Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-11
OF ST. PETERSBURG DoUMa
Members Trying to Solve the Per-
picking Problem.
THE NAMING OF A COMMISSION
Governments Plan in the Event Of
Parliament's Failure to Accomplish
Acknowledgements Sequences.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 1.-THE de-
bate on the agrarian question In the
lower house of parliament promises to
continue throughout the week, and when
1t is finished the solution of the question
VIII hardly be much further advanced
than when the debate began, as the idea
oil giving instructions to the commission
which will frame the bill has been aban-
doned
Whatever fighting occurs will come
upon the election of the commission
which will consist of eighty eight mem
bers. While the commission will be sup
posed to follow the general direction of
the views expressed during the debate. its
size will make it easy to reopen a dis
cussfon of all the disputed points There
fore there is little prospect that the bill
VIII be ready for submission before July
l. at about which time it is the govern
Ment's intention to declare parliament adj
Journed until September for the summer
vacation. The members of the house dare
not return to their constituents after a
fruitiess Session of two months and un-
doubtedly will resist any attempt to ad-
journ.
Nevertheless the house will be powerless
II the government persists The govern
iiehe pidfi is ciear The house having
failed to offer a solution of the agrarian
question. the emperor, under the authority
reserved to him by the fundamental law.
will promulgate the governments agrariau
program as temporary law, in the hone
that the peasants. disgusted at the failure
Of parliament to give relief will accent it.
Once the governments scheme for land dis
trlbutlon is put in operation and generally
accepted the government calculates that it
VIII create enough support to prevent the
house from attempting TO replace il nv IT'S
own plan in the autumn.
The mere adjournment of parliament
against the protest of the lower house of
parliament, however. is sure to raise pop
ular outcry with which the government win
have to reckon. and the situation and ter,-
per OF the country at the moment proba tly
will determine whether the government will
nave the courage to attempt to execute the
scheme.
In the meantime the upper house is doing
nothlng, having virtually resolved to await
the legislative initiative of the lower house
on all questions
The peasants are reported to have taken
possession of the estate of NJ. Stakovich. a
member of the lower house belonging to
the october party. in Ryazan province.
To Forestall Government.
In order to forestall any attempt on the
part OF the government to interrupt the
work of parliament before anything is ac-
complished, M. Vozovic of Yekaterinoslav at
the opening of the session OF the lower
mouse today proposed that the house adopt
a resolution to continue Its sttings until
the agrarian, death penalty and other inn
portant questions are settled. President
Mouromsen declared the resolution out of
order and the house proceeded with the
consideration of minor matters including
the house rules before resuming the debate
on the agraran question
Proeurator Pavloff was present in the
lower mousse today with the intention, it was
understood, of making a communicated in
behalf of War Minister Rudiger on the sub
Ject OF executions in the Baltic provincesl
count Heyden, a marshal of the nobility
LED the hight to insist on minority repre-
sentation on the various house committees.
or commissions, as they are called