RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

COUNCIL OF EMPIRE AND THE GOVERNMENT. DIVERGENCE OF OPINION. AMOUNTING TO AN IMPASSE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received April 17, 9 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 16th April.' ! The press here considers that the divergence of opinion between the Council of the Empire and the Government i amounts to an impasse, and dissolutions of lh& Council and the Duma are foreshadowed. JESUITS-EXPELLED FROM | MOSCOW. ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN i POLAND. (R©oeiyed_April 17, 9.5 a.m.) e&'ReKEEERSBURG, 16th April. Leading Jesuits at Moscow have been expelled. ' ' The newspaper Novoe Vremya urges the expulsion of Polish Jesuits from St. Petersburg on the ground that they have obtained complete possession of the Roman Catholic schools. M. STOLYPIN IN THE COUNCIL. ANSWERING INTERPELLATIONS. (Received April 17, 9.10 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 16th April. M. Stolypin, the Prime Minister, speaking in the Council of the Empire, in answer to interpellations regarding his action in utilising article 87 of the fundamental laws to promulgate the^ Zemstvos Bill, said the article was intended to bo used only in a gTave crisis. He accepted the responsibility. ■ TheDuma, he added, had no power to. interpellate against the administrative acts. The Council, by 99 votes to 1 53, decided that M. Stolypin's declaration did not affect tie interpellation. Owing to the absence of a necessary majority the question of Ml Stolypin's 1 illegal procedure cannot be eubmitted for -the Tsar's decision. [At the end of last month, the Duma, by 174 votes to 88, adopted an interpellation against the policy of M. Stolypin, as embodied in the Tsar's ukase regarding the Zemstvos Bill for the Western Provinces (designed to transfer all power from the Poles to Russian hands), subject to future, amendment by the Legislature.]