The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-05-19
TO GRANT DEMANDS
CAR SAID TO Be IN C0NClLA.
TORY MOOD.
Willing to Grant Demands Of
Douma for Amnesty and APP
pointment of a Ministry from
Among Members Of Lower
House-Debate in Parliament.

the fear that the address in reply to
the speech from the throne moved
Tuesday in the lower house Of parlia-
ment would precipitate conflict be-
tween the crown and parliament, the
Associated Press is in q position to
state that Emperor Nicholas is deter
mined to avoid breach, If possible.
Not only will political amnesty be
granted, but the emperor is ready to
replace the Goremkyn ministry with
a cabinet chosen from among the con-
servative members in the lower house,
in the hope of effecting compromise.
He is not willing, however, to per-
NIT the majority to select the premier,
but once such concession is made it
is difficult to understand how the en-
peror can halt half way and refuse a
full constitutional monarchy, which
government by parliamentary majority
involves. Practically parliament has
already won great victory.
Amendments Considered.
In the domua yesterday, in spite of
an all-prevailing craving for the ros-
trum, the house, after the evening re-
cess finished the general consideration
of the amendments and took up for
deliberation the separate planks of the
document, adopting four before ad-
journment.
The questions considered were
General amnesty, abolition of the
death penalty, suspension of martial
law and OF all exceptional laws, full
civic liberty, the covert questions of
universal suffrage, reform of the bu-
reaucracy, provincial administration,
stoppage Of repressions and the all
important point Of ministerial respon-
sibility.
On this last point the radicals scored
their first triumph, forcing the inclu-
sion in the paragraph of a complete
demand for ministerial responsibility
by the insertion of the word "all" be-
fore the word ministers -
Some Sensational Remarks.
Prof. Kusmin Karavieff made the
most sensational remark of the even
ing, which, in defending the principle
of ministerial responsibility, openly
limited at the posi- bility that Emperor
Nicholas might meet the fate of Louis
of France if he rejected the principle.
'We stand, he said, /" Sin the posi-
ton of France in 1889. Had the pro-
posal of Mirabeau for a responsible
ministry been accepted France might
havesescaped the years of bloodshed,
anarchy and tyranny which followed.
A solemn warning lies for Us therein. "
The leadership in parliament is be-
ing rapidly assumed by the Tver group
of members, whose ability thus far
has stood out in relief. The contin-
gent from the Volga provinces is
showing the greatest radicalism.
None of the members from the Cau-
casus or Siberia has spoken up to the
present time, but it is noticeable that
they applaud the most radical utter
ances.
Although the Mussulmans took their
place on the right, the majority are
acting with the Constitutional Demo
Gratis and the Poles. Most of them
wear picturesque national costumes,
long coats of brown or blue, trimmed
with red, and belts with tassels. The
members from the Baltic provinces
also wear their national costume Of
white. These latter are radical to the
man.
More than half the village priests
are enthusiastic members of the oppo-
sition.