Deseret Evening News | 1906-05-14 | Page 7 | Ex-Premier Witte

WITTE lh HI es cs In III Council of the nud ilk Couro London May Hay K The Times rimes St Pe Petersburg Petersburg Petersburg correspondent nt says M that nt the tho meeting of ot tho ho council of the em pine Sunday Minister Dmitri i astonished the assembly by b proposing to Introduce In III the address In reply to the speech from the throne n humble request that tho the emperor revoke the tI fundamental law 1 w which In his mind was liable to be bo the source of ot a n bitter conflict with the tho lower house hou e of ot par parliament Several bureaucrats who w wm were rc Inexpressibly shocked nt et M lI Ship offs audacity declared that tho the had nad trade made sufficient concession con concession cession Former Premier Witte rope role tho the correspondent continued and delivered a n forty minutes speech lie He bind suld he ho hill had been he compelled to do ItO things which he himself disapproved His 11 motive al id always 1 ways hall hail been heen Rood g o but the circum circumstances l stances were too strong for fOI him He lie saw w no nu objection to tho the proposals ad advocated II orated by b Prof Bagnley of ot who urged the tho council of ot the tho empire to o work In it unison with tho the assembly and In III the address to lo pray limy that his hili majesty In III limiting amnesty be Hullo guided only on by the goodness of or his own heart h nut Hut with regard to M I pro proposal Count said It wIle was Irreconcilable with the tho character I of a n body bOlly like hike the tho council ot of the Iho empire to such n recommendation to the over sovereign eign