Consonant with his promise to establish a "parliament" Yuan Shih-kai created a body to revise the Constitution and formulate the rules and regulations of the legislative body provided for by that Constitution. Those rules and regulations were adopted by the Constitutional Convention on October 2%, and a few days later were promulgated by the President, who yesterday issued a mandate planatory of his policy in connexion with the creation of the Lifayuan, or Legislative Chamber.
This brings the establishment of parliament" within view, and i take place some time in spring while the Lifayuan will be inaugurated on September 1, 1915, just within two years of the abolition of the first Parliament of the Republic, There are pessimists who regard the promulgation of rules and regulations as a peculiar form of pastime of the present administration, but it is certain that the President is desirous of the establishment of the Lifayuan—an organization over which he can exercise: a certain amount of control, and which can masquerade under the title of Parliament without insulting' too outrageously the intelligence of observers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.