The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-06
PARLIAMENT AS ozAR's GIFT
Trepoff's Elevation May Be Followed
by Liberal Decree.

St. Petersburg, June Gwen the
question OF peace or war is almost lg-
nored in contemplation of the more alb
sorbing internal situation created by
-eral Trepof to the office of assistant
minister Of the interior, making HIM
virtually dictator, with the dark vision
of policy Of reaction and repression.
Yet the Associated Press was In.
formed on high authority today that
Trepoff's appointment only tells half
the story, and that there is brighter
side to the picture. AS intimated. al
ready, it will come in the shape of an
imperial manifesto which will possibly
be issued tomorrow, the empress birth
day, or on Thursday, the festival of
the Ascension, and will immediately
realize the popular, demand for a par
lative assembly consisting, of two
houses. The lower house will be called
the gosudarstvennaia duma Imperial
duma) and the upper house gosudarst-
vennaia SOVIET, or the present council
of the empire. While the. upper house
will enjoy the preponderance and
power, the lower house will also have
interpellate ministers. The, plan also
involves the responsibility of ministers.
DELAYS in the elaboration Of the ma
chinery of election will be obviated by
the employment of the law OF 1864 nm
der which landowners and property
owners in the cities and villages, IN
Guiding peasants, elect representatives
to the zemstvos which, in effect, places
representatives on a property base. The
emperor retains complete control OF the
| legislative assembly with the right, OF
veto and power to dissolve assemblies
and order the new elections, -,
The president of the assembly VIII De
| Is oh
of the assembly will be elected for three
wears. Ministers and heads of bureaus
will be members ex-oHlclo OF the legls-
lative assembly.
Constitution Japan's Gift.
Should the above information prove
accurate, as there is every reason to be-
lieve it will, the prediction of the lib.
erals at the opening of the war, that
the emperor of Japan would give a. con-
stitution to Russia, appears about. to be
| realized. But if the iron hand of IRE
poff is to be gloved in velvet, 1t IS
emperor did not couple Trepof's APP
| pointment with the issuing of the mani
| festo, as the announcement OF the Tor
mer with no palliative created some
thing like public CONSERVATION. The
press seems dazed.
! Most of the papers were unable fully
to understand what Trepof S elevation
meant and refrained altogether from
comment, but those which speak do so
in a strain of the gloomiest forebodings,
seeing in the appointment that the Rus
sian people have again bowed down I'M
der the CALLING yoke of the police. The
Slovo asks:
Ills it possible that the convocation
Of popular assembly will be dropped
and that a new and heavier police re-
gime will be used to stifle the people 9
protest. For the government to attempt
to rule thru the police alone will spell
rnin and its inevitable consequences
popular revolt, bloody strife and civil
war. Possibly this is only a nightmare,
a horrid dream. but if so the govern
ment must forthwith dispel the doubts
regarding its intentions concerning the
Bouligin Resigns.
The ukase came like a bolt from a
clear sky. Mr.. Bouligin, minister of
the interior, could not face the humil-
iation and Immediately resigned and
81 is not improbable that other minis
, tiers will follow suit.
It is rumored about the city that
Count Lamsdorff, the foreign minister,
has already placed his resignation in
the hands of the emperor and that he
will be. succeeded by M. Muravlef, for
: mer minister of justice and now am
bassador at Rome. Admiral Alexien
has also demanded the acceptance of
+ his demission.
t Bureaucrat to Succeed Bouligin.
: NJ. Sturmer, an extreme reactionary,
! who belongs to the Won Plehve school,
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