Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-23
thousands Of Troops March Into City and
Hundreds Of Arrests Are Made
UNA WILL ASSEMBLE IN FINLAND
Members Decide to Follow Example Of
French States General in 1889.
PNoLETARIAT WILL LEAD THE FIGHT
Rattle Against the Government VIII
Begin with a General strike
of Workmen and
Peasants.

DNeAh SAElke
of wOrkmen and
Peasants.
sr. PETERSBURG. July 22-An imperial
ukase relieves NJ. Goremykin Of the pre-
miership and appoints NJ stolypin premier.
He also retains his present post of min
lister Of the interior.
NJ. stichinsky, minister OF agriculture,
has resigned. The Parliament building was
closed today and guarded by police. who re-
fused admission. except to the president
and the vice president Of the house. The
streets are empty and bear the usual sun
day aspect.
ST PETERSBURG, July 2-with the
imperial ukase dissolving Parliament which
was promulgated early this morning the
curtain rose upon possibly the last act in
the great drama of the Russian revolution.
The people and the government now stand
face to face, and upon the army depends
the immediate issue. Even should the gov
ernment. however. succeed in restraining
an outbreak of the people the victory
probably will only be temporary and sim
ply confne the steam for the final explo-
sion. No one doubts the severity OF the
sponse to the emperor's dispersal OF the
men whom he welcomed two months ago
in the Winter palace as the best men in
Russia" but the die is cast. The govern
ment has elected to fight and the capital
today bore eloquent testimony OF the pre-
parations made to repress the masses by
force. The city was packed with soldiers
and resembled an armed camp.
During Saturday night additional troops
we're brought I'm and disposed of according
to plans adopted previously. The rein
forcements include four infantry regiments
OF the Chevalier guards, mounted grena-
diers and battery of machine guns. The
troops occupied railroad stations and the
bridges across the rivers and canals and
the patrols of both police and gendarmes
were everywhere doubled.
Many AEitators Arrested.
The work of gathering in revolutionary
agitators began Immediately after the
ukase placing st. Petersburg in "a state
of extraordinary security was promulgated
and hundreds of arrests were made before
daylight.
The powers conferred upon M. Won Der
Launitz, prefect of police. and NJ Kinos'
viefr, governor of the province. are little
short Of those of petty dictators. Searches
and arrests can be made without process
| of law, newspapers forced to suspend pub
lications and persons deported by admin
| istrative order without trial. Public and
| private meetings are forbidden. Those ar
rested may II 1t is desired, be tried by
| military court and summarily executed
! The only real difference between extra
| ordinary security and full martial law is
that power is exercised by the so-called
civil instead of military authority.
Although the news of the dissolution OF
Parliament spread like wild fire among the
various political organizations, the masses
generally are hardly awake to the mo-
mentous event. The news travelled fast in
the country and the general expectation is
that the peasantry, accepting the dispersal
OF Parliament as the final blow to their
hopes. will rise en- masse. The proletariat
organizations have been preparing for
months for Just such provocation to de-
clare open war
| CONFORMATION Among Democrats.
1t is impossible to describe the consterna-
ton with which the constitutional demo-
| Gratis learned the news. Although Il had
| been bruited for the last three days, the
| ukase was received by them in blank
amazement. Even Saturday nights caucus
did not believe tho governmen; would dare
! to take the threatened step and seriously
discussed the attitude to be taken toward
| Minister Of the Interior Stolypln when he
appeared in Parliament tomorrow TO answer
| interpretations. The government undoubt-
edly calculated on catching the opposition
OF its guard but II 1t expected to strike
terror TO the hearts Of the members OF
Parliament II has failed signally. Some
time ago, when dissolution seemed immi-
nent, the various groups of the opposition
/ 1T.- 20 fp1l ha NIL ,f
their French compatriots of the states
general and meet II driven out of the
Tauride palace, wherever and whenever
circumstances dictated until a constitution
was irmly established
After a hurried secret conference this
morning II was decided on account Of the
possibility of the meeting being broken up
and the members arrested, that they go
Immediately tc Finland and decide upon
the future course TO be pursued and small
groups left this afternoon and evening by
train. Whether word was given them to
meet at Viborg or Helsingfors Is unknown,
but It seems probable that Finland I'm fu-
ture Russian history will become syn
onymous with the tennis court" of the
French revolution. Even Count Heydon.
the leader, and other members Of the right
are understood 10 have departed. II is
as a body will attempt to formally set up
its authority against that Of tho govern
ment
PFOIetRrint 10 Lead Fight.
The constitutional democrats and intellec-
tuals generally recognize that they have
no weapon with which 10 fght the govern
ment bayonets. Tho initiative, therefore
naturally will fall n the proletariat This,
. the social democrats and the Rr5up OF toll
in Parliament, all along have recognized
and the most elaborate preparations have
been made 10 repeat the tactics Of "a II
fall and paralyze the country with a gen
eral strike But the rlans a. this time
have been perfected with mJch more de-
! liberation and involve not only the parniyFis
Of cities, telegraphs, rsilr dads and all means
OF communication throughout the empire
, but a complete strike OF peasants IN tha
country as well. They confidently believe
the loyalty OF TROOPS mas been so shaken
Y that the military support Of the government
will give way and that when pui to the
test the army will be divided against itself
, A council OF workmsns deputies already
has been elected at Moscow, and with a