ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author gives some account of the start of the Madras Legislative Council under the Reformed constitution of 1919. Small committees, usually of five members, were appointed for the preliminary discussion of Government proposals for legislation. After the Christmas interval the most important Council business for the author was the detailed consideration of the budget as one room each, built oil the bare ground, and containing only the barest minimum of household utensils. The author provides two proposals of his own to press on the Council. The first was a motion for the voluntary registration of practitioners of indigenous systems of medicine. The second was a motion for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the possibility and advisability of contriving a common script for the four chief Dravidian languages: Tamil, Telugu, Canarese and Malayalam.
