The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-05
GEAR PLACES IRON RULE
 IN HANDS OF TREPOFF
ISSUES UKASE ENTRUSTING AL-
 MOST DICTATORIAL POWERS.
Governor General of St. Petersburg
  Given Right to Close All Assemblies and Congresses and 10 Suspend In- definitely All Societies, Leagues and Other Bodies ManIfesting Pernicious Aetiyity-Document of Great Import
ance at this Moment.

St. Petersburg, June 5-2:1O a. rn.- The Russian government has shown
 that it has not weakened in this hour of disaster. Instead of yielding to the stormy demands which the radicals
 hoped Admiral Rojestvensky's defeat
 would force the government to grant, the emperor on Sunday issued a ukase
 comforting greatly increased powers on lGovernor-General Trepoff, making him assistant minister of the interior in
 place of Major-G General Rydzefsky, who is made a senator; also chief of the department of police and com
 mander of the corps of the gendarmie. General Trepoff is given the right by
 the ukase to close all assemblies and congresses, to suspend indefinitely all societies, leagues and other bodies Imanifesting pernicious activity, and to take all other steps necessary to pre- serve order so as to prevent interfer- ence with the established regime and 1 to suppress the revolutionary propa- ganda. | This ukasa, which entrusts almost ! dictatorial powers to the head of the imperial police to control the agitation almost peremptorily demanding con tstitution, representative government and the surrender of the vital princi- ples of the autocracy, and to put down
 the dissenters with which the revolu- tionaries are threatening the country, 4o peror. The document is of the deepest im- lportance in the present state of Russia and indicates that the government, | while steadily proceeding in it's plans lfor the fulfillment of the imperial promises contained in the rescript of
 March B. is determined not to be swerv-
 ed from it's purpose by the pressure of
 military and naval disasters, but in it's own time and as speedily as possible to give the nation the legislative body
 on which the Buligin commission has
 been working. In it may perhaps also
 be read the idea that the war will con- tinue and that the question of peace will not be submitted to @ Zemsky so- bor.
 According to the Russ, the result of the Iabors of the Buligin commission,
 which has now been printed and sub mitted to the commissioners, does not embody definite plan for the organ ization and functions of a new govern mental body, but rather a collection and classification of the necessary data for the formation of an assembly giy- ling alternative views of the various points in dispute and leaving the final
 decision in the hands of the ministers. The material gathered by the com
 mission has been grouped under six heads: First, a historical survey of the forms assumed by popular representa- tion in Russia from the fifth to the sixth century; second, consideration of
 the effect of the summoning of popu- lar assembly on the country under present circumstances; third, the ex- tent to which suffrage shall be grant ed, whether on universal, educational
 or property qualifications and whether
 classes and occupations should be rep- resented fourth, the extent Of the as- sembly's right to interpellate ministers; fifth. the extent of the assembly's rights over the budget, and, lastly, what provinces of the government
 should be removed to the competency
 of the assembly. ..5.5
 Thus nothing regarding the imperial douma" has been predetermined, Min ister Buligin reserving the right to give his opinion to his co-ministers.