The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-06
CLOSE QUARTERS.
Conflict Between the Car and
His Parliament
Is Approaching the Point OF
Open Hostility.
STRIKES ARE RESUMED
Peasants Are Selling the Land
in the Interior.
Leaders on Both Sides Strive to
STRIKES ARE RESUMED
Leaders on Both Sides Strive to
Postpone the Evil Day.

st. Petersburg. June 6.=The lower
house of parliament and the govern
ment are rapidly coming to close
quarters, and the conflict. which be-
came inevitable the moment the pop
uIar assembly presented its demands
in the address to the throne, can not
be much longer delayed
The excitement in the interior is in
creasing daily. Partial strikes have
begun at Kieff. Odessa. Moscow aad
other cities and the peasants IN some
provinces are no longer restrainable
and have commenced to seize the land
of the proprietors. The leaders Of
the Constitutional Democrats in the
lower house who for tactical reasons
sought to postpone conflict in order
TO be able to choose the time and
place for the battle, realize that they
must go with the tide, and the gov
ernment, which equally sought to
calmly ignore the extra constitu-
tional' Democrats Of the house and
sent the ministers to the house with
conciliatory speeches. realizes that
the governmental policy has failed.
Since the government declined to
give the house satisfaction regarding
the continued executions. in the prov
inces or to bring to book the local
officials, whose tyranny is tanning the
names OF popular lnQ1EnaIlOH. parma
ment has had no alternative except
the immediate insistence on its de-
mand for the dismissal of the cabinet.
The scene at Yesterdays session, when
the house refused to listen to the min
listers and practically drove them
from the rostrum. clearly represents
the issue. The emperor must dismiss
the cabinet or fight. In yielding to the
militant spirit of the radicals upon
this point the Constitutional Demo-
Gratis again solidihed the opinion
which was on the verge of dissension
sions of which the government is
eager to take advantage. it being re-
liably reported that the government
has planned to make a direct appeal
to the peasantry by distributing the
land-hungry peasants on easy pay
ments $3.50. 600 acres of crown lands
on the right bank of the Volga and in
the southern and central provinces
without awaiting action of parlia-
ment This step is strongly advised
by the leaders Of the nobility, who
are holding a. general congress.
The members of the nobility are
perfectly aware that the parliament
tary programme if adopted Will wipe
out landlordism in Russia and that
the fair price which the progra mrne
offers for their appropriated property
viii not save them from economic
ruin. Therefore the mobiles are or
ganizing in order to make a stiff fight
for the preservation of their preroga-
tives. While few of them apparently
read the signs of the times Alright and
are in favor of making the best of a
bad situation. the majority are stiff
necked aristocrats who are not in IA
vor of yielding an iota. They even
hesitate to endorse the moderate gov
eminent programme and have sent
message expressing their loyalty to the
emperor in which they did not even
mention the existence Of parliament.