The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-09
GREAT STRIDE
TOWARD LIBERTY
National Assembly to Be Summoned
by Russian Gar.
WILL MEET IN NOVEMBER
PROCLAMATION TO BE ISSUED
SATURDAY.

ST. Petersburg Aug. S.-The Russian
national assembly, the first gathering
together of representatives of the Mus
covite people since Emperor Alexis
Michaelovitch. the second of the
ROnanOffs summoned the last zemSky
sober in the seventeenth century, WIZ
be proclaimed on Saturday next
The final session of the special conf
mission which has been considering the
project as drafted BY Minister of the
Interior Bouligan and elaborated by the
council of ministers, was held at Peter
hof today It's verdict upon the project
as whole was favorable and at the
conclusion of the session. before the
assembled grand dukes. ministers, SEN
ators and other members of the com
mission, Emperor Nicholas set the seal
of his approval thereto.
Final Sitting Was Long.
The sitting today continued from 2:$O
in the afternoon until o'clock at night
when the commission finished the labors
upon which it had been engaged almost
constantly for the past week. Several
of the members in whom the emperor
reposes special confidence were re-
quested by him to return tomorrow TO
PeterhOf TO assist him in the prepara-
ton of a solemn manifesto through
which the summons to the representa-
tiVes of the people will be issued.
Although it was stated at the com
mencement of the sessions at Peterhof
that Emperor Nicholas had abandoned
his intention of going to Moscow, the
ancient capital of the empire to pro-
claim this epoch-making change in the
institutions of Russia, the report has
been revived. and it finds credence in
spite of the deniaIs in court circles to-
day of any knowledge of the subject.
Road Well Guarded.
II is known that special precautions
have been taken for guarding the rail-
road between st. Petersburg and Mos
COW over which the emperor would
travel and dispatches last week an
nounced the arrival in Moscow of two
additional regiments of Cossacks The
same dispatches told of the thorough
search of Moscow and its envirOns for
terrorists whose headquarters were
last Sunday. The Associated Press,
however, was informed today by the
chancellerie of the ministry that no
plans for the departure of the emperor
to Moscow had been communicated and
that the proclamation would undoubt-
eddy be made from Peterhof.
The BouIigan Project.
Though the project has undergone
number of changes during the various
conferences at PeterhOf, it is under
stood that it's main outlines are sub
stantially in accord with the project as
it emerged from the council of min
listers and described in these dis
patches from time to time
In principle the national assembly
Will be deliberative and consultative
body for the discussion of measures
laid before il by the emperor or his
ministers. 1t will have the power 10
force the withdrawal of ministerial
propositions by twO-thirds vote which
gives it at least a negative control over
legislation. 1t viii be a large body,
probably OF over 500 member chosen
by system of indirect elections. and
the first session. il is understood will
be held in November. The elections
will take place in October.