Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-28
FOR A NEW MINISTRY
Campaign Against the Goremy-
kin Cabinet.
FIGHT SEEMS PROMISING
Disafection Among Troops Most
Alarms the Gear.
HIS EYES OPENED AT LAST
Constitutional Democrats of the
Douma Called Into a Caucus
This Afternoon.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 2S-The cop-
sttutional democrats were hurriedIy sum-
moned to caucus this afternoon and 1t
was again rumored in the corridors of the
lower house of parliament that negota-
tons are proceeding with them for the
formation of ministry headed by NJ.
Mouromtsef. president of the lower house.
The campaign which the opposition ele-
ments In parliament are waging to compel
Emperor Nicholas to. dismiss the Gore
mykin cabinet and accept the principle of
a responsible ministry promises soon to be
crowned with success. But the emperor
and the court are to be frightened into sur
render less by the violent attacks made
on the government in the lower house than
the alarming spread of revolutionary dis
affection among the troops. When the
Preobrejensky Regiment. His Majesty's
Own, pronounced its solidarity with par
Lament and Its agrarian program in the
big camp of the Guard regiments at Kras-
noe-Selo, less than dozen miles from
Peterhot, the emperor's eyes were opened
and the court began realizing that there
was only step from that to declaring
allegiance to parliament against the gov
eminent.
1t transpired today that all three battaI-
ions of the Preobrejensky Regiment joined
surrounded by grenadiers, lancers, sharp
shooters and a brigade of artillery two of
the battaliens weakened. The other how
ever, faced the music and was disarmed
and last night, with six officers, was sent
under escort to Medvid to undergo trial
by court martial
Pobiedonostseff for Yielding.
Even the former procurator general OF
the holy synod. NJ. Pobiedonostseff. who
today celebrated the sixtieth jubilee of his
entrance into the service of the state, ana
who has been much at Peterhof recently
is said to have recognized the inevitable
and to have reversed the position of life
time and to have advised the emperor TO
yield to the demand for responsible min
istry as the only means of preserving he
throne and at the same time advising the
summoning of responsible ministry, cou-
pied with the propagation of parliament.
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 of seven men condemned to death at
Riga the acquittal OF six others, and the
communication of death sentences imposed
on the three murderers of the foreman OF
the Putfloff iron works.
Six districts, including Berdichev the
Russian Jerusalem and Gomel where
anti-Semitic attacks are feared, have been
declared in a state of Exceptional secu-
rity.'
IeueIa1 Anarchy drOW1ng.
The news from the provinces shows that
a. state of general anarchy is growing. The
efforts of the agitators to induce the peas
ants working for landlords to strike are
meeting with success. In Altarak and
Tauride provinces the peasants are aban-
doning the fields and in lula province row.
ing bands of peasants are marching
through the country, dragging In their
wake not only the workers from the fields,
but the domestic servants of the gentry.
In the Baltic provinces the governor gen.
eral has again granted the land owners per-
mission to organize armed patrols.
Conservatives Give Way.
The only conservative group in the
lower house of parliament which Is head
ed by Count Heyden. has at last bowed
before the storm of radcalism and has
declared in favor of practically the whole
constitutional democrats agrarian pro-
gram. including the appropriation of
state, church, crown and private lands,
insisting only on their distribution into
private holdings, and not their partition
ment on the lease system.
The agrarian scheme drawn up for me
government by M. Stichinsky, minister OF
agriculture, is now completed. but has not
been finally approved. 1t still rejects the
principle of appropriation, but contains
enormous concessions from the program an
nounced by Premier Goremykin three weeks
lands belonging to the state In European
Russia, but neither the crowd lands, be-
longing to the emperor, nor the lands be-
longing to members of the imperial family
or the church are included in 1t, and be-
Sides 1t contains the original features pro-
vidng for the distribution of the lands OF
private holders, which would be sold
through the peasant banks. and the colo
nzation of peasants etc. Such scheme
proposed at the opening of parliament
might have helped to stem the tide but
wrung from the government, 1t Is again
too late.
Constructive Action Abandoned.
Parliament seems practically to have
abandoned its attempts to frame legislation.
Its whole energy is directed to attacking
the government by the medium of inter-
pellatons for the double purpose of
strengthening its authority with the
masses and ousting the ministry. Today
was again postponed. The interpretations
government prohibited the proposed meet
ing of the peasants league at st. Peters
burg, while permitting that of the MOBILES
and also why the members of the peas
ants league arrested at Moscow months
ago have not been released.
Despite the prohibition against the meet
ing of the peasants league here, the rep
reese ntatives of thirty-six provinces met in
Finland and declared solidarity of opin-
ions with the radical group of toll In the
lower house of the Russian parliament
MONITOR FTOrrDA