Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-11-04 | Page 1 | Chinese Government Seeks Reform in Dead Earnest

CHINESE GOVE GOVERNMENT SEEKS REFORM REFORM-IN IN DUD EAR JEST I Several Commissions of h Investigation In Are re Sent to the United Unite J States and ana CountrIes Countries Countries Coun Coun- tries of Europe NEW YORK N Nov Tho 4 Tho Chinese 8 in in- iner er sl for i l i ii ept q V jmj V SO N cording g To 10 Shim D Hn Chen Shiri a and d dl Far Sung tho the commission which Has just arrived here hero Several commissions commis commis- ion of investigation in Lave have o n been sent cent to this country and Europe by heads of different departments s. s Upon their re reports reports reports re- re ports will depend what sort bort of 1 legislation legisla gisla- tion the tho Chinese parliament will adopt in these matters L L. Hu and Far will make an inquiry into the judicial judicial judicial ju ju- ju- ju system of the United States with especial reference to the judges and the courts court prisons and tories Mr Hu Ru is JS senior clerk of the tho ministry of justice and ard is is a graduate of Tien Tsin university Mr Lo is chief clerk of the criminal department of the ministry of justice Ho He is a a graduate of the imperial Japanese uni uni- Mr Far represents tho the department department department depart depart- ment of finance on the commission Everything js is quiet and orderly in Pekin said Mr Hu in answer to a question The Tho government is making steady progress Business is improving and this is true truo not only of ot but bu all through the country Trade is beginning beginning be be- ginning to flow between the interior and the sea coast Our parliament soon will take u uthe up the tho question of executions The ol old method was by cutting off the head Of late there has been a great deal of ot sentiment against such barbarous and cruel method of putting 9 a criminal to death and since the revolution most executions have ha been by shooting Wo We have been very much interested in the matter of electric execution and there has been considerable debate as to which was as the more moro humane method Ie This This commission is particularly interested in in- in OOS and we shall l J learn arn I all aU wo ne can cnn about the workings s of ot your reformatories as I