The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-05
UNDER IRON HEEL
OF THE MILITARY
Revolutionary Propaganda IN Russia
to Be Crushed Out.
TREPOFF'S GREAT POWER
INTIMATION THAT THE WAR
WILL CONTINUE.

OF. PETERSBURG, June . 2:1O a. m.
y 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 ROjestven-
sky's defeat would force the govern
ment TO grant, the emperor issued a
uksse Sunday sonferring greatly in
creased powers on Governor General
TrepOff. making him assistant minis
ter of the interior in place of Major
General Rydzefsky, who is made
senator: also chief of the department
of police and commander of the corps
of the gendarmerie- General Trepoff is
given the right by the ukase to close
all assemblies and congresses. to sus-
pend indefinitely all societies. leagues
and other bodies manifesting. peTniCiOus
activity and to take all other steps
necessary to preserve order So as To
prevent interfering with the established
regime and to suppress the revolution
airy propaganda
Trepoff's Great Powers.
This ukase. which entrusts almost
dictatoriaI powers to the head Of the
imperial police to control the agitation
now almost peremptorily demanding A
constitution representative government
and the surrender of the vital princ{-
pies of the autocracy, and to put down
the disorders with which the revOlu-
tiOnists are threatening the country.
makes him responsible to the emperor.
The document is of the deepest i'm
| poTtance in the present state of Rus
STA. and indicates that the government,
while steadily proceeding I'm its plans
| for the fulfiliment Of the imperial
promises contained in the resCTiDt Of
| March 3. is determined not to be
swerved from its purpose by the press
! ure of military and naval disasters,
/ but in its own time. and as speedily as
| possible to give the nation the legls-
| lative body on which the BOuligan COM
/ mission has been working In Il may
| perhaps also be read the intimatiOn
/ that the war viii continue, and that
| the question of peace viii not be sub
/ mitted to a Zemsl<y sober
Not a Definite Plan.
! According to the Russ. the result of
| the labOFs of the BOuligan commission,
| which has now been printed and sub
/ mitted to the commissioners. does not
! emb0dy a definite plan for the organ
| ization and functions of new govern
| mental body. but rather collection
! and classification of the necessary data
| for the formation Of an assembly Civ
! ing alternate views Of the various
points in dispute and leaving the final
| difference in the hands Of the minis
/ tiers The material gathered by the
/ commission has been grouped under
| six heads First a historical survey
| of the forms assumed by popular rep
| resentatiOn in Russia from the fifth 10
the sixth century, second, COnsIdera-
ton of the effect of the summOntng
! of a popular assembly on the country
/ under present circumstances; third, the
/ extent To which suffrage shall be
| granted. whether on universal, educa-
| tiOnaI or property qualifications and
| whether classes and occupations
! should be represented fourth that the
| extent of the assembIy's right to inter
/ Hate minister's fifth. the extent OF
the asSembly's rights over the budget,
and. lastly. what provinces OF govern
ment should be removed To the COM
potency Of the assembly
Thus nothing regarding the Imperial
douma" has been predetermined. Min
| lister BouIigan reseTving the right 10
give his opinion to his CO-ministers.