. British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya; with a specially compiled map, numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs and a frontispiece in photogravure. h influence inSingapore or Downing Street as those who had helped tosteer the Malay craft through the troubled waters of theseventies into the calm of the nineties. Therefore, theMalay Sultans and Chiefs, whether they were clearly togain by the new arrangement or apparently to lose—atleast for a time—unanimously declared for federation. It was perhaps more curious that the four Residentswere
. British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya; with a specially compiled map, numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs and a frontispiece in photogravure. h influence inSingapore or Downing Street as those who had helped tosteer the Malay craft through the troubled waters of theseventies into the calm of the nineties. Therefore, theMalay Sultans and Chiefs, whether they were clearly togain by the new arrangement or apparently to lose—atleast for a time—unanimously declared for federation. It was perhaps more curious that the four Residentswere equally in favour of a proposal which seemed likelyto deprive them of some authority and status. Speakingof the others, I can say that, whilst quite alive to thatview of the position, they cordially favoured federationbecause they realized that the existing arrangement wasunsatisfactory and becoming impossible, while federationmust make for unity of purpose and effort, for efficiency,for progress, for help where it was most wanted, and fora government no longer of one man but of five—theResident-General and the Residents—with all the bestspecial advice which federation could attract to the. FEDERATION AND ITS RESULTS 275 service of the Malay States. The Residents of thosedays, or some of them, would have liked to see theResident-General independent of the Governor at Singa-pore, and in direct correspondence with the Secretary ofState for the Colonies. That idea went no further,because it was thought likely to meet with so muchopposition that the rest of the scheme might be wreckedin one general condemnation. In order to ease possiblefriction, and to put the High Commissioner (supposinghim to be a stranger with no experience of Malaymatters) in a position to exercise something approachingeffective control, the federation scheme provided himwith a Secretary to be selected from the best of the risingmen of the Malay States service—some one who knew notonly the work of a
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