The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-30
|DOUMA GETS
PREMIER?
New Rumor Of Mouromtseff'
Ministry
SAID TO ADVISE YIELDING
The Army Is Nearly Ready to Desert
the Throne Sedition Believed
to Be Force That Is Moving
the Gar.

ST. Petersburg, June 80. The Con
stitutional Democrats we're hurried,
summoned to caucus THE other after
noon, and IT was again rlllnored in TIL
corridors Of the lower house of parlia
ment that negotiations were proceeding
| with them for the formation of min
Iistry headed WI Ar. AIouromtsctf, pres
I Ident of the lower house.
| The campaign which the oppositiona
elements IN Parliament are waging tx
compel Emperor Nicholas to dismiss tile
Goremykin cabinet and accept the prini
cipals of i responsible ministry, promise:
soon to be crowned with success. But
the emperor and the court are being
frightened into surrender less BY tIls
violent attacks made on the govern.
ment In the lower house than the alarm:
ing spread Of revolutionary disaHcc-
ti0n among the troops. When the Pre-.
obrejensky regiment, His Mairstey's
Own, pronounced it's solidarity with par,
lament, the enperors eyes We're opened
and the court began realizing that there
was only step from that to declaring
allegiance To parliament as against the
government.
II transpired that all three battalions
Of the Preobreiensky regiment joined in
the revolutionists. but when they we're
surrounded BY troops, two OF the bait
talions weakened. The other, however,
faced the music, was disarmcd, and
with six officers. was sent under escort
70 Modvid, province Of Novgorod. where
the japanese prisoners were confined, to
undergo trial by court martial. Even
the former procurator general If the
Holy Synod, M. Pobedonotsefl. is said
to have reversed the position of life
time and to have advised the emperor
to yield to the demand for response
bic ministry. as the only means IL pre-
serving the throne, The governments
sudden fear ii shown in the hurried
grant OF new trial to seven men con
demned to death at Riga, and the ac-
guittal of six others.
The Gar has sharply reprimandrd
General Alasnite. commander Of the
Preobreiensky regiment.
The demands of the men. which were
published IN full recently, show clear
~ by their adoption OF the motto. ~Onc
for all. all for one that the movement
was engineered by reyoIntionists; the
words always form the concluding
phrase Of The proelamations and litera
ture Of the organization of the Social
Revoluiionists. The demands of the
first battalion were adopted At meet
ing held in the barracks yard in open
defiance of fheh officers, the men ref,ls-
ing 20 listen TO the officer of the dav.
OF 70 their own company officers. and
instead Of this action entaiIing punish
meni, their demands received the re
spectful consideration Of the commander
of the division, General Ozeroff. who ON
arriving the next day. promised to sat
isfy some Of them and refer the Others
70 his superiors and did not return a
flat negative in the ease OF any of the
dei ands. The demands Of the men in
clude humane treatment from the Off
GERS. relief from police duty. the renov-
al OF the restrictions on leaving bar
racks, tue establishment Of regiment
al reading room, where liberal and rev
ulutionist papers are to be kept on file.
the abolition Of the system of opening
Of soldiers letters, the discharge Of
men after serving their third year with
the colors, the release Of their com.
rades arrested last winter for political
PERSONS. the Improvement OF the rations.
letter care OF the sick. the furnishing
Of bed linen, the abolition of special
saIItes. the retention BY soldiers of
their best uniforms when leaving the
service, the right of meeting and pre-
scnting complaints to officers and NO
restrictions Or punishment for political
opiii3ns.
FraIis, Tie men expressed their en-.
lire sympathy with the demand of par
lament for the distribution OF lands to
ssic l,easantey, and concluded with. 'Cur
notto is 'Gne for all. an Tor one. -