The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-29
TROOPS MAY Be USED
against parliament
RUSSIAN INFANTRY REGIMENT
SUDDENLY SUMMONED TO ST.
PETERSBURG.

Rumors or a Shift in the Ministry
Everywhere Current in the Capital
No One in the Present Cabinet TO
Read the Handwriting on the Wai"
Present Temper of Parliment Such
That 1t May Not Listen to Any Prop
osition However Liberal.
Noygorod, Russia, May 2S.-The Vi
borg infantry regiment in garrison mere
has suddenly been summoned to st.
Petersburg. The officers say the regi-
anent will be quartered in barracks
near the Tauride palace, and add that
they expect to be used against parlia-
ment
st. Petersburg, May 28.-Rumors of
a shift in the ministry are everywhere
current tonight 1t is persistently re-
ported here and at N1oscok that former
Finance Minister shipoff has received
an urgent summons to Peterhof to con-
fer with Emperor Nicholas, presuma-
bly, with regard to the formation of
new cabinet, although he has frequent
ly expressed his unwillingness to take
over the premiership, A dispatch from
Moscow to The Associated Press re-
ports that NJ. Shipoff left that city late
to-day for St. Petersburg, but that 1t
was impossible to ascertain whether his
coming is or is not in response to I'M
perial command. 1t is possible that M.
Shipoff's only errand is to attend the
session of the council of the empire to-
morrow but the present situation is so
plainly impossible that a shift is not at
all improbable 1t is also rumored that
Prince Urusoff has been summoned to
an audience of the emperor.
In the meanwhile the present minis
try, among whom there is no Daniel
to read the handwriting on the fall in
the attitude Of the lower house of par
liament, is calmly going ahead with its
agrarian programme which is hopes to
submit to the lower house within
fortnight and contrary to expectation,
to provide for the distribution Of MIL
lions Of acres Of crown lands in Euro
pean Russia. All this seems to be labor
lost, as in the present temper of para
lament, which has taken the bit in its
teeth, no proposition from the govern
ment. however liberal, as was shown
by It's reception to-day of the speech
of Minister of Justice Shtcheglovitoff,
is apt to receive the slightest consider
alton.
The governments policy, which the
Associated Press is authorized to an
nounce, is founded on the expectation
that enough land can be obtained by
the division of the crown lands, the
clearing Of a portion of the imperial
forests, and the voluntary sales of
private estates to meet the land hum
ger Of the peasants without the neces-
sity of forced appropriation. Outlining
these plans Minister Of Agriculture
stichinsky said this evening that the
government had at it's disposal 25,OO0,-
900 acres, composed Of 100000 acres
of crown arabic lands situated largely
in the Volga region, 6,250,000 acres of
clearalble forests and S,750OOO acres of
private estates, the owners of which
have announced their readiness to SELL
without doubt thousands of other land
owners will be only too anxious to dis
pose Of their holdings at reasonable
prices. These lands will be sold to peas
ants on time through the Peasants
bank, the payments not commencing
for several years.
This programme, in addition to the
colonization of Siberia and central Asia
contemplates the improvement Of the
agricultural methods of the peasantry,
which are primitive and unproductive
in the extreme, and for bringing the
peasants, whose gregariousness leads
to their gathering in villages, and in
towns of population as high as 10000
nearer to their lands.