Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-31

ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 31.-The autocracy of the Romanoffs and the old order of things has 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 con. vert farcical national assembly into real legislative body.
 Count Witte had a long interview with the emperor In Peterhof, going over a final draft of a manifesto tc which he insisted that certain modifi cations be made. Before taking train for St. Petersburg he telephoned to a friend that the emperor had affixed his signature and that the mandate was in his pocket.
 Its conditions include freedom of the press, the right of assembly and i'm. munity of the person, including the right of habeas corpus.
 The following is the text of the i'm. rerlal manifesto:
 We. Nicholas H., 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 capi. tals and in numerous other places fill our heart with excessive pain and sor- row.
 'The happiness of the Russian sover- eign is indissolubly bound up with the happiness of our people, and theisOrrow of our people is the sorrow of the. sov. erelgn.
 we, therefore, direct our govern ment to carry out our infexible will in the following manner:
 "First-To extend to the population the immutabIe foundations of civic lib. erty, based on the real ,inviolabllity of person, freedom of conscience, speech. union and association.
 "Seeond.-Wlthout suspendlng the al- ready ordered elections to the state douma to invite to participation in the douma so far as the limited time before the convocation of the douma will per init those classes of the population now completely deprived of electoral rights. leaving the ultimate development of the principle of the electoral right in general to the newly established legis- lative order of things.
 ''Third. d.-To establish as an unchange- able rule that no law shall be enforced without the approval of the. state dou- ma and that 1t shall be possible for the elected of the people to exercise real participation in the supervision of the legality of the acts of the authorities appointed by us.
 'Given at Peterhof Oct 30, ih the eleventh year of our reign"
 'T am sure the American people. who understand what freedom is, and the American press. which voices the wishes of the people. will rejoice with the friendly Russian nation at this moment, when the Russian people have received from his imperial majesty the promises and the guarantees of free dom and will join in the hope that the Russian people will wisely aid in the, realization of those. liberties by CO., operating with the government for their peaceful introduction. Only thus will it be possible to secure the full benefits of the freedom conferred upon the people"
 Count wItte. Russia's first premier. last night sent the above message toI the American people through the press He had jast arrived at his residence ca Kammeniovrov prospect from Pc tefhof. where. in the Alexander palace. the emperor he'd given his final ap- provsI to q manifesto and to a pro rramms which will forever end the rule of sbsofukism exercised bT him