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Show CHINA FOR PROGRESS t i 1 Early Establishment of a General Parliament Sanctioned i rV!ntr. ft. 31. It Is bellev. d that ' jhf throne haj decided to accede to ; lit demand of the senate axid the provincial pro-vincial tl' ii-catcs for the early rouvo-; rouvo-; cation of a popular j-nrliamerit. : In the cennte today and in tho pres- fnce of the K-ridlng gTand councilors. ! prloce Yu Uvng, stated that th" on- ! j tip- nation, from the highest to the , Joie"!, was agre-d up"n tJie n-ct-hltv ,.r the earlr C6Uiilihruent of a gen- rral parliament. The senators, who ! understand 'bla to mean that their ! j..niorlal would be granted, receivi-d 1 ttii- declaration with prolonged cliter- j The Irniriance rf this conrestdon j t,2 the part of the. trovernnient can ! frirnely t. fiverestlmated In view of ! pj, recent ref.5-.il to entertain a similar sim-ilar reonest made by a delegation I frm the provincial assemblies la.1 ; Jure. The program, f rM by the late dow- e-' T erupreos provided for the organ-I organ-I Jritk"n of a ffeneral legislative lnly I to be known as the imperial pnrlla-' pnrlla-' rect In 13 IS, nt the end of a nlne- j --it period of preparation. No Mon- ' 1 it had this plan been made known In j t ijfcree than a T-.pulnr riglLatbin wnn I lr;n to Infinenre the throne to advance ad-vance the dato. Tho provlncUJ a. ; 1 mobile met t.nd dlscusped the mnt-t-r snd recelred tho support of the , rr. chants throughout the country, i Tfcy sent a dlegaJon to Peking to ! si tn-.rlalle the throne, but th P'lnre recent properly announced that . Mt- original prorrSLm would bo ad-l.red ad-l.red t' On October 3 tin? new fen- met f'T th first time, or Its 2oo . D'-nibers, JoO had leen appolnte.j by j tl" throne, and therw was every lmli-ri'Jon lmli-ri'Jon that It would accomplish but r.ule xcept av It reflected tbe wlhes ; cf thi oentral government. Never-thU-ps, narly In Its history the senate cveNi'd an opposition party mm-i-fed of the provincial delegates, and this party ha lnco conducted an nc-t:e nc-t:e campaign looking to tho recognl-t recognl-t "D of the senate by the KTand council coun-cil as a body with executive power, rither than thai ItJ deliheratloni I ihould be of ji kdrlsory character. Meantime tho vice royals and guv- errors of provinces supported the op-itlon op-itlon r memorializing the thmno Trrardlng th early openlrg of the ! I'-rlldtnent. On October 20 such prog- ; tit hti'l leen made that the penate i j i .p'ed, by an olmot unanimous f'ic, i t mernorlal to tho throne, praying for the etabllnhment ft a popular purlla-, i rr-tt at the earliest moment. Two : if) Uter tho throne ordered the 1 rmj council tn consider the memo-j memo-j rl.d, acd today's announcernent by Prlni-e Yu IJang Is the decision of I i tL- grcud cxmcllors that the popular i di niad fhould be granted. |