The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-07
DAWN OF A NEW ERA
RUssIA's ENTRY INTO PARLIA-
 MENTARY LIFE.
rcars That the Government Would At- tempt the Dissolution of the National Congress ,Before Any
 Action is Vanishfng.

St. Petersburg. May 6--The members of the national parliament and of the council of the empire are arriving here | on every train. Quite number of dis tinguished foreign visitors and jour | nalists already have reached St. Peters burg to witness Thursdays great his- | toric event---the inauguration of the Russian parliament.
 The fears that the government might attempt, to dissolve the parliament before it had the. opportunity of &C., complaining anything are vanishing. and despite the bomb outrage, at Mos | COW today, and the continued irrecon- cilable attitude of the extreme revolu- | tionists there is more hopeful feeling that Russia may enter smoothly into | parliamentary life.
 a This is due not only to the moder- ate attitude of the constitutional Dem ocratic majority whose leaders are
 holding the extremists among them In
 check but to the manifest desire of the government to avoid a conflict The two cabinets has announced policy of hands of. practically saving that the parliament shall have carte blanche
 and that so long as 1t does not att tempt to medd1e with the Fundamental
 laws of the empire the parliament will
 be allowed to offer It's own solution for the crying agrarian problem.
 With this attitude of the govern . | ment. If it Is sincerely carried out,
 the constitutionaI democrats for the present are content. They believe
 their final victory when the Emperor will be forced to grant constitution Is not far off. few months at most, especially if in the meantime they are permitted to accomplish something tangible which. will strengthen them with the country ,4 l.
 A~rf A ! with M NaboukoffJ leader of the Con- titutional Democrats who said frankly | that his party had no desire at present to have a premier and cabinet. even if 1t could Such responsibility woul1 place 1t upon the defensive, while by remaining in opposition with the coun- try behind 1t, the chances of forcing a
 complete SUIT render were increased i'm
 stead of being diminished. The littls
 group of socialists of the extreme left
 has not yet shown its hand. but with
 cut the Constitutional Democrats who have a clear working majority. 1t will be powerless to force conflict. The Octoberists in the center are an eligible quantity and with the present temper at Tsarskoe Selo the small group of reactionaries in the parlia- ment sings low.
 The program of ceremonies at the winter DdlaCe WncTc IHO cthpCtoh WiAA deliver the speech from the throne has been arranged with all the glitter and nomp of a solemn State function. the idea of an informal opening in order to diminish the importance of the posi- tion of the parliament having been abandoned.
 The entire imperial family with the ladies and gentlemen of the court. the former in ancient Russian costumes and
 the latter in court dress, ministers. gen.
 erals, admirals. marsha1s of the nobil-
 ity and such governors general and military commanders as are in St. Pe-
 tersburg the mayors and city councils of St. Petersburg and Moscow and
 members of the Holy synod. are com
 manded to attend. The chiefs of n1is.
 sions were invited by an imperial or
 der which was issued today.
 The members of the parliament will assemble in the beautiful Nicholas
 Hall. the council of the empire, at the
 Hermitage pavilion, and the others. at
 the Armorial. Field Marshall and other
 halls, and march in state to the great
 hall of St. George. a magnificent. pill
 Jared chamber fifty yards long and
 twenty-five yards wide. where the Elm peror from the throne will address the Parliament and the council of the em- pire, which will return respectively to the Tauride Palace and the Hall of Nobles, where the formal; opening of the Houses will take place.