Show KROUt HAMID OPENS THE NEW PARLIAMENT 0 f Second Attempt to Establish Constitutional Govern Government Government I ment in Turkey SULTAN CHEERED BY THRONGS OF PEOPLE MOST REMARKABLE GATHERING OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PEO PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE IN POLITICAL HISTORY I Dec Ikc 1 HAfter After an inter interval vat val al of years ears Turkey Turk y today en upon a s second attempt at constitutional government with the Inauguration ina at Constantinople new parliament under the constitution promulgated gated by the sultan In July Tul of this year ear earThe The sultan opened parliament in person with elaborate ceremony fashioned after ter the customs of older oder similar assemblies The new legislature ture met in the same chamber where the d parliament o or l 6 assembled a hall hail hallin in a building facing tire tiie square of St Sofia coria The Th scene was perhaps one of o the th most most remarkable In political history of or the tM world All the creeds and nd races rac s of or orthe the Turkish empire sent their duly elect elected el ct ed eJ representatives N Scene The many varied varie costumes of ot the dele delegates delegates gates gnes some in m flawing silk robes and others in the fashionable frock rock coat formed a gorgeous and plc pic tun turi never nEr before witnessed d in a legisla legislative tiP tive ti gathering In Albanians Sy Syrians Syrians rians and Moslem MOlem representatives while th Armenians and Bulgarians represented S the i nationalities Members from Jerusalem and an Mecca recca shoulders with their colleagues from the European provinces and the far oil off Kurdish and Arab on the confines of or the te i Indian ocean As Asfar f fr far r as can call be judged from surface indica indications indications th new parliament parIl ment Jias Iuis h s entered upon Its duties with ta a united determination determinate te ton tion to carry carr out su tho the alms aims or of the bloodless revolution which made mader r sibl the inauguration of a constitutional tonal regime in ill Turkey Sultan Greeted With Cheers With tho the meeting mecUm ot Ottoman parliament nt today toda Turkey f formally breaks from tb tha despotic rule of or centuries Sul Sui Sultan un tn Abdul Hamid through tie the it ty Ity at the head or oran an elaborate cortege to t open epen the first session of the th body ler ver where hev h was as greeted loud i i ering j ring and t ere iere was no semblance of ot disorder t The sultan sulta left ert Y palace In a ama state slate ma at fl 11 30 fo drive to the build bl ng oC Justice ant anti taping the great grett gre t square of St Sofia where wh the new chamber eh her convened He was ac ae by the first secretary of the Imperial ello AH All Bey and ana anda anaa a large larce lar e number of ot aides alBes and attendants The entire lino line of march of the Imperial arty a distance of ot five tho miles mie has been swept and with fresh tresh sand for tor the pa sage age of his majesty Day of Rejoicing These are the same samp preparations made madee e every elry ery time the tho sultan sutin leaves YildIz and particularly when he bc attends the Selam lik Uk Every regiment re In Constantinople ms under arms arns and lined up alon aIon the route of the procession to guard the th pro Cross gr or of the sultan Triumphal arches If the streets and as tR the occasion lad had been made a public holiday the city was vas Crowded with willi people Thousands came In from surrounding towns and villages a as well as from more remote parts of the Uie and almost the entire local ion turned out to witness the DIS All MI the ministers of o state the senators and the deputies of the new legislative le body bod assembled as cd at the ministry of ot justice preparatory pr to marching to the tho hall of ot parliament The foreign diplomats in Constantinople assembled at the British embassy and proceeded to the hall hail in a body bO They Th all were ere clad In their full official uniforms Tho The of or tho the people is keyed to a high pitch and their reception to the sultan and their cheers for the assembly are aze an evidence ot of the deep interest taken h b Turkey in this first step stop towards con life lIf The first Turkish parliament was as as over thirty years ago aJ but its x tence was vas 88 very brief and t l was sas dis dissolved Is IsI solved I before an definite results r were |