The Chamber's regular meeting! was held on Saturday attern: when a large number attended, eluding the chairman (Mr. Yu'Ya-ching), the vie Fong] Chu-pah) and Mr. Shing Kai-wel, a representative of it. Fu Chiang, the Shanghai Taoyin, in whose presencs the ballot box was opened, but no action of a definite nature was taken It was suggested by some that the elections should stand for the time being and that the qualifications of members of the new committes, which were alleged by some to be out of order, should be decided upon by the authorities. This was agreed In order to seo whether or not ar allegation of Chen Vu-ting that some envelopes contained as many as ten balloting tickets Mr. Shing opened envelopes but failed to verify Mr, Feng Wu-sen, an old but active member of the. Chamber, declared that the qualifications of members should not be questioned as they were exactly the same as those of members of the committee elected at the previous elections. If the members were not qualified now, they. ere not qualified before and sade the position of all previous commitices legal, Te order to meet the rival si mittee should be enlarged as the membership, wich was formerly limited to 300, had now increased to more than 500. With a larger committee, the merchants could better b2 represented.
The meeting finally decided sccording to the Chinese Press, that!
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