§ Major ENTWISTLEasked the Secretary of State for India if Lord Meston's award, granting only 28 seats out of 65 in the future Legislative Council of the Madras Presidency to the non-Brahmins, is final in view of the opposition of the non-Brahmins to the proposal?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe allocation of seats on the Madras Legislative Council will not be final until the rules in which it is embodied are approved by Parliament. But I hope that the general principle that the award of an independent arbitrator is the final (and only possible) settlement of a question on which the parties cannot agree will be accepted in this case by both parties.