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Show JAP LAWMAKERS RESISJJ BODY Opposition Party Split By Dispute Over Question of Armaments TOKIO, Feb. 4- (By The Associated Associat-ed Press). Defeat of a suffrage measure meas-ure supported by the Kensti-Kal, or opposition party. In the house of representatives, rep-resentatives, today, has resulted In the expulsion of Yuklo Osakl and Dal-kichiro Dal-kichiro Tagawa. two leaders of tho organization. or-ganization. The reason assigned for their expulsion was their failure to rally In support of the party's bill. M-Osakl M-Osakl announcing that the Kensel-Kal Kensel-Kal measure was out of order slnco another suffrage bill supported by the Kokumln-To party was already before I he house. MANY RESIGN. M. Ozakl has been prominent In urging a resolution that the Japanese government approach foreign powers with a view to reaching an agreement restricting armaments and It is believed be-lieved his attitude in this matter affected af-fected his situation In tho party, as his views were not shared by M. Kato. head of the Kensel-Kal. Immediately after it was announced that M. Ozakl bad been read out of the organization, twenty-seven members of the house resigned from the Kensel-Ival out of sympathy with him. , The bills Introduced by the two parti" were debated in tho house dunriK the day, the Kokumln-To measure being ardently supported by Nachlko Saki. Ho contended tho best way to remove the belief that Japan Is a military nation would be to give, the vote to all tin- people, thus con-Vlnclng con-Vlnclng foreign critics ihat the government gov-ernment views are really those of the Japanese population, ne expressed the belief that the government's "per-slsli "per-slsli n iuppreaslon of the people's Just claims'' might culminate In a "dreadful "dread-ful national outburst " w rLSONS PUPIL At 1 1 I " It is regrettable,' he declared, "that Japanese should be discriminated against In California, but the Japanese government alio discriminates against its own people by restricting the right I to vote." Opposing the two bills, Premier ii.ii. i asked why the Kokumln-To parity par-ity had eM linieti women of Japan from Hi. terms of Its proposed extension of the right to vote He declared tho present law, which stipulates a person per-son must pay S direct tax of three v, ii per year, Was the best plan for voters under existing conditions In Japan |