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Show 1- STRiViNG HARD TO pypjiH Bnssian Peasantry Asked to ISr' :, . Refrain From Violence and k-yy AVait in Patience, ! ? CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATS SEEM TO BE BLUNDERING ! 1 Members of Group of Toil Leave Louver House; Refuse , ito Cast Votes. ST. PETERSBURG, July 20, 3 a. m An addross lo tho country sotting forth thQ attltudQof Parliament on the agrarian ag-rarian question and the reaslns ror tho delay In th adoption of a solution of the problem was adopted by thn lower House Uhls morning, hut In an emasculated emascu-lated form, with changes designed to minimize min-imize tho revolutlonar features of tho document as an appeal to the people against tho Government and to shift tho emphasis to a note of pacification, In which the peasantry are exhorted to refrain re-frain from excesoes and vlolonce and to ppn. await Parliament's decision in the H , matter. I-tiem juong aesaion. The vote was taken at the close of a 1 1 Bluing that lasted continuously for twelve hours. In which It seemed probable prob-able that the addrosa would be rejected entirely by tho combined votes of the right and left wings of the House against the center party. The address was only saved from this fate by the abstention from voting of 101 members of the group of toll and sympathizers with that fnc-tlon, fnc-tlon, who favored a more radical mea-Eure, mea-Eure, There were only 124 volos, all Constitutional Democrats, for the address ad-dress and fifty-three against It. The minority comprised Count I-layden find Mlchaelstakovltch, a marshal of the nobility, no-bility, and other members of tho rlcht. with a few extremists from the Socialist camp. Sceno Was Stormy. The session, which was a stormy one. was marked at one time by the with drawal of tho entlro group of toll, ns a protest against tho reactionary atll-tudo atll-tudo of the majority. Afterward tho caucus cau-cus of tho group dotormlncd to return to tho chamber, but not to vole oltbor for or ngatnst tho addreBs on t'no ground that thoy would bo playing Into the Government's Gov-ernment's handB whlchovor way thoy voted, and Instead to draft an Independent Independ-ent address to the people. Tho day was devoted to desperate of-forts of-forts to retrieve a dangerous stratoglo blunder. Finding from n caucus of their own followers that It was too late to uldcstcp tha address ontlrcly, tho lcadors turned their ondoavors lo modifying It enough bo that tho Government would i not be forced to regard It as a caucus belli, perhaps with the secrat hope that this would lead to tho dofcat of tho address ad-dress in tho IIouso. The spooches of Ivan Petrunkovltch, who Introduced the substitute draft; Deputy Kutllnrovskl and othor moderates emphasized the necessity for the pacification paci-fication of tho tumultuous puasautry, M. Kutllnovakl roundly declaring that tho all-Important question at tho present crisis of affairs was not useless polemics rogardlng tho Ministry, but tho cessation of the elemental movement of claso against class, which would solvo Runsla's problem, not, In the way of poacoful legislation, leg-islation, but by methods of doBporatlon and horror. M. Poirunkevlioh, uu implacable im-placable cnomy of tho Government, shifted shift-ed his ground to combat revolution, declaring de-claring that Parliament must not ylold to revolution nor Join In Inflaming unarmed un-armed peasantry to oppose thomsolves to bayonets and machine guns, but light to the last for legality and loyalty. Ills draft contained a sop to the lnnd-owners, emphasizing the point regarding tho payment pay-ment for expropriated landB, but this was 'eliminated In the dlRcusalon. The Conservatives endeavored also to have stricken out a reference In tho draft to the lack of confidence In the Ministry, but they were defeated by the bare mention men-tion of "the RosBla's report on tho Aus-tro-Gcrman . plan for Intervention, M. Potrunkevltch being wildly applauded when he declarod that it was impdsslblo to show consideration to a Ministry which was negotiating to Introduce foreign for-eign troops on the sacred soil of Russia. |
