CHAPTER XII
TOWARDS REPRESSION
The stars are blotted out,
The clouds are covering clouds,
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The sea has joined the fray
And swirls up mountain waves
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The flash of lurid light
Reveals on every side
A thousand thousand shades.
WHO broke the Congress at Surat?" In reply, we ask, "Who wanted to go back on the Calcutta resolutions?" "Who hailed the Surat split with rapture?" "Who wanted to rally round the banner of Lord Morley?" Not the least important question is "whose conduct was unconstitutional and un-Parliamentary?"
Mr. Tilak sends to the Chairman of the Congress Reception Committee a notice of adjournment with a constructive proposal. Writers on constitutional law hold that "a motion for adjourning the debate may be offered at any period of the discussion. Dr. Smith,*[1] the great English authority on the subject remarks that on such occasions "the Chairman will feel bound to
- ↑ * Author of Handbook of Law and Practice of Public meetings.
