Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-27

pared TO move as soon as the reading
Is finished.
Premier Goremylxin's speech, which
was Unexpectedly firm IN tone, pro-
duced such vivid impression that a
conflict Is now considered Inevitable.
To the demands made in the lower
house. in reply to the speech from the
throne, II was almost a complete nom
possumus. It reiterated that general
amnesty was impossible, but promised
the release as rapidly as possible Of
those who had been arrested by ad-
ministrative order.
There could be no question, II was
pointed out, of the abolition of the
council Of the empire or upper house,
as that is an institution covered by
the fundamental law and Is beyond the
competence Of parliament.
Outlines Broad Program
Most important of all, the premier
declared that the basis for a solution
of the agrarian problem proposed by
the lower house was completely i'm
possible. There could be no forced ex-
preparation of land. He promised, how
ever, the distribution of some Of the
appanages Of the state domains and
outlined broad program for popular
education, the revision of the tax laws
and the institution of political liberty.
Grave news comes from the provinces.
Instead Of acting as sedative the
assembling of parliament has been
marked by an alarming increase in
Revolutionary agitation and terroristic
activity on the one hand, and Of Black
Hundred activity on the other. The
extremists of both sides are thus di-
vided into two hostile camps and both
are arming as If preparing for an in
evitable civil war.
Sanguinary conflicts continue to be
reported. A sequel of the clash on
Archangel square, May IA, when the
Black Hundred fired fifty revolver
shots, killing one man and seriously
wounding three, came last night, when
Black Hundred member who partici-
pated in the affair was waylaid and
murdered by social revolutionists.
The social democrats are working g
with might and main to cast discredit
upon parliament and produce an up
rising of the elemental forces They
! have already precipitated an incipient
strike in the industrial quarters OF
Moscow and at Odessa the longshore-
men have struck. Not a single vessel
left that harbor yesterday
Strike Is Threatened
| The governments refusal to grant
| general amnesty to the political pris-
oners furnished the proletariat with
a powerful weapon and they threaten
that unless tomorrow, the anniversary
! of the emperor'S coronation, sees am
nesty proclaimed, to call a general
strike as preliminary to an armed
uprising.
The constant rumors of reaction
ary coup detat, the dispersal of par
| lament and the establishment of a
dictatorship under Gen. Trepoff add tc
! the general excitement and the Rech
| today appeals to the government to
| put an end to this disquieting report
by an official denial
The fears of another explosion in
! the country and its attendant crisis is
beginning to overshadow' the fight be-
| tween the crown and the lower house
| of parliament. Governor General
| Skallon of Warsaw has telegraphed
to Interior Minister Stolypin that he
has proof that the Polish members OF
the lower house have regular connec-
| tion with the Polish separatist organ
| ization and advises their prosecution
| for treason.
The emperor today decorated Cover
nor General Orloff of Livonoa and
! twenty officers who participated in the
! qualification" of the Baltic provinces.
Fresh agrarian disorders are reported
| from Orel, Kazan and Simbirsk pro-
vinces. The Fignor estate in Kazan
province, where Vera Fignor has beer
living under the surveillance of the
police since her release from Schussel-
| burg fortress, where she was confined
for twenty years as the result of par
ticipation in the plot against the life
of Alexander II, has been completely
destroyed and Cossacks with difficulty
saved the estate of Prince Galitzin.