Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — Laws Repealed by Duma. [ARTICLE]

Laws Repealed by Duma.

Three obnoxious laws were repealed by the Russian douma, as follows: Providing for the punishment of persons expressing approval of political crimes; excluding from military service persons accused of political crimes, or under suspicion, and penalizing private instruction in Poland. The douma voted for the abolition of the re-establishment of field court-martial for the punishment of civilians implicated in spreading revolutionary Ideas in the army.