The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
TRANQUILITY IN
 ST. PETERSBURG Sting of Dissolution of Sec ond Duma Received in
 Perfect Quiet. READY FOR TROUBLE. Authorities Expect Demon stration To-day But Are
 Not Alarmed.
READY FOR TROUBLE.

tion of the second duma was received throughout St. Petersburg with perfect tranquility. Thanks to the precaution- ary measures taken by the authorities order prevailed to-day in this city and ip no place in Russia, so far as is known here were there any serious disturbances. No reports of disorder in the interior have been received up to midnight
 Demonstrations among St. Peters, burg workmen are anticipated to-mor- row, but the authorities are not alarm ed over this. They profess to be chief ly apprehensive over the possibility of rioting and racial excesses in Odessa and Kiev and other cities where party feeling runs high. An outbreak of agrarian disorders in several regions of the empire Is anticipated later, when peasantry learn of the dissolution, but spirit of quiet confidence in the abili- ty of the government to handle the situation prevails in administration circles.
 The following is the full text of the Emperor's manifesto:
 ''We, Nicholas, II, by the grace of God, emperor of all the Russias, Czar of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, etc, declare to all our faithful subjects that, in conformity with our order and instructions since the dissolution of the first duma, our government has adopt ed a series of successive measures to pacify the country and establish the affairs of state in regular course.
 sThe second duna convolSed by us was. summoned to contribute, according to our sovereign, to the pacification or Russia, principally by the work of legislation, without which the life of state and the perfection of it's ad- ministration is impossible, next by an examination of the budget of revenue and expenditure which ensures regu- larity in national finance, and, finally by the national use of the right of ad- dressing interpellations to the govern ment with view to establishing every where truth and justice.
 "Entrusting these tasks to the elect ed representatives, the nation placed upon them by that very trust a heavy responsibility and it was their sacred duty to use their rights in wise labor for the welfare and the strengthening of the Russian state. Such were our ideas and desires when we gave to the nation new principles for the life of the state.
 ITO our sorrow a considerable sec- tion of the second duma failed to jus tify our expectations. It was not with the will or desire to strengthen Russia and perfect her new administration that many of the delegates of the na- tion set to work. but with a manifest tendency to augment her troubles and assist in the disruption of the state.
 "As a consequence of this activity during these periods of the duma, which constituted an insurmountable obstacle to fruitful labor, hostile spir- 1t was introduced into the duma itself which prevented the union of a suf- ticient number of it's members desirous of working for the interests of the country. For this reason the duma either failed to discuss important meas ures that were drawn up by her gov- ernment or delayed their discussion or else rejected them, not even fecoiling from the rejection of laws which pun ished the open support of crimes, and particularly the disseminators of trouble having evaded condemnation for assassinations and acts of violence.
 sgThe duma did not lend it's mora, support to the government in the res toration of order, and Russia continues to suffer the shame of an epoch of crimes and disasters
 'HThe examination of the budget ere ated an obstacle to the timely satisfac- tion of many of the vital needs of the people. The right of interpolation was transformed by considerable party in the duma into a means oi fighting against the government and ex- citing distrust towards it among large classes of the people.
 Lastly, an act was committed un- heard of in the annals of history. The judicial authorities discovered a plot by section of the duma against the state and power of the czar, but when our government demanded the exclu. sion, until judgment had been passed of fifty-flve members of the duma i'm. plicated in the crime, and the arrest oi those among them most coproised, the duma failed to carry out immediately the lawful demand of the authorities which admitted of no delay
 "All this compelled us by ukase tc the senate to dissolve the second duma fixing September If as the date of the convolution of the new duma, believ- ing, however, in the patriotism and na- tional spirit of our people.
 We find the cause of failure on two occasions of activity in the duma ir the fact that, owing to the work and imperfection of the electoral law, the legislative institution was composed of members of who were not truly repre-. sentatives of the needs and desires of the people; consequently, while leav- ing in force all the rights granted tc our subjects by the manifesto of Oc- tober 30, 1905, and the fundamental laws, we have decided to modify the procedure in choosing elected represen- tatives of the people to the duma in order that each section of the people may have its own representatives.
 ''The duma was summoned tc strengthen the Russian state and ought to be Russian in spirit, Other nation alities forming part of our empire ought to have representatives of theil ,,eeds in the duma but they ought not