and Peking July 26.
Owing, evidently, to thee cessive heat om Wednesday very little happened in Parliamentary circles, the members, or at least several of them, devoting their energies to the drawing up and despatch of telegrams.
Less than half a dozen arrivals were reported, and, we understand, a further number of mem-hers have: returned to Peking.
The 'Shanghai Journal of Commerce'? on Wednesday—published an interesting satement to the effect that the Chihli party had handed $200.000 over to the Speakers of Parliament for paynent to the different members.
Mr Hsu Fu-cheng, a leading menier of Parliament, has written to his colleagi in Peking, in response to an invitation to return to. Peking, stating that this is impossible and that.it would be better for them to come down to Shanghai and meet here, out of the way of militarists, Members of the Senate in Shanghai have telegraphed to the M: P,'s remaining in Peking warning them of the consequences in case a Speaker for the Senate is elected in the Capital without pernitssion from the members here.
In a telegram to Peking, some 200 members, led by Mr. Pan Ta-tao, state that their colleagues in Peking are right when they state there should not be two Governments, but, they add, "You should come to Shanghai and join us and then we will have a united Parliament and with a united Parliament we can form a Government which nobody—will dare to oppose."
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