Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
THE GEAR, THE COUNCIL AND DOUMA

face hatred, which was the veritable cause
Of the revolution. He said:
4Hlztory furnishes few examples where
amnesty has put an end to hatred, and this
the people a respect for the property of
others. the respect for persons. for science.
law and civilization. Those who demand
amnesty should themselves serve as an ex-
ample"
The council of ministers Is composed one
half OF members elected by the assembly
of the nobility and other
Conciliatory privileged electorals: the
Council other half by members APP
pointed by the emperor. an
cient ministers. high functionaries and dig
nitaries of the court. The following is cited
textuaily from the address of the council
of ministers to the throne.
In It's frank desire for mutual action
with the douma the council hopes that the
new Legislative institutions. animated by
love of country. will join in the common eff
forts for the establishment in the state OF
order and peace for the universal instruc-
ton of the people. for the defense of rights
and liberties given for the development of
all the productive forces of the country and
the prosperity of all classes of the popula-
tiop, particularly Of the numerous class of
peasants
Grand and indelible will be the day OF
the renovation of Russia by the initiative of
your majesty and her entrance upon the
path of liberty and order based upon the
law.
During centuries all the great historic
events of Russia nave been engraved in the
popular memory by acts of grace by SOW
ereigns toward the imprisoned and GRIM
inals. 1t is thus, although profoundly in
dignant at the crimes committed during the
political struggle, the council desires to
submit to the generous appreciation OF the
emperor the condition of those who under
D, t.ts IA ,,>f~n
liberty. and of those who in defending order
have passed the limits established by the
laws without taking the life or property of
Others"
The council of the empire implores a par
tial amnesty fence by which may be
cluded those whom the douma demands
shall be liberated. The address Of the coun-
Gil is suppliant, that of the douma impera-
tive.
The douma demands besides the suppress
sion of the existing functionary regime, the
formation of a constitutional
A Radical government, with ministers
Program, chosen from the majority of
the douma and responsible to
1t Of their acts and of their functionaries;
the inviolability of person; liberty OF con-
science; liberty Of the press; the right of
meeting. aSsocia ton. strikes. the equality
of all; suppression of religious, provincial
and national privileges; finally an agrarian
program carrying nothing less than the d.
vision of land among the peasants by
means of naturalization of royal appan-
ages. ecclesiastical property and expropria-
ton Of landed proprietors. For program
this Is indeed a program The car Will
doubtless do all in his power to satisfy the
desires of the peasant party, and II he does
this quickly he may effectively control the
douma and thus confound the socialists.
There is evidence that the DONNA is less
lxzAN t., -~t fbn,, IL. thn aSyfn
ming of the session, and parties are forming
new lines, manif estly 50 in the union of all
liberals against the socialists Speculation.
however, as to what may occur IN Russia
is futile.
Prince Mestchersky editor of the Crash
lanin. who has heretofore assailed the au-
tocracy and bureaucracy. has changed
front, and now attacks the lower house and
asserts that unless the cooler and more
moderate heads stop the present tendency,
it will become purely revolutionary body.
Mestchersky calls upon President Mou-
romtsef to decide whether he desires to
figure In history as d Pougatcheff (who led
the famous peasant revolt In ITO and who
was decapitated at Moscow or as the cat
tie dealer of Mini Novgorod, who saved the
country from anarchy during the interreg-
mum preceding the establishment of the
RomaneffS. 'taf 20;
a conference of the nobility has been
Summoned to- assemble In st. Petersburg
some time during the present month. I'M
perial Chancellor Mohakoff will propose the
formation Of land owners league for the
purpose of effecting voluntary land allot-
ment system. The enormous difficulty or
furnishing compensation under the bill for
compulsory appropriation is realized by the
financial world, which estimates the cost
at more than s5O0000Oo0.
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Among the distinguished members of the
douma of the constitutional democratic
party, which mostly at
Conservative tracts sympathies. be-
Democrats cause apparently most pat
riotic Is. first, M Mou-
romtseff, president He was born in Mos
COW. 1850; professor Of Roman law at the
university, he was dismissed in 1884 and
began the practice of law; director of the
Journal de Droit in 1892. president of the
judicial society and acquired by his pen
wide reputatio member of the municipal
douma and zemstvcs of MOSCOW. he played
an important part in the constitutional
movement of 1904-19a5
NJ. Herzenstein is from the College of Mos
COW, forty-seven years of age. a writer or
ability in matters economical and financial;
of ostracism on account OF his Israelite ORR
gin and became professor at the Institute
Agronomique of Moscow.
NJ. Kokochkine Is only thfrty-five years
of age; is professor at the University or
Moscow and member of the Ouprfva of The
zemstvos. BY his activity and talent he
has rendered great service to the consutu-
tional democratic cause.
M Pierre Petrounkevitch is s1xty-two