Show CHAINS Of AUTOCRACY C CAST OFF BY RUSSIA Assem Meeting of the New National bly Expected to Mark Beginning of New Era In Lives of Russians St Petersburg Without a single to minor incident hitch and without a mar the memorable day the Russian parliament has been Inaugurated the Tho weather was superb and stage agreement of Impressive cero at time Winter palace whore Emperor Nicholas on Thursday surrounded by courtiers and all the pomp and panoply pano-ply of power delivered the speech from the throne to the members of tho two houses was perfect The message In reality was loss a throne speech than a greeting and required re-quired only three minutes for Us delivery de-livery Emperor Nicholas read slowly slow-ly I The admirable and even cordial tone of the sovereign in reviewing his pledges and asking tho cooperation of parliament for the regeneration of the country was only negatively satisfactory satisfac-tory Courtiers and spectators other than members of tho national parliament led the cheering but the members were ominously silent expressing neither nei-ther approval nor disapproval What rankled most was tho failure of the emperor to mention amnesty and later lat-er when tho members assembled In the Taurldo palace away from the spell of the throne room many of them wero with difficulty restrained from precipitating matters by offering resolutions on the subject Tho only genuine flashes of Hro which showed the real temper of the members of the house were when Professor Pro-fessor Mouromtzeff who had been elected president of the lower house Invited government officials and clerks to leave tho hall and when Ivan Pe trunkovlch in a few eloquent words from tho rostrum told the auditors that the first thought of the parliament parlia-ment should be for those who had suffered In the cause of liberty who now filled tho prisons and whoso arms were stretched out In hope and confidence con-fidence to the peoples representatives representa-tives More enthusiastic cheering than that which greeted this appeal never was heard In a political convention In tune United States Constitution and amnesty wero the keynotes of President Presi-dent Mouromtzeff speech By the Irony of fate Ivan Petrunke vlch whose first mention of tho word constitution twelve years ace was dis missed by Emperor Nicholas II as a foolish dream today stood In the front rank of the members of tho representative rep-resentative chamber while Emperor Nicholas put his final seal upon the Russian parliament and begged the representatives of the people to cooperate co-operate with him In working for tho welfare of the country |