Show END OF AUTOCRACY IN RUSSIAN EMPIRE Free Speech Free Press and a Constitution Consti-tution Assured the People St Petersburg As the result of a series of special ministerial councils under the presidency of Count WItte held to adopt measures to deal with the Internal situation the now national na-tional assembly law and laws granting grant-ing practical freedom of tho press and ot speech were adopted and a meetIng meet-Ing will ho promulgated forthwith Upon the preemptory demand ot Prince Hllkoff tho minister of railroads rail-roads the budget covering tho remuneration re-muneration of railroad employes will be revised to meet the promises mado last spring Unless this was done tho prince announced he would resign Interesting doalls aro being learned of Count Wittos interview with the czar last week Tho emperor asked Count Wltto to sneak frankly and after listening to the statesmans exposition ex-position of tho situation ho appeared to bo utterly unnerved by tho deplorable deplor-able state of ttffalrs and cried out that ho was weary of tho struggle and felt like leaving all and fleeing to Darm stadt hence probably tho origin of the report that tho emperor was going go-ing abroad Count Witte however told the emperor em-peror that In his opinion not oven a ropubllc could now save Russia from anarchy It was the emperors duty to tho people and tho country to face tho situation by meeting the classes namely to abrogate tho autocratic power and grant a constitution by creating a ministry responsible alike to the crown and to the representatives representa-tives of the nation The emperor finally accepted requesting Count Witte to draft n project |