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Show Czar Receives Pour of Zcmstvo Congress Action of the Emperor Spread Like Wildflro and Created) Tremendous Tremen-dous Excitement. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2C.-2:W a. in. Tho unexpected may happen after all. The meeting of the Zcmstvoslsts, "first Russian congress" as It Is now called, may Indeed mark the beginning of a now era. for Russia, Emperor Nicholas, Initiator of the plan for universal disarmament, may turn his back on tho reactionaries and crown his reign by granting to hlB subjects the constitution which his grandfather grand-father had already prepared when ho' fell by the hand of an assassin. Receives Deputation. Tho basis of such a possibility ls the significant fact that lato this afternoon the Emperor received four prominent members of the Zemstvo congress and listened lis-tened at length to their views. It develops devel-ops that when Minister of the Interior Svlatopolk-Mlrsky presented the Zemstvo memorial and resolutions on November 21. the Emperor wa3 so deeply Impressed, as well by the contents of the documents s by the character of tho signers, that ho Immediately expressed the desire personally per-sonally to receive a deputation of four. By Imperial Command. The Zemstvolsts therefore went to Tsarkoe-Saloe bv Imperial command. At their audience. It is said, they explained fully their position and reiterated tho views expressed by the memorial, that the salvation of the Empire from ruin by revolution lay In the adoption of the general Idens expressed In the memorial. The Emperor was greatly Impressed by what he heard and asked many questions. While It Is said he gavo no Indication of his purpose, except the sympathy displayed, dis-played, tho emissaries, when tho returned to St. Petersburg, wcro ln hlch spirits. Tho news that the delegation had been given an audience by tho Emperor Bprcad like wildfire through the city tonight and created tremendous excitement, rejoicing among the Liberals and amazement among thcwncompromlslng supporters of the old regime. Immediate Effect of Meeting. Earlier ln tho day a report was current that an immediate offect of tho Zemstvo meeting would likely be tho realization of tho plan for giving two elected Zemstvo representatives seats In the council of tho Empire. Ono of tho promlnont Liberals who participated In the congress tonight declined to share ln the Jubilation of some of his colleagues, and oxprcssed tho opinion that victory was yet a long way off, although ho said ho believed It was suro to come ln the end, "All tho members of tho congress," ho said, "are largo landed proprietors. A leveling process which would put tho MuJIk on nn equality with them must be prejudicial to their personal interests. In Russia men seem anxious to mako sacrifices sacri-fices for an altruistic Ideal. Tho same thing- happened with tho emancipation of UN -perftV'In ho tlrao of' Alexander- II, when many nobles advocated the measuro, though It meant practically ruin for them personally " |