"While the Diet is still in session at Tokio, the opposition has worn itself out, and the Kato administration will continue in power," said Mr. B. W. Fleisher, proprietor of: the 'Japan Advertiser," who arrived last Friday on board the President Madison, on a combined' business and pleasure trip Shanghai and Peking.
"The opposition centred its attack on the weak spot in the present administration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Count Uchida,! and vacillating," said Mr. Fleisher. who was accused of being weak! "What the administration lacked in real power was made up for: n violence of speech and action. The sessions of the Diet are an annual nuisance.
Fortunately the sessions; only last for a few months, but
almost ceases to function. Cabinet during this time the administration Ministers, and even the Premier, must daily attend these sessions to listen to abuse, and to reply diplomatically and frequently evasively. The only real function of the Diet is to pass the budget and this has already been accomplished."
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