India’s Parliament (Selections from the Proceedings of the Special Session of the Legislative Assembly and the Council of State held in Simla in September 1924

Dealing with the history of the appointment of the Commission the Home INiember remarked that the opposition to it had been based on the fear that t he Commission both in the matter of the control of the services and of Idianization would recommend a reactionary policy. [...] In regard to the position of the services the Home Member remarked that in no country was the postion one of direct contact with the Legislature ; the Executive Government was the master of the services and their protector ; and in every country however democratic nine-tenths of the actual work of government was dicharged by the services. [...] (r) That some of the recommendations of the Royal Commission are intended to deprive the Legislatures even of their existing powers by suggesting devices to transfer items of expenditure hitherto subject to the vote of the Assembly and the Provincial Councils to the head of non-votable items ; (f') That the said recommendations have introthiced racial discriminations in the treament of the Al[...] The opposition of the last Assembly to the appointment of the Commission was based Sir Charles observed entirely on a misapprehension as to the scope of the inquiry ; but apart from that under section 96 of the Government of India Act the prtection and control of the services was vested in the Secretary of State and the House had no right to take up the position that His Majesty the King [...] Goverment had asked for the views of Local Governments but most of them had not up to the time replied ; and the question was further complicated by the fact that the suggestions of the Lee Commission touched upon the future organisation of the Army which was outside the purview of the Commission and with regard to which the War Office had to be consulted before any reasoed.