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Show OPPOSE ANY COMPROMISE. ' Proposal for Body With Only Consultative Consul-tative Powers Loses Ground, ST. PETERSDUUG, May 14, 1:68 a. m-I.at m-I.at week wltneaaod a notable victory for the advocates of a etralght parliamentary regime. re-gime. M 6hlpoffra compromUo programme for B representative body, with only a consultative con-sultative volco In the Government which was ot fir it rr-rei-nl ulfh much npplauso from thil I, ..Mlir.lt, llb-Tuls. '.V in, n.. I ,,,!) ir,..,T,d b the acconcl zi-mstvo conaTcca which rnet at Moscow, but ecenis to bo losing Instead of winning supporters. Danger of Sovereign Power. The news from Moecow. whom tho real heart of Russia beats. Is thot H- nllmnnt Is n-.w practically crystallized ngalntt unv compromise compro-mise Arbitrariness. It Is contended, la tho root of nil the Ills of Kussla'a hodv politic nnd as long as ail powi r renulni In 'he li , i, i ..f the BOVeralgn, no KViarnnters f.jr tho futur.-can futur.-can exist. Merchants Won Over. The big merchant class of Uosoow, which wields great Influence, Is being gradually won over to declaring IhHl the Russian people enjoy as tiiu.-h liberty as tho Germans do; and news from other quarters shows thut lornstvos and doumns. as vvrll ae professional bodies, uto ilanttng their banners on this advanced ad-vanced ground The M.,m ,, . Ictirci.t s.-nt a deputation to Minister of th... Interior Bou-llgnn Bou-llgnn with a strong sot of resolutions In favor of a parliamentary regime under the nir.tn, "liberty. Ordnr, Instruction und F. onoml. Welfare." Nightly Meetings in Houses, In Mosc i W os well as elsewhere, tln-re are nightly aeeemblacee in private houses, when such men as l'rof MolukotY nln 0 wi-u known li America lecture on th aer-nr. ,,f government. I-'rof. Kov-alevsky. tho woiid-fa-moua social organiser, In a public Intervl. w ridiculed Shlpoffs schemo a.s uttc-rly Imprac' tlriibh- and unworkablo as a theory for government. gov-ernment. Ridicules ShipofF's Scheme. "His Idea of eemeky aouvlet." said Prof Kovalevskl, "Is In imitution ot tho Pru-alan Pru-alan plun which resulted In division In isjj to allow repnseatatlves of tiio people tiir opinion, but gggerfa yowr to tho a'.vcrcign is Impossible. To convoke the people's renre sontativcs to simply expreee then wishes hi red p..pular repi. scntutloii. and would i.nh end in opH.hlt)..n and not be of aid to tho ' lo ' er u trie nt. The Inevitable result would be either the capitulation of tho GyVe-rument to tho majority or a rovolutlon." |