The deserters declare for the m ment that they will not throw their lot with the Seiyukai at once, though there seems to be no doubt} that they will ultimately join that party. In the meantime they have formed a new group of their own, to which they have given the name! of Dokokai, They declare further that by the time the Diet reasse bles for the business of the session on the expiry of the new year holiday's on the 20th, they will be join: ed by 20 more deserters, making! Dokokai a body of 40 members.
If this last prediction of Dokok: men prove true, the Seiyu Honto will become only 71 strong in the! Lower House, but their attitadé toward the Seiyukai being what hag been, they are not likely to caure of opposing: stead there support of the Government, over both tie Budget and the Tax, Reform Committees. Should this! turn out to be the ease, the Govern. ment will be able to tide over the SIst session without resorting to dissolution, which is no more dered by the Government than by the Seiyukai or any other party or group, because of uncertainties, that must be faced in consequence of the new election law with its manhood suffrage coming into oparation for the first time at the gen= eral election to follow. the time of writing, a-report is abroad that the Seyu Honto is stiffening its back toward the Government and a dissolution will be inevitable in consequence. Such a view of the situation seems as yet premature, it being possible that the Seiyu'Honto may undergo a change in its intentions toward the Government in a fortnight which must elapse before the Diet re-open its session,
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