Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-23
Constitutional Party is Prepared to Accept
This Aot of Partial Grace.
HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS RELEASED
Number Who will be Affected by Amnesty
Being Reduced Daily,
CzARS ANSWER TO REPLY TO THRONE
Premier VIII visit Peterhof To-day
60 Pot Finishing Touches on
speech which will he De-
Iivered Friday.

ST PETERSBURG, May 22.-The long
awaited political amnesty will, the Asso-
slated Press learns from a government
source, be proclaimed May %, the ami
versary of the coronation Of Emperor
Nicholas II. The exact scope Of the meas
ure has not yet been determined. II
will, as anticipated, be limited, but the
Associated Press is in a position TO state
that the constitutional democratic party
Is prepared though grudgingly, to accept
the act Of grace from which the terrorists
are excluded recognizing, though not pub
iicly. that the government is not alto
gcther unjustihed in refusing to set at
large men who will be as ready in the flu
t':rc as they have been I'm the past to
snoot down or blow to pieces hated repre-
seHtltivcs of authority. Their demand for
unlimited amnesty was based on the ex-
pccts.ion that with the institution of
fun constitutional era, the terrorists. as
was promised in an open letter just before
the ASSASSINATION of Alexander II, would
abandon active opera tious. hut they have
been forced to admit that the crinoes Of the
last few days give the government no
guarantee that the promise will be kept.
The administration is daily cutting down
the number OF prisoners who may be af
feoted by the amnesty. releasing convicts
by hundreds in the provinces, while among
those released in St. Petersburg are TWEEN
ty-seven members of the Council of Work
mems Delegates. who drew up the famous
manifesto preaching raid on the govern
ment's gold reserve.
CsRr's Answer TO Speech.
Premier Gorymekin has been summoned
TO Peterhof tomorrow for conference
with Emperor Nicholas to put the finish
gr an he upb nrauafpr
will deliver unless unforeseen contingencies
prevent in the lower house of Parliament
OH Friday setting forth the governments
position on the various points in the
houses address in reply to the speech
from the throne.
The premier, Minister of the Interior
stolypin and Minister Of Agriculture Sti-
cbinsky have been making inquiries with
regard TO the form Of procedure to be OBJ
served IN the lower house In the matter
of answering of interpretations and also
as to the rights of ministers to participate
in general debates, NJ. stoypin specially
wishing TO speak on the agrarlan question
IL permissible
Agrarinn Problem to Front.
Parliament will probably not meet again
until May IS, today being the fete day Of St.
Nicholas the miracle worker, and May "A
DtlHb AHNtHelon uhSg aHOAhtl blSdN hbAA-
day. The interim will be occupied by the
committees in examining the credentials
and election of members and in prepara-
tions for the coming struggle over the
measure for the solution of the agrarian
question. The attention of the country
and Parliament Is now riveted this
problem, all sides recognizing that the
manner In which IL is solved largely will
determine the future course Of events.
The liberal papers, which, yesterday
clAmored for an open war or retaliation,
owing 10 the emperor's refusal personally
to receive the deputAtion appointed by the
house, after sober rejection commend the
course of Parliament in overlooking the
point of etiquette in view of the serious
work which the country expects It to ac-
oomplish. The constitutional democrats
agraran project will be attacked both by
the right and the left. The radical work
men and peasant group, which now num-
bers over seventy members, has decided
TO make a fight for the complete abolition
OF private ownership and the establishment
OF system providing for the full ma
tionalization OF land. While the members
of the right have a conservative land pro-
gram OF their own, the details have not
yet been given out. They are trying hard
TO induce the group OF forty peasants. who
are holding aloof from party afnllations, 10
join them. They are proceeding on the
theory that the constitutional democrats
and extremists by excess will discredit
themselves before the country and bring
about a reaction. which will give the con-
servatives a majority at the next election
AS evidence OF it's desire to work in har-
mony with the lower house, the council
OF the empire. or upper house has de-
cided not TO press it's own views OF the
great questions awaiting solution, but to
await the initiative OF the lower house
Jewish League In Session.
The Jewish league for the realization OF
equal rights for their co-relgionists is In
session here, The attitude of their mem
bers in Parliament will be defined and all
questions relating to the Jews will be dis
cussed. II is also proposed 10 make ar
rsngements for holding a congress of all
the semitic organizations OF Russia. Strong
opposition developed TO the formation OF q
national group OF Jewish delegates in Par
lament. After a long debate decision was
pnatuonad