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Show PRESIDENT OF DUMA IrlflM RESIGN Michael Rodzianko Declares He Was Insulted by Party Leader. LONDON, Dec. 5, 9:37 p. m. Michael Rodzianko. president of the Russian duma, has resigned on account of being insulted by the extreme rightist leader, M. Mar-koff, Mar-koff, according to a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. Markoff interrupted M. Rodzianko, Rod-zianko, calling him a "babbling blackguard." black-guard." M Markoff explained that he was deliberately de-liberately insulting the duma in the person per-son of Its president, because the duma in a previous sitting had insulted high personages. M. Rodzianko Immediately left " the presidential chair, declaring he had been insulted not only as president, but as a man. On motion ofi Vice President Count Bobrinsky, M. Markoff was excluded from the duma for fifteen sittings. i LONDON, Dec. 6, 3:12 a. m Another dispatch to Reuter from Petrograd says that M. Rodzianko was re-elected president presi-dent of the duma by a vote of 255 against 26. |