The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-24
RUSSIA'S REFUSAL TO
GRANT PLENARY amnesty
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ISSUED
JUSTIFYING THE GOVERN
MENT'S ATTITUDE.

Demand of the Lower House of ParIia-
ment in Address to Emperor Far
From Meeting With Sympathetic Re-
spOnse From All Sections of Russian
SOciety-Fresh Assassinations Re-
ported Daily Show Inopportuneness
of Full Amnesty--A Hope Held Out.
st. Petersburg, May 5S.-The follow
ing official statement Of the government
justifying the refusal to grant plenary
amnesty was given out tonight and
made publishable in all the papers of
Russia tomorrow morning:
The question of full political amnes-
ty which has been raised in parliament,
and which is included in the lower
houses address to the emperor and
supported by several organs of the
Russian press, is far from meeting with
a sympathetic response from all sec
tions Of Russian society 1t is impos-
sible to avoid noticing a strong current
of feeling against full amnesty in diff
ferent classes Of the population, where
1t is pointed out that political assassi-
nations do not cease. News is daily
itelegraphed from the provinces of fresh
murders or attempts to murder officials.
In the presence of such an irreconcila-
BILE disposition on the part of TIE adopts
of the terrorist societies the govern
ment cannot expose the peaceful, right
thinking section of the population to
danger. The government cannot re-
frain from bringing to justice terrorists
and bomb throwers. 1t cannot deliver
from punishment by judicial sentences
people who have committed and are still
committing such crimes.
Concerning those who have been ar
rested by administrative order, many
already have been and others will be
liberated after careful investigation of
the causes of arrest. The full pardon
Of all who have been arrested by ad-
ministrative order is possibility, and
1t may also be possible to abrogate
definitively, by legislative order, states
of war, extraordinary defense, etc, and
further to institute judicial prosecution
in localities where the revolutionary
movement displays itself. Judicial de-
preston at present is impossible in
those districts, owing to the terrcrizing
and assassination even Of witnesses
summoned to testify before the courts.
But the overexcited state of public
feelings, above all, in the districts re-
ferred to is unpropitious to the revision
or abrogation of exceptional laws.
Such is the opinion Of the impossi-
bility and inopportuneness of full am
nesty entertained by those sections Of
society which, refusing to be carried
away by preconceived views, face the
Ireality of things In Russia in a reason
able spirit"
The publication In this mornings Of
fetal Gazette Of ukases fixing the dates
for the election of members os the low
er house of the national parliament in
the Caucasus and Siberia has evoked
the sarcastic comment of the leaders OF
the opposition that the emperor is the
first to violate the new fundamental
law and decrees which he signed May s.
the ukases not bearing the counter-sig-
nature of minister, as required by the
constitution.
NJ shipoff, formerly minister Of
finance, was to-day named a member OF
the council Of the state bank.