Sukenori KABAYAMA, Minister of the Navy, who was furious about this addressed so-called "reckless speech" to idle the House of Representatives, and MATSUKATA decided the first dissolution of the House of Representatives on December 25.
これに激怒した海軍大臣樺山資紀がいわゆる「蛮勇演説」を行って衆議院は空転、松方は12月25日に初めての衆議院解散を決断した。