Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-21
Members Of the Party Are Sick at
Heart and Anxious TO Drop Subject.
Professor MIukof Believes There Is No LONGER
Any Danger Of a Dissolution Of Parliament,

81 petersburg, July 20.-NO further
action regarding the proposed address
to the people was taken by the Lower
House of Parliament today. The Con-
StitutiOnal Democratic members an
pcared to be heartily sick of the whole
episode and anxious to drop the sub
Ject II the government is SO minded and
there is a disposition to shelve the adj
dress by indefinite postponement of the
question as to the manner Of its publi-
cation. Prof. Milukuff and other lead
erS of the Constitutional Democratic
party today carefully pointed out that
the document is not technically an ap-
peal directed specifically to the people.
but might be considered as an "expla-
nation" addressed to nobody in particu-
lar and from this standpoint harm
less.
There is no question but that the fias-
co has enormously shaken the prestige
of the Constitutional Democrats and
the leaders of the party are crestfallcn
over having been induced to play with
such edged tools. Professor Milukoff
NJ. Struve and others admitted frankly
today that one effect will be to post
pone to the dim future the advent of
Constitutional Democratic ministry, as
the vote on the adoption of the adj
dress showed that the party was actu-
ally in the minority in the House adm
too weak to control the situation when
faced by the combined opposition of the
Right and Left to any measure.
Professor Milukofi told The Associa-
tea Press tonight that he believed there
WAS no longer any reason to apprehend
the dissolution of Parliament, as the
government would rather seek to profit
by its diSSen9iOnS.
The Petelhoff circles are reported to
be Jubilant over the discontinue Of the
Constitutional Democrats.
st. Petersburg, July 20.-Extremc
nervousness and excitement pervade all
classes owing TO fear that the action
of the Lower House of Parliament in
adopting at o'clock this moring an
address to the people may be the sig
nal for coup d'etat against Parlia-
ment. 1t is rumored that the step has
been decided upon and the Strana
prints a report that an imperial ukase
ordering the dissolution of Parliament
has already been signed.
Inv lt'iiHS3 vi StIltI dloti III 10 III
creased by the fact that all night
long Guard regiments have b9cn
marching into the city from the
Guards camp at Krasnoyc-SclG. More
over it is known that the cCIonels OF
the Scminovsky Regiment of the
Guard and Of the Hussars of the
Guard and the colonies Of the Ismail-
ovsky, Pavlovsky Preobrajensky and
Yaegeriki Guard regiments and the
colonel of the Horse Artillery of the
Guard were summoned to the head
quarters of the commander of the st.
Petersburg garrison. where they receiv-
ed instructions regarding the dispo-
sition of their troops in the case of
certain eventualities.
An attempt was made to reassure the
public when this fact leaked out with
the explanation that hese were pre-
cautionary dispositions arranged in
view of the threatening situation
among the workmen in the industrial
sections. but the evidence seems con-
elusive that the government has DELHI
erately prepared for the gravest emer-
gency.
So far as can be asccrtained however.
hiiet' NSCiSiOll lids bICi tdhcli ~
Peterhof. The ministry which be-
lieves it is again back in the saddle.
hoped to prolOng the status quo while
the court camarilla insists that the
sooner Parliament, as center of the
revolutionary propaganda, is dispersed,
the better, and both sides unite on the
necessity for preparations to meet the
extra constitutional step Of the Lower
House.
Once the final decision to dissolve
Parliament is taken, it is believed that
the representatives of the foreign pow
ers will be Immediately notified and
no such notifications has been given.
The question now. is how the change
in the form of the address as finally
adopted early this morning will affect
the situation. Undoubtedly the Con-
stitutional Democrats did what they
could to amend the address so as to
avoid the appearance Of Parliament
entering upon a revolutionary role.
During the debate they will dwell upon
the point that the address did not sum-
mon the people to support Parliament
against the government and instead Of
provoking the masses to an uprising.
it adjured them to remain quiet New
ertheless they were forced owing to