New-York tribune., 1906-07-20
DOUMA BACKS DOWN.
hounds NO C4SUS BELLL.
Address TO People on 4gra11a,l
Question Toned Dozen.

e. petersburg, July 20. 3 a. nl.-An address 10
,+s country setting forth the attitude OF parlia
,,sat on the asrarian question and the reasons
,,- the delay in the adoption OF a solution of
a., problem. was adopted by the lower house at
. o'clock this morning, but in an emasculated
sorm. with changes designed to minimize the
.,volutlcnary features OF the document as an
% shift the emphasis to a note Of pacihcation, in
ztich the pessantry are exhorted TO refrain
srom e1cesses and violence and to await parlia-
-,spts decision in the matter.
The vote was taken at the close Of a sitting
.sst lasted continuously for twelve hours, in
-bich it seemed probable that the address would
=. rejected entirely by the combined votes of
she Right and Left wings OF the house against
she irresolute Centre party.
The address was saved from this fate only by
she abstention from voting Of 1O1 members Of
sbe Group of Toll and sympathizers with that
ssctien. who favored a more radical measure
There we're only 124 votes, all Constitutional
democrats. for the address. and 53 against 1T.
The minority comprised Count Hayden and
wchae. stakovich. marshal of the nobility.
and other members Of the Right with few
extremists from the Socialist camp.
TIE session. which was stormy one. was
marked at one time by the withdrawal Of the
sn.i~e Group of Toll as protest against "the
,eaetonary attitude of the majority" After
vsr5 ia caucus the group determined to return
:, the chamber. but not to vote either for or
ecsnst the address. on the ground that it would
be Tlaying into the governments hands which
ever va. the members voted. and instead TO
draft az independent address to the people.
The rejection Of the address probably would
have been a source of qualification to the Con-
stitutlonaI Democratic leaders. who at the last
moment awoke to the fact that an appeal, which
Al first they had hailed as a death blow to the
bureaucracy. would be likely to be equally fatal
10 the party Not only has the court camarilla
long sought for justification for the dissolu-
tion Of parliament but also to evoke an ele-
mental rising Of the people. in which the Con-
stitutional Democratic party would be swallowed
and its power obliterated I'm the ascendency
either Of reaction or of a revolution
The day was devoted to desperate efforts to
,s,rieve a dangerous strategic blunder. Finding
from a caucus of their own followers that 1t
Eas too late to sidetrack the address entirely
the leaders turned their endeavors TO modifying
il enough so that the government would not De
forced TO regard it as a casus belli. perhaps
With the secret hope that this would lead TO Ihe
defeat Of the address in the house.
The speeches of Ivan Petrunkevitch, who in
draft TlpDutV klltlla-
levski and other AIoderates emphasized the neces-
sltv for the pacification of the tumultuOus peas
sntry. N. Kutliarevski roundly declaring that
ihe all important question at the present crisis
q affairs was not useless polemics regarding
The ministry but the cessation of the elemental
movement Of class against class. which would
solve Russia's problem. not in the way Of peace
sul legislation. but by methods of desperation
and horror
N. Petrunkevitch, an implacable enemy OF the
government. shifted his ground TO combat reVO-
luton declaring that parliament must neltner
Weld 10 revolution nor Join in inflaming unarneo
peasantry 10 oppose themselves TO bayonets ana
machine guns but TO fight TO the last for legality
and loyalty His draft contained sop to land
owners emphasizing the point regarding the
payment for appropriated lands. but this was
eliminated in the discussion.
The Conservatives endeavored also to nave
stricken out reference in the draft TO lack OF
confidence in the ministry but they were de-
feated by the hare mention Of the "Rossia's
report Of the Austro-German plan for interven-
ton.
II Petrunkevitch was wildly applaudeo Wpeh
he declared that it was impossible to show con-
sideratioa 10 ministry which was negotiating
70 introduce foreign troops on the sacred soil OF
Russia