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Show KATSURAIS j CENSURED Japanese Diet Votes Censure and Lack of Confidence in Cabinet Tokio. Feb. " Most exriting scenes were witnessed during the dispersal of the Japanese diet today after a vote of censure on the government under Prince Katsura bad been car- ned. The exits from the chamber were tnronged with people who cheered the members of the constitutional party when they assaulted Saburo Sbimada ' and other so-called renegades of the national liberal party They were thrown out of their rikshas when they j attempted to drive away Inn efforts . to duck them in the canal were frus- I trated by the police. Toklo, Japan. Feb 5. The Japanese Japan-ese diet todav passed a vote of censure cen-sure on the government, under the premiership of Prince Taro vatsurs who only recently took offlci prime minister and minister for foreign for-eign affairs. The session of the chamber vva6 then suspended tor five days. It is expected that Prince Katsura will Immediately dissolve the diet and call for a cneral election, meanwhile mean-while retaining office Session Suspended. The order suspending the session was issued by the emperor himself. II was read to the house after a debate de-bate which bad been very noisy and had continued for two hours. The resolution expressing lack of confidence in the cabinet was introduced intro-duced by Yukalo Usakl, former ma 01 of Toklo. and leader of the constitution consti-tution party. He spoke eloquently, making a bitter attack on Katsura whom he charged with ignoring the constitution and riding rough shod I ovei the wishes of the people. Prince Makes Brief Reply. Prince Kasura s reply was brief. He I pointed out that he had accepted the premiership at ihe command of the omperor and he offered precedents for the course he had pursued. The attitude of the opposition is ver determined and the only outlel from the present deadlock appears to ' be the selection of a new diet and a redistribution of the parties Finance Minister Reports. The finance minister in the course u; today's sitting explained the items of ube' TJuugef He said Ihe government govern-ment recognized the expediency of re-I re-I adjusting the national finances, economizing econ-omizing the nations general expenditure expendi-ture and postponing for the present some of the undertakings planned. Every encouragement, he said, would be given to industrial enterprises. Industrial In-dustrial and financial conditions, he declared, were encouraging, the foreign for-eign trade of Japan having increased during the. last year by $92,000,000. |