Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-29
Spread Of Revolutionary Ideas in Army
Opens His Eyes.
POsEOoSos1stFF ADVISES CONCESSIONS
Chief Of Rsactionaries Says it is Only Way
to Save the Throne.
ANARCHY IN PROVINCES is SPREADING
Rovins Bands Force workers "a
Leave Fields and Domestic SER
wants 70 Leave Homes of
Employers.
ST PETERSBURG. June 2s.-The

ST PETERSBURG, June 2s--The y,
paign which the oppositional element
Parliament are waging to compel Empet,
Nicholas to dismiss the Goremyl0in cabinet
and accept the principle Of a responsible
ministry promises to be successful soon.
But the emperor and the court are being
frightened into surrender by the alarming
spread OF revolutionary ideas among the
troops. When tho Preobraajna regiment.
his maiesty's own, pronounced its solidarity
with Parliament at Krasnoe-selo less than
a dozen miles from the Peterhof, the en-
peror's eyes opened and the court began to
realize that there was only a step from that
TO declaring aiiegience to Parliament as
against the government Even the former
procurator general of the holy synod, M.
Pobedonostseff. who today celebrated the
sixtieth Jubilee OF his entrance into the
service OF the state and who has been much
at Peterhof recently is said to have re-
versed the position Of a lifetime and to have
advised the emperor to yield to the demand
for a responsible ministry as the only means
OF preserving the throne.
Fear of Public Opinion.
The governments sudden fear of affront-
ing public opinion after finding the army
infected with the revolutionary propaganda
is shown in the hurried grant Of new
trial to seven men condemned TO death at
Riga, the acquittal OF six others and the
communication of death sentences imposed
on three murderers of the foreman OF tho
Putiloff iron works.
The news from the provinces show that
general anarchy is growing. In Altarak
and Tauride provinces, the peasants are
y bandoning the fields and in Tlla province
,-~rlg bands are marching through the
a roinn Il, vva lra nnf
the workers from the fields. but the do
mestio servants of the gentry. In the
Baltic provinces the governor general has
again granted the land owners permission
to organize armed patrols.
The only conservative group in the lower
house Of Parliament, which is headed by
Count Heyden. has at last bowed before the
storm of radicaiism and declared In favor
OF practically the whole OF the constitu-
tional democrats agrarian program In
,cludinK the appropriation OF state, church,
crown and private lands.
Governments Land scheme.
The agrarian scheme, drawn for the gov
ernment by NJ stchinsky, minister Of
agriculture, is now completed. but has not
been finally approved. II still rejects the
principle of appropriation. but contains
enormous concessions from the program
announced ny GItHlltI- 0oFtIghll llItG
weeks ago, by providing for the distribution
of all lands belonging to the state in
European Russia, but neither the crown
lands. belonging to the emperor nor the
lands belonging 10 members of the imperial
family or the church are included in 1t.
Besides, It contains the original features
providing for the distribution Of the lands
OF private holders, which would be sold
through the peasant banks. a..d the coloni-
zation OF peasants. etc. Such a scheme
proposed at the opening of Parliament
might have helped to stem the tide. but
wrung from the government. it comes too
late
Many Attacks ON Cabinet.
Parliament seems practically to have
abandoned its attempt TO frame legislation
Its whole energy is directed to attacking
the government by the medium of inter
pellation, for the double purpose OF
strengthening its authority with the masses
and ousting the ministry. Today the pre-
sentatiou OF the Bialystok report was again
postponed. The interpretations began with
demand 10 know why the government
prohibited the proposed meeting OF the
Peasants league at ST. Petersburg while
permitting that of the mobiles. and also
why members of the Peasants league ar
rested az Moscow months ago, have not
been released.
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