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Show ;s;cse of Cz:r fo I v Ceply to Tlirce Trc I Cussin P:rli:ent.; 1 1 SAJTCr niASSZUXAISS.", ; ; : t . .'; . 8T. PETERSBURG. May . li-In 1 St. Petersburg; the political prison- ' 1 W'ers waiUng- transports tlo a st ths W N. : deporting prison hung out red flairs ('. 1 -from th -windows and sang the ; "Marseillatse" throughout, ths ( night, wblls crowds outside joined '. . 1 In ths reTolutionary son. -. ; 0 sS STc PETERSBTJRO, May - It The critical . moment- which will : decide i whether there will be peace or war be- tween the crown and the people appa-" i rentlr arrived with the adoption by the l lower house of Parliament last night of ' i Its reply to the speech from the throne.' i President ' Mouromtseff - baa : gone to ' Peter hof to present the reply to the j Emperor and bis Majesty's response Is ' awaited with great anxiety.. . Popular opinion considers that ths Government baa no option between sur-render.and sur-render.and war. Nevertheless, while events during the past week followed each other with extrem rapldity.'the Issue now raised, la not likely to be de elded quickly.. ; ,;- ' Government Is Dazed. . " The Russians generally believe that the Emperor, court and Government undoubtedly have been daaed . by the -blunt, direct fashion with which Par- . , Uament has spoken out and their policy, ' naturally will be to gain time. - '' The ' Emperor personally , is In a beneficent frame of mind and for the ' present will not listen to the counsels . of those : who advise - him to dissolve : Parliament ahd fight. . Nevertheless, he is resoled not to yield anything like all that Parliament demands... It safely can be predicted, therefore, that h -will jir'j. tempo- , rlzlng policy with' partial amnesty as... the, first sop throws to the country Would Avoid Conflict. . , - V - ; The Constitutional Democratic lead- ' era, whose programme would be upset by the dissolution of Parliament, are ' . quite as anxious as ' the Emperor to .. avoid the precipitation of a conflict. They would regard the failure of th ' Government to declare war as a big preliminary victory of which they "would take advantage by forcing . -through their agrarian project, upon : which, they count to strengthen them- . selves In the country before the final battle opens. . y. Trepolt Urges Fight. . ; . That the court reactionists, beaded , by Gen. Trepoff, are seeking In every way -possible to Influence the Emperor to fight, : Is apparent, by the . discovery made by the Rech of a recent circular -sent to the Governors Instructing them, to have, the "black hundred" organixa- r tions Immediately dispatch to the Emperor Em-peror protests against amnesty and the abolition of the death penalty. These have been flowing Into Peterhof from all directions, over fifty being printed in the Official Messenger today. Demand for Amnesty. . .- '.; . Dispatches from the Interior report demonstrations .In front of the prisons In all parts of Russia in favor of th- release of the political prisoners. ' At Slmferpol troops surrounded the prison where the political prisoners were ma-'- . - king a demonstration and fired at them through the windows. .,- |
