RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 16550, 9 October 1917, Page 6

RUSSIA.

EVOLVING A CONSTITUTION. CONFERENCE TOO CUMBER. SOME. SMALLER BODY APPROVED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, October 8. (Received October 9, at 9.35 a.m.) The 'Daily Chronicle,' summing rip the political situation in Russia, states that the Demoeratdo Conference revealed a weakness owirig to the great number of delegates. Tho leaders of the various parties have therefore submitted a. scheme tor a so-called preliminary Parliament, which will be a new edition of the Democratic Conference on a manageable scale. Each group will nominate to this preliminary Parliament a number of members proportional to its representation at tho Conference, these nominees having to be approved by the Conference. Russia wul this have in permanent session, not a Parliament in the Western sense, but a body which is based on several sections of public opinion. The Democratic Conference's vote -regarding a Coalition Government was so contradictory as to constitute a fiasco. M. Kerensky is now negotiating for a new Coalition Cabinet, in which the Moscow manufacturers, the Cadots, and the bourgeoisie will co-operate. M. TsereteHi, who. has proved himself the strongest man at'the conference, lias given his provisional sanction to a Coalition Cabinet. It is not yet known what responsibility this Cabinet will have to the Provisional Parliament.

The election of a proper constituent Assembly is the capital or prime need of Russia