The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-09
coNFLlcr IS LOOKED FoR.
Russian People And The Autorracy
 Bound fe Clash.

Bound f0 Cf1sn.
 st. Petersburg, May s.--The danger of an early conflict between the gov ernment and parliament has been greatly increased by what has hap pened within the last twenty-f four hours. The good impression produced by the official intimation of the new premier that the Emperor and the gov ernment were sincerely desirious of working in harmony with parliament, which was accepted in good faith by the leader of the constitutional dem- ocrats. enabling them to council mod eration. has largely been dissipated and in it's place the old feeling of mistrust has been revived.
 The liberals are utterly dumbfound- ed, in view of the semi official assur- ances on the subject by the unexpected promulgation late last night of the ob- noxious fundamental law in a slightly modified form. At one stroke 1t put an end to the claim to which the new cabinet tried to foster, namely that the downfall of the Witte cabinet was due to imperial disapproval of tho original draft of the law.
 An article in the law not mentioned in last nights dispatches, exempting crown lands from taxation and ex-ap- propriation. and another reserving the power of amnesty for political prison CTS to the Emperor. run counter to the already expressed will of the majority and are bound to produce a clash.
 The only commendable new feature of the fundamental law Is a provision to the effect that imperial orders must be countersigned by the president of the council of ministers or the member of the cabinet whose department Is affected. But so long as the cabinet is not responsible to Parliament, 1t Is easy for the Emperor to dismiss an unwil- ling minister and replace him by one who wilde his bidding.
 Members of Parliament Dispersed.
 The indignatio naroused by the Elm peror's attempt to build an artificial dyke around the prerogatives of the crown, has been intensified by the act ion of the police last night in dispers- ing a meeting of some members of the lower Parliament, and of the upper House, or new Council of the Empire, at the hall of the Economical Society.
 Without any warning. the building was surrounded by the Ismailovsky guard regiment. and detachment of cavalry and hundred policemen marched into the hall where Count Heyden, marshal of the nobility, and member of Parliament for St. Peters burg. was presiding. and ordered the meeting to disperse under instructions
  vigorous protests that the meeting was entirely legal under the regulations governing the society. the members of Parliament were compelled to yield to force and left the hall.
 NJ. Roditcheff. a member of Parlia- ment for St. Petersburg, hurried after midnight to the hall where. the Con- stitutional Democrats were holding their convention. and announced to the members there assembled the action taken by the police.
 An indescribable scene of fury fol- lowed, after which NJ. Roditcheff, in speech was cheered to the echo, de- ciared that the governments appeal for had again been false and inc people must rely upon themselves. If was decided that one of the first thing after the assembling of parlia- ment was to be a demand for the dis misal of the Chief of Police.
 Workmen Are Antagoni1ed.
 As If these incidents were not suffi- cient to excite the members of parlia- ment. the local authorities with a fa- tuous genius for blundering, inflamed the working classes yesterday. With o,,t warning they ordered many of the leaders of the workmen to leave. They were not even given time to remove their families. The matter was brought to the meeting of l22 peasant workmen members of parliament. who denounced it as an attempt on the part of the government to bring about d strike on the eve of the assembling parliament fo rthe purpose of provok- ing a struggle, and under cover of the disorder to dissolve parliament.
 This meeting also appointed a com nittee to collect evidence of vlnla-