The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
Russian Crisis Has Not Yet Been
Passed.
Government Hesitates About
Granting Partial Amnesty.
WAR ON PARLIAMENT.
The Black Hundred Urges Its
Dissolution.
Believed That Cabinet Will Have
to Give Way.

ST. Petersburg, May 24.-The gov
eminent seems to be hesitating about
executing the resolution taken a week
ago to grant partial amnesty. The Of
hcial statement issued last night,
iustifving the government in not
granting plenary amnesty, seems des-
tined to pave the way for refusal on
the ground that in the present elrcoIn-
stances the release of the political
prisoners deserving freedom can be
left to the local authorities.
Nothing could be more irritating to
the liberals than for the emperor 10
delegate the discretion OF granting
pardon to the very men responsible
for the wholesale arrests which oc-
Cured during the winter and such
decision is sure to arouse a storm IN
the lower house and increase the dan
ger of conflict.
The hand of General Trepoff. who
engineered the protests of the
branches of the league of the Russian
people s(bIacks hundred) in the interior
which are cited in the official state
nfent1 as evidence that the Russian
masses are opposed to amnesty, is seen
in this new shift in the government
position and again raises the spectre
of a counter revolution. The Twen-
tieth Century, formerly the Russ, to-
day prints in parallel columns the text
of identical kilograms sent to the en-
peror from widely different places
protesting against the demand OF the
lower house for amnesty, proving
them to have been inspired from a
common source. The dispatch most
used is as follows:
IF parliament desires to assist you,
allow it to do So but if the members
attempt to play the role of rulers dis
perse them and trust to the whole of
the Russian people to support you-'
At Kieff yesterday the local branch
Of the league of the Russian people
Il 1.,t- s47-s
war against parliament and pro-
nounced itself IN favor of the creation
of a dictatorship to crush the revo-
luton.
omcers of the guard regiments in
st. Petersburg at q meeting just held
openly advocated the dispersal of
parliament. Such facts serve to
strengthen the campaign which the
social Democrats and social revolu-
tionlsts continue to wage against the
illusions of a parliamentary regime.
Tt is announced that Premier
Goremykin will reply tomorrow af-
lternoon to the address of the lower
house to the throne. The impression
is growing that if a peaceful issue is
| to be possible the Goreymkin cabinet
must give way to another ministry
without previous bureaucratic connec-
tions. NJ. Shipoff. of Moscow, is con-
sidered the most prominent candidate
for premier Michael Stakovich,
count Heyden ana RrOI kusfnln-
Karavieff, all members of the lower
house, are also mentioned, but no
| leaders of the constitutional Demo-
Gratis are referred to in this connec-
ton.
The Reich today prints an intima-
ton that Count Solsky's retirement
from the presidency of the upper
house is intended to make way fol
Count Witte.
Former Interior Minister Durnovo
has gone abroad. The car In which
he travelled to the frontier was guard
ed by gendarmes and members of the
secret police.