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Show IAPPBOPRIATION FOB BELIEF OF FMIIIE Russian Parliament Sets Asido $7,500,000 for This Purpose; 1 More Is deeded. ST. P13TJ5RSBUBG. "Dec, 23 The last session of the Hussiun parliament boforo tbe beginning of the Christmas holidavs was hold today, and a famine appropriation of $7,500,000 was passed. There was only a bare quorum present and the measure was practically not flcbated. This appropriation, with a few local bills, comprises the entire legislative product of tho first sis weeks' work of tho third duma. The famine appropriation today. which is doublo tho amount originally proposed in the budget, will bo immediately im-mediately available For tho relief of about twenty provinces. An additional addi-tional appropriation will bo necessary later. A lare part "of tho money voted today is to be distributed through tho zemstvos and other local organizations. This course is adopted becauso the centralization of relief work, such as obtained in 190G, showed the danger of abuses, aB for instance in the Gucrko Lidval case. |