The Iradeh was communicated to the Senate and the Chamber
on Monday morning. Halil Bey, in the Chamber, ignored it, and the deputies proceeded to business as though nothing had happened. Djavid Bey mounted the tribune and delivered a long harangue on the virtues of the Committee of Union and Progress (which, of course, secured the return of the great majority of the deputies by manipulated elections) as the best of Govern- ments in the best of worlds. The effect of this speech was so nerve-shaking, or rather, perhaps, so stimulating, that two deputies drew their revolvers on each other, but were separated by their friends. The House then passed a vote of want of confidence in the Government, declaring its actions to be illegal. Next it voted its own adjournment pending convocation by the President. At this point a message arrived that the Grand Vizier would come in the afternoon and him- self read the Iradeh of dissolution to both Houses. Bahl Bey telephoned that the Chamber did not recognize the Government. The Committee deputies then departed, and when Ghazi Mukhtar Pasha came in the afternoon he read his document to a handful of Albanians and Arabs.
