Mokurai SHIMAJI and Azusa ONO, a secretary of Genro-in (the law-making organization in Japan in the early Meiji period) set out arguments for the opposition, strongly debating on the Asano Shinbun (Asano Newspaper).
島地黙雷や小野梓元老員書記官が反対の論陣を張り、朝野新聞紙上で激しい論戦が繰り広げられた。