Parliament Blocking Appointment 6f Dr. W. W. Yen Peking, July 26.
Four hundred and 26 members of the House of Representatives were present yesterday afternoon when the main question, on the was the vote on the ni Dr. W. W. Yen as Premi The Opposition insisted on altering the agenda by first taking a vote on the motion to impeach the Cabinet on the ground that the settlement of the Sino-German Agreement was illegal.
No one took the motion seriously beyond seeing in it an attempt to prevent the vote on the nomination of Dr. Yen.
After some discussion the Speak: er ordered a vote by standing, rv garding the impeachment, which resulted adversely to the Govern ment. The latter's supporters then challenged the count and insisted on 8 ballot, in which 316 votes were cast, 181 for the motion and 185 against, 110 not voting; but the name-cirds did not agree with the votes and the ballot was declared invalid.
The House subsequently adjoui ed. Thee was much disorder throughout the proceedings Reuter's Pacific Service,
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