Show RUSSIANS NS NOW FAVOR THE PLAN New National Assembly With the People JEWS ARE WELL PLEASED BUREAUCRACY HAS NEITHER VOICE NOR NO VOTE VOT St Petersburg Sapt Supt S 12 a in m Though the new national assembly dur during durinG durin ing in the first days das after the issuance of the emperors manifesto calling the assembly was wa given more unfavorable criticism cr than praise and the Russian press through Ignorance took a far less favorable view of the new nev Institution than did the foreign newspapers n the value of the assembly the extent of its powers and the long Jong steps step forward it marks in the path of reform are now becoming generally generall recognized through throughout out the empire A flood of addresses of thanks is coming in from all classes and from all regions the city cit doumas leading the district thou the urban population was supposed to have been placed at a Q considerable disadvantage to the peasants and the nobility under the electoral arrangement A number numbe of doumas dounias have hae coupled their thell addresses u with ith requests for freedom of speech and of the press ress but only in a few cities were addresses rejected Studying It Carefully The project the provisions of ot which are difficult of comprehension c by peo people people pie not experienced in parliamentary institutions is being einS taken up for care careful tul ful study tudy and consideration and be because because because cause of this much of the adverse criticism criticism criticism cism is i wearing away awa and the talk of or ofa ora ofa a boycott of the assembly by b the Lib Liberals Liberals Liberals is no longer heard Public dis discussion cusHIon of the assembly and the steps that are ale being taken to put it into ef effect effect effect are bringing to light minor defects detects and impracticable provisions in the project and the ministry of the interior is busy answering questions and fur furnishing furnishing furnishing interpretations on doubtful points It is apparent that a number of modifications either by imperial di direction direction or 01 by the douma itself will be b necessary before the assembly becomes a practical working body bOd Remedying Defects Some of ot the principal complaints that the border provinces were not to be represented in the first assembly have been removed by b the prompt convening conven ng ngot of ot the commission for elaborating elaborating elaboratIng ing a scheme for elections in these die dis districts in which the system 8 stem of local or organization organization that prevails in the fifty governments of Russia proper and the machinery of which was appointed by bythe bythe bythe the commission for tor election purposes is and by a declaration declaration declaration of ot the ministry of the interior that the reports are absolutely with without without without out foundation The elections in the entire empire must be ended by Dec Dee 5 Since the work of canvassing the vote and the journeys journe s of distant distan representatives to toS toSi St Si S Petersburg will occupy the month before b ore the tle date fixed by the emperor for convening the assembly the work of preparation of electoral lists is ac actively active tive under way in tn the various cities and aud a d in the country districts and tele telegraphic telegraphic telegraphic graphic orders ord rs have been sent to the dilatory heads of if a 0 number of gov governments go governments to proceed immediately with the work wor Acting in iQ Good Faith ralth Falt Accusations which l are frequently cir circulated circulated ir in many man parliamentary states that the government Intends to manip manipulate manipulate elections el are heard here concern concerning concerning ing hug the thern douma and indeed with numerical predominance of peasant lectors and the peasants awe of the prefects and other local officials the government is undoubtedly in a position position position tion to do so This undoubtedly will willbe willbe willbe be the desire d of at many provincial Chin 0 who have been accustomed to wielding arbitrary o authority with lit little little littie tle tie more reference to the wishes of the central government thi i to the desires desire of the people of this district but the provisions of ot the project and election regulations r and special orders issued since show snow that the government is act acting acting actIng ing In good faith and is doing its beat best to make the elections Independent A limit Is put in Q fl the activity acUity of the prey provincial provincial administrative a authorities and the elections are placed in the control of ot authorities popularly elected or 01 ap op appointive p Bureaucracy Has No Vote The rhe bureaucracy has no voice in the arrangements and no vote in elections A number of computations have been made mad by enemies of the project for tOl the purpose of shonN showing ing the peasants in the I majority in the douma but these prognostications are groundless as it is nut known what combinations the three classes of oC electors will form among themselves in the various governments and the inclination of ot the present elect electors electors ors ore Is to use uso US the plurality colleges to secure an undue share of representatives tives and forge the city I o and ana nobility lectors to combine in The project K js J received tec hed with wih satia s ti H faction by the Jews J in Russia primar rImar ily i because it is ia the first general genei l law promulgated in in il thirty years eara not containing cn n ng a clause clauie discriminating I against Jews as a race This Thia is more than they the had hoped for They The ar granted political rights ri hs under the I douma equal Oqual to those of nil All the other I megs rac of the empire but tut they tey are ar still without a large lar e proportion of the civil civi rights enjoyed Ed by b other othel Russians Russian I |