Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-28
Governments Response to the
Defy ofParliament Anxious
ly Awaited
PARLIAMENT is UNCONTROLLED
Douma Has Practically Declared Itself
a Revolutionary Body and Govern
ment May e Compelled to Fight
The Emperor's Advisers Are Hest
Eating.

st. Petersburg, May 2S.--With
GREATNESS anxiety society waits the
governments response to the bold ac-
ton of the lower house Saturday,
which was like a deliberate slap in
the face, and which the government,
tho inclined to prefer it's usual policy
of temporization, can hardly avoid
meeting. Parliament virtually has talk
en- the step which the French states
general did when it transformed itself
into national convention.
BY haunting the fundamental laws
and practically declaring tina, it pro-
poses to exercise full parliamentary
rights with a responsible ministry, it
has become in the eyes of the law q.
revolutionary body and from that po-
Sition there seems no retreat. The
people are as greatly surprised as the
bureaucracy at the promptness with
which, the whole governments policy
was scorned. Both sides recognize the
seriousness of the moment, bu1 panic is
in the government and not the popular
campaign.
Premier Goremykin went to Peter
hoff Immediately after the adjournment
Saturday to confer with the emperor,
and Sunday was devoted td agitated
conferences between the administra-
ton and the leader Constitutional
democratic chiefs are calm. They de-
clare that they purpose to go ahead
he.
government to take the initiative. The
strength of their position lies in the
conviction that the Russian nation is
behind the parliament.
Victory Would Be Temporary
THE government if it dares to fight
said M Kokoshkine. one of the consti-
tutional democratic members of the
house, "can dispense the parliament;
but the victory of the bureaucracy
would only be temporary. 1t would in
evitably be followed by bloody revo-
luton, which would not leave stick
Of the present government standing.
The emperor must choose between a
real constitutional government and the
loss not only of his crown, but prob
ably his head"
The social democrats and social reVo-
lutlonists are delighted at the turn OF
events and the terrorists were quick to
seize the opportunity for series of
blows in widely separated parts of the
country.
The attempts at Tifiis and Sebastopol
are convincing indications of the de-
termination of the fighting organization
to resume it's campaign Of assassination
in full vigor.
The press today almost without ex-
ception, is pessimistic, recognizing the
extreme gravity of the situation and
the tempest which the denial of the
right Of forced appropriation of land
will provoke among the peasantry. Pro-
lessor Kareiff, in a special article, says
that parallel Of the early stage of the
French revolution is now complete. He
invites the ministry to substitute for
the 1906 events those of 1889 and then
to consider whether they wish to con-
tinue their present course.
The Slovo, the Octoberist organ, de-
clares that the government has pro-
claimed war ON parliament. Orders for
the Srand corps to go into summer
camp at Kransnoye Selo have been
countermanded, and it is supposed that
they will be retained here in readiness
to cope with any outbreak.