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Show LAWMAKERS ARE LAZY. pjj Members of Third Russian Duma Fair H to Get Down to Work. BJ St. Petersburg. Tho duraa's slow-ness slow-ness In discharging Its duties as an executive body hasycrcatcd a bad lm- W prcsslon throughout tho country, prln- f clpally among tho adhorents of const!- t tutionnllsm. It has taken shnpo In nn unusual chastisement of his follow members of tho duma by M. Kho- ' mynkoff, Its president, In an Inter- I view in tho Novoo Vrcmyn, In which I tho president complains almost In do- I spalrlng tones of his Inability to whip 1 tho duma Into a semblance oil parllo- t, I mentnry efficiency. M. Khomyakoff denounces tho In- dlffcronco shown by a largo number ' of tho members, many of whom hard- ly over cross tho ,portals of tho Tau- " rldo palaco. Although thrco months havo olapscd slnco tho opening session, ses-sion, ho says, tho duma has scarcely-begun scarcely-begun tho consideration of tho bud-got, bud-got, reform of local courts nnd land' legislation, while eleven minor bills: which havo passed hnvo been held up through tho falluro of tho drafting, committee to got together. a t, T |