The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-22
TREATED LIKE THE DruA.
CEar Refuses ID Receive an Address FROM
Council " Minist ers direct,

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LONDON, May IA despstch from st.
Petersburg says that the Car has disguised
his rebuff 10 the Dunn by refusing to sccept
direct from the Council OF Minister'S the
Councils address in reply to tho speech
from the throne As In the case OF inc
Dumas address, he has dirccted that It b'
handed to Baron Fredericks, Minister OF
he Imperial Household, a mere court
functionary.
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF the
Times says that after the failure Of Presi-
dent Muromtzeff TO obtain ar audience OF
the Gar 30 as TO present the Dumas adj
dress, the Grand Marshal offered TO carry IL
to the Car. The offer could not be ac-
copied without the Dumas consent. The
situation il not improved by these curious
evasions, the origin Of which is attributed
to court intrigues.
News Of outrages against peaceful
| citizens has been received from various
parts OF the provinces, notably Simbirsk,
Morrow and Tsaritsyn. In each case the
| Black Hundred nickname for the so-called
Union OF the Russian Peoplel was the ag-
gressor. The police and oldiers looked
on or actively participated. The union
is an organization affiliated with all the
darkest elements of the country and is
everywhere enjoying police protection.
ST. PETERSBURG. May 2l.-The Duma to-
day passed a resolution in favor of a law
providing for the inviolahility OF person
The vote was unanimous.
In accordance with the determination
Of the Constitutional Democrats that the
conflict between the Duma and the Govern
ment shall not be on a secondary issue
1t was resolved by the House to-day to
treat the Cars refusal to receive NJ. Mu-
romtzer, President Of the Duma, to present
the address in reply to the Cars speech,
az OF trifing consequence.
An order of the day wa therefore pro-
posed declaring that as the essence OF the
address lies in its contents and rot in the
method Of its presentation, the puma
would proceed to ordinary business. After
two or three speeches the Duma, restrain
ing it's hurt feelings, adopted the resolution
Subsequently the Aganrian bill, embody-
ing the resolutions passed at the recent
Moscow congress, was introduced. 1t pro-
vides for an obligatory appropriation, be-
ginning with the Crown lands. If these
do not suffice other lands will be similarly
dealt with.
The agrarian measure is not a bill in the
Western sense. 1t is n metnuranduin
signed by thirty or forty members, pro-
pounding the basis of an agrarian law
to be elaborated in committee 1t Is a very
long document.
It provides for the partial appropriation
OF land at a fair price Of certain private
properties. which, with the State, crown,
mouasteriul and ecclesiastical lands, will
be converted into a State reserve, from
which the peasants will be able to obtain
allotments on long leases under the super
visi on Of local committees Confiscation pure
and simple is not intended, Several cate
gories Of private lands are expressly ex-
Later in the day notice was given of an
Interpolation to the Minister OF the Interior
regarding the scandal OF the police melting
violence. This produced tho first Minis
terial utterance before the representatives
OF the nation.
NJ. Won Sohwanebach, Comptroller Of the
En- pire, who was the solitary occupant of
ministerial bench, explained that
the Minister OF the Interior had been
obliged to quit the House. but he
announced on his behalf that the re-
ouired information would be given to the
Duma within thi rty days, that being the
time allowed by the revised statutes for the
purpose. He added that he himself could
not confirm or deny the charges against the