Marshal Tsao Kun is reported to have sent an agent to Shanghai to invite the M. P,'s to return to Peking to elect him president. He has agreed to pay each M. P. $1,- 000 for their travelling expenses, give them each a first class pass for the railways, and pay them $8,000 to $10,000 each if they elect him. Further he will give them decorations as well as high positions when their terms of office expire in October, the ''positions" being known as Life Adviserships and carrying with them a handsome monthly salary. Among other promises, Tsao states that he will recommend the M. P.'s or their relatives to provincial positions whenever required andi will decorate the relatives also. Apart from these handsome inducements he will order the provincial authorities to pay them subsidies each month, and when they die he will grant their families pensions.
His terms are (1) that the M. P.'s shall report to the Speakers, Messrs. Wu Ching-lien and Wang Chia-hsiang, when they arrive in the Capital; (2) that they will attend meetings regularly (3) that they will elect forthwith a presidential election committee (4) that they will elect him president: and (5) that they must make it one of their first acts to order Tsao to declare war on Chekiang and Kuangtung, the twe provinces opposing him.
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