The Archive · 1930

CHINA'S BILL OF RIGHTS Held Up by Central Execu

tive Committee the people, which had been discus Jed at recent meetings of the Central Politienl Council, was "held over for {future consideration'. by the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee yesterday following a brief discussion of the proposal.

The "was formulated by a ber of leading Government off-including Dr. H. H. Kung. Minister of Industry, Commerce and Labour, and Mr. Tsiao Yi-tang, a prominent member of the Legisla ive Yuan, Prior to its being submitted to the Party's" Central Executive Committee, it had under~ gone careful revision by Presidents. Tan Yen-kai, Hu Han-min and Wang [Chung-hui "respectively of the' Executive, Legislative and Judicial The reason for the decision of the Party's highest authority to reserve the proposal for future consider tion, is, according to yesterday's ion, the fact that at the be-emuing of the present Period of Political Tutelage, the bequeathed instructions of the late Party Leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen, are re-Jgarded' as the fundamental Law of the Republic, as determined upon the Thi ional Congress of the Kuomintang held last year, therefore, no necessity arises for promulgating any other law bear-jing upon the question of the constitutional rights of the people.

Moreover, the resolution states, part of the contents of the proposal has already been enacted into law and is now in force while the rest still awaits carrying out according to the proper procedure.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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