The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-20
TO PEOPLE
NOT INFLAMMATORY
Constitutional Democrats Get
the Measure Modified
OPPOSED TO BLOODSHED
Pstrunkevltch Urges Them to Stick
BY Legality and Not to Expose
Themselves to Machine
ouns and Bayonets.

St. Petersburg, July 20.-(3 a. m.)-An
address to the country setting forth the
attitude of Parliament on the agrarlan
question and the reasons for the delay
In the adoption of a solution of the prob
lem. was adopted by the lower house at
. o'clock this morning. but in an emascu-
lated form. with changes designed to min
imlze the revolutionary features of the
document as an appeal to the people
against the government, and shift the
emphasis to a note of paoification, IN
which the peasantry are exhorted to re-
fraln from excuses and violence. and to
await Pariiaments decision In the mat
ter.
Tho vote was taken at the close Of
a sitting that lasted continuously for
twelve hours in which it seemed prob
able that the address would be rejected
entirely by the combined vetes of the
right and left wings of the house against
the irresolute center party.
Many Abstain From Voting.
The address was only saved from this
fate by the abstention from voting OF
101 members Of the group of toll and
sympathizers with the faction who favor
ed a more radical measure. There were
only 124 votes, all constitutional demo-
Gratis. for the address and 80 against It..
The minority comprised Count Hayden
and Michael Stakolvich. a marshal OF the
nobility, and other members of the right
with few extremists from the socialist
camp.
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"
Afterwards the caucus of the group Of
toll decided to return to the chamber,
bit 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.
Discover Mistake Too Late.
The rejection of the address would
probably have been a source of gratifi-
ootton 70 ~ oonstit,,+innaI damocra ttc
leaders. who at the last moment awoke
to the fact that an appeal which at
AIT tha, bod ha,laa ae death blow
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equally fatal to the party as not only
has the court camarilla long sought for
a Justification for the dissolution of Par
1ta,,ant h,t also 10 avalxa an alArnentaI
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iisine VI Tue peop'o ~
stitutlonai democratic parry "ouio pe
swallowed and Its power obllterated In
the ascendency either of the reaction or
of revolt.
The day was devoted to desperate eff
forts to retrieve dangerous strategic
blunder Finding from g. caucus of their
own followers that it was too late to
sidetraek the address entirely the
leaders turned their endeavors to modify
ing 1t enough so that the government
would not be forced to regard Ii casus
beli, perhaps. with the secret hope that
this would lead to the defeat of the
address in the house
The speeches of Ivan Petrunkevitch
who introduced the substitute, M. Kut-
liarveski and other moderates, empha-
sized the necessity for the paclhcation
OF tumultous peasant uprising.
atI..L
"Saiu TsS'S
NJ Kutliaryeski declared tnat the all