\Then it was assumed that the Legislative Council would organize If into a number of parliamentary ymmittees, which would interrogate Ministers and other officers of state ince, one Committee might joned the Minister of Foreign Affairs with regard to the faile ture to settle with Japan, and a scrutiny of the Japanese terms, with the utmost publicity of them, might have led to un immediate settlement, Similarly, another committee might have questioned the Minister of Finance with regard to the expenditure of funds and such an interrogation might have led to the institution of the budget system, which alone: can save this country' from further bloodshed and from ruthless dictate hip. "And so on—on all question:
But the Kuomintang district committees, especially those in Kiangsa, Chekiang and Anhui, were oppose to the Committee system, under an inspiration which is quite well-known. The representatives of these committees were invited to Nanking and were told that there should be rio quarrels in the party and that imperialism is a very bad thing—i a word, they were told to mind their own business, but at the same time the Committee system was stillborn. The committees will not be appointed and the Legislative Council Becomes a mere Law Codification Bureau, an expensive, large, inactive aw codification bureau.
The fight over the Legislative Council was the most recent attempt to find a road to democracy in China, The attempt failed be-case the dictatorship is too rich and too strong. Thousands of men ive on the bounty of the dictatorship. A terrific waste of the funds the country, while half China otaryes, goes into the perpetuation the dictatorship, which to-day accomplishes nothing more for China than mere self-perpetuation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.