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to further action upon it, in conjunction with my honored colleagues the
min- 
isters of police and justice, and precisely this attentive examination of
the 
memorial has afforded me the comforting assurance that on the part of the
im- 
perial authorities, in the face of just such a condition of things as has
now for 
nearly a year existed in Gallicia, their course has in fact been one of great

moderation. For if, under the circgmstances which in fact now prevail, it
is 
only shown that a number of the inferior executive officials have, perhaps,
here 
andthere in particular cases, somewhat overstepped the strict forms of the
law,this 
must certainly be called, on the part of the authorities, a thoroughlysatisfactory

attitude. I have to-day no call to go into details upon the condition of
things in 
Gallicia. I should have no difficulty in laying before the house a mass of
docu- 
ments which exhibit, in the clearest light, the views of a certain party
in Galicia, 
I need not produce these docurnents. Those gentlemen who only read the 
newspapers are, I have no doubt, sufficiently informed how it is in general
with 
this very highly loyal attitude in Gallicia; I say in general, because I
gladly 
admit that the great majority in Gallicia are opposed to the doings of this
party. 
Without declaring what course the government really intends to take in respect

to these events in Gallicia, and whether its efforts are really intended
to aid the 
Russian government in repressing the insurrection in Russian Poland, I confine

myself to the simple declaration that what the imperial government is now

doing in Gallicia has this for its object, viz: the repression of a revolution
iu 
that dependency of the crown, the object of which is in the end to separate

Gallicia from the imperial state. :(Applause in the centre and on the left.)

Deputy Dr. ZYBLIKIEWIOZ opposed the assertion of the minister that the 
authorities in Gallicia had executed the laws with great moderation, and
said: 
It is a legal condition Qf things in Gallicia that during the past half year
nightly 
visitations have been made, as in the time of the French revolution; that
the 
bed-rooms of the women have not been spared; that their bed-clothes have
been 
stripped from them, and they driven half naked from their beds; that their
mat- 
tresses have been tumbled up #nd down, as though to find recruits against
Russia 
under them, as did actually take place in the Solnowsky house with the wife

of a citizen , that in such visitations bloodhounds--as in the American style
£ 
against negroes--have been brought into the houses, as was the case not long

since in Count Wodjieke's house in Cracow! Is that a legal condition, when

a -man in his own neighborhood does not go out of his own room into the street

without taking a card of identification ? Is it a legal transaction when,
as was 
the case last Thursday in Lemberg, the entrances to a coffee-house are beset

with bayonets, when the police pushes into the halls and examines the visitors

there, and drags away whomsoever it pleases ?  Is that- a legal condition
of 
things, when young people dare not come out of the cellars, like the early

Christians in the time of Diocletian; when in the garden of Count Potocki
a 
gun was fired at his cousin, as she was walking there in the evening; when

above the heads of the mother and sister of Kirchmeier, deputy of the Reichs-

rath, bayonets and sabres suddenly flashed as they entered the front yard
of 
their own country-seat?  Is that a legal state of affairs, when they take
from 
the people clothes, linen, bread--yes, even oranges and the like, and declare

them contraband-of -.war; when the police agent is alowed to cuff the ears
of 
an innocentman, because he did not take off his cap to him, and still retain
his 
place'; or when it is fiee for a police officer to open the cells of the
prisons, 
throw the inmatei into chains, box their earsa, and ,mishandle them in other

ways? 
Whether the government is responsible for all this the speaker did not know,

but the provincial authorities act thus, and as proof he would cite various
reg- 
ulations of the Gallician authorities, from which it might be seen whether
in 
fact the administration of justice was the rule in Gallicia. Immediately
after 
the outbreak of the Polish insurrection the preident of the Gallician stadtholder-