But there are few Englishmen either at home or in India who do not recognize the statesmanlike spirit in which Lord Morley, loyally seconded throughout by Lord Minto, has approached the very difficult problem of giving to the people of India a larger consultative voice in administration as well as in legislation without jeopardizing the stability or impairing the supremacy of British control.

The future alone can show how far these far-reaching changes will justify the generous expectations of their author, but taken as a whole they undoubtedly represent a constructive work which is fully worthy of the fine record of British rule in India.
How very far-reaching they are the merest indication of their most salient features will suffice to indicate.

For the sake of convenience, though they form a homogeneous whole, they may be divided roughly into two categories--those that affect the Executive Councils and those that have remodelled the Legislative Councils.

To the former category belong:-- (1) The appointment of an Indian member to the Viceroy's Executive Council.

Mr.S.P.Sinha, a Bengalee barrister in large practice, was appointed to be legal member, and the ability and distinction with which he discharged the duties of his high office have gone far to remove the misgivings of many of those who were at first opposed to this new departure.