The San Francisco call., 1906-07-28
confscation of the plants.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 27.-The
efforts Of the revolutionary parties ex-
cept the Rightists. in the late lower
House of Parliament, which at the
proper moment were to proclaim a pro-
visional Government. came TO naught
today owing to the opposition of the
Constitutional Democrats, who appar
emily are afraid of compromising them
selves, while one wing, headed by NJ
Naboukoff. showed that they already
had been won over TO the side of the
Ministry against the programme OF
open revolution.
In spite Of the activity Of the police.
representatives Of four parties in the
late House-the Constitutional Demo-
Gratis, the Democratic Reformers, the
Socialists and the Group of Toil-about
fifty in number. succeeded in assem-
bling this evening in a private house,
where they deliberated on the proposal
of the Socialists and Group of Toll to
form a joint committee with power
when the situation justified" and out
break of a general strike, or armed re-
volt either to convoke the old Par
lament and assume the reins of Gov
eminent or proclaim a constituent as
sembly. The Constitutional Democrats
objected TO the plan and proposed, In
stead the appointment of four COM
Inittees which would work in cooper
alton, but without formal union. Edf-
tor Hessen favored more radical steps,
but NJ Naboukoff defended Premier
Stolypin and denied that the admins
tration had as yet proven itself reac-
tionary, asserting that 1t should be Civ
en- q chance to Justify itself. NJ Ram
ischwili a Socialist deputy from the eau
casus, in rage denounced NJ. Nabou-
koff and his friends as traitors who
had sold the cause of liberty for office.
of all relations with the Constitutional
Democratic party Others interposed
and prevented an open rupture. but the
meeting broke up without a decision.
Further cooperation between the two
factions is improbable.
Representative of the two Polish
Socialfstic organizations. the Lettish
Socialists and the Jewish bund. or
zionic socialists, arrived here today to
participate in the revolutionary con-
ference The manifestos to the nation,
the army and navy and the Cossacks.
mentioned elsewhere in these dis
patches, will be signed by these repre-
sentatives as well as by the regular
Russian organization.
The printing establishment of the
suppressed journal, the Echo. where
thousands of. copies of the Viborg
manifesto were being surreptitiously
printed, was closed today by the po-
lice. The Socialists, who were pre-
pairing to issue a revolutionary paper
from the establishment. are now plan
ming TO print 1T by force in one of the
regular printing plants
The police today searched the house
of Professor Borodin of the University
of St Petersburg, where meetings of
the Parliamentary Group of Toll were
being held, and seized all the papers
of the committee.
Negotiation relative to the enlarge
ment of the Cabinet have not yet been
completed. Former Premier Goremy-
kin will leave next week for France.
Finance Minister Kokovsoff has COM
puted the figures of the revenues for
the first five months of the year at
S41s95O.000 compared with 1891, 600.-
600 for the corresponding period last
year, with an optimistic statement de-
claring that Russian finances are more
than satisfactory and that the asser-
tions of the revolutionists that Russia
is on the verge of bankruptcy are in
ventions adding that "an organization
which has been building for centuries
is too strong for persons of even the
maddest energy TO overturn."
On account of the Indignation which
has been caused by the announcement
Of services of Thanksgiving for the
dissolution of Parliament in various
cities the Holy Synod today issued an
encyclical declaring that the reading
OF the Emperor's manifesto in the
churches on Sunday shall not be ac-
companied by such services. The
Bishop of Poltova, however, today cele-
brated a Te Deum over the dissolution.