Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-20
beugh About By the Lower House PYonulgadng an Address to the
 People Early This Morning
SOLDIERS MARCH ALL NIGHT
Were Summoned to Headquarters of Garrison 10 Be Prepared
 For Any Emergency.

St Petersburg, July 20.-Extreme nervousness and excitement pervade all classes owing to fear that the ac- tion of the lower house of parliament in adopting at 2 o'clock this morn ing an address to the people may be the signal for a coup d etat against parliament. It is remored that the step has been decided upon and the Strava prints a report that an im- perial ukase ordering the dissolution of parliament has already been signed.
 The feeling of general alarm is increased by the fact that all night long guard regiments have been marching into the city from the guards camp at Krasnoye-Selo. Moreover 1t Is known that the col onels of the Seminovsky regiment of the guard and of the hussars of the guard, and the colonels of the Is- mailovsky. Pavlovsky, Preobrajensky and Yaegerski guard regiments and the colonel of the horse artillery of the guard were summoned to the headquarters of the commander of the St Petersburg garrison, where they received instructions regarding the disposition of their troops in the case of certain eventualities. An at tempt was made to reassure the pub- lie when this fact leaked out with the explanation that these were pre- cautionary dispositions arranged in view of the threatening situation among the workmen in the industrial sections, but the evidence seems con- elusive that the government has de- liberately prepared for the grayest emergency. So far as can be ascer- tained, however, no final decision has been taken at Peterhof.
 The ministry, which believes 1t is again back in the saddle, hoped to prolong the status quo. while the court camarilla insists that the soon CT the parliament, as a center of the revolutionary propaganda. is dis persed the better, and both sides unite on the necessity for prepara- tions to meet the constitutional step of the lower house.
 Once the final decision to dissolve parliament is taken 1t is believed that the representatives of the foreign powers will immediately be notified and no such notification has been given.
 The question now is how the change in the form of the address as finally adopted early this week will affect the situation. Undoubtedly the constitutional democrats did what they could to amend the address so as to avoid the appearance of par lament entering upon revolution ary role. During the debate they dwelt upon the point that the address did not summon the people to sup port parliament against the govern ment and instead of provoking the masses to an uprising 1t adjured them to remain quiet. Nevertheless they were forced owing to dissensions in their own ranks to eliminate decla- ration in favor of the principle of payment for appropriated land. thus in a measure confirming the idea prevalent among the peasantry that the confiscation of the land would be for their benefit, pure and simple. The evident desire of the constitu- tional democrats to extract the teeth from the address drove the members of the group of toll out of the house with the avowed intention of issuing their own proclamation.
 This Is not an unmixed evil as it might open the door to final oppor- tunity for an agreement between the constitutional democrats and the government. Unless this happens im- mediately the indications are that the constitutional democrats, as party, will go to pieces. the radical wing going over to the left and the conservative wing disappearing amng the scattered elements of the right. Even If the present crisis is passed without surrender to the government things are almost sure to drift from bad to worse and in the end the government will be forced to disperse parliament at the point of the bayonet. as It's role as buffer between the government and a revolution is rapidly disappearing.
 The MIsla and three other newspa- pers in this city were confiscated to- day.