In dealing with Parliament in the present crisis, public opinion favours one of three lines of action, says the Shanghai Journal of Commerce," viz:—(1) To repudiate the legality of the Parliament in Peking and to assemble a legal parliament elsewhere; (2) to request the M.P.'s to quit Peking, or to request the provinces and constituencies: to recall their respective representatives from Peking, so that a quorum would be lacking in case a Presidential election were forcibly held; and (3) to warn the M.P.'s against electing a President prior to the completion of the Constitutional Law, and that Tsao Kun, if elected President, will not be recognized as such. These recommendations, "while differing in method, all aim at the same goal, namely, to prevent the holding of a Presidential election and the electing of Tsao Kun as President.
The ''Sinwanpao" regrets to observe that the M.P.'s who had left Peking-should have so promptly returned, held a session and authorized the Cabinet to function as the Government, upon the receipt of a sum of $300,000 as a
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