The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-11-01
CAR GIVES UP HIS
AUTOCRA7|C power
NJ. White Given Authority to
Establish Representative
Government.

St. Petersburg, Oct. 31.-Last night
the autocracy Of the Romanoffs and
the old order Of things ceased to exist
in Russia.
Emperor Nicholas has surrendered
and Count Witte comes into power as
Minister President with an imperial
mandate which will enable him to
convert the farcical national assembly
into real legislative body elected by
greatly extended SURFACE and to con.
fer upon the people fundamental civil
liberties, including free speech.
These welcome tidings reached st.
Petersburg shortly before six O'Clock
last night.
Count Witte had spent the day with
the emperor at Peterhof going over the
final draft of the manifesto in which
he insisted that minor notifications
be made, and before taking the train
for st. Petersburg he teleptened to a
friend that the emperor had affixed his
signature and that the imperial man.
date comprising the conditions upon
which he had agreed to accept office
was In his pocket.
These include freedom of the press,
the right Of assembly and the immuni.
ty Of the person, including the right
Of habeas corpus.
Following 10 the text Of the imperial
manifesto issued last evening:
"We, Nicholas the Second, by the
grace of God, emperor and autocrat
Of all the Russias. grand duke Of Fin
land, etc., declare to all our faithful
subjects that the troubles snd agitation
in our capitals and In numerous other
places fill our heart with excessive
pain and sorrow.
"The happiness Of the Russian SOW
ereign is indissolubly bound up with
the happiness Of our people and the
sorrow Of our peopla is the sorrow of
the sovereign.
From the present disorders may
arise great national disruption. They
menace the internity and unity Of our
empire.
"The supreme duty imposed upon
us by our sovereign Office requires us
to etface ourself and to use all the
force and reason at our command to
hasten insuring the unity and co-ordi.
nation Of the power Of the central gov.
eminent and to assure the success Of
measures for pacifioat'on in the circles
Of public life, which are essential to
the we'll. being Of our people.
1--WE therefore direct our government
to carry out our inflexbile will in the
following manner:
"First-To extend to the population
the imm utable foundations Of civic
liberty, based upon the real inviolabil.
ity Of the person, freedom of CON.
science, speech, union and association.
"Second-Without suspending the
already ordered elections 70 the state
douma, to invite the participation in
the DONNA. 90 far 40 the limited time
before the convocation of the douma
will permit those GLASSES Of the popu.
lation now completely deprived Of
electoral right in general to the newly
esta blished legislative order Of things.
"Third-To establish 40 an I'M.
changeable rule that no law shall be
enforceable without the approval Of the
state douma, and that IL shall be pos.
sible for the elected Of the people to
exercise real participate In the super.
vision Of the legality Of the acts Of the
authorities appointed BY 10.
1--WE appeal 10 all faithful sons OF
Russia to remember their duty toward
the fatheEland, 10 aid in terminating