The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-20

address was only saved from this fate by the abstention from voting of l0f members of the group of toll and sym rathisers v..-- the faction who favored more radical measure.
 There were only i24 votes, all Consti- tutionai Democrats, for the address, and fifty-three against it. The minor. tty con prised Count Hayden and Mi chael Stakovich, a marshal of the no- biiity and other members of the right, with few extremists from the Social fist camp.
 one. was marked at one time by the withdrawal of the entire group Of toll az q protest against The reac- tionary attitude of the majority"
 Afterwsrd the caucus of the group determined to return to the chamber. but not to vote either for or against the address on the ground that they would be playing into the governments hands whichever way they voted and instead to draft an Independent address to the people.
 The rejection of the address would probably have teen a source of graf ification to the constitutional Dem- ocratic leaders who at the last mo- Inent awoke to the fact that an appeal. which at first they had hsiied as & death blow to the bureaucracy would he apt to be equally fatal to the par ty, as not only has the court camariiia long scught for Justification tor the dissolution of parliament. but also to evoke an elemental rising of tho peo- pie in which the constitutional dem- ocratic party would be swallowed aud its power obIiterated in the nscen- dercy either of reaction or of revo- 1ution.
 The day was devoted to desperate efforts to retrieve dangerous strat- egic blunier Finding from caucus of their own followers that 1t was too late to sidetrack the address entirely. the leaders turned their endeavorE to modifying It enough SO that the gov ernmeut would not be forced to regard it as a casas belii. perheps with the secret hope that this would lead to tho defeat of the address In the house
 The speeches of Ivan Petrunkevitch, who introduced the substitute: Deputy Kutliarvesixi and other moderates eIi- phasized the necessity for the pacifi- cation of the tuniuious peasautry. M. Knsiiarevski roundiy declared that the all eaportant question at the present crisis of affairs was not useless pole mics regarding the ministry. but the elemental movement of class against class. which would solve Rnsaia's prob lem. not in the way of peaceful legis- lation but by methods of desperation and horror. Nj Petrunkevitch. an impiicable enemy of the government. shifted his ground 10 combat revoiu- ton, declaring that parliament must not yield to revolution nor join in in- flaming unarmed peasantry to oppose themselves to bayonets and machine guns, but fight to the last for legali- ty and loyalty.
 His speech contained sop to the land owners. emphasizing the point regarding the payment for expropriat- ed lands; but this was eliminated In the discussion. The conservatives en- deavored also to have stricken out a reference in the draft to lack of con-s fidence in the ministry but they were defeated by the bare mention of the Rossias report of the Aautro- German plan Tor intervention, Nj. Petrunkevitch being wildly applended when he der clared that it was irnpoasthle ta show consideration to a ministry which was negotiating to introduce foreign troops on the sacred soil of Russia.