THE DUMA.
POSSIBLE DISSOLUTION MINISTERIAL BOMBSHELL. GOVERNMENT INDEPENDENT OF THE CHAMBER. AX APPEAL TO THE CZAR. Bx Tclcgraph-Presa Association-Copyright (Reeccived April 10.33 p.iu.) ST. PETERSBURG, April 5. M. Kokovskoii’, Minister for Finance*, in submitting his Budget to the Dunni, remarked that tho Government bad tiutiicicnt moans for mooting expenditure without tlio Dama'a approval of tho Budget. Many members considered that tho rights of tho Duma had been infringed* and that tho Chamber was being treated as a mere cypher. Tbo Union of Russian People lias ordered its branches to telegraph to the Czar, petitioning for the dissolution of tho Duma. LONDON, April 5. Router's correspondent reports that dragoons and Cossacks arc pouring into St. Petersburg as they did when tho first Duma was dissolved on July 22m1, I POO, in anticipation of popular resentment at tho suppression of Parlia. ment.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6176, 6 April 1907, Page 7
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