The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-05
Czar Nicholas Issues Ukase Giving Trspof More Power
 to Curb the People
PROTESTATI0N5 OF THE
 RADICALS OF NO AVAIL
Attitude of Government Appears In- imica to Peace and Is Mo-
 mentous in the Present
 Crisis of the Nation.

St. Petersburg June 5.-(2:10 a. m.)- The Russian government has shown that it has not weakened in this hour of dis aster. Instead of yielding to the stormy demands which the radicals hoped Ad- miral Rojestvensky's defeat would force the government to grant, the Emperor issued q ukase Sunday conferring greatly increased powers on Governor General Trepoff, making him assistant minister of the interior in place of Major General Rydzefsky, who is made a senator also chief of the department of police and commander of the corps of the gendar- merle. General Trepoff is given the right by the ukase to close all assem- plies and congresses; to suspend indefi- nitely all societies. leagues and other bodies manifesting pernicious activity, and to take all other steps necessary to preserve order. so as to prevent inter ference with the established regime and to suppress the revolutionary propa- ganda.
 Given Sweeping Powers.
 This ulase which entrusts almost dic- tatorial powers to the head of the im- perial police to control the agitation now almost peremptorily demanding consti- tuition, representative government and the surrender of the vital principles of the autocracy, and to put down the dis orders with which the revolutionaries are threatening the country, makes him re- sponsible to the Emperor. The docu- ment Is of the deepest importance in the present state of Russia. and indicates baf " ceeding in its plan for the fulfillment of the imperial promises contained in the rescript of March 3, is determined not to be swerved from its purpose by the pres sure of military and naval disasters, but, in it's own time, and as peedily as pos sibe to give the nation the legislative body on which the Boulgian commission has been working. In it may, perhaps also be read the intimation that the war will continue and that the question or peace will not be submitted to zemsky sobor.
 Does Not Embody Peace.
 According to the Russ the report of the result of the labors of the Boulgin com mission which has now been printed and submitted to the commissioners, does not embody a definite plan for the organiza- tion, and functions of new government tal body, but rather a collection and
 
 the formation of an assembly, giving al- ternative views of the various points in dispute, and leaving the final decision in the hands of the ministers.
 The material gathered by the commis- sion has been grouped under six heads First a historical survey of the forms assumed by popular representation in Russia; second, consideration of the ef- feet of the summoning of a popular as- san,hlv of the country under present cir cumstances; third the extent to which suffrage shall be granted, whether on universal, educational or property quail fications, and whether classes and occu- pations should be represented; fourth, the extent of the assembly's rights over the budget and last what provinces of the government should be removed to the competency of the assembly.
 Thus nothing regarding the imperial do,,na,, has been predetermined, Min ister Boulgan reserving the right to give his opinion to his ministers.