Members and Guardsmen now Nursing Broken Heads: Protection for the Speaker Tokyo, Feb. 3.
When the sitting of the Lower House wax resumed following the temporary recess, the motion for the punishment of Messrs. Hara and Makiyama,. two members, was ried by a large majority of votes, 2 to 134, Mr. Inoge, of the Independent Party, after obtaining the Speaker's permission to speak, then went on.
the platform and declared that his speech had nothing to do with progress of proceedings, which inewrred the fierce opposition of the Government parties, thus throwing. the hall into confusion once again, The Speaker warned Mr, Inoge n-once, but the latter went peaking without taking any notice of the warning. Accordingly the Speaker ordered him to leave the hall, but in vain. Thereupon, come guardsmen came up and a tempted to carry him out, but the tempt was prevented by & number of M. Ps. of the Seiyuhonto. In the course of this scuffle, Messrs, Ohishi and Hira, Seiyuhonto M. Ps., assaulted Mr," Nishimura, Vie Chief of Guardsmen, wounding him in the occipital region, On the other hand, when Mr.
Inoge was about to be driven out of the hall by five or six guards. mem, several foolhardy members of the Kengeikai and Seiyukai, the two Government parties, dashed forward and -assailed him, inflicting wounds on his head and face.
In. these circumstances, the Speaker once more announced On the resumption after the second recess, the Spenker announced that Mr. Inope was to be punished and that those who did violence to the guardsmen were to dealt with after due investiga tion,
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