ABSTRACT
THE END OF THE CENTURY R ight up to the time of the passing through the British Parliament of the India Councils Act in 1892 the Congress had repeatedly, year after year, confirmed its own “ Council Reform” resolution and sent it to the British Parliament. This was done with a somewhat dreary iteration and the monotony of it began to pall. At the Poona Congress of 1889, which was attended by M r. Charles Bradlaugh and pre sided over by Sir William Wedderburn, from London, the Congress went much further. It sub mitted a complete scheme to M r. Bradlaugh with a request that he would cause a Bill to be drafted on the lines therein indicated, and that he would intro duce this at the earliest possible moment into the House of Commons as the Congress proposal. Acting on these instructions, M r. Bradlaugh intro duced his Bill in 1890. But the Government, in order to forestall this, introduced a Bill of its own.
