Boxp Invierwext oF tHe Russtax Government.
St, Petersburg, 15th May.—After ao afternoon spent in discussion of rules of order, the lower house of parliament this evening began the debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne, adjonraing at midnight after speeches by Mr. Rodticheff and a dozen orators of lesser calibre.
The following is the address "Tt has pleased your Majesty, in your speech addressed to the people's representatives, to express your dotermination unshakably to preserve the instructions whereby the people ba boon called on to exercise 1 ive power in conjunction with their monarch. The parliament regards the monarch's formal promise to the people asa sure pledge of that consolidation and of the further development of order and legislation in accordance with strictly consti val basis.
"The house will, for its part, make every effort to perfect the principle of popular representation and to submit for your Majesty's assent a bill relating to such representation, basing it, in accordance with the unanimously' ox. pressed will of the people, on univorsa suffrage, Your Majesty's appeal for common work for the good of the fatherland finds a lively echo in the hearts of the inbers of parliament, in the conatitution of which representatives of all lessen and nationalities are united in fan ardent effort to regenerate Russia and create country has perceived that the ional life is the ly that the renovation of public life only possible on the principles of freedom, with the spontaneous particip tion of the people in i and in the legis "Your Majesty was blessed in your manifesto of the 30th of October to at ounce your firm resolution to build upon these principles as the basis for the further development of Russia, and the whole Russian people welcomed your message with an impassioned cry.
"But the first days of liberty were darkened by heavy afiictions laid on the land by those who atill obstruct the advance of the people to their Emperor and trample the principles of the man festo of the 30th of October under foot; by those who cover the land with suffering, with executions without judicial sentence, with violent outbreaks, with shooting and imprisonment.
"The scars of this government by the administration of the last few months have sunk so deep into th souls of the people that pacification is impossible 20 long as the people are not! clearly satisfied that in the future sets of violence for which your Majesty's name is now employed ass cover, are forbidden to the authorities; so long ma the ministers are not responsible to the representa of the people; and so long as the whole system of administration is not reconstructed. reaper people can the idow ulsters are made
of the absolute irresponsibility of th monarch take root in the hearts of hi subjects. (nly a ministry enjoying the confidence of parliament can strengthen confidence in the government and the tence of such confidence alone can make tranquil and regular Iabours of parliament possible.
"Above all it ie Grat necessary in Rassia to repeal the exceptional law: the laws of increased protection' state of siege,' under cava the arbitrariness and irresponsil officials appear and develop.
"At the same time the principle of the responsibility of the administration to the representatives of the nation must be made certain.
"Farther, for fruitful labour on the recognition that the union of the monarch and the people la the only Iative power, Every barrier between the Emperor and the people must be removed. Further, there roust be no domain of logislati h would always be closed to free by representatives of the people in conjunction with the monarch, "Parliament holds that it i firm belief in the imion of the fatherland, if betwoon it a throne there doos not stand an imper of appointed dignitaries and per elected by the highest classes of the population and if the legislative po wore of the people's representatives wre not limited by special laws, A Parition o Ricurs, "In the domain of the legislative work before it, parliament ragarle us an absolute necessity for the country pr ww assuring inviolability of Person, liberty of cor ud the press, associ strikes, Without principles which were laid down by th [Imperial manifesto of the 30th of Oc "Parliament is actuated by able conviction that neither liberty nor orier can assured without the equality of all citizens being entablinbod before the law. Therefore parliament is preparing a bill for the eq ty of all citizens, snd simultaneously by removing all class or national religious privileges an effort will be made to free the country from administrative tutel-
"Parliament feels justified in declaring that it will be the interpreter of the unanimous vi of the whole nation on the day of the restoration of the Law abolishing the death penal
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