Three Important Suggestions.

THE three most important suggestions made by Sir Sankaran Nair in the course of his evidence were, first, that there should be a minimum of three Indian members on the Viceroy’s Council, in view of the necessity of improving the administration, and of the existence of the feeling in India that the executive Government as at present constituted should not be given a free hand in dealing with questions of order, a feeling which had been intensified owing to the Punjab disturbances; that the electorate, in Madras and the Punjab particularly, should be widened; and that Joint Committee of both Houses should express its opinion on all questions on which the Legislative Council and the Executive Council differed. All three suggestions are excellent, while two of them represent the minimum of India’s demand, and we earnestly hope they will receive that consideration at the hands of the Joint Committee and Parliament that they clearly deserve.