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.r.t lnl tho Dlmi. The eSi~ting situation,
u ,.. p M, Ministers continue to express
l.... losing ahl' ~ cooperate with tho
Irr.l ,itr, the latter has unanimously
,nt,I nu rrnilcncs in the cabinet, IL ex-
rDIucIt u the Prsmier's view by the circum-
stancr that the Duma has entirely mistaken
IT, position.
Wnon "A private commission, Says Go
tamvkIn. went abroad last winter to study
me various elected chambers Of the con-
rlront If Europe the commissioners found
that the model which host suited them
was the Pr1lssian Diet. This was especially
true in visw " the fact that neither the
bet nor the Duma was entitied to interfere
with either the foreign or the military
policy Of the Empire. Goremykin declares
in his statement that the Duna IL wholly
outside its powers in seeking to interfere
with the constitution or he Council of the
Empire and in claiming TO fix the respon-
sibility Of the Council of Ministers, but it is
entitled to a share OF legislative functions
within the limits prescribed by the Funda-
mental Laws.
The Ministry denies that it has adopted
an attitude of non possumus on the question
Of agrarian appropriation, but maintains
that compulsion must not be the basic
principle of this great reform. The Ministers
did not resign after the hostile vote Of the
Dlma, because they were convinced that
the same want OF confidence would he
expressed as to their SUCCESSORS, even were
they selected from the majority in the
Duma. The Ministry would continue to
draft it's own bills for the Improvement OF
the conditions Of peasau Mt life, irrespective
Of any impossible project the Duma might
discuss.
As trouble and disorder Of the worst
kind ia feared in the provinces in the next
4-.-t-l A. r,--- l--I@-, yooN@pira chat
thew are on the eve of an acute crisis. The
Council of the Empire offers to cooperate
fully il the majority will drop the extreme
left.
As the economic situation becomes worse
there are increasing signs of a rapproche-
ment among the Liberals as apart from the
Socialist groups. NJ. Avdakoff, president
Of the Amalgamated South Russian Mining
Industries, who is an elected member OF
the Council of the Empire, says his colleagues
are already preparing reports to cooperate
with the Duma on the agrarian question.
He saws the Duma should consider the
colossal mineral wealth of the country and
rot alone the titled land. The Duma can
Iot deal with ~allotments, but this wealth
j. If normous importance in relation to
feeding the people. He does not believe
that the court party has the importance
ascribod to it. He thinks the Car honestly
seeks to cooperate with the ouncil and
the Duma, but it is certain that the revolu-
tlonary movement will increase in violence
as a Liberal compromise under existing
conditions becomes more possible.
\ conference Of the entire nobility OF
Russia has been summoned, to be held in
ST. Petersburg the middle of this month.
Imperial Chancellor Ushakof proposes the
formation Of a landowners league for the
purpose Of effecting a voluntary land allot-
ment system. The enormous difficulty
of furnishing compensation under the bill
for compulsory appropriation Ia realized
by the financial world. which estimates the
cost at more than $500. 000. 900.
remarkable a ounts Of how the peas
antry throughout Russia are watching the
struggle between the Duma and the low
eminent are now reaching the capital. A
letter from Kamenka, Province Of Pensa,
describes how the wife OF a local member Of
the Duma received a telegram from her
husband stating that the Government had
refused the claim for land. The telegram
was Immediately copied on a hand press
and distributed by young peasants in the
"lphbOrnH images. when the ioodi
population assembled at the church the next
Sunday the service was converted into a
political meeting. A resolution was
adopted and telegraphed to the members Of
the Duma. 1t said:
we demand energetically the accom-
pishment OF the manifesto Of October 80,
amnesty for illegally arrested political
friends and the allotment OF land for all de-
sirous of tilling it. A refusal of these de-
mands will evoke the wrath Of the people
with ruinous results"
A similar resolution was adopted at
Pokrovskoi, Province Of Saratov. Thu
peasants there wished the head Of the
m TO post the resolution on the COM
mune Office, but he declined n warned
the people Of the danger from the Cossacks.
Then a meeting Of 1000 peasants decided to
telegraph to st. Petersburg, expressing
their amazement at the Governments re-
fusal and demanding that the Duma insist
upon a personal audience with the Gar,
for, as the message said: 1T Ia incredible
that he wants to ruin his wi f~atherland,
which is inevitable IL he listens to the Coun-
ell Of Minister'S"
Agitators are very active in the Province