The Senate, as was anticipated, passed to-day in plenary session the Government Bill for the abolition of the Czarist restrictions. Owing to the fact that a few slight changes have been made by the Senate in the text of the bill, it cannot enter into force immediately, as it would have done had the bill been passed without amendment. It will now go again to the Seym to obtain the approval of the Lower House to the Bill as it now stands. This is expected to be done in the next few days, and no difficulty is looked for in this quarter, so that probably by next week the Czarist restrictions in Poland will have ceased to exist.
Senator Mendelsohn, a prominent member of the Agudath Israel, who was elected as a member of the Government Party, and is the only Jew in the present Senate, delivered a speech in which he thanked the Government for its energetic action in proceeding immediately it had obtained an independent majority to bring about the abolition of the Czarist restrictions against the Jews.
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