TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
A NEW CONSTITUTION.
By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 10.47 p.m., June 10. St. Petersburg, June 9.
The Doumi appealed to the Ministry to abstain from executions pending disoussion of a Bill to abolish capital punishment.
Moutomtseff is preparing a draft oon stitution making the Czar a constitutional monaroh, baling the Douma on universal suffrage, orca'ing an Uppar Houeo similar to the French Senate, and giving the Czar the rght to dissolve provided a froih Douma is eleo'el within eight mouths. This ooustitut'oo secures oomplete liberty of though*, freedom of the press, the holding of meetings, and freedom of religious belief.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1780, 11 June 1906, Page 2
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