Show IF FATE AtE OF RUSSIA IN THE BALANCE National Assembly on Which I So Much Depends Will Meet Thursday LIBERALS HAVE MAJORITY IViA RITY 1 W ANXIOUSLY ANXIOUSLY AWAITING G Gi i THE RESULT i New York May I y The national assem assern assembly bly bl of Russia to which so many hopes i ifor for the future of that country co are pinned pinne will wIn be convened at the palace aluce in inSi inSi Si St Petersburg on Thursday May Mav 10 Never before in the history of Russia has there been an assemblage a which with the sanction and approval of the govern goern government ment meat has represented the people It Iti i would therefore appear to be an experiment ment mont upon the outcome of which will de tie depend depend pend pond the future of Russia Plan of the Douma I The national assembly or douma was wasI I granted by b the emperor August 19 9 1005 I i and according to the official announce ment Is established for the preliminary study and definition of legislative propositions propositions I which according to the funda fundamental I I mental laws go up through the council 1 of the empire to the supreme autocratic I authority The composition of ot the coun council COuncil cil of the empire or upper house one i half appointed by the emperor and one half elected from the nobility and clergy would seem sufficiently probable to dead deadlock deadlock deadlock I lock the douma should there be any op opposition opposition opposition position in the crown I In the manifesto issued on March 6 1906 was an innocent looking provision I placing beyond the jurisdiction of parlia parliament j ment mont and consigning for consideration to toI I commissions of the council of the empire 1 I the reports of the minister of finance i charges of malfeasance against officials of I 1 the government the establishment of i istock stock companies with special privileges j I and questions relating to entailed estates titles of nobility etc I I The government nt retains the power to II I promulgate temporary laws during the recesses of parliament and as the parlia parliament parliament I ment is subject to dissolution by imperial I II ukase the government is in a position in I I time of stress ss to rid itself of any an obnoxious obnoxious obnoxious I ious legislature and proclaim such laws j I as it deems necessary I i Liberals Hae Have a Majority I II I Three hundred and members have ben been elected to the assembly of I which the Constitutional Democrats have havea a clear working majority The oath to be taken by the members I Is We Ye promise to perform our duties to toI I the best of our knowledge and ability in all loyalty to his majesty and mindful I only of the welfare of Russia Russa The first and all important matter to toI I come CO up will be the agrarian problem and recent from St Petersburg seem to indicate in that the government will win work In lii accord with the assembly in this matter mutter by proposing the formation of a ap ap app p pp commission to elaborate for an agrarian project Tub will I practically mean the acceptance of the jl decision of the Constitutional Democrats j 1 It was first announced that the douma i would be opened by the emperor em but this J plan has since in t e been bee abandoned I |