Mr. Hu:  During the first and second years of the Republic, in my many conversations with the members of the Kuo Ming Tang, I said that the republic could not form an efficient method of control, and that there would be an over centration of power through the adoption of monarchical methods of ruling, knowing as well as I did the standards of our people.  When the members of the Kuo Ming Tang came to draw up the Provisional Constitution they purposely took precisely the opposite course of action and ignored my suggestion.  It may, however, be mentioned that the Provisional Constitution made in Nanking was not so bad, but after the government was removed to Peking, the Kuo Ming Tang people tied the hand and foot of the government by means of the Cabinet System and other restrictions with the intention of weakening the power of the central administration in order that they might be able to start another revolution.  From the dissolution of the Nanking government to the time of the second revolution they had this one object in view, namely to weaken the power of the central administration so that they could contend for the office of the president by raising further internal troubles in China.  Those members of the Kuo Ming Tang who made the constitution know as well as I that China’s republic must be governed through a monarchical administration; and therefore the unreasonable restrictions in the Provisional Constitution were purposely inserted.

Mr. Ko:  What is the difference between the constitutional government which you have proposed and the constitutional government which the Manchu Dynasty intended to adopt?

Mr. Hu:  The difference lies in the proper method of procedure and in honesty of purpose, which are imperative if constitutional government expects to be successful.

Mr. Ko:  What do you mean by the proper method of procedure?

Mr. Hu:  The Provisional Constitution made in Nanking, which was considered good, is not suitable for insertion in the future constitution, should a constitutional monarchy be established.  In making a constitution for the future constitutional monarchy we have to consult the constitutions of the monarchies of the world.  They can be divided into three classes which are represented by England, Prussia and Japan.  England is advanced in its constitutional government, which has been in existence for thousands of years, (sic) and is the best of all in the world.  The English king enjoys his empty title and the real power of the country is exercised by the parliament, which makes all the laws for the nation.  As to Prussia, the constitutional monarchy was established when the people started a revolution.  The ruler of Prussia was compelled to convene a parliament and submitted to that legal body a constitution.  Prussia’s constitution was made by its ruler together with the parliament.  Its constitutional government is not so good as the English.  As to the Japanese constitutional monarchy, the Emperor