Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-25
RUSSIAN CABINET
ASKED TO RESIGN
EVEN CONSERVATIVES JOIN
CHORUS
Calamity and Disaster Alone Can
Follow Present Situation" Says
M. Yermoleff, Ex-Mlnis-
ter Of Agriculture
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 24.-The
Conservative Centrist party in the
council of the empire, organized re-
Gently for the purpose of attempting
to supplant the Goremykln ministry by
cabinet chosen from the Octoberists,
the Democratic Reform an the Con-
stitutional Democratic parties have
Joined In the chorus demanding the
resignation of the cabinet
M. Yermoleff, formerly minister of
agriculture, gave out an interview to-
day, saying the present situation is i'm
possible and that it Is evident that if
the actual ministry can do nothing for
the pacification of the country 1t should
be replaced by a cabinet In which the
more moderate elements of parliament
are given places.
The situation, NJ Yermoleff added, is
so tense that any attempt of the admin
istration to array itself in open ap-
position to parliament can result only
in calamity and disaster.
Uses Honeyed Words
NJ. Yermoleff, who is shrewd poll
tician, has now nothing but honeyed
words for parliament which, though con-
taining revolutionary elements, is the
true reflection of the sentiment of the
country and evidently he is laying
wires and working for action between
the majorities of the two houses of par
lament under a responsible ministry.
He is thought to have his eye on his old
portfolio in such a cabinet.
Though NJ. Yermoleff md his party
in the program published today, ad-
here to nominal opposition to the gen.
eral principle of appropriation. they
concede the necessity of satisfying the
land hunger of the peasantry and adopt
the idea for the creation of local COM
missions for the solution of the prob
lem in accordance with local needs,
thereby indorsing the principle on
which all factions in the lower house
the Constitutional Democrats, the group
of toll the Poles and the Conserva-
tives-are tending to concentrate.
Favors Restrictions
With regard to the Jews. NJ. Yermo-
left believes the Semitic question can be
settled by the abolishment of the Pale
and the granting of equal rights to
Jews, but he faVors certain restrictions
| in the purchase of land by Jews, hold
ing that 1t is necessary to regard the
sentiment of the Russian masses which
will be alarmed unless this is done.
M. Yermoleff laughed at reports of
the dispersal of parliament, which he
says would not be only fatuous but
fatal to the court factions. He ex-
pressed confidence that the government
would soon be striving to effect an un-
derstanding with parliament.
Should the sentiment of the Centrist
party be formally accepted by the
counsel of the empire, 1t would be i'm
possible for Emperor Nicholas to disre-
gard it.
There are indications that Premier
Goremykn is Wearying of his position
but the retirement of the cabinet s ap-
parently not matter of the immediate
future
The reports of the parliamentary
commission and Commissioner of the
Interior Stolypins. Representative NJ.
Frisch, on the conditions at Bialystok
have borne prompt fruit.
General Bader, who as governor gen
eral and oommandant of the troops, was
accused of laxity in restoring order,
has been supplanted by General Bo-
| gaieffsky, the resignation Of Governor
| Kister of Krodno has been accepted and
the slated promotion of Prefect Shere-
| matieff is said to have been abandoned