The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-18
REPLY TO SPEECH
FROM THE THRONE
Lower House of Russian Par
lament Completes Its
First Great Work.
AMNESTY IS THE FEATURE
COUNCIL ALSO READY WITH AN
ADDRESS.

st. Petersburg May Is, 800 a. m
Sitting until long after o'clock this
morning. the lower house of the ma
tiCnal parliament set its seal upon its
first great work the adoption Of the
address in reply to Emperor Nicholas
speech from the throne at the Winter
palace, and setting forth the aims and
aspirations of Russia's millions.
Despite attacks both from the right
and from the left. the leaders of the
Constitutional Democratic party held
their followers together to the last, and
the address was adopted substantially
in the form in which it was proposed
by the commission and as already tel
egrapbed by the Associated Press.
Adjourned Subject to Call.
After the address Of the lower house
in reply TO the speech of the throne
was adopted the house adjourned SUBJ
ject TO the call Of the president. After
the reading of the final draft N. Pet
rajetsky took the rOstrUm and applied
for a. unanimous vote. Count Hayden
stated that he and his friends, although
approving Of the address in general,
were unable to vote for certain details,
and would withdraw in order that no
opposing voice might be heard. He
then left the hall followed by FIVE mem
beTs- The address was thereupon
unanimously adopted. President MOur-
OmtSef was instructed TO request an
immediate audience Of the emperor to-
day if possible. On his visit TO the en-
peror President Mouromtseff will be &C
cCmpanied by several members of the
commission which drafted the address.
Radicals Not Satisfied.
The amendments adopted Wednesday
and Thursday affect important details,
Z
Of the document, which, extreme as II
may be, in the eyes of the autocracy,
falls far short OF the expectations of
the radicals. Time after time during
the long three days of debate the ex-
tTemists. with their undying hatred of
the whole ancient order, launched their
fiery attacks against the ''mildness" of
the various paragraphs. only 10 break
against the fTmness OF the restraint of
the chiefs of the party. When the dis
CuSSiOn had been finished the deputies
with the eXhoTtatiOnS of the country 10
speedy action ringing in their ears,
ventured no further delay, and, though
they had been already in session four
teen hours, took recess until , O'Clock
this morning for the reading and adOp-
ton OF the final draft Of the address,
instead Of pOstpOning this fOTmality I'M
til the opening of Fridays session
Council More Moderate.
As if running a race to see which
should be the first to present to En-
peror Nicholas a demand Tor amnesty,
the council of the empire also was in
session well into the early morning
hours, discussing its address in reply
to the speech from the throne. This
document, which is far simpler and
more conservative than that of the low
er house, proposes an amnesty which
does not include those who coupled
with political Offenses, murder or viola
ton Of property rights-in other words
political assassins or participants in
agraTian excuses
The lower houses demand for amnes-
", the kernel and most pressing point
in its address, was altered at the last
moment by the commission itself, which
in response to criticisms Of indefinite
ness in the expression full political
amnesty" substituted amnesty for all
crimes committed from religious or po-
Htica1 motives as well as agrarian Of
lenses"
New Clause Accepted.
The commission also accepted z new
clause 10 meet the wishes of the dis
COntented in the army and navy, ask
ing the emperor to revise the cOndi-
lions Of service on the basis Of right
and justice.
Most of the other amendments pro
posed IN the closing hours Of the de-
bate fell by the wayside, only one out
of thirty-one proposed alterations OF
the agrarian paragraph for example
being accepted. The discussion Of this
plan lasted four hours, practically every
peasant in the house taking the ros-
frllm to voice the demands Of his con.
stituents for and and liberty"
Eat your lunch In the Palm garden
at the Royal
All hrst-claSs restaurants and homes
have Vienna bakery bread.