THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

Evening Star, Issue 12872, 23 July 1906, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

THE CZAR DISSOLVES THE DUMA.

THE PBIitSIE MINISTER DISMISSED.

TROOPS POURED IN.

Press Associaikm-rßy Telegraph—Copyright* ST. PETERSBURG, July 22. (Received July 23, .at 8.25 a.m.) The Ozai, after a Ministerial Council held at Befcerhof, issued a ukase dissolving tho Ihima and ordering the convocation of a new Duma oa March IS, 1907. Tbe conditions of the elections will be puHished later. Cavalry, infantry, and artillery are pouring inte St Petersburg. M. Goromykin, the Premier, has been dismissed, and AI. Stolypin has been appointed Premier and Minister of the Interior. [M. Stolypin was Minister of the Interior under M. Goseraykia..] Events move so rapidly in Russia thai some of the main facts bearing on the constitution and powers of the Duma are apt to bo overlooked. Tbe Duma is practically the child of revolution. Our readers will recall tho stirring events that preceded the granting of the Duma. In the early pari of last year Russia was in a state of ferment. Men were demanding liberty of person, of assembly, and of speech, with powers of self-government. Terable scenes of repression ensued, including the incidents of Black Sunday, with Father Gapon's leadership. The Czar kept issuing manifestoes or rescripts fcbat seemed in turn to promise a National Assembly and to refxsse it. On August 19, however, he issued the most famous of all has manifestoes in this direction, for he said: Tlie time is come to summon elected representatives from the whole of Russia to take a constant and active part in the elaboration of laws, attaching for this purpose to the higher State -institutions a special Consultative Body entrusted with the preLirramary elaboration and discussion of measures, and with the examination of the Slate Budget-. The CzaT therefore announced tie formation of a Duma, and tbe Minister of the Interior was directed to submit regulations for the elections. The constitution of the Duma was elaborated, and some of its powers were specified. Some of the more important of the points may be summarised: Members of the Duma were to hold office for five years, tmiesJ dissolution were ordered by the Czar. President and Vioe-Presideni were to be elected Manually. Proceedings were to be condtscted in general assembly and in sections. Ministers were not to be members, but were to have power to attend its sittings. The Duma was to have power m the rairendmient <if old laws asid the making of new ones. Its competence was to extend to tbe !Natkwal, Mmisfcerial, and DepartsneaJtal Budgets, the construction of railways, and the matters <nibnsitted by TrKperial Decree. But then there was a reservation : " The fundamental laws of tbe Imperial Administration shall not be toocbed." As to mnifcters in wfakh tbe Duma had power, it was provided that Bißs which it passed should ejo to the Council of State, and tlto conorapioavs of both Duma and iConnoFl were to be submitted to the Czar. Should it be found that Duma and Council disagreed, tihe points at issue might be submitted to a Commission composed of an equal number of each body—though bow .this equally-balanced Commission was to decade was not quite dear. A "fundamental law" was subsequently issued announcing that a. new law will not be valid unless approved by the Duma, and the Council of State, and afterwards sanctioned by the Emperor. The Constitutional Democrats, under the (presidency of Prince Paul Dolgorukoff, we incensed, holding that the Bureaucracy had by thfes act received afresh its old power*, and that.*the people were deprived of a power which was solemnly promised, and which tbey beßeved they "had a> right to exercise. The party tlierefore de-

dared for going forward wfth the taak given them by the people, and, if need be, of declaring "-war to the knife." Russia was soon faced with a struggle which was to determine whether the power of the Duma was to be merely a sembkirce or whether the constitutioo of the Duma is equivalent to the granting- of a magna" charto to the country, and the Czar, in dissolving a Duma the n»jority of whose members were working along the lines of peaceful reform, has again precipitated a •crisis that. can have bub one ending. THR-BLACK SEA FLEET. A THREAT OF MUTINY. ST. PETERSBURG, July 22. (Received July 23, at 9.8 a»m.) Two thousand five hundred sailors belonging to the Black Sea fleet have presented a list of economic demands to M. Skrydloff, the admiral in command In the event of the demands not being granted they threaten, a general revolt of the squadron. THE DUMA AND THE PEASANTRY. THE ODESSA STRIKE. Press Association—By TeJegraph—Copyright. ST. PETT3RSBURO, July 22. The Duma has modified the revolutionary tendencies of the appeal it is intended to make to the people, and now urges them to patiently await the elaboration of the Duma's agrarian law. The Odessa harbor istrike has ended. The employers, fearing that its continuance would lead to great bloodshed, hurriedly conceded most of the demands made. [The Agrarian Committee, of the Duma last week recommended an appeal being made to the peasantry to remain cahn pending the carrying out of the Duma's proposals on the land question. The Reformers urged this request in opposition to the more violent members of the House who favored extreme measures,] JOURNALS SUPPRESSED. ANGRY CROWDS. ST. PETERSBURG, July 21. Six St. Petersburg journals have been confiscated, and their printing offices closed. Fifty members of the staff of one of them were arrested, in. consequence of which angry crowds, singing the ' Marseillaise,' 6toned the troops and police in the heart of St. Peterpbnrg. The troops replied with Wank cartridge. REASON OF THE SUPPRESSION. ST. PETERSBURG, July 22. (Received July 25, at 9.8 a.m.) The suppression of the Socialist journals was due to the decision of the Government to prevent the publication of the Dnma'j appeal to the peasantry. THE MONEY MARKET. ST. PETERSBURG, July 22. British consols are quoted af £B7* 2s 6d. After the price bad touched £B6 17s 6d the filing included a block of £500,000. The Stock Exchange is uneasy. The recent. Russian loan is quoted at 6| discount, and heavy sales h;*w been made in anticipation of August sales. AN ABANDONED TOUR. BERLIN, Jnly 22. The 'Kobnsche Zeirung' (Cologne) states that the Czar has informed the Kaiser that internal political considerations compel him to abandon his intended tonr.