Show CHECK ON THE ASSEMBLY czar does not propose to place him self at mercy or the people st petersburg the full text of an imperial manifesto and laws relative to the national assembly and the re organized council of the empire throws a flood of light on the purpose of the government to keep a firm check on the new russian parliament and to exclude certain subjects from consideration by the people s depre senta tives the composition of the council of the emp re or upper house of the national assembly with one halt appointed by the emperor and twenty six elected from the nobility and clergy not counting scattering supporters from other classes seems to insure a conservative it not a plia ble major ty in the council to alck the national assembly should the ma bority of the latter be in opposition to the crown |