'A long speech was delivered in the National Aseembly by Mr. Lin, the Chairman of the Finance Committee, in submitting the Committee's report on the Estimates, He explained that, the Estimates had been very difficalt to comprehend, and while investigating them fall evidence had been found of the obsolete system of Government io China and the dangerous methods of financial administration in vogue, The Government had submitted the Estimates in the form of forty-two pamphlets on principal items, eighty-one pamphlets on subordinate items and twenty-four pamphlets on addition: and extra items, Later, the Government gradually delivered to the Hovse over 3,280 pamphlets from which it had made out the Estimates. The Committee had spent forty days of ite valuable time and exhausted the brains and strength of forty-eight men, plunging daily into this mass without intermission, before it had been able to obtain something like clear insight into it. Bat as the time limit had been reached, " report had to be submitted according to the Rules. Mr, Lin's speech dealt with the item: of the Budget in detail, the mauver in hich they had been investigated and he finally gave conclusions in regards to improvements that might be made in the system,
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