The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27


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netnher who hands he name, written on
n n Tho papeF sllrp that ara furnished w
each desk, has \ cialn ~ apesk IN the oFtier
~ hia application or notion. II has haStly
been the eSrariencs In eastern Europe,
where imperial ~pafllaments have the race
problem always with tbsfn. that debating
should work smoothly under q syu,em that
leaves 20 much 10 tho forbeamnoe % In
dividual members: hut tho deep sens 81
being all n ona family, In Grating which
tho teachings Of the Orthodox Church
and tho long experience of paternallsm
In government have had their share.
has convinced tho Rusian Of the wis
dom Of making large allowances for
his own shortcomings and his brothers.
In the result he declines 10 copy either tbs
Austrian Reiohsrath or the Hungarian Dict,
where the accepted practice In debate IL TO
slam desks and throw the furniture about
when the elect Of the people have lost their
voices In trying TO shout eRch other down.
Yet the Duma embraces q vastly greater
number Of branches Of the human family
than any other political assembly In the
world. 1t Is the temperament Of the pure
Slav that dominates IL all.
In garb and bearing there are two largely
represented types in the Duma. There 10
the peasant In the dress which marks his
class as clearly as does a soldiers uniform:
the dusty black tunic coat, buttoned square
up to the chin, black trousers and knee
boots. The peasants are the Mountain
in the Duina sitting on the Presidents left;
mostly toward the bach benches In the
ascending semi circular tiers. They say
very little, but clap their hands vehemently
whenever "svobodnij narod' free people,
or "amnestiya' is mentioned from the tri-
bune. One Of their own speakers was
checked by President Muromtzef for
starting to tell the Duma his opinion Of the
Governor Of Samara He turned round
with a simple smile, said 'Ochen kharascho'
(All right to the President in the familiar
and respectful tones natural to the genuine
mujik, brought his speech to a close with
q call for 'amnestiya,' and went back to his
place amid the ha%ndolapping Of his friends.
Several of the peasant members are very
young; some look scarcely above the age
limit OF 81. There is one veteran from the
Saratoff province with a shock OF white
hair and beard, and eyes shining with
good humor, who went away at 8 O'Clock
last night. He is very willing to have a
chat with visitors, and he explained that he
was going home because 1t was bedtime;
and away he went to his little lodging, to
take his supper Of tea and black bread.
He writes every day to his people in the
village, who lave sent him up to tell the
Gar to stop su~bdividing the village lands :
and to give all the land TO the people.
The next largest class Of provincial menu |
bers comprises men who are Of peasant
but generally follow such call
ings as village schoolmaster, master car
sometimes doctor-the important
in the social life OF the endless,
monotonous Russian villages. They have
DO far spoken very little and are the left
wing of the "Kadets,' some Of them CLASH
fed as Of the Work party, akin to the
T~olstoian social idealists.
The hard ask Of taking over the Duma
from the hands Of the Government and
it up as an independent national
Parliament has been done by a group Of
and Petersburg men Of educa-
ton and substance. They are the chiefs
that most honorable class in Russian
who during a generation Of whole
political corruption and lawless police
persecution have refused to be bought or
.errorized and who have hoped and be-
ieved all the time that Russia could win a
Tree constitutional Government without
irenching herself in the horrors Of class
Sergius Muromtzeff, the Presi-
lent, belongs to the "nobleman' classif-
,ation in the Russian political system.
first work in the campaign against
bureaucratic ~despotism was to establish
ivil law as a course Of study in Moscow
University, and for fifteen years he turned
,ut a series Of graduates who are now the
rained jurists Of the Russian Liberal cam
His juridical weekly journal was
by the Government.
The handsome and stately Prince Peter
Dolgorukoff, First Vice-President, comes
rom an older stock in Russian history than
he Romanofs. He had all the peasants
IN his side from gratitude to a family which
las uniformly taken the side Of the plain
nan against organized ofhcialism. The
,ther Vice-President, Prof. Groudeskoul,
has dom even more radically at Kharkoff
University what Muromtzeff did at Mos
,ow. He has been spreading the principles
If constitutional law against autocracy
.mong the south Russians. He is more
-adical than the other two, and was in