The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-24
Sultan Issued Imperial Trade
Granting Oppressed Nation
a Parliament Today
WHITE FLAG THE RESULT OF
REVOLUTIONS IN THE army
Revolt of tho Albians the Last Straw
in the Vain Effort to Preserve the
Personal Regime of Abuses and In.
trlgues at the Imperial Court.

perial trade issued this morning or
dains the assembling of chamber of
deputies in accordance with the con-
stitution which has been elaborated by
the sultan. The trade has been COM
municated to the Wallis and district
lieutenant governors with the neces-
sary orders for the holding of elec-
tions.
The grand vizier Immediately took
steps to carry out the orders of his
imperial master. He addressed to all
the provincial authorities concerned a
circular telegram convening the
chamber of deputies in which he
pointed out that the method of form
ing the chamber Is determined by the
organic statute, which, according to
the official communication is the Gil
lustrious institution OF the sultan"
Startling as was the sudden dismiss
sal of Perid Pasha from the grand
Wziership and the appointment of said
Pasha in his place, this step was as
nothing compared to the sensation
created in all quarters this morning
by the official announcement that the
sultan had decided to convoke par
lament. 1t was felt that in view Of
the general revolt in the army, unpre-
cedented in the history of the Turkish
empire, some change was inevitable
and that far reaching measures Of re-
form in the central government were
bound to be inaugurated. But the
drastic action of the sultan who took
the reins into his own hands and the
stroke of the pen suddenly yielded to
the demands of. the young Turks"
and restored the constitution of 1876,
has taken the palace clique, the mem
bers of the diplomatic corps, in fact
the entire population of Constantin-
ople, completely by surprise. AL
though it was thought that long sus-
tained agitation might possibly bring
about some form of parliamentary ad-
minisration, nothing SO dramatically
abrupt was regarded as possible. The
immediate cause of the sultan's rails
ing of the white flag was the receipt
of telegram addressed to him from
the Albanains of Uskub informing him
that they had taken their oath to favor
the re-establishment of the constitu
ton. This message landed like a
thunderbolt at Yildizkiosk. The sui
tan had been under the impression
that he could depend upon the AL
ho oionc undor oil c}roumrf pcoS
Ferid Pasha, who is an Albanian had
fostered this conceit. When the facts
became known the wrath of the sui
tan Immediately fell upon his favorite
who was summoned to the palace and
dismissed on the spot. Former Grand
Vizier Said Pasha, was then sum-
moned to the palace. He gave the sui
tan an insight into the real gravity Of
the situation in the country and the
hopelessness of attempting to restore
permanent peace in the army and
among the people unless the personal
regime was its attendant abuses and
intrigues, which had brought coun-
try to the verge of ruin, came to an
end and some steps were taken in the
direction of granting a measure of
constitutional government. The atti-
tude of the Albanians had so discon-
cerned the sultan that Said Pasha
found him in a mood to make conces-
siOns and the pressure exerted by the
other men who had been long absent
from the council at the palace, COM
pleted the conversion which resulted
in the historic trade of today.