Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-01-11
NATIONAL CONVENTION CALL
MADE To EXACT FORM
To BE ADOPTED.
Whole Empire Divided Into Four Sec
tions, Each One to Elect and Send
Three Delegates to Conference.-The.
Sun Vat Sen, Provisional President
Goes to Marking

ondngndl.-Ine composition of the
Chinese national convention suggested
by Premier Yuan Shi Kai and accented
by the imperial court at Picking, to set
tie the future form of government in
China, has been decided upon during
the session of the peace conference be.
tween the delegates of the imperialists
and revolutionares.
Each of the Is provinces of China
proper will, according to the scheme
adopted, form one section; inner and
outer Mongolia will each compose one
section, and eastern and western Thibet
also one section each.
Each section is to be entitled to elect
and send three delegates to the confer
enc.
Each section is to exercise tire.
votes in the conference even if the fnll
delegation from the section is not pres.
ent. The delegates are to be summoned
to attend by telegraph, partly in the
name of the provisional republican form
of government and partly in the name
of the Manchu government.
Manchus to Help.
The Manchus will issue the sum-
monses in the northern provinces and
also in Manchuria and in Chinese
Iurkestan, while the republicans will
call the delegates together from the
southern provinces. Both parties will
join in summoning the delegates from
Mongolia and Thibet.
AS soon as delegates representing
three-fourths of the total number of
sections have gathered, business will be
commenced.
Dr. Sun Vat Sen, the provisional
president left for Marking January l.
Preparations are being made for an i'm
pressive inaugural ceremony on the oc.
casion of the restoration of Nankinp
as the capital of China. DIR. Sun Vat
Sen on his arrival there, probably will
issue a proclamation and hold a review
of several thousand troops.
The garrison has been heavily re-en-
forced
Within the last few days wholesale
queue cutting has been going on
throughout Marking, the soldiers indis.
crlminately shearing merchants and
coolies The cutting has been accom-.
pilshed generally in spirit of good
nature, but in many cases pitiful scenes
have occurred. Otherwise Marking i,
quite orderly.
a strong central government is TO he
organized with a parliament of ranra.
sentatives of the people. Each prov
ince Will elect its own governor. Both
army and navy will be national. and.
1ogether with the finances, will be con
trolied by parliament The fiscal svs
TEN will be readiusted on modern meth
ods, and intercommunication bv rail-
ways will be pushed on as rapidlv as
possible.
Imperialists Want Delay.
Inc lmperialists are endeavoring to
delay matters, hoping that time will
favor them. The rebels seem DESTROYS
Oh forcing the issue, but neither side
IS wiling to terminate negotiations.
May Continue War.
Farls.-A special to the New York
Herald from its Picking correspondent,
says Yuan Shi Kai, the premier, will
present to the throne signed demand
Oh all the commanders of the northern
army that the wealth of the princes
ana mobiles be commandeered to con-
tinue the war. The memorial charac
terizes the dictatorial attitude of the
revolutionists as unbearable, pledges
loyalty to the monarchy, and desire
to fight the issna m N e.,