The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22
GEAR DISMISSES THE DUMA.
FILLS CAPITAL WITH TROOPS TO
MEET ANY CRISIS.

S,,ddI Gable Despaiches 10 THE sun.
sr. PETERSBURG. Sunday, July 22.-An
imperial decree dissolving the Duma has
hoen is-,ed. The decree names March 8,
1907, A. tho time for %oonvoking q new
Assembly
Amodlded form of martial law Is declared
IN St. Petersburg and a large part Of the
~nroyince Of Kieff, a danger point. Is put
under full martial law.
DECIDED ON AT SATURDAY CONFERENCE.
Sr. PETERSBURG July 2l.-The Emperor
presided this afternoon at a council
Of personages and Ministers at Peterhof,
when the question Of the existence Of the
Dnms was discussed. 1t had been already
resolution Of the Duma would not be 40
cepted by the Government, on the ground
that it was beyond the sphere Of the lower
house. The preponderanoe OF opinion
was with the Emperor, that the Duma
should be forthwith dissolved.
Ministers Goremykin, Kokovtsef and
stoIypin favored holding new elections.
but the court representatives opposed any
COMPROMISE and declared for relying
wholly on the Czar's loyal forces throughout
the crisis.
Regiments OF cavalry with baggage rains
are arriving in st. Petersburg this evening
and occupying the districts which contain
the imperial residences and ministries.
This has helped to spread the belief that
dissolution has already been decided upon.
The best authorities assume that the ukase
has not yet been signed, although the
end of the Dumas existence as a national
parliament is assuredly sealed.
The scheme of the Cars advisers re-
calls in sinister fashion how the work.
mems upheaval in st, Petersburg led to
the slaughter Of january, 1905. The Gov
eminent at that time feigned a panic and
the authorities act ing on It's orders with
drew the ordinary police patrol and allowed
factories employing thousands Of people
to be closed by the score. They also per-
mitted political strikers to proclaim as loud
as they liked that the new era Of liberty had
come. When the movement had reached
It's full measure In the procession to the
Winter Palace Red Sundays murderous
blow fell.
The same advisers have treated scarcely
otherwise the easily c~onjured hopes OF the
Duma. They first allowed the reports
Of military disaffection to be magnifed
and acknowledged in official reprimands.
They sought every other means to encour-
age the Liberals to offer to step Inc and
lead the nation to constitutional government
as the only way to avoid anarchy. Gen.
Trepoff himself furthered this calculated
provocation, and all this make believe
Of the Cars tutors succeeded as COM
pletely as did their d%ecoying and slaughter
ing Of the masses in st. Petersburg eighteen
months age
The Dumas Constitutional Democratic
majority were brought to believe that they
we're indispensable and were about to be-
come masters Of the situation. Their first
step was to %tranquillize the angry peasants
by an address direct from the Duma to the
nation. The moment their manifesto was
launched the champions of the autocraoy
at Peterhof turned their guns on the Duma
and said: Withdraw Ina forthwith" The
majority obeyed and converted its national
manifesto into ap ordinary parliamentary
resolution addressed to the Minister OF the
Interior.
In the final vote It was the peasants who
by abstainlng saved the Duma. They
could have prevented the Constitutional
Democrats from climbing dow and forced
them, unprepared, to a trial Of physical
strength with the forces Of the Gar.
In PURSUANCE of the decision Of the En-
peror's advisers to retain absolute executive
authority at court they have ordered the
military commanders to make the comfort
of the soldiers their first consideration.
Gen. Danilof, the new commander Of the
imperial guards brigade, has Issued an
order to the troops in which he says thai he
Is anxious to hear any complaints and will
reasonably examine them. He also orders
all officers to maintain constant friendly
Intercourse with their troops. This bid
for army support will be read to all the
great masses of troops which are now as
eembling near the capital.
Three military trains went to-day from
St. Petersburg to Peterhof, and a battalion
Of the Drinsk regiment and a battery OF
field artillery were added to the Cronstadt
garrison, The policy of keeping the army
on the side OF the court by lavishing ma
terial comforts on the soldiers ia xes further
the Russian finances, whose condition is
the Governments greatest danger.
The CORES pendent Of THE Sun learns
on the highest authority that the financial
question has been the chief one discussed
at the Peterhof council. Minister Of
Finance Kokovtseff with the fullest support
of all Russian banking and property in
%terests, proposed the name OF Dimitri
Shipof as Minister OF Agriculture or Minister
of the Interior. The suggestion received
no encouragement from the Emperor or
his advisers and was made without M.
Shipof's participation. its withdrawal
represents the end Of all attempts at a
conservative compromise.
The Imperial Bank appeared as a buyer
at the close of to-day's market and pre-
vented internal a. from falling below 10.
COLOGNE, July 2i.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent Of the Cologne Gazette says
that the failure of the formation OF a Con-
stitutional Democratic Cabinet, which was
believed at Peterhof to be the best way
Out of a complicated situation, has caused
complete voltefaoe at court, and has estab-
hshed a firm determination there to en-
p!oy the severest repressive measures.
Those who will direct the movement Of
the popular party are impatiently awaiting
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