Kuyper’s first speech during the new parliamentary session took place on November 17, 1896 as part of the general deliberations on the 1897 budget for the Dutch East Indies. He addressed the government’s handling of the rebellion in Aceh. During the sessions that ran November 20–24, he requested that full attention be given to missionary activity alongside the care being taken to meet the material needs of the Dutch East Indies (pp. 209–213, 215–220, and 226–227). During general deliberations about the 1897 national budget on December 1, Kuyper put forward three grievances: first, concerning the weakening of ministerial responsibility; second, concerning the threatened homogeneity of the cabinet; and third, concerning the influence that the government was attempting to exercise over the elections (pp. 304–306 and 315–317). Finally, during the discussion of the national budget on December 8, Kuyper complained that the government’s selection of candidates to fill vacant university professorships was one-sided. He noted, for instance, that there were only allopathic medical professors and no professors of homeopathic medicine in the Netherlands. Just as one-sided was the provision of government subsidies to public institutions of higher learning and the complete neglect of private high schools and universities. This charge (pp. 378–380) was also followed by a response (pp. 382–384).