Show EMPEROR NICHOLAS OBJECTS says agitation for a constitution and convocation of a national assembly is useless st petersburg dec 22 emperor nicholas formally noti flod the country today that agitation lar a constitution and the convocation ot a national asi as i is useless such Is alie construction placed upon the endorsement written in his own hand on the resolutions telegraphed by the chernikov Cherni gov dec 20 begging him in the most loyal manner to legally elected members of the to present a program of for hig consideration the emperor wrote on the dispatch 1 I consider the action of the president to be presumptuous and tactless questions of state administration arc of no concern to the eliose functions and rights are clearly defined by the law the endorsement is printed in the messenger dashing the hopes of the extremists it does not come as a cicat surprise the emperor from the beginning although he has shown himself favorably disposed towards a more liberal regime and in entire sympathy with some of the demands had resolved not to yield the principle of autocracy upon this point it is understood der stood all his advisers including interior minister agreed but the character of the agitation which followed tho meeting of the of the and alie action of various provincial and municipal councils coupled with the recent demonstrations at st petersburg moscow and elsewhere probably served to strengthen the hands ot the reactionaries and convinced the emperor of the imperative necessity for n plain spoken announcement of the sovereigns ere igns position on the main point alie reactionaries undoubtedly regard the emperors action as a distinct victory for them the conferences feren ces over the reform measures which vill be taken are still in progress at selo and will be published what tho immediate effect of the imperial administered to the chernikov Cherni gov will be is hiob it may only serve to fan the flames and be used by the revolutionary organizations to in clease the agitation and in turn compel its repression |