As soon as the Duma had broken ap for the summer, more attention than usual was paid to the proceedings of the Upper House which remained at work till July 18. And, as if conscious that the eyes of the world were upon it, the Upper House became decidedly' interesting during the last few days of the session. On Friday last it had a long debate about the salaries to be paid tothe Dama members. The Government had proposed to raise salary, now £1 per day, and the Dawa accepted this proposal promptly and without subjecting the Government to any of that disagreeable heckling to which most of the Cabinet's measures give rise. In the Upper House however, Count Witte said it was odd that the Government should think it necessary to raise the salary of the members in the preseat Dama, which is composed mostly of wealthy landowners, and should never have judged it advisable to increase the wages paid to the members of the first two Damas whose members were mostly peasants or straggling professional men. The Count also fails to see why the Dama members should be paid £1. and the members of the Upper House £2-10-0. per day.
In the Upper House on July 16 jete was an animated discussion on the Government's project for ranning
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