| Show Q OUM A MEMBERS WILL MAKE APPEAL Those Convicted of Signing ng Viborg Viborg VI VIro borg ro Manifesto Will Carry Case base to the Senate LIGHT T SENTENCE A SURPRISE Verdict call Declares S Trial A 1 Political ib talc gt St Petersburg Jan dun 1 l Tho Iho caso ot or of ot the tho first douma who Iho he rHO eero convicted yesterday for signing manifesto and nOlI sentenced the ho ll to months imprisonment will willbe willbe be before the tho senate the tho nt tribunal in Russia Tho defend defendants ants held n a n meeting today and pulsed passed a u vote oto ote of or warm appreciation for tor the tile brilliant services bt counsel couns l for COl the do de tense The T e main argument before the senate Benato ill be made by b M bL a leader lemler tt of the Moscow bur bar bUl who has hns tho thu brodt or of the tho present trial surd and the gov guv go which is dissatisfied with the thu induct of the trial will be bo I tented l by y tho the minister of oC jubilee justice in it person terson The verdict and the light sentences sentenceR c oL oC months i surprise l rt therl rl cume d ts e a ll o it pleasant P surprise to the defend ani and the public us fie It had been Lean feared that the admission of joint 10 re j by all the cx in inthe Inthe the dissemination of ot the manifesto a IL sentence to two years The Tiro verdict did not any allY to the loss of political rights but bul such loss 1059 merit ably follows according to the Interpretation of or the Ihu electoral law lawsell sell Even the tho emperor Is 11 a powerless by am amnesty amnesty amnesty nesty to lo reendow the franchise and the only salvation of the convicted men gun lies In a u complete revision of the tho electoral law by tho the third douma Houma The TM former deputies are are aro taking the tho philosophically They point out cut that Its It I practical results DIe ate of no Importance tin ItS they the tasted punishment Advance jn In having been excluded d from to the second and third und and systematically expelled iron state hail and municipal The Tho probability Is that th the douma louma will be long lived and that thai the next executive elections will sot rot be 10 held until 1912 1112 and It Is II gen rally raily supposed that th t by then thim tunes times willi silt have ha vc changed and the tho electoral law lac la have hae been revised Though the tile ex declare that being deprived of political rights rIght Is j the 1111 maximum of misfortune for Cor pub public Ito lic Ie spirited citizens the tho general feel teel jn them IB III of oC satisfaction with of the tho trial The Liberal preys rr halls tho Iho verdict as the tho fall ot of th on the last act let of ot the drama of cf the first douma which they the say passes Into history without dishonor The Tile calls tho the trial a n 1 po mistake of the Hussion bureau c This mistake It declares d con consent slits sent In bringing tho tM case rase to trial and thereby assisting In the resurrection resurrection tion of ot the tho first douma which left loft the courtroom u n moral victor and second I In n banishing former deputies from l life a measure of severity which Is sure lobo to be ills dis disapproved approved by public opinion abroad The Russ nUBS enumerates the Judicial Ir Irregularities Irregularities Irregularities regularities of ot tho tile case cado and the em om embarrassment ot of the court to frame a n legal leyal formula on which to base con condemnation condemnation con condemnation It argues the tho wisest for the government would have havo been to assign the manifesto to lo history l tory without prosecuting Its au authors authors thors |
