The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-20
WEAKENED At
LAST MOMENT
Address to Russian People
Emasculated in Lower
House of Assembly.
LONG AND BITTER FIGHT
EFFECT OF THE RESOLUTION UN-
KNOWN.
LONG AND BITTER FIGHT

st. Petersburg. July 10. 3 a. m.-An ad-
dress to the country setting forth the at
titude of parliament on the agrarian
question and the reasons for the delay In
the adoption of solution Of the problem
was adopted by the lower house at
o'clock this morning, but in an emascu-
lated form, with changes designed to
minimize the revolutionary features of
the document as an appeal to the people
against the government and to shift the
emphasis TO note of pacification, in
which the peaSantry are exhOrted TO re-
frain from excuses and violence and 10
await parliaments decision in the mat
ter.
The vote was taken at the close of a
sitting that lasted continuously for twelve
hours, in which it seemed probable that
the address would be rejected entirely by
the combined votes Of the right and left
wings of the house against the center
party The address was only saved from
this fate by the abstention from voting OF
lOl members of the group of toll and SYM
pathizers with that faction, who favored
more radical measure. There were only
l24 votes, all Constitutional Democrats,
for the address and SO against it. The
minority comprised Count Hayden and
Michael StakOvich, marshal of the no.
bility, and other members of the right,
with few extremists from the socialist
camp.
Contest Was Bitter.
The session which was a stormy one.
was marked at one time by the with
drawal of the entire group of toll, as a
protest against the reactiOnary attitude
of the majority After the caucus of the
group determined to return TO the cham
Der but not to vote either for or against
the address on the ground that they
would be playing into the government 5
hands whichever way they voted and in
stead TO draft an independent address to
the people.
The rejectment of the address prob
ably would have been a source of gratifi-
cation to the Constitutional Democratic
leaders, who at the last moment awoke TO
the fact that an appeal, which at first
they had hailed as a death blow TO the
bureaucracy, would be apt to be equally
fatal to the party, as not only has the
court eamartlla long sought for a justifi-
cation for the dissolution of parliament,
but also TO evoke an elemental rising of
the people in which the Constitutional
Democratic party would be swallowed
and its power Obliterated in the ascen-
dancy either of reaction or of a reVolu-
ton.
Trying to Retrieve BIunder.
The day was devoted TO desperate eff
forts to retrieve a dangerous strategic
blunder:. Finding from caucus of their
own followers that il was too late to
sidetrack the address entirely. the lead
ers turned their endeavors to modifying 1t
enough so that the government would not
Oe forced to regar dit as a casus belli,
perhaps with the secret hope that this
would lead to the defeat of the address
in the house. The speeches of Ivan Pet
runkevitch, who introduced the substi-
tute draft; Deputy Kutliarevski and 9TH
er mOderates emphasized the necessity
for the pacificatiOn of the tumultuOus
peasantry, NJ. KutliareVSki roundly de-
claring that the all important question at
the present crisis of affairs was not use
less polemics regarding the ministry but
of class against a class which would
solve Russia's problem. not in the way
of peaceful legislation. but by methods of
desperation and horror. NJ. PetTunke-
witch, an implacable enemy of the gov
eminent. shifted his ground TO combat
revolution declaring that parliament
must not yield to revolution or join in
inflaming nnarmed peasantry to oppose
themselves to bdyonets and machine
guns, but fight to the last for legality
and loyalty. His draft contained a sop
to the land owners, emphasizing the point
regarding the payment for appropriated
lands. but this was eliminated in the dis
cussion. The conservatives endeavored
also to have stricken out a reference in
the draft to the lack of confidence in the
ministry. but they were defeated by the
bare mention of the Rossia's report on
the Austro-German plan for Intervention,
NJ Petrunkevitch being wildly applaud
ed when he declared that it was impOs-
sible to show consideration to a minis
try which was negotiating TO introduce
foreign troops on the sacred soil OF Rus
sia