The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-17

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 TEXT OF MANIFESTO.
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 Emperor Expresses Sorrow At Conduct
 or Douma.
 St. Petersburg, June 16.--An imperial ukase was issued today proroguing the Council of the Empire until November 13. /a
 The following is the full text of ! Emperor's manifesto:
 We Nicholas III. by the grf of God Emperor of all the Russie szar of Poland. Grand Duke of Finlah :. etc.. declare to all our faithful subjects that in conformity with our order and in- structions since the dissolution of the first douma, our government has adop- ted series of successive measures to pacify the country and establish the affairs of state in regular course.
 The second douma convoked by us was summoned to contribute according to our sovereign will to the pacifica- tion of Russia, principally by the work of legislation, without whit- the life of state and the perfection of its ad- ministration is l. possible; next. by an examination of the budget of revenue and expenditure which ensures regu- larity in national finance and finally by the use of the right of addressing g interpellations to the government with a view to establishing everywhere truth and justice.
 Entrusting these tasks to your elec- ted representatives. the nation places upon them by that very trust very heavy responsibility and 1t was their sacred duties 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.
 To our sorrow a considerable sec- tiony of the second douma failed to jus tify our expectations. It was not with the will or desire to strengthen Rus sia and perfect her new administration that many of the delegates of the na- tion set to work, but with manf- fest tendency to augment her troubles and assist in the disruption of the state.
 Douma Was Hostile.
 As a consequence of this activity during these periods of the douma which constituted insurmountable ob- stacles to fruitful labor, a hostile spirit was introduced into the douma itself, which prevented a union of a sufficient nuDuU6r OI 1kS hCAlOCEc oCoAaO4b aOA working for the interests of this coufl- try. For this reason the douma either failed to discuss important measures that were drawn up by the government or delayed their discussion or else re- jected them, not even recoiling from the rejection of laws which punished the open support of crimes and par ticuiarIy the disseminators of trouble having 'evaded condemnation for assasi- nations and acts of violence.
 The douma did not lend its moral support to the government in the re- striction of order and Russia eontin- ued to suffer the shame of an epoch of crime and disasters.
 The 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 q considerable party in the douma into a means of fighting against the government and exciting distrust towards 1t 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 members of the Douma against the State and power of the Czar, and when our Government demanded the exclu- sion until judgment had been passed on fifty-five members of the Douma implicated in the crime and the arrest of those among them most compro- missed, the Douma failed to carry out immediately the lawful demand of the authorities which admitted of no delay.
 All this compelled us by ukase to the Senate to dissolve the second Douma, fixing September 14 as the date of the convocation of the new Douma believing, however, in Nthe patriotism and national spirit of our people.
 Cause of the Failure.
 We find the cause of failure on two occasions of activity in the Douma in the fact that owing to the work and imperfecAion of the electoral law the legislative institution was composed of members who were not truly repre- sentative of the needs and desires of the people; consequently. while leaving in force all the rights granted to our subjects by the manifesto of October 90, 1905, and the fundamental laws, we have decided to notify the proce- dure in choosing elective representa- tives of the people to the Douma in order that each section of the people may have its own representatives
 The Douma was summoned to strengthen the Russian state and ought to be Russian in spirit. Other na- tionalities forming part of our em- pire ought to have representatives of their needs in the Douma, but they ought not to appear, and shall not ap- pear, in such number as will make 1t possible for them to be arbiters on questions which are purely Russian
 Within the confines of the State where the people have not attained sufficient civic development, the cleo tions to the Douma must be tempo rarily suspended.
 All these electoral notifications could not have been introduced in the cus- tomary legislative way by the Doums whose composition is recognized by us to be unsatisfactory by reason of the imperfectton of the procedure for the elections of the members of the Doums it Is only to the power which gave the first electoral law-the historic power of the Czar, that the right of abrogating that law and replacing 1t by a new law belongs.
 God has given us the power of the Czar over our people. It is before His throne we shall answer for the destinies of the Russian state. Believ- ing this, we have made firm resolu- ton to carry on to the very end, the work begun by us for the reformation of Russia We give Russia new cleo toraI law and order it's promulgation in the Senate. From our faithful sub tects, we look for united and vigorous service in the direction indicated by us for the country whose sons have been, in all times, the firm support of its strength its greatness and it's glory.
 fCionadl Nicholas