Show THAT BODY HELD IN DISTRUST BY THE PEASANTS HOUSE governments land communication puts parliament in bad light hope to stem akie of aal f mosley by an appeal st petersburg july 9 the initial steps toward th adoption 0 a direct address to the country to counteract the impression the governments communication muni cation with regard to the settlement of the agrarian question is making among the peasantry were taken in the lower house of parliament today when an interpellation was introduced asking for an explanation of the dissemination of the governmental proclamation to the peasants july 3 will issue counter appeal this proclamation accompanied the publication in the official messenger of the governments agrarian bill and set forth the emperors constant soll for tho peasants welfare and denied that the government was opposing expropriation in the interest of the landlords concluding with an expression of the vital necessity of maintaining the rights of property aa being j the foundation of the state the interpellation was referred to a commission which is expected to recommend the issuance of a counter appeal setting forth the views and intentions tent ions of parliament prof kuzman the legal expert of parliament has developed the theory that tho action of the administration in spreading views directly opposed to the expressed policy of the legislative branch was an illegal encroachment ou the privileges of parliament li to block governments game count Muk hanoff president of the house agrarian commission dilated on how the law chich the commission was now elaborating was handicapped by the circulation of tho emperors proclamation new tactics had been necessitated by alarming news from various sections as to the effects produced by the proclamation the slow progress of parliament was contrasted with the governments fair sounding promises of the distribution of all arable state lands and other measures to relieve the land hunger of the peasants count added that the report was being spread in many parts of the country that athe emperor had ordered the distribution of lands to the peasants but that parliament like the wicked fairies in old stories was withholding the little fathers gift from his children peasants distrust parliament C 1 L deputy von rutzen from the province of bursk who has just returned from a visit to that section told the associated socia ted press today that he bad found many peasants harboring a distinct feeling 0 o distrust if not of ani rosity towards parliament which netty officials naturally are doing their utmost to encourage the governments agrarian proclamation he said was distributed broadcast in the form of handbills hand bills and posters throughout the country and agents of the administration are actively attacking parliaments lia principle in the agrarian question as being aimed as much at the small holdings of peasants as at the vast estates of the nobility the house made slight progress today with the debate on the report the principal new contribution was deputy Vi assertion that anti semitic pamphlets are being printed in the office of the perfect ure of police at st petersburg the deputy giving the litlo of the pamphlet and the name of its author the discussion will be continued tomorrow feeling against jews during debate baron ropp bishop representing vilna said a general had informed him that the soldiers would never fire on christians but only ou jews he said he was convinced that the chief administrative officials always were capable of stopping excesses it they cared tp do so baron ropp acknowledged that some discontent was felt by soldiers and police against the jews the cause being the model organization of the jews which is the envy of the christians it was necessary he said to give self government to the western provinces 0 else pogroms would soon occur deputy Vl naver in the course of a long speech endeavored to prove by documentary evidence that the central government had participated in jewish massacres for tho purpose of forcing the jaws to betray their revolutionary brethren but the deputy added these jewish revolutionaries constituted a source of greater danger to moderate gewn than to the government the jewish race he said was small but strong and its strength was in its despair its ally was tho whole russian race which was indignant against such acts of criminal barbarity this statement was applauded by the center and the left government of falsehoods M Ro ditcheff in an earnest speech which was approved by all sections of the country the policy of the government as being full of falsehoods which were leading the country into unheard af dangers the ministers have refused to resign or to listen to the voice of the nation and had turned a deaf car to the murmurs of the coming storm already M said there are rumblings gs which will unite in a terrible thunderclap and upheaval of the country when the government fearing the ox decides to resign it will be too late dispatches received here today from nova which Is in the center of the don cossack district show that the authorities are extremely apprehensive as to the effect of the speech delivered in the lower house of parliament in the recent debate on the cossack and which were to undermine tho loyalty ot the cossack levies engaged oh police duty regular meetings of constitutional democrats at which tho report of th e debate was 16 have been read were dispersed and the papers have been into omitting reports of the speeches |