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RUSSIAN DONNA
C0URTIERS ONLY ONES TO APP
PLAUD SPEECH FROM
THE THRONE.
Members Angry Over Failure to Grant
Amnesty to Those Who Had Been.
Imprisoned for Laboring in Cause
of Liberty. u.

st. Petersburg, May Ill Without a
single hitch and with only minor
incident to mar the memorable day,
the Russian parliament was inaugu-
rated Thursday. The weather was
superb, and the stage management Of
the impressive ceremony at the win
ter palace, where Emperor Nicholas,
surrounded by courtiers and all the
pomp and panoply of power, deliv-
cred the speech from the throne to the
members of the two houses, was. per-
feet. Such spectacle perhaps never
before has been witnessed on the
earth's stage.
me message in reality was less a
throne speech than greeting, and re-
quired only three minutes for its de-
livery. Emperor Nicholas read slow
~. The admirable and even cordial
tone OF the sovereign in renewing his
pledges and asking the cooperation
OF parliament for the regeneration Of
the country was only negatively salts
factory.
Flunkies Applaud.
Courtiers and spectators. other than
members of the national parliament,
led the cheering, but the members
were ominously silent, expressing nei-
Their approval nor disapproval. What
ranked most was the failure of the
emperor to mention amnesty, and
later, when the members assembled
IN the Tauride palace away from the
spell of the throne room, many Of
them were with difficulty restrained
from percipitating matters by offer
ing resolutions on the subject. The
constitutional democratic leaders. how
ever, who dominated everything, were
anxious not to weaken the reply which
the lower house will prepare to the
speech from the throne, in which is
sues with the throne will be Joined.
and succeeded in STAYING off prema-
ture action.
The scene around Tauride palace
was IN striking contrast with that at
the winter palace. Each, indeed, was
typical and told an eloquent story
At the Tauride palace tens Of thou
sands of people were acclaiming their
representatives; at the winter palace
leglons OF military and courtiers by
the hundreds cheered for the emperor.
Nevertheless the proceedings Of the
lower house We're not spectacular: In
fact, they were almost tame In com
parison with those at the winter PAL
ace. a II
Angry Over Amnesty.
The only genuine flashes Of Are
which showed the real temper of tI,e
members of the house were when
Prof. Mouromtseff, who had been
elected president Of the lower house
invited government officials and, clerks
to leave the throne, and when ivan
Petrunkevitch, in a few ELOQUENT
words from the, rostrum, told the
auditors I'd that the first thought of the
parliament should be for those who
had suffered in the cause OF liberty
who now filed the prisons, and whose
arms arm were stretched out in hope and
confidence to the peoples representa-
.tiyes More Enthusiastic CHEERING than
that which greeted this appeal never
was 81 heard in political convention il
the United States.
Constitution and amnesty were tI,e
key keyn note Of President Mouromtseff's
speech.
Realization Of Dream.
BY the irony of fate, Ivan PetrunIse-
witch, whose first mention Of the word
constitution Il years ago was dis
sssaa ny Emperor Nicholas II. as