbade Indians to enter Canada
unless they had made a continuous journey from India , and they could not make a
continuous journey because there was no direct boat-servise and the Steamship Companies
refused through books. Hence it forbad the entry of any Indian to Canada , and
prevented any Indian already there from bringing his wife and family. [It as
this order which caused the chartering of the Kumagatu and the subsequent troubles.]
The Resolution
(VI) was moved by Sardar Nand Singg Sikra, who, himself a Singh, spoke for his
brethren in Canada , but
pointed out that all India suffered
in the suffering of Sikhs in Canada
and Indians in South Africa ,
and “we join hands as one United Nation, and with one heart and one voice we
condemn the Colonial atrocities”. The Chief Justice of British Columbia had
condemned as illegal the Federal Orders in Council, but that did not seem to
help them much. Grnrral Swayne had explained the real reason of the exclusion.
He said:
One of those
things that make the presence of East Indians here, or in any other white
Colony, politically inexpedient, is the familiarity they acquire with the whites,
the instance of which is given by the speedy elimination of caste in this
Province, as shown by the way all castes help each other. These men go back to India , and preach
ideas of emancipation, which, if brought about, would upset the machinery of
law and order. While this emancipation may be a good thing at some future date,
the present time is premature for the emancipation of caste.
Is then the
whole Empire is a conspiracy against Indian freedom, and is caste to be a
weapon in the hands of the bureaucracy to prevent her emancipation?
The Sardar Sahab
was on of the three delegates elected by the Canadian Sikhs on February 22nd,
1913, to go to the Congress and represent their grievances.
Mr. Krishna
Kumar Mitra seconded, remarking that it would be better for Canadians to say
openly that they would not admit Indians rather than pass sp cowardly a law.
Mr. Ayub Khan and Pandit Rambhuj Dutt Choudhri supported, and the Resolution was
carried.
Resolution VII
was on the Public Service Commission, and as very full, laying down the
grievances under which Indians suffered and suggesting changes. It was moved by
Rai Baikhunthanath Sen Bahadur, who remarked on the charges leveled by witness
before the Royal Commission against Indians; it was said they had defects in
moral character, and were lacking in physical in physical endurance,
administrative efficiency and power of initiative. He brought in rebuttal the
districts in East Bangal where there was anarchical disturbances, and while
those managed by British Civilians were kept quiet. He asked for the cases
where Indians had failed. Witness from English commercial houses naturally
preferred their own kith and kin and depreciated Indians.
The Hon. De.
Nilratan Sarkar seconded, and took the sound ground that Indians had a
birthright to serve their own country, and that non-Indians should be admitted only
hen necessary and for a short time. But in the Public Services,” the upper
branch is synonymous with Europeans, and the lower with Indian. This is as
indefensible in principle as it is mischievous in practice.” “We are to remain
content as a Nation of assistants.” He illustrated Indian efficiency with
various examples, and remarked that Dr. Pal Roy had no equal in India , “but he
is to remain all his life in the Provincial inferior Service”. Messrs. V. V.
Jogiah Pantulu and Mathradas Ramchand supported the Resolution and it was
carried.
Mr.
Bhupendranath Basu moved Resolution VIII, asking for the repeal of the Press
Act. He pointed out that in 1837, Sir Charles Metcalfe had liberated the Indian
Press; Lord Lytton replaced fetters in 1878 with his Vernaculara Press Act, but
Mr. Gladstone replaced it. When Sir Herbert Risley spoke in 1910 in favour of
introducing the present Press Act, he had destroyed several papers, such as the
Gugantar, and had said that in the 47 cases instituted by Government under the
old law of sedition, a conviction had been secured in every one. What more did
they want? The Law Member, ho certainly believed what he said, had laid stress on
the right of appeal to the High Court, but in a late case the High Court had
said that a forfeiture was invalid and illegal, but the High Court had no power
to interfere. So there was “a special la of a very drastic nature without any
safeguards,” and it was “a wet cloth on all expressions of public opinion“.
“Situated as the
Government of India is, foreign in its composition and aloof in its character,
that law is the source of great peril.” Mr. Dalvi, seconding, quoted Sir L.
Jenkins, the Chief Justice, in the Comrade case, who said that it is difficult
to see to what lengths the operation of these sections may not be plausibly
extended by an ingenious mind.
Mr. J.
Choudhuri, supporting, gave his own case as editor of a legal journal, the
Calcutta Weekly Notes. His printer and publisher died, and he had to find a new
one, and was running backwards and forwards between his office and the
Presidency Magistrate’s Court before his declaration was accepted. The C.I.D could
find nothing against the printer, except that his knowledge of English was not
as perfect as perfect as it might be! Sir Herbert Risley had said that the
Press Act would not affect existing papers, and that the administration of law
would not be in the hands of the Police. Both assurances were false. When a
declaration is made, the magistrate hands over the papers to the C.I.D, and the
Habul Matin, an Existing paper, was called on to furnished security.
Mr. Kishindas Jhamrai supposed
the Resolution, and it was carried.
Resolution IX, on the Permanent
Settlement, was moved by the Hon. A.S. Krishna Rao, seconded by Rao Bahadur
Hiranand Khemsing, supported by Mr. Mathradas Ramchand, and carried.
Then followed a series of
Resolution, put from the chair: X, Army Commission ; XI, Education (including a
protest against the veto by the Government of India of thee lecturers, Messrs.
Rasul, Subrvardi and Jayasal, on the ground of their connection with politics);
XII, High Courts; XIII, Swadeshi; XIV, Indentued Labour; XV, Local
self-Government, XVI, Council regulation; XVII, Executive Councils for U.P and Punjab; XVIII, authorizing the All-India
Congress Committee to arrange a deputation to England, to represent Indian
views on: (1) Indians in S.Africa and the colonies; (2) Press Act; (3) Reform
of the India Council: (4) Separation; XIX, Thanks to Sir William Wedderburn and
members of the British Committee. These Resolutions, put seriatim, were really
our old friend the Omnibus.
Resolution XX, was an expression
of deep regret at the retirement of Messrs. Wacha and Khare, from the office of
Secretaries, and thanks for their work. Rai Baikunthanath Sen Bahadur voiced
the gratitude of the Congress to the eminent veteran, who had acted for 18
years, with great self-denial and ability. Mr. Khare had worked well for 6
years. Mr. C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar seconded, saying that the greatness of the
Congress was largely due to the Secretaries. The Resolution was carried with
cheers, and then the Hon. Mr. Harchandrai Vichindas proposed and Mr D. G. Dalvi
seconded the election of the Hon. Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur and Mr. N. Subha
Rao Pantulu as General Secretaries for the ensuring years. Carried.
Mr. N. Subha Rao invited the
Congress to Madras ,
and Resolution XXII decided the acceptance.
The vote of thanks to the Chair was
moved by Mr. Ghulamali G. Chayla, seconded by Mr. Bhupendranath Basu, supported
by Mr. Lakamal Chellaram and Mir Ayab Khan, and carried by acclamation. The
President’s brief reply closed the proceeding, and the Twenty-eighth National
Congress dissolved.
RESOLUTIONS
I.
Resolution-That this Congress desires
to place on record its sense of the great loss sustained by the country by the
death of Mr. J. Ghosal, who was a staunch worker in the Congress cause, and Mr.
Justice P. R. Sundara Aiyer.
Indians in South
Africa and Canada
II.
Resolved-(a) That this Congress
enters its emphatic protest against the provisions of the Immigration Act in
that they violet the promises made my Ministers of the South Africans Union,
and respectfully urges the Crown to veto the Act and requests the Imperial and
Indian Governments to adopt such measures as would ensure to the Indians in
South Africa just and honourable treatment.
(b) That this
Congress expresses its abhorrence of the cruel treatment to which Indians were
subjected in Natal in the recent strikes, and entirely disapproves of the
personnel of the Committee appointed by the South African Union to acquire into
the matter, as two of its members are already known to be biased against
confidence of Indians in South Africa and here.
(c) That this
Congress tenders its most respectful thanks to His Excellence the Viceroy for
his statesmanlike pronounce of the policy of the Government of India on the
South African questions.
(d) That this
Congress requests to Imperial and Indian Governments to take the steps needed
to redress the grievance relating to the questions of the $3 tax, indentured
labour, domicile, the Educational test, validity of Indian Marriages, and other
questions bearing on the status of Indians in South Africa.
(e) That this
Congress expresses its warm and grateful appreciation of the heroic struggle
carried on by Mr. Gandhi and his co-workers, and calls upon the people of this
country of all classes and creeds to continue to supply them with funds.
VI.
Resolved-That this Congress strongly protests against prohibition of
immigration, resulting from operation of the Canadian Privy Council Order No.
920, generally known as the “Continuous Journey Clause, ” as the order in
question has practically the effect of preventing any Indian, not already
settled there, from going to Canada, inasmuch as there is no direct steamship
service between the two Countries, and the steamship companies refuse through
booking, and further subjects the present Indian Settlers in Canada to great
hardship by precluding them from bringing over their wives and children. This
Congress, therefore, urges upon the Imperial Government the necessity of
securing the repeal of the said Continuous Journey Regulation.
Legal
Separation of
Judicial and Executive Functions
III.
Resolved-That this Congress,
concurring with previous Congresses, urges the early Separation the Judicial
from Executive Functions in the best interests of the Empire and prays that any
scheme of Separation that may be undertaken to be really effective must place
all judiciary solely under the control of the highest Court in every Province.
High Courts
XI.
Resolved-That this Congress is strongly of opinion that all the High Courts of
India, Inclusive of non-chartered High Courts, should have the same direct
relation with the Government of India alone, as the High Court of Fort William
in Bengal has at the present time. The
Congress is, further, of opinion that the
Chief Judge of unchartered High Courts should be appointed from the members of the bar.
Chief Judge of unchartered High Courts should be appointed from the members of the bar.
[See VII c,3.]
IV.
Resolved-That this Congress places on
record its warm appreciation of the adoption by the All-India Muslim League of
the ideal of Self-Government for India within the British Empire, and expresses
its complete accord with the belief that the league has so emphatically
declared at its last sessions that the political future of the country depends
on the harmonious working and co-operation of the various Communities in the
country which has been the cherished ideal of the Congress. This Congress most heartily
welcomes the hope expressed by the league that the leaders of the different
communities will make every Endeavour to find a modus operandi for joint and
concreted action on the questions of national good and earnestly appeals to all
the sections of the people to help the object we all have at heart.
V.
Resolved-That this Congress is of opinion
that the Council of the Secretary of State of India, as a present constituted,
should be abolished, and ,makes the following suggestions for its
reconstructions:
(a)
That the salary of the Secretary State
of India
(b)
That with the view to the efficiency and
independence of the Council, it is expedient that it should be partly nominated
and party elected.
(c)
That the total number of members of the
Council should not be less than nine.
(d)
That the elected portion of the Council
should consist of not less than one-third of the total number of members, who
should be non-official Indians chosen by the constituency consisting of the
elected members of the Imperial and Provincial Legislative Councils.
(e)
That not less than one-half of the
nominated portion of the Council should consist of public men of merit and
ability unconnected with the Indian administration.
(f)
That the remaining portion of the
nominated Council should consist of official who have served in India for not
less than 10 years and have not been away from India for more than two years.
(g)
That the character of the Council should
be advisory and not administration.
(h)
That the term of office of each member
should be five years.
Public Service
VII. Resolved—(a) That this Congress
place on record its indignant protest against, and emphatically repudiates, as
utterly unfounded, the charges of general incompetence, lack of initiative,
lack of character, etc., which some of the witness, among whom this congress
notices with regret some of the highest administrative officers, have freely
leveled at Indians as a people.
(b)
That this Congress begs to express its earnest hope that the Royal
Commissioners will, alike on grounds of justice, national progress, economy,
efficiency and even expediency, see fit to make recommendations which will have
the certain effect of largely increasing the present very inadequate proportion
of Indians in the high appointments in the Public Services of their own country;
thus redeeming the solemn pledge contained in the Character Act of 1833 and the
Royal Proclamation of 1858.
(c)
In particular, this Congress places on record its deep conviction:
(1)
That justice can never be done to the
claim of the people of this country unless the examinations for the recruitment
of the superior offices of the various Services be held in India as well as in England
(2)
That the age limit in the case of
candidates for the Indian Civil Service should not be lowered, as such a step
will operate to the disadvantage of Indian candidates as well as prove
detrimental to efficiency ;
(3)
That the Judicial and Executive Services
and Functions should be completely separated and the Judicial Services
recruited from the legal profession and placed in subordination to the High
Court instead of to the Executive Government ;
(4)
That such restrictions as exist at present
against the appointment of persons other than members of the Indian Civil
Service to certain high offices be removed ;
(5)
That any rule or order which, in terms or in
effect, operates as a bar against the appointment of Indian as such to any
office under the Crown for which the may otherwise be eligible, should be
rescinded as opposed to the Act and the Proclamation hereinbefore mentioned ;
(6)
That the division of Services into
Imperial and Provincial be abolished and the conditions of Services be equalized
as between Indians and Europeans, and that in case the division be maintained,
the recruitment of the Executive branch of the Provincial Civil Service be made
by means of an open competitive examination instead of by nomination ;
(7)
That in case the said division be
maintained, the Indian Educational and other Services be recruited in India as
well as England, and Indians of the requisite attainments be appointed thereto
both directly and by promotion from the respective Provincial Services ;
(8)
That civil medical posts should not be filled by the
appointment of members of the Military I.M.S or I.S.M.D., and a distinct and
separate Indian Civil Medical Service should be constituted therefore and
recruited by means of a competitive examination held in India as well as
England ; educational and scientific appointments, however, being filled by
advertisement in India and abroad ;
(9)
That the present scale of salaries is
sufficiently high and should not be raised, and further, that exchange
compensation allowance should be abolished, as it has been a costly anomaly
since exchange was fixed by statute ; and
(10)
That the people of those dominions of the
Crown, where they are not accorded the rights of British citizens should be
declared ineligible for appointments in India
Coercion
Press
VII.
Resolved-That this Congress reiterates its protest against the continuation of
the Indian Press Acton the Statute Book, and urges that the same be repealed,
specially, in view of the recent decision of the High Court of Calcutta, which
declares that the safeguards provided by the Act are illusory and incapable of
being enforced.
Permanent Settlement
IX.
Resolved-That this Congress is strongly of opinion that a reasonable and
definite limitation to the demand of the State on land and a introduction of a
permanent Settlement directly between Government and Land-holders in
ryotwari-areas or a settlement for a period of not less than 60 years in those
Provinces where shorter periodical settlement revision prevail will
substantially help in ameliorating the present unsatisfactory conditions of the
Agricultural population.
Military
X. Resolved-That
this Congress again respectfully points out to the Government of the India the
injustice of keeping the higher ranks in the Army closed against the people of
this country, and urges that the same should remain no longer unredressed.
[And see VII
c.S]
Education
XI.
Resolved-(a)That this Congress, while thanking the Government of India for its
donation of larger grants towards the extension of Primary Education in India,
is of opinion that a beginning should now be made for introducing Free and
Compulsory Education in some selected areas.
(b) That the
Congress, while approving of Proposals by Government for introducing teaching
and residential Universities, is strongly of opinion that that system should be
supplement, and not replace, the existing system of University Education among
the poorer classes will be seriously retarded.
(c) That this
Congress reiterates its prayer to Government to make adequate provision for
imparting Industrial and Technical Education in different Provinces, having
regard to the local requirements.
(d) That this
Congress records the strong protest against the action of the Government of
India vetoing the selection by the Calcutta University of Messrs. Rasul,
Suhravardi and Jayaswal, as the Lectures on the ground of their connection with
politics; as the bar of politics is so general as to lend it self to arbitrary
exclusion of the best scholarship from the lecturer’s chair, so detrimental to
the interest of Education in the country.
Swadeshi
XIII.
Resolved-That this Congress accords its most cordial support to the Swadeshi
Movement, and calls upon the people of India to Labour for its success, by
making earnest and sustained efforts to promote the growth of indigenous
industries by giving preference, wherever practicalable, to Indian products
over imported commodities, even at a sacrifice.
Indentured Labour
XIV.
Resolved-That owing to the scarcity of labour in India, and the grave results
from the system of Indentured Labour, which reduces the Labourers, during the
period of their indenture, practically to the position of slaves, this Congress
strongly urges the total prohibition of recruitment of labour under indenture,
either for work in India or elsewhere.
Representation
XV.
Resolved-That this Congress expresses its regret that the recommendations of
the Decentralization Commission, with regard to the further development of
Local Self-Government, have not yet been given effect to, and urges that the
Government of India may be pleased to take steps, without delay, to increase
the powers and resources of Local Bodies.
XVI.
Resolved-That this Congress records its sense of keen disappointment that at
the last revision of the Legislative Council Regulations, the anomalies and
inequalities, rectification of which the four previous Congress strongly urged
upon the Government, were not removed. And in order to allay the widespread
dissatisfaction caused by the defects complained of, and in vies of the
experience of last four years, this Congress earnestly pays that-
(1) there should
be a non-official majority in the Imperial Legislative Council;
(2) there should
be a majority of elected members in all Provincial Council;
(3) the system
of voting for delegates be done away with, where it still exists;
(4) the
franchise be broadened by simplifying the qualifications of the electors,
basing it on education, property or income’
(5) the
Government should not have the power arbitrarily to declare any person
ineligible for election on the ground of his antecedents or reputations;
(6) no person
should be held ineligible for election on the ground of dismissal from
Government Service, or of conviction in a criminal court or from whom security
for keeping the peace has been taken, unless his conduct involved moral
turpitude;
(7) no property or residential
qualification should be required of a candidate, nor service as member of a
local body;
(8) a person
ignorant of English should be held ineligible for membership;
(9) it should be
expressly laid down officials should not be allowed to influence elections in
any way;
(10) Finance
committees of Provincial Councils should be more closely associated with
Government in the preparation of Annual Financial Statements;
(11) there
should be finance committee of the Imperial Legislative Council as in the case
of Provincial Legislative Councils;
(12) the right
of putting supplementary questions should be extended to all members and not to
be restricted to the member putting the original question;
(13) the
strength of the Punjab Council be raised from 26 to 50, and more adequate
representation be allowed to the Punjab in the
Imperial Council.
As further, this Congress, while
recognizing the necessity of providing for a fair and adequate representation
in the Legislative Councils for the Muhammadans or the other communities where
they are in a minority, disapproves of the present regulations to carry out
this object by means of separate electorates.
XVII. Resolved-
That the Congress that urges that an Executive Council, with an Indian member,
be established in the United Provinces at any early date, and is of opinion,
that a similar Council should be established in Punjab too.
Deputation to England
XVIII. Resolved-
That the All-India Congress Committee be authorized to arrange for a
Deputation, consisting as far as possible, of representatives from different
Province, to England, to represent Indian views on the following subjects:
(1)
Indian in South Africa
(2)
Press Act;
(3)
Reform of the Indian Council;
(4)
Separation of Judicial and Executive
Functions;
(5)
And important questions on which Congress
have expressed opinion.
Thanks of Congress
XIX. Resolved-
That this Congress record its sense of high appreciation of the services of Sir
William Wedderburn and other members of British Committee, and resolves that
the organization of British Committee and India should be maintained.
[See II c, XI a,
XX]
Retirement of General Secretaries
XX. Resolved-
That this Congress expressed its sense of deep regret at the retirement of Mr.
D. E. Wacha and Mr. D. A. Kahre, from the office of its General Secretaries,
and begs to place on record its sense of warm appreciation of the very signal
and distinguished Services under rendered by the former for 18 years, and the
latter for 6 years, to the cause of the Congress.
Formal
XXI. Resolved- That the Hon. Nawab Syed
Muhammad Bahadur and Mr. N. Subba Rao Pantulu be appointed General, Secretaries
for the next year.
XXII. Resolved-
That the Congress of the year 1914 be held in the Province of Madras
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