Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-22
CAR GIVES HIS SUBJECTS LONG
DENIED VOICE IN GOV.
EMINENT.
MANIFESTO PUBLISHED
Official Document Is Read in All the
Churches But Arouses Little En-.
thusiasm AS Far AS ST. Petersburg
Is Concerned-The Text of the
Manifesto.

St Petersburg, Aug. 19.-The en-
peror's manifesto promulgating a ma
tlonal assembly and the details of the
project as published in the Official
Messenger was read to the senate,
which met in special session at noon
today.
The feast of the TRANSPORTATION of
Christ is being celebrated here today.
All shops are closed and the city wears
a holiday aspect, but the PRONUNCIATION
OF reforms is not being especially cele-
brated. The manifesto will be read
In all the churches tomorrow
Has Come at Last.
The people of the Russian empire
have come into their own-partly. In an
imperial manifesto the Emperor Mich.
olas today announces the creation of
national assembly, which, though
consultative in character, will give the
nations millions a voice in the gov.
eminent under which they exist.
For this new institution, while it
places the common people of the en-
pire on a higher plane than they have
ever known before in political sense
does not provide for the making OF
laws by the representatives of the pop.
ulace
But it takes it's place among the fun.
damental organisms of the government
with the power to suggest, prepare and
repeal legislation. The manifesto
made public this morning in St. Peters.
burg and Moscow in special editions of
the Official Messenger comes as the
elimination of decades of stress and
striving for reform and is the fruition
of the cars plan outlined by him in
rescript March last.
Uses Extravagant Language.
1t was dated today at Peterhof. and
will be read in all the churches of the
empire. The manifesto. signed Mich
clas, is as follows: 1.-THE empire of
Russia is formed and strengthened by
the indestructible solidarity of the EN-.
peror with the people and the people
with the emperor This concord OF
emperor and people is the great moral
force which has created Russia in the
, course of centuries by protecting her
from all misfortunes and all attacks
and has constituted up to the present
time a. pledge of unity. independence
.VSll-UClLS, duu Ill
tellectual development.
"In our manifesto Of Feb "a. 1908
we called to a close understanding all
the faithful sons of the fatherland in
order to protect the organization OF
the state by establishing on a firm
basis the domestic life of the empire
and then we devoted ourselves to the
task of co-ordinating elective public
institutions with governmental author
titles and of removing the disagree
ments existing between them which
mad reacted SO disa1 .rously on the nor
NAL course Of our national life
Autocratic Power Preserved.
"The autocratic emperors, our an
cestors, constantly had that object in
view. and the time has come to follow
out their good intentions and to sum
mon elected representatives from the
| whole of Russia to take constant an6
active part IN the elaboration of the
! laws, thereby attaching to the higher
state institutions a special consulta
! tive body intrusted with the rrelimin
airy elaboration and discussion of mea
sures and with the examination of the
| state budget.
ut is for this reason that. while pre-
! serving the fundamental law regard
/ ing the autocratic power, we have
deemed it we'll to form a Gosudarst
vennaia Douma Clover house of thu
assembly,, and to approve the regu
| lations for elections to this Douma
extending the validity of these laws tt
the whole territory of the empire, will
such exceptions only as may be con
sidered necessary in the case of som,
regions in which special conditions OBJ
| tain
"As regards the participation in tn,
labors of the Gosudarstvennaia Doum;
of delegates from the grand duchy o
! Finland on questions concerning tn,
empire in genera. and the grand Ouch,
in particular, we will take special mea
sures.
| To Assemble Next January.
| At the same time we have ordere
the minister of the interior to submit
] Immediately for our appreciation reg
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