The Calcutta Weekly Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday August 28 1922

As the whole of the provincial budget is open to discussion by the LegislatiVe Coucil and may be voted Upon by the members the legislature indirectly exercises control over the acts and measures of the members of the Executive Council. [...] So the members of the Civil Service with the development of responsible Government in -the provinces and later on in the Central Government are bound to be reduced to the position of subordinate. [...] Montagu's resigation the influence of the Sydenham party has been paramount in the British Cabinet and that would account for the irresponsible tall that the Prime Minister indulged in on : he occasion of the Civil Service debate in the House of Commons. [...] The' learn-ea writer' views the situation in the rightperspective and although we are-not prepared to accept his suggestions as the best means of doing away 'with the dual control at present exercised by the Indian Legislatures and the Indian Civil SerVice yet there can be no question that with the growth of responsible Government in India the duties of the Indian Civil Service will be as he s [...] Lloyd George's steel-frame theory of the Indian Civil Service :- In the not very distant future the duties of the Indian civilian will be clerical rather than govermental as much of the work now performed by the Civil Service will be in the hands of the eleted_ politicians.