Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-05
RUSSIAN GEAR is sTIFFNEcKED
Disasters Have Not Moved Him from
III. His Former stand.


His Former stand.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 5.--The Rus
sian government has shown that it has
not weakened in this hour of disaster, In
stead Of yielding to the stormy demands
which the radicals hoped Admiral Rojest-
Vensky's defeat would force the government
to accept. the government issued a ukase
giving greatly increased powers to General
Trepoff, making him assistant minister of
the interior, also chief of the department
OF the police and commander of the corps
OF the gendarnerie General Trepoff is
given the right by the ukase to close all
assemblies and congresses, TO suspend in
definitely all societies. leagues and other
bodies manifesting pernicious activity and
to- take all other steps necessary to pre-
serve order so as to prevent Interference
with the established regime and to suppress
the revolutionary propaganda.
This ul.ase. which entrusts almost dictato-
rial powers to the head OF the imperial
police, to control the agitation now almost
peremptoriy demanding constitutional
representative government and the sur
render of the vital principles OF the autoc-
racy. and to put down disorders with which
the revolutionaries are threatening the
country, makes him responsible 90 the em-
peror.
The document is of the deepest impor-
tence to the present state of Russia and
Indicates that the government. while stead
lily proceeding in It's plans for the fulfill
Inent OF the imperial promises contained
In the rescript OF March s. is determined
not TO be swerved from it's purpose by the
pressure Of military and naval disasters,
but in its own time and as speedily as
IN giy elat a.
body on which the Bouligan commission
has been working.
In II perhaps also may be read the In
tlmation that the war will continue and
that the question of peace will not be sub
uitted TO a zemsky TABOR
According TO the Russ the result of the
labors of the Bouligan commission, which
has now been printed and submitted TO
the commissioners. does not embody a def
mite plan for the organization and func-
tions of a new governmental body, but
rather a collection and classification OF the
necessary data for the formation of an as
senlbly giving alternative views OF the
various points in dispute and leaving the
fnal decision In the hands of the ministers
The material gathered by the commission
has been grouped under six heads: First
a historical survey OF the forms assumed
by popuiRT representation in Russia from
the ffth to the sixth century; second con-
sideration of the effect OF the summoning
OF popular assembly on the country under
present circumstances; third. the extent to
which suffrage shall be granted, whether
on universal. educational or property quail
heations, and whether classes and occupa-
tions should be represented; fourth. the
extent OF the assembly's right to inter
polate ministers; hfth, the extent OF the
assembIy's rights over the. budget; and
lastly, what provinces Of government should
be removed to the competency of the as
sembly.
Thus nothing regarding the imperial
douma" has been predetermined, Minister
Bouligan reserving the right to give his
opinIon 10 his eo-ministers.