The Archive · 1910

The Promised Parliament

Correspondence in the Shen Pao" from Peking eays:—Our readers will remember that a fortnight ago, Prince Ching absclately refased to accept the appointment of the President of the Senate, alleging his inexperience in Constitution Government as his excuse, Dake Tesi Tee was accordingly nominated thereto, According to the Intest information, however, we hear that Prince Ching has suddenly changed his mind, and bes summoned the attendance of two members of the Constitutional Law Bureau to a night conference in his Yamen, #0 as to initiate himself into the intricate windings of Constitational Laws, as a proly pressed to occupy the respon Chair of the new Sena

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