Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-28
SOCIETY EAGERLY
AWAITS RESPONSE
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT GIVEN
SLAP IN THE FACE
Action Of Lower House Considered
q Direct Challenge Which Ems
peror and Cabinet Must
Meet
BY Associated Press.

| by Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, May %, 10 a. M
With breathless anxiety society awaits
the governments response to the bold
action of the lower house of parliament
Saturday. which in censuring the min
| istry and demanding it's retirement, was
| like a deliberate slap i'm the face and
I n direct challenge which the govern
ment, though inclined to prefer its
usual policy of temporization and COM
promise, can hardly avoid meeting.
Parliament has burn cd the bridge and
virtually has taken the step which the
French states general did when it
transformed Itself into national con-
vention. BY Haunting the fundamental
laws and practically declaring that 1t
proposes to exercise full parliamentary
rights with responsible ministry 1t
has become in the eyes of the law a
revolutionary body and from that posi-
ton there seems no retreat.
Came Like Electric Shock
The news faction of the house came
like an electric shock, the people being
generally as greatly surprised at the
bureaucracy as at the promptness with
which the whole of the governments
policy was absolutely scorned.
Both sides recognize the acuteness
panic is in the government and not
the popular camp.
Premier Goremykin went to Peterhof
Immediately after the adjournment of
Saturdays session to confer with the
emperor, and Sunday denoted agitated
conferences between the administration
and the leader.
CaImness in Face of Crisis
The constitutional democrat chiefs
are displaying calmness in the face Of
the crisis. They declare that having de-
livered their reply they propose to go
calmly ahead with the work before
them, forcing the government to take
the initiative. The strength of their
position lies in the conviction that the
Russian nation and especially the
peasantry, who are sure to be dis
contented with the fiat concerning the
appropriation of lands, is behind par
Lament in its rejection of the govern
ment's policy as Utterly unacceptable.
1.-The government, if it dares to
fight" said M. Kokoshine, one of the
constitutional democratic mepbers OF
the house, "can disperse the parlia-
ment, but the victory of the bureau
cracy would be only temporary.
1T would inevitably be followed
shortly by bloody revolution, which
would not leave a stick of the present
government standing.
1.-THE emperor must choose between
real constitutional government and
the loss not only of his crown, but
probably of his head"
Delighted at Turn of Events
The social democrats and social
revolutionists are delighted at the turn
of events, believing they furnish just
the stimulus needed for the rising they
are planning.
The terrorists were quick to seize the
opportunity for a series of blows in
which they separated parts of the
country, the news of which forms a
prominent feature in this morning s
papers in place of the expected decree
of amnesty
The attempts at Tif1is and Sebastopol
are convincing indications of the dem
onstration of the fighting organization
to resume its campaign of assassina-
tion with unusual vigor.
The press today almost without ex-
ception is pessmistic, recognizing the
extreme gravity of the situation AMI
the tempest which the denial of the
right of forced appropriation Of land
will provoke among the peasantry
Reasoning Is False
The Reich declares that the govern
.
false and fallacious, the appropriation
| of land standing practically on the
| same basis now as in 1851.
Professor Kareiff in a special article
says a parallel of the early stage OF
| the French revolution is Snow COM
plete. He invites the ministry to sub
| stitute for the 1906 events those OF
| 1883, and then to consider whether
| they wish to continue their present
| course.
The Slovo, the Octoberists' organ
| falls behind none of the others IN
sharpness of criticism, declaring thai
the government has proclaimed war OF
parliament,
Orders for the guard corps to &c
| into summer camp at Krasnoye-SelC
have been countermanded, and it /:
supposed they will be retained here
in readiness to cope with any out
| break.