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14) Berger (Romanov) — chairman of the credentials committee, reported to the congress on the decision of the committee on verification of credentials regarding the representation of the Caucasian organization at the congress.
15) Report by Voinov (Lunacharsky) on the question of armed uprising.
16) Schmidt's (Rumyantsev's) speech is not noted in the congress protocols.
17) Report by Werner (Bogdanov) on practical preparations for the armed uprising.
18) Berger (Romanov) was given the first word in the debate on the question of armed uprising.
19) The congress protocols state that the 7th session "opens in the afternoon" (p. 150).
20) The congress protocols state that the 8th session opens in the morning (continuation of the debate on the question of armed uprising).
21) The congress protocols state that the session opens in the afternoon.
22) Report by Berger (Romanov) on the Lugansk group and on granting Shchur (Skrynik) an advisory vote from the Odessa Committee.
23) Item 3 of the agenda: On supporting the peasant movement (Lenin's report).
24) Item 5 of the agenda — organizational issues (statute)
Reporter Werner (Bogdanov).
25) *General-discussion* — general discussion.
26) *General Debatte* — general debate.
27) The congress protocols indicate the opening time of the session as 3:10 PM.
28) The protocols state that the session opens in the morning.
29) The protocols state that the session opens in the afternoon.
30) There were no stenographers at the congress, and speakers were required to provide summaries of their speeches.
31) See speech by Kamsky (Volgin-Obukhov). (Congress Protocols, p. 293.)
32) Volgin (Obukhov) spoke about the fact that an incorrect criterion was used to determine the suitability of workers for committees.
33) From the speech of Vlasov (Rykov). (Protocols, p. 373.)
34) Orlovsky's resolution is not noted in the protocols.
35) The protocols indicate — 10 hours.
36) Who Yulin is — has not been established.
37) The protocols state that "the session opens at 3:40 PM."
38) Krasin gave a report on the political work of the Central Committee.
39) Sommer (Lyubimov) reported to the congress on the technical work of the Central Committee.
40) There is an error here: Tuesday is not the 10th, but the 9th of May, 1905.
41) The protocols say nothing about Werner's (Bogdanov's) speech at the 24th session.
42) There is an error here: Wednesday is not the 11th, but the 10th of May.
43) The calculations represent the calculation of the cash balance of the Central Committee, the prospects for near-term receipts, and the determination of the deficit. These calculations are repeated in the document on pages 279-280.
44) Here are outlined the delegates who were to go to Russia through Geneva.
45) This record apparently represents a sketch of the distribution of some delegates, as well as comrades who did not participate in the congress, but

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known to Vladimir Ilyich from individual branches of party work. This record was made during the last session of the congress on May 9, perhaps in anticipation of the first session of the new Central Committee, held on May 10, at which the issue of the distribution of party forces could have been raised.
46) The surnames of the delegates, starting with Lyadov and ending with Stroev, signify a record of speakers on the issue of verification of credentials. Only Orlovsky and Vlasov were given the floor.
47) "Lenin 6 hours 27 minutes" means the time of Lenin's speech on the issue of supporting the peasant movement. After his speech, the session was closed.

* ON THE QUESTION OF THE LEGITIMACY OF THE CONGRESS.
[April 24-26, 1905]
Document "a" represents point 5 of the decision adopted at the last (April 24, 1905) session of the Organizational Committee. (See the report of Zimin (Krasin) on the activities of the O. C., Protocols of the 3rd Congress, p. 45.)
This same point, in its main provisions, was included in resolution on the question of the legitimacy of the congress, proposed by Belsky, Zharkov and Kuznetsov at the 5th session (Protocols, p. 65), and adopted by the congress (Protocols, p. 57).
The "Summary of My Speech" below (document "b") represents a draft of Lenin's speech plan at the 3rd session of the congress — April 26 — on the question of the legitimacy of the congress. (Congress protocols, pp. 60-61.) *

5.
* RESOLUTION OF THE O. C. ON THE LEGITIMACY OF THE CONGRESS.
[April 24, 1905]
Regarding the point of the agreement between the Central Committee and the Bureau of Committees of the Majority, according to which the congress opens with the presence of 32 delegates from Russian committees, the Organizational Committee decides:
The meaning of this point is seen by both parties that formed the Organizational Committee in the fact that both the Central Committee and the Bureau of Committees of the Majority needed to take the most energetic measures to ensure the fullness of representation at the congress, as well as to guarantee to the party that the [representation] the Central Committee and the Bureau of Committees

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of the Majority [sought] to organize a party-wide, and not a factional [character] congress. This point of the agreement in no way intended to eliminate the effect of that § of the party charter, according to which the congress is valid with the presence of half the total number of voting delegates. As for the fullness of representation at the congress, all measures have been taken in this regard. There is no news only from the Astrakhan and Crimean committees. The election of delegates and their dispatch abroad (in two cases, the transfer of mandates to foreign comrades, Parvus and Lipu, by appointment of the Iskra editorial board from the Kuban committee) were carried out by the Don, Mining-Plant, Kiev, Kuban, Tver, Kharkov, Smolensk, Siberian, Yekaterinoslav committees. In conjunction with the current delegates from 19 committees, we would have, with the named 9 committees, 28 committees, i.e. more than 8/10 from 34 committees (the number 34 is the *maximum* number of eligible organizations that were originally included in the list of the Organizational Committee).
[If nine delegates from the named committees did not [fully] appear at the congress, despite the fact that they [could have done so...*)] were already abroad and only because the efforts of the Organizational Committee were broken by the illegal opposition of three members of the Party Council...*), then, of course, in such an arbitrary act of the delegates it is impossible to see obstacles to the opening of the congress].
If nine delegates from the named committees did not appear at the congress, despite the fact that they received appropriate mandates from the committees and arrived abroad, their absence at the congress is not explained by the fault of the Organizational Committee, but by the fact that all the efforts of the Organizational Committee to create fullness of representation at the congress were broken by the illegal opposition of three members of the [former] Party Council***).
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SUMMARY OF MY SPEECH.
[April 26, 1905]
— legitimacy of the convocation of the congress
Council for the Party, Party for the Council
Trustee and principals*)
1) Several words, thickly crossed out, are illegible. Ed.
**) A note that could not be deciphered has been crossed out. Ed.
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Incident with the Organizational Committee at the II Congress 2)
Challenge to any party
Factual question: was there evasion from the congress. All the delegates know this.*)
— trial of the absent 3)
*) In Vladimir Ilyich's speech, the following is stated: "From the point of view of the spirit of the charter and even its letter, if taken as a whole, it is clear that the Party Council is a trustee of the party committees. A trustee of the committees refuses to fulfill the will of its principals. If the trustee does not fulfill the will of the party, the party can only fulfill this will itself." (Protocols, p. 60.)
2) In Vladimir Ilyich's speech, the following corresponds to this point: "Even at the II Congress, regarding the incident with the Organizational Committee, it was pointed out by Comrade Plekhanov himself that discipline in relation to a lower collegium is subordinate to discipline in relation to a higher collegium." (Protocols, p. 60.)
3) In the corresponding place in Vladimir Ilyich's speech, the following is stated: "It seems to me that Comrade Tigrov is mistaken in saying that one cannot judge in absentia. In politics, one constantly has to judge in absentia"... "After all, the Party Council does not want to appear at the congress, in which case one will never have to judge anyone at all." (Protocols, p. 61.)