Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-10
WHITES ULTIMATUM TO CAR
Premier Says Either BE or DurnOvO Must
Leave the Cabinet
WILL CONTROL PARLIAMENT
Repressivc, Measures Of the Reaction,
AIRY Element UWRbIe co stem
Rising rid, of OPP
position.

ST. PETERSBURG, April iO.--The stead
lily swelling tide of liberal successes and
tho overwhelming victory OF the consttu-
tional democrats at Moscow nave brought
the struggle between reaction and reform
TO a head.
Premier witte late last night. according
to information which haH reached the AS
ISOLATED Prcss. again rendered his resig
nation to tho emperor with clear-cut
intimation that the latter must choose. and
at once, between him and Minister OF the
Interior Durnovo. The emperor, according
to report. took the resignation under con-
sideration and returned no answer.
Since his return from 1'sarskoe-S elo last
week when he PLEADED with Emperor
Nicholas to heed the voice of the people
and grant written constitution, Premier
Witte has brought all possible pressure
upon the emperor to divorce himself from
the reactionary cabal and align himself
unreservedly with the new school.
Events now. az during the great october
strike preceding the Issuance OF the i'm
perial manifesto. have played the premier's
game. Every new election has made It
clearer that the idea that the imperial
Parliament could be held in leading strings
is utterly futile and after the receipt of
the returns from twenty-elght provinces
and Moscow. Count witre apparently felt
strong enough TO play his final card and
force the issue.
shipOT tn Replace DurnOvO.
II Witte wins he will replace NJ Durnovo
with NJ. Shipon or some other liberal
working in agreement with the govern
ment II he loses, Durnovo, Trepoff and
Ignatieff will inherit the ticklish job of
dealing with the accredited representatives
OF the nation.
The latest dispatches bring little COM
fort to the conservatives Reports con-
tinue to be favorable to the constitutional
democrats One OF the most notable fea-
lures is the election of Prince Urusoff,
who resigned the vice ministry of the In
terror to stand for the national Parlia-
meHt. Michael Stakovitch. the we'll known
zemstvoist, has also been reelected.
A summary Of the official returns up to
6 O'Clock this evening shows that fifty
constitutional democrats. twenty-siX pro-
eresslves and thirteen unclassiffed MEM
bers OF the lower house have been elected.
Peasants Above station.
with the single exception of Tula, In
every province where the peasant class
was in the majority, the electoral college
captured the majority OF the members.
Most Of them, however, although belong
ing to the peasant class, are actually peas
ants in name only and have risen far above
their station. For instance, a peasant of
ST. Petersburg province is a principal of
middle school.
The Rech. organ Of the constitutional
democrats, terms it a splendid victory and
rejoicing to the election of men like NJ
Petrunkevitch and NJ. Boditcheff' who
first demanded a constitution for Russia,
and Prince Shakovolsk who gave fortune
to aid the liberation movement, the paper
points out that these ARE the very people
whose ideas the emperor Twelve years ago
called foolish dreams"
Electors I'm Prisons.