Show A CHINESE VI VIEW EW L H chee a chinese student in london who was associated with the members of the commission during their visit to england in the summer gave a representative of the tribune some further information with regard to the recommendations now published and the prospect of their being carried out at present mr ir Chee sald china Is governed from poking peking by the state council nominated by the emperor the commission recommends that to begin with the state council should be converted ale arted into a kind e ot f british cabinet that 1 is that the heads of all the state departments should be its members that would give us at once olice a more representative central government then the provincial viceroys vice roys are to be abolished and nominated governors as in the british colonies are to la be substituted the elective prin principle is 18 tobe introduced i in the provinces and jn this connection remember that china Is a very blk big country perhaps we should say that not one constitution taut but at least eighteen con are to bo be grant granted eq it if the wishes of the commission are carried out each bach province will have its elected parliament our the provincial executive will be chosen from the representative body and of or course will be subordinate to the go governor vernerl it is not proposed thai the central government should be subject to direct election but if the pi provincial ovin cial parliaments prove a success then each province will I 1 send from its parliament a nominee althe to the central executive in peking the qualification for a vote in harmony with chinese custom will be solely educational property counts for nothing as contrasted with education in china no the commission does not recommend female suffrage the report goes as far as possible upon t the be english model As AB to tho the prospects q 0 the r reform movement it to is almost cert certain alil that the state council will be reorganized as the commissioners recommend it the people support the demand for provincial parliaments that part of tho report to too 1 is bound to be adopted it depends eA entirely lipo anthe strength ot of the popular desire loo atoo Is bound to be adopted it depends enly upon tho the strength of the popular desire and I 1 believe the vast majority of educated the becom the si cin can no alo more hold out against the wishes of the chinese people than could your privy the demands of the english natlan nation the attitude of yuan kal kai who Is our most powerful man inan la ii significant he moves gradually and awaits i his opportunity the commissioners first went abroad he was against the he movement for a constitution I 1 but within tho the last few weeks he has come into agreement with the progressive gres sive members of the commission 17 r cannot think for a moment that the introduction of popular government would m mean ean increased hostility in china to foreigners if there Is isas as your papers say an awakening 0 china surely it must be an an awalt awakening ening to tho contemporary progress of oe the world to the state of civilization as it now is and to the universal human rela lioni hip we Q cannot ga ai against tho the sentiment of the civilized ram race most of its is are really not barbarians the object of education Is 8 to make people reasonable and to think of consequences quen ces and many Cri linamen are educated we have now compulsory elementary education and we have a great deal of the western learning 1 I bellevo believe the people are ready for representative institutions and it is my opinion that popular government will bang china into closer and more bendly brendly pe relations lations with all other coun trie london tribune |