The Daily News publishes an interesting account of the Turkish
Parliament. It appears to be hardly yet at work. A tribune has been erected, French fashion, for the speakers, but only one man, the Member for Brussa, a Ulema accustomed to tall pulpits, has as yet ventured to ascend it. The members therefore speak from their seats, but they also speak after a fashion, and have already compelled the President, Vefyk Pasha, to promise to answer interpellations, within a week, instead of a month, as he proposed. A disposition has also been shown to criticise
the Palace expenditure, and a proposal to vote money for a Palace for the Parliament was roughly rejected by the members on the distiint ground that there was no money to spare. No re- port of the debates is as yet allowed to appear. They are to be reported by-and-by in an official newspaper, but as yet this journal is not established, and no other is allowed to do its work. The drift of members' speeches will, of course, be known—one Koordish Member, for example, created great enthusiasm by an attack on Montenegro—but as yet the Parliament has carried no important resolution. The immense majority is, of course, Mahommedan, and no proposal for establishing equality of rights among the creeds would be listened to, nor has any word been said about the necessity of retribution for the Bulgarian outrages.
