While the Lower House was in an uproar, several members made rushes for the rostrum, and the aged "King of Mongolia," Mr. Yasugoro Sasaki, thanks to the good start he had, managed to mount the platform first. Mr. Sasaki belongs to the Kakushin Club and has been nick-named "King of Mongolia" owing, it is said, to his large investments there and because he has always been identified as the leader of those advocating greater activity on the part of Japan in this vast land on the northern flank of China. The "King of Mongolia's" tenure of the rostrum was short-lived, however. Before he had even time to hum and haw, preparatory to launching into verbal pyrotechnics, Seiyukai members grabbed him and pulled him down ingloriously. Another Kakushin Club man ran hurriedly to Mr. Sasaki's aid, but he was intercepted by several of the Sei-yuki members who struck him with their fists. Then the free-for-all fight started, and every member, old and young, chose the one nearest him to hit at. All attempts of the President of the House to call the unruly members to order were a total failure, and once in the police and the marshals to intervene and compel the battling legislators to take their places. The motion of the Opposition, impeaching the Navy Minis-
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