The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-28
THREATEN THE CAR
Defiance of Douma Foreshad-
ows a Reign Of Terror.
MOT ONLY GROWN, BUT HIS HEAD"
spirit of Absolute Revolution at
~. Petersburg, aud Conflict be-
tween People and Bureau-
crRcy Has Begun.

tween EtOple
cFacy Has Begun.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 2s-The
Russian douma has Indignantly re-
jected the governments policy rs pre-
scented by Premier Goremykin and
with only seven dissentient voices yot-
ed lack of confidence in the ministry,
practically throwing down the gauntlet
to the bureaucracy with demand for
the retirement of the present cabinet
and its supersessi0n by ministry APP
proved by the majority in the house.
The spirit of absolute revolution is
In the air. and u conflict between the
crown and the nation now appears to
be inevitable. While the house avoided
the appearance of delivering an ulti-
matum. the government seems to have
no alternative except surrender or war.
The gloomiest forebodings are every
where expressed, and the general i'm
preston is that the country is OH the
verge of Titanic struggle, which may
be delayed but not averted Dis
patches received from the interior indi-
cate that the struggle possibly may be
inaugurated in few days with Il gen
eral strike when the people learn that
all amnesty has been refused them.
With breathless anxiety society
awaits the governments response to
fha hold action ~ tIa 1n,,,uo which In,
censurng the ministry and demanding
its retirement was like deliberate
slap Ia the face and direct challenge,
which the government can hardly
avoid meeting. Parliament has burned
the bridge aud virtually has taken the
step which the French states general
did when Ii transferred itself into a
national convention.
BY haunting the fundamental laws
and practically declaring that II pro-
poses to exercise full parliamentary
rights, with responsible ministry. ii
has become in the eyes OF the law q
revolutionary body, and from that po-
siti0n there seems no retreat.
"fhe government II II dares TO
fight" said ~ KokOshklne, one OF the
Constitutional Democratic members of
the house can dispense the parlla-
ment, but the victory of the bureaucra-
cy would only be temporary II would
inevitably be followed shortly by a
bloody revolution which would not
leave stick of the present govern
ment standing, The emperor must
choose between real constitutional
government and the loss not only OF
his crown, but probably of his head"
Professor Kareeif said that a paral.
lei OF the early stage of the French
revolution Is now complete.
While the premiers statement prom
Used cooperation with the lower house
I'm so far as the latter does not trans
gress the limits OF the fundamental
laws" II recognized the agrarian ques-
ton as paramount, proposing to rem
edy the deficiency in land through the
operation of an agrarian bank and mi
grafton to Siberia. 1t proposed the in.
PRODUCTION OF universal and compulsory
education, the reform of the admins.
trati0n and the realization of the -four
liberties Premier Goremykin's state
ment however, returned nonpOssu-
mus on the burning question raised by
the house in its reply TO the speech
from the throne. 1t declared that the
governments fiat and exceptional laws
cannot be withdrawn until murder and
terrorism cease. The right of lnyestga,
ton OF administrative acts. the state
ment declared, belonged to the crown
the house having only the power Of in.
terpolation Amnesty. Premier Goremy
kin said. was solely the prerogatiye OF
the emperor.
Such briefly was the governments
reply to the address of the house, and
the premier's words seemed to arouse
all the latent resentment in the hearts
OF the members Of the house. The Con
stitutl0nal Democratic leaders for the
first time gave free range to their pas
siOns. and with flaming words orator
after orator declared the government,
programme inadmisslble and said that
the ministry must give way to a cabi
net In which the people had confidence
Grave news comes from the prov
inces. Instead of acting as a sedativt
the assembling OF parliament has beer
marked by an alarming increase II
revolutionary agitation and terroristiG
activity OH the one hand and of Black
Hundred activity on the other, The
extremists OF both sides are thus di
vlded into two hostile camps. and botl
are armng as If preparing for an in
evltable civil war
NJ. Shataloff, warden Of the citl
prison here, was shot four times yes
terday and MORALLY wounded by al
eighteen yearold youth who was exc
cutting Social Revolutionlst sentenc,
IN revenge for ShatalOff's bad treat
ment OF political prisoners The as
ssssin, whose name is Skutilmin, killed
beggar who tried to stop him, bu
afterward was arrested.
At Sevastopol yesterday severa
bombs were thrown while review o
troops was being held after the 1T
Deum" in celebration of the anniver
sary Of the emperor's coronation
Three persons were killed and severa
wounded. Among the wounded wai
the commander of the fortress, Genera
NeplueH.
At TiAis while Governor Genera
Timoseleff and Chief of Police Mar
tinoff were driving yesterday bombs
were thrown at them. Neither was in
iured, but Cossack belonging to thei
escort was killed. The crime was at
tempted in the center of the town.
few rods from the scene of the aSSnS