The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-31
AurooRAcY OF RoMANoFFs ENDS.
Russia Now a Land With a Ministry nud n Constitution.

and a Constitution.
 St. Petersburg Oct. 30.-(Special.) )-- Tonight the autocracy of the Roman offs, the old order of things, ceased to exist in Russia. Emperor Nicholas has surrendered, and Count Witte comes into power as Minister-P President, with an imperial mandate which will enable him to convert the farcical national as- sembly into real legislative body. elected by greatly extended suffrage and to confer on the people fundamen- tai civil liberties. including free speech.
 These welcome tidings reached St. Petersburx shortly before 6 o'clock this evening. Count Witte had spent the day with the Emperor at Peterhoff, going over the final draft of the mani festo, to which he insisted that certain minor notifications be made, and be- fore taking the train for St. Peters burg. he telephoned to a friend that the Emperor had affixed his signature and that the imperial mandate com prisins the conditions on which he had agreed to accept office was Tn his pocket. These include freedom for the press, the right of assembly and tne immunity of the person, including the rights of habeas corpus.
 The official announcement issued this evening says:
 OmciaI Announcement.
 "An imperiaI manifesto will be issued this evening, appointing Count Witte Prime Minister with special authority to coordinate and unify the powers Of different branches of the army. CIVIC liberties are granted to the Russian people, and to the national assembly IS gAven legislative power, while the sut- frage is enlarged
 Count witte insisted on a cabinet on Af a anlaRtad mier responsible to the imperial Douma OF parliament while the Emperor clung to. the appoin tment of the members or thA cabinet on the American plan by tha Emperor as chief of State.
 The following is the text of the i'm perial manifesto:
 we, Nicholas II, by the grace Of God Emperor and autocrat of all the Russias. Grand Duke of Finland. etc. declare to all our faithful subjects that the troubles and agitation in our capitals and in numerous other places fili our heart with excessive pain ana sorrow.
 ''The happiness of Russian sovereign is indissolubIy bound up in the happi- ness of our people and the sorrow of our people Is the sorrow Of the sover- eign.
 From the present disorders may arise great national disruption. They men ace the integrity and unity of our em- pire.
 ''The supreme duty imposed upon us by our sovereign office requires us to efface ourselves and to use all the force and reason at our command to hasten in securing the unity and CO., ordination of the power of the central government and to assure the success Of measures for pacification in all cir- cles of public life. which are essential 1Ft knfv nf fHfIE
 We therefore direct cur government to carry out our infiexible will in the following manner:
 Foundations of Civic Liberty.
 "'First to extend to the population the imnutsLle f6 uEdations of civic lib- erty based on the real lnviolability of person, freedC m of conscience, speech, union and association.
 Second, without suSpending the al- ready ordered elections to the State dou1la, to invite participation in the douma, so far as the limited time be- for, the convocation of the douma will hermit those classes of the population now completely deI rived Of electoral lrights leaving the ultimate develop nent Of the principles of the electoral light in general to the newly estab- Ushed legislative order of things. l V. This. to este blish as an unchange- ale rule that no law shall he enforce able without the approval of the State dobria and that il shall be possible for the elected representatives of the people 10 exercise real participation in the provision of the legality of the acts of the authorities appointed by us l we appeal to all faithful sons of Russia to remember their duty toward the iatherIand. to aid in terminating these unprecedented troubles and to apply their forces, in cooperation with us, to the restoring of calm and peace upon cur natal soil.
 "Ciivtn at Peterhof, october 30, in the eleventh year of our reign
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