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Show I, KAI CHOSEN PRESIDEWTOF CWi Receives the Necessary Two- thirds Vote in Parliament on Third Ballot. TERM IS FIVE YEARS Head of the Oriental Republic Repub-lic Is 54 Years Old, a Native Na-tive of Ho-Nan. IPEKIN, Oct. 6. Yuan Shi Kai Tras. today elected president of the Chinese republic for a term of five years. He received the necessary two-thirds vote of tbo united houses of parliament on the third ballot. Of the SoO members of the house of representatives and senate, 759 were in attendance. On the final ballot Yuan Shi Kai received 507 votes, only one. more than the n.ecoasary two-thirds. Li Yuen Ilenff received 170. The other ballots were scattered among twenty miiio candidates. Li Yuen Hong, it. was declared, had asserted that he would not take the nomination. The result, was received with enthusiasm. enthu-siasm. The proceedings lasted twelve hours. . First Ballot. The first ballot . look ,a considerable time owing to the fact that the deputies depu-ties and senators were not familiar with the proceedings. Tt resulted: Yuan Shi Kai, 471; Li Yuen Keng, 353. The remainder of the 759 ballots were scattered among twenty twen-ty other candidates. The Casting of a second ballot was ordered at once. The second ballot rosulted in a vote of -197 for Yuan Shi Kai and 362 for Li Yuen llcng. A third ballot was therefore necessary, o06 votes being required re-quired for election. The candidates included, besides Provisional President Yuan Shi Kai, Tsai Yuan Hong, a "dark horse"; Dr. "Wu Ting ang, former Chinese minister at Washington, and Dr. Sun Yat Sen, leader of the republican movement. Career of Yuan. Yuan Shi Kai, first president of the Chinese republic, is 54 years old. He was born in the province of Ho-Nan In 1859. During mosl of his adult life he has been in official life. At the ago of 23 ho was sent with a Chinese detachment to Korea and three years afterward became Chinese imperial resident at Seoul. He remained there twelvo years, until he was expelled during the Chinese-Japanese war. On his return to China he occupied various provincial posts until 1902, when he became consulting minister to, the government. . Yuan Shi Kai look a prominent part In the reorganization of the Chinese army on modern lines and in the closing years of the empire became Its most influential and powerful statesman. He was always thoroughly practical in his methods of ad- ministration, and by this means worked his way up to the premiership in 1911. Early in 191'J it was he who' was given full power to arrange the terms of abdication abdi-cation of the throne and to organize a republican government In conference with the republicans. Shortly afterward, In February, he was elected provisional president of the republic by the national council at Nanking and look the oath of office on March 10. Missionaries Alive. PBKIN, Oct. 6. A message dated October Oc-tober 3 was received todaj' from Slang Yang Fu,- in the province of Hu Peh. from the Rev. Christian Stokstad and the Rev. Johnson, the two American missionaries mis-sionaries trying to negotiate with tho Chinese bandits for the releaso of the American and Norwegian missionaries licit! In captivity by the bandits at Tsao Yang, It says that three white women and two children are at the bandits' headquarters and have not been harmed, while the men are believed o bo living. This message appears to discredit the report that the little son of tho Rev. Fauske and Mrs. Fauske has been killed. Stokstad and the Rev. Johnson express the hope that the force of 1800 troops around Yaco Tang will bo able to hold the bandits until reinforcements arrive. The bandits number about 1000, of whom half arc mounted. |
