REFORM IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7904, 21 August 1905, Page 3

REFORM IN RUSSIA.

i lOEITY GRAITED. I CODICIL OF STATE ESTABLISHED. CZAR'S f ILL ORIIPUBED(Received Aug. 20, 4.25 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Aug. 19. A holiday was qbserved throughout fkissia to-day on the occasion of the publication ol a ukase establishing a national Duma or State Council. The ukaae establishes a repressatp.tiv« Duma tor the preliminary study and discussion of legislative proposals, which will be submitted to tie Czar by the existing State Council. I*B Claa reserves the power to limit the period of the Duma to five vrars or less, and to determine the length of each 9ession. Ifembcrs will be immune from arrest for dCSt. and freu to express opinions, with no rfcipon rfbility to the electors. A payment of tea roubles a day and travelling expenses will be made to Ministers, Chiefs of Departments, who are inelligibto lor election, may attend tb» Dun* to make any explanation required. Proceedings will be officially reported. Differences between the Duma and the Council will M r»ferrtti to a mixed commiseAon. The {CaaoUee ig a eo-ordina.ttop rx ~ Wag elective institutions. I LONDON, Aug. 19. Etaglish newspapers consider Hiat the okasa maintains the Czar's will unimpaired.