Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-14
RUSSIANS MEET
The Third Parliament Was Open. cd This Morning With Great
 Enthusiasm
EMPEROR CHEERED

St Petersburg, Nov 1.-The third Russian parliament was opened ill the Tauride palace at Il o'clock this morning, in the presence of Premier Stolypin and the cabinet, by M. Co., lubeff, vice-president of the council of the empire. The religious ser- vice preceding the opening was con ducted by the Metropolitan Antonius and a large number of bishops and other high ecclesiastics and was made the occasion for great dis play of patriotic enthusiasm on the part of the conservative and mod crate members. The national hymn was repeatedly sung and the em- peror was vigorously cheered. The city is quiet. A few hundred stu dents gathered in the vicinity of the palace, but they did not attempt to make demonstration.
 A score of mounted patrols were more than sufficient to preserve order. The only discordant note was struck by the social democrats, who remained in the committee room during the reading of the ems peror's greeting and entered the main hall only when it was neces- sary to sign the oath. The consti- tutional democrats showed no marked enthusiasm in singing the national hymn or in the cheering, but otherwise they participated decorously in the proceedings.
 Promptly at II o'clock the Metro politaL Antonius, pope of the Rus sian church, attended by an impos- ing suite of ecclesiastics gowned ill cloth of gold, filed into Catherine hall and the metropolitan and the choir began chant of praise. Two bishop deputies, Evlogi and Nitro fan, wearing sacerdotal robes, as sisted the emtropolitan, who after wards intoned the Iitany and pray CTS for the work of parliament in which the great mass of the deputies joined. At the close of the prayers, in response to general call, the national hymn was repeatedly sung amid cheers.
 While the deputies were entering the hall, Premier Stolypin ap- preached the metropolitan and re- ceived his blessing and the pontifical kiss on both cheeks.
 The ceremony of opening parlia- ment was simple. M. Golubeff, ac- companied by the secretary of the empire, Baron Uekull de Gylden- bandt, mounted the tribune, invited the members to rise and read the imperial ukase convoking the par lament and 8 brief greeting from the emperor.
 At the first mention of the en- peror's name, P. A. Krupensky, a marshal of the nobility, had been selected by the conservatives to lead the cheering, interrupted M. Golu beff with cry for cheers for the emperor, which were given with a will and were repeated at the end of NJ. Golubeff's speech. The latter then read the oath of allegiance, dis tinctly emphasizing the words ''em- peror" and "autocrat." A recess of an hour was taken while the depu- ties signed the oath.
 NJ. Khomyakoff, Octoberist, was elected president of the house, re- ceiving 371 votes on the first ballot. Count Bobrinsky, conservative, of Kiev, received two votes, and M. Golovine, constitutional democrat and ex-president of the second par lament, one vote.
 The election was the result of an agreement between the Octoberists and conservatives, the latter voting for NJ. Khomyakoff in return for q promise of one of the vice-presiden- .cies and two other offices.