Now, gentlemen, you all know that we are expecting a scheme of
self-government from the British Parliament. What that scheme is I do
not know. No one has got the right to know but we are expecting some
scheme. We heard that Mr. Montagu had shown or talked about the outline
of that scheme to some Indian leaders--Mr. Surendranath Banerjea of
Bengal, Pundit Madan Mohan Malaviya of the U. P. and Mr. Shastri of
Madras and certain other gentlemen. I do not know if it is true but I
suspect it is. We are also told--it is not admitted--we are told that
some of these gentlemen had given a promise to the Secretary of State
that they would get the people of this country to accept that scheme. I
am not saying that this is admitted but that is what I have heard.