The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-27
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Russian Parliament Sets Forth At
titude on Agrarian Question
and Reason for Delay.
MAY PROVE FATAL BLUNDER
Members Greatly Divided-MOre
Than 100 Refused to VOte-Mny
be Dissolved and New EIec-
ton Ordered.

st. Petersburg, July 20.-An address
to the country setting forth the atti-
| tude of parliament on the agrarian
| question and the reasons for the delay
| in the adoption of a solution of the
problem was adopted by the lower
house at o'clock Thursday morning
but in an emasculated form, with
changes designed to minimize the
revolutionary features of the docu-
ment as an appeal to the people
against the govern :nent and to shift
| the emphasis to a note of pacifcation
in which the peasantry are eXhorted
| to refrain from excuses and violence
and to await parlic ment's decision III
the matter.
The vote was taken at the close OF
a sitting that lasted continuously for
| ~ 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 hous3
| against the center party. The address
was only saved frcm this fate by tine
llOIl NOAlnS VI lOl iiSiii
bers of the Group Of Toll and sympa-
| thizers with that t@ction, who favored
a more radical measure. There were
only 124 votes, all constitutional DEM
ocrats, for the address, aud SO against
| it. The minority comprised Count
Hayden and Michael Stakovich, mar.
shall of the nobility, and other men,
bers of the right, with few extrem-
| lists from the socialist camp.
The session which was stormy one
was marked at one time by the with
drawal of the eutire group of toll as
| protest against the reactionary
| attitude of the majority. Afterward
| the caucus of the group determined to
return to the chamber but not to vote
| for or against the address on the
ground that they would be playing
| into the governments hands which
| ever way they voted and instead to
| draft an impendent address to the
| people, The rejection of the address
probably would have been source
of qualification to the constitutional
| democratic leaders, who at the last
moment awoke to the fact that all
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
camarilla long sought for justifioa-
| ton for the dissolution of parlia-
ment, but also to evoke an elemental
rising of the people in which the
constitutional democratic party would
be swallowed and its power obliterat-
ed in the ascendary either of reac-
ton or of a revolution. The day was
devoted to desperate efforts to retrieve
a dangerous strategic blunder. Find
ing from a caucus of their own fol-
lowers that it was too late to side
track the address entirely, the leaders
turned their endeavors to modifying
it enough so that the government
would not be forced to regard it as
a casus belli, perhaps with the Sc
cret hope that this would lead to
lhe defeat of the address an the
house.
The conservatives endeavored ~.
have stricken out reference in the
draft to lack of confidence in the min
istry; but they were defeated by the
bare mention of the Rossias report
of the Austria-German plan for
Intervention, M. Petrunkevitch being
wildly applauded when he declared
that it was impossible to show consid-
Grafton to a ministry which was ne
gotiating to introduce foreign troops
| on the sacred soil of Russia.