New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-06
TUMULT IN CAPITAL.
General Strike and Sharp RewessiUe
Action LkeLy.

st. Petersburg June 5.-Labor leaders are no
gotiating for the purpose OF declaring general
strike next Saturday.
The union of Russian journalists to-uav
chartered a steamer and cruised in the Neva ror
six hours. so as to hold meeting free from
police interference. The meeting passed a reso-
luton demanding a constituent assembly and
haiing the advent of a Russian revolution
Emperor NichoIas's ukase virtually creating
Governor General Trepoff dictator has given
rise to mighty sensation. It is the imperial
recognition Of the crisis in the Internal affairs
of Russia, and fnstinctively recalls the step
taken by the Emperor's grandfather, Alexander
IL Immediately after the attempt to blow up
the Winter Palace in 1880. when he appointed
commission of public safety headed by General
Loris-Melikoff. except that the position or GEN.
eral Trepoff will be analogous to that oc-
cupied by Loris-Melikoff when later In the same
year he was appointed Minister Of the Interior.
with full control of the police.
Reaction and repression" will doubtless be
the quick Interpretation put upon the Emperors
act as soon it becomes known to the LID
erals Buried in the columns of 1.-THE Official
Messenger" and coming almost without warn
ing, the ukase is not as yet generally known.
but to the initiated the future Of Constantine
Petroyitch Pobiedonostseff Procurator Of the
Holy Synod, looms large. Behind the scenes the
old man remains stern and as unconpromls-
ing as ever. He left what many believe 10 De
his dying bed las. Thursday and went to
Tsarskoe Selo, where he spent almost the en-
tire day with the Emperor
The decision to place in the hands OF the
strongest executive in Russia the power to crush
with an iron hand the political agitation which
has brought Russia almost TO the prihk oi
revolution according public belief, is the fruit
Iici
ascertained, not single one OF the Emperor's
Ministers was In the secret
MINISTER'S REsIGNING POSTS.
The ukase came like a bolt from a clear sky
NJ Bouligan, Minister of the Interior, could not
face the humiliation, and Immediately resigned
| and it is not improbable that other Ministers
| will follow suit It is rumored in the city that
| Count Iamsdorff the Foreign Minister, has al
ready placed his resignation in the hands or the
| Emperor and that he viii be succeeded by M.
| Muravieff. former Minister of Justice and now
| Ambassador at Rome Admiral Alexieff has also
demanded the acceptance OF his demission.
| To find a precedent for the resignation OF
Minister as a protest against imperial action II
| is necessary to go back to the designations OF
| Ministers Loris-Melikoff, Milyutin and Igna-
| tieff when after the assassination of Alexander
| II. Alexander III repudiated the liberal policy
| of his father by issuing his famous manifesto
| affirming the maintenance of the autocracy and
| of orthodoxy which stirred the chanceleries OF
| Europe to their depths and marked the begin
| ming of the reactionary policy that has lasted
| until the present liberal agitation began.
| M SturTner, an extreme reacuonary, who be-
| longs to the Plehve school, 1t Is commonly re-
! norfed Mt this writing will succeed NJ Bouligan
as Minister of the Interior, but it matters little
| who may succeed to that PORTFOLIO, as its holder
| will be subordinate TO General TrepoH In al
| matters affecting politics.
| 1t is apparent that the Emperor has decided
| that the hands of the government shall no
| longer be forced by political agitation and that
the new legislative assembly shall bear the hall
| mark of imperial fashioning and not that OF
| popular clamor.
| The decision of the Emperor undoubtedly was
| precip,tated by the Russian disaster in the Sea
| of Japan; as Liberals and Radicals everywhere
| were preparing to make the widest of 1t in
| furthering their wishes.
| There are rumors that general mobilization
| has already been decided on, and that the ap-
| pointment Of Trepofr was made go as to enable
the government to carry It out.