. The fight for the republic in China. bill in which elaborate regulationswere adopted for referring the question under discus-sion to a provincial referendum. According to thisnaive document the provinces were to be organized intoelectoral colleges, and the votes of the electors, afterbeing recorded, were to be sent up to Peking for scru-tiny. Some attempt was made to follow Dr. Good-nows advice to secure as far as possible that the vari-ous classes of the community should be specially rep-resented: and provision was therefore made in the vot-ing for the inclusion of learned scholars, Chamber
. The fight for the republic in China. bill in which elaborate regulationswere adopted for referring the question under discus-sion to a provincial referendum. According to thisnaive document the provinces were to be organized intoelectoral colleges, and the votes of the electors, afterbeing recorded, were to be sent up to Peking for scru-tiny. Some attempt was made to follow Dr. Good-nows advice to secure as far as possible that the vari-ous classes of the community should be specially rep-resented: and provision was therefore made in the vot-ing for the inclusion of learned scholars, Chambersof Commerce, and oversea merchants, whose voteswere to be directly recorded by their special secure uniformly satisfactory results, the whole elec-tion was placed absolutely and without restriction inthe hands of the high provincial authorities, who wereinvited to bestow on the matter their most earnest- at-tention. In a Mandate, issued in response to this Bill, YuanShih-kai merely limits himself to handing over the con-.
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