Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-06-02
RUSSIA Seems ON
VERGE OF CIVIL WAR
DoUMA REJECTS THE cZAR's
POLICY, AND VOTES LACK
OF CONFIDENCE.
LONG-HOPED-FOR
AMNESTY REFUSED
rhc DOumR Practically Throws
Down the Gauntlet to the
bureaucracy, Demanding Retire
mcnt of Present Cabinet and Su-
percessiOn ny a Ministry of Its
Approval.

st. Petersburg the end Of a
memorable seven-hour session, the low
er house of parliament Indignantly re-
jeeted the governments policy as pre-
sented by Premier Goremykin, and,
with only seven dissentient voices,
voted lack Of confidence in the min
istry. This practically throws down
the gauntlet 10 the bureaucracy with
a demand for the retirement of the pres
ent cabinet and its supercession by a
ministry approved by a majority in the
house.
While the house avoided the appear,
ance Of declaring an ultimatum, the
government seems to have no alterna-
tive between surrender and war. The
gloomy forebodngs are heard every
where, and the general impression is
that the country is on the verge of a
Titanic struggle, which may be de-
layed but not averted. Dispatches from
the interior indicat1 that the struggle
may be inaugurated with a general
strike, when the people learn that all
amnesty has been refused
While the premer's statement prom
issd cooperation with the lower house
an 50 far as the latter does not trans
gtess the limits O. the fundamental
laws" il recognized the agrar.an Ques,
ton as paramount, proposing to rem
edy the deficiency in land through the
operation Of an agrarian bank and mi
grafton to Siberia It proposed the in
PRODUCTION of universal and compulsory
eGucation, the reform Of the a6minis-
tration and the realization of the four
liberties.
Premier Goremykins statement,
however. returned a non possumus on
the chief question raised by the house
L. declared that the flat and exception
al laws can not be withdrawn until
murder and terrorism cease. The eX-
preparation Of apparges of the crown
and church and private lands was de-
clared inadmssble. The right of in
vestigatng administrative acts, the
statement declared, belong to the
crown. the house having only the power
of Interpolation Amnesty, Premier
Gcremykin said, is solely the prerog-
atiye of the emperor
Programme Is Denounced.
Such briefly. was the governments
reply 10 the address Of the house, and
the promier's words seemed to arouse
all the latent resentment in the hearts
of the members of the house, The con
stitutional democratic leaders for the
first time gave free rein to passion, and
with flaming words, orator after orator
denounced the governments pro-
gramme and said that the ministry
must give way to a cabinet in which
the people can have confidence
NJ. Rodtcheff announced that the gov
crnments reply had dashed to the
ground all hope of working in harmony
With the administration. NJ. KovaIey-
sky enacted the role Of Mirabeau, prac-
;iCally paraphrasing the Frenchman's
words, I've are here by the will of the
people, and nothing but bayonets can
dtsperse us" while half a dozen peas
ants hurled defiance at the ministry.
Even Count Heydgn, the leader of the
right, deserted The government, say
ing that inasmuch as 1t had refused to
redeem its promises to repeal the ey-