Council of State Debates Tuesday 26th September 1922 Official Report

The HONOURABLE THE PRESIDENT : I am sure that the motion made by the Leader of the House will commend itself to the acceptance of the House. [...] The third point is that the protection which was given under the Press Act of 1910 must have been given in pursuance of those pledges and the last point is that even when the doom of the Press Act was prnounced the Government still thought that the Princes were entitled to retain protection. [...] During the course of the last Budget debate when I myself had the honour of putting up a proposition in this House my personal view was that never in the history of the country was a more suitable occasion to be found for the exercise of the veto ; but His Excellency the Viceroy held his hands in the spirit of that wonderfully patient policy which he has all the time displayed towards this India [...] And further no prosecution under the proposed Act can be launched without the prvious sanction not of the Local Government not of the District Magistrate not even of the Agent to the Governor General but of the Governor General in Council so that it is obvious that no one need be afraid of a groundless prosec)ation in cases that come under this Act for in the first instance the scope of t [...] Sir in vie* of the extraordinary circumstances mentioned in this Council yesterday under which the motion before us has now been made I have had my most anxious consideration paid to the matter The HONOURABLE SARDAR JOGENDR A SINGH : Is the Honourable Member speaking on the amendment or on the Bill ? The HONOURABLE THE PRESIDENT : Both the amendment and the principal motion are under discussion