The Archive · 1910

Debate in the Assembly

Peking, Oct. 26.

The Memorial framed by the Committee of the National Assembly appointed for that purpose asked that Parliament should be opened as early as possible.

An amendment that the inauguration should be in three years was debated with calmness and dignity, and finally the original Memorial was carried with practical unanimity. The President of the Assembly agreed to attach to the Memorial the preliminary provincial Memorials and representations from Chinese overseas colonists, and to exercise his personal influence and also to explain to the Throne that the world sympathizes with the movement.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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