Faced with offers of money from both sides, assembly members passed each other heading in one direction or the other as they waffled between denouncing Cao as having unlawfully unseated Li Yuanhong and supporting Cao as president. Most adopted a wait and see attitude, and bent with the wind.
議員們看在錢的份上，南來北往絡繹於途，至於到底是要聲討曹錕非法逼走黎元洪、還是要支持曹錕繼任大總統？要先制訂憲法後再進行總統大選、還是先選總統再制憲？