The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-26
RUSSIA STILL QUIET
The Threatened General Strike
Against Cars Government
Postponed. "A
CONDITIONS NOT YET RIPE.


Movement Until Harvest is Finished,
but Revolution Breaks Out In Baltic
Province-Premier Stolypin Defends
Dismissal of Douma.
st. Petersburg, July 26.-Though it is
difficult to obtain true picture of the
conditions In the interior owing to the
embargo that has been put upon the
press dispatches, all indications point
more and more to the postponement of
the threatened general strike until the
government shall be less and the coun-
try more prepared for such an event,
until the harvest Is finished and the
revolutionary movement develops spon-
taneously among the idle peasantry.
What news has been received from
the provinces indicates that conditions
are scarcely ripe except in the famine
districts for an upheaval. The strate-
gists of the revolutionary council are
laboring with the hotheads to induce
them to defer the call for a general
strike until it can come as a supple
ment to the movement already under
way. A definite decision will be reach
ed within day or two in the reorgan-
lied Council of Workmen.
Premier Seeks Moderates.
The government has not abandoned
its efforts to enlist moderates in the
cabinet. Professor Mouromtseff, the
president of the dissolved house, for
whom Premier Stolypin was vainly
cnarchfnU with on ipvifo+iop 70 oro -
Peterhof while the former was presid-
ing over the outlaw parliament at vi
borg, was again approached, but there
Is not the slightest prospect that he
can be swayed, even by imperial COM
mand, to take Office.
No further changes in the cabinet
have been decided upon, but NJ. Gurko,
who was assistant to NJ. StoIypin in
the ministry of the interior, who is
mentioned as M. Stichinsky's successor
as minister of agriculture and whose
character may be judged by the fact
that he was high in favor under both
Plehve and Prince Sviatopolk- -Mirsky,
probably will be dismissed by Premier
Stolypin, his name alone being suf-
f1cient to damn the new government.
The most urgent problem before the
government in case an immediate out
break is postponed is the relief of the
distress in the interior.
Defends Douma's Dismissal.
Premier Stolypin has authorized an
official statement to the foreign press,
In which he asserts that from the very
first days of its existence the lower
house of parliament overstepped all
the limits of law. He further says that
In the speeches of its members the
house consistently discredited the gov
ernment, which it ever accused of or
ganising pogroms and disorders. By
sending a deputation to Bialystok 1t
openly aspired to usurp executive pow
er: Fourteen deputies appealed to the
people, melting disorders, a step which
called forth no expression of disap-
probation from the house. All these
causes necessitated the decision to dis
solve the house, says NJ. Stolypin.
Count Heyden, Prince Lyoff and
M. Stakovich, the three douma mem
bers who refused to sign the appeal
to the country, issued a separate adj
dress, appealing to the people to quiet
ly submit to the czar's decree dissolv-
ing the douma and prepare for the
new elections.
Rebellion In CourIand.
Rebellion has again broken out In
the Baltic province of Courland, and
armed revolutionists are once more in
possession of large sections of the
province They are laying waste the
possessions of the nobility, and Remp-
ten CASTLE one of the finest and most
ancient structures in Russia, has al
ready been given to the flames. Two
columns of imperial troops are adj
vancing against the rebels from the
east and from the west.
Peasants have begun an uprising at
Kostroma, northeast of Moscow, and
another eruption is in progress on the
estates of the crown in Orel prov
ince.
At Warsaw Colonel Salamatoff of
the gendarmerie was stabbed to DEATH
The assassin escaped.