The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-23
RESPONSIBILITY FOR
 ANTI-IEWISH OUTRACES
POLICE AND MILITARY BLAMED BY RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT
 ARY COMMITTEE

Governor of BialystOk Undoubtedly
 Criminally Guilty of PrOIcnging the
 Excesses by Absence from POst-The
 Ministry Must be Changed and Chosen
 from the Majority In Parliament
 Country May Fall Otherwise to Level
 of Turkey or Persia.
 St. Petersburg, June 22.-At crowd ed meeting of the Constitutional Demo- cratic club tonight Deputy Stchepkin reported the findings of the committee of the lower house of parliament which went to Bialystok to investigate the facts in connection with the anti-Jew- ish outbreak there. According to this report, the police, with the aid of sub- ordinate officers of the police, and mili- tary were directly responsible for the provocation of the outbreak by the cir culation of false rumors against the Jews. The governor of Bialystok, though not directly responsible, was said by M. Stchepkin to have been un- doubtedly criminally guilty of prolong- ing the excesses by absence from his post. The governor washed his hands of the affair, not knowing the attitude of the officials at St. Petersburg, and absented himself from the scene with out giving a single order. That the government gave no order sanctioning the excesses is not questioned, but the local police assumed that the Goremy- kin ministry, which had printed black hundred circulars, would not punish those who participated in the outbreak. It is this two-faced attitude of the gov ernment, Nj. Stchepkin asserted, which was principally responsible. In conclud- ing the report says:
 The ministry must be changed and one must be chosen from the majority in parliament, or otherwise Russia will fall to the level of Persia and Turkey, and ultimately come under the tutor ship of really civilized government"
 The agrarian commission, which or ganized on Wednesday by appointing as president Count Mukhanoff of Tcher- nigo, a constitutional democrat, will to- morrow begin the serious work of draft ing a land law. This probably will be worded in general terms and the re- sponsibility as to details left to local commissions.
 A new version of conspiracy against parliament was given to-day by Deputy Alladin, leader of the group of toll, who declared from the tribune that the re- ports of disaffection among the sailors at Cronstadt were merely fables invent ed by the government with the purpose of enticing a parliamentary deputation into the fortress, where they would be shot down, the plan also being to dis perse parliament and arrest the mem- bers of the lower house as knot of revolutionists.
 Apprehension of an impending out break at Gomel was increased to-day by a telegram from residents of that city to Deputy Vinaver stating that a bomb had been discovered in the house of a leader of the Revolutionary League of Patriots. It is quite possible that the disorderly element at Gomel is eager for another opportunity to loot the stores and houses of Jews; but after the many warnings given the authorities it is scarcely to be expected that the officials will remain inactive.
 It is reported that M. Pobedonosteff, former procurator of the holy synod, is preparing a report on the agrarian question for submission to Emperor Nicholas.