Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-25
CONSERVATION APPARENT.
Upper House Aghast at Magnitude of
Its Task.

st. Petersburg July "a Gas p. NJ
1t is certain that much CONSERVATION
is apparent in the Upper House over the
magnitude Of the task they have as
sumed. Events are marching with
startling rapidity. Having taken de-
olson to sit on the safety valve, the
government knows of no method except
force and all the old bureaucracy ma
chinery of suppression has been placed
in operation to prevent an explosion
DOmicilary searches continue, the
prisons are already filling and the old,
blind system of attempting to conceal
from the people what is happening
has been adopted. The censorship Of
the press has been re-eStabliShcd with
a vigor unknown since the days of the
late Interior Minister Von-Plehve. ac-
complained by the wholesale confisca-
ton of newspapers.
No word of the proceedings of Par
| lament or of the address adopted has
grams from the provinces and even
those from abroad outlining public
opinion in foreign countries have been
| emascuated or suppressed. The edi-
lions of the Rech, Strana and The
| L NtIltlelI teIltuIy "clC
! as they left the press this morning.
At two meetings last night the Cos
sacks sent to dispense them refused
openly to do so, and fraternized with
the workmen. The most serious imme-
date problem confronting the govern
ment is what to do with the members
of the outlawed Parliament, who par
ticipated in the Viborg meeting. Iso-
lated arrests have occurred in various
parts of the country. The members
fully expect to be lodged in prison AMI
the great bulk of them, about 100 in
number, delayed their departure until
today in order to give the permanent
executive committee an opportunity
to scatter. II was decided to return
her this afternoon, the members pre-
ferring to be arrested in body than
be hunted down singly. A representa-
tive of The Associated Press. who went
to the Finnish railroad station at noon
when it was reported the members
wer Que to arrive, saw half regiment
of cavalry opposite the station, which
was swarming with gendarmes.
Tho membership of the permanent exec
utive committee, which is headed by
Prince Paul Olgoroukoff together with
its future plans, are kept secret. but il
is virtually prepared TO assume the role
of directory. or provisional government
should developments make such a course
. advisable.
I'VE carefully avoided summoning an
active revolution" said one of the lead
ers to The Associated Press. I'VE stand
committed before the country and the
world to the limits of passive resistance
Further than this we did not 60"
. | The members of the Group of Toll and
, their allies, the proletariat organizations
of St Petersburg, while fully endorsing
; the Parliamentary address to the coun-
. try so far as it goes. consider it to be
, halfway measures. They hold that II
should be followed up by an appeal tc
the army preparatory to an uprising
which they consider inevitable In the
. cities and country. Such an appeal
probably will be issued Immediately.
. The Polish members Of Parliament
ing full sympathy with the struggle fol
constitutional regime on democratic
basis. but admitting that they preferred
, hitting Poland.
II IL feared that the uprising at Odessa
Is but a series of anti-Jewish outbreaks
throughout the country. The reaction
+. airy local authorities who up to the pres
t ent have been held in leash with the
, greatest difficulty, consider the dissO
luton OF Parliament to be the repressivt
. measure and the signal for the unloos
ing of the mob on the liberals and revo
lutionists.
: The peasant and workmen members OF
Parliament expect the revolutionary up
heaval to first begin in the country. Rev
dictionary emissaries are scatterins
= among the peasants and expect to in
5 ducc them to rise almost in body.