The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-06

prinaian Chamber ~ Deputies " has .
fiaht ~ eSact Ministerial accountability,
md mo Opremykn MINISTRY should
have resigned forhsith shon y y"'"
~ wsbt NJ cpuGdcnoc saa r0as",l ~
W. printed oui shen tho nciieht'or.
erffeti ihrfe ls mptp than ouo WV Nv
shich tnssip e%lcrtoi representatives
ruuld rhfpfoe fheIr viii They ruftll
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flon w frteIvo nnv sftion coWmunirr
tim M The prfi ~ n reprlirtnd Cabinet
tnior such circumstance The Wu,hin
nv ~ government vuuli como Nv \ d01I
etUp unlcsa the tbtyrrrmoNl should
trttf Nv pnr NJ tN0 r%Strdioria Iho
C,pf might appoint n Ministry rusecas
Inc ihr tohhtlohco ~ 'hr Constitutional
frmorfrlo majority ~ ihr popular
assembly, thereby admitting that Tho
fhfina Ia IN truth oluihcd 9th nll tho
puvcts which belonged 4" tho Prisainn
Chamber " l,cpuiios thou rrissit WA
IN independent state, ot be- might die
solve ~ ptofogic tho chamber which
ho finds %intfnpinhlr n sortns that
NtCHottq II lu,ka tho rurfngc ~ dis.
solve tho numa NJ even rs prurogil" ~
NJ tho present time. hut ho IL snil 10
contemplate Iia ]urpfuF1tion m June ~
until the autumn, on tho prrtnNt ihpt
the Government nccds tho interval for
tho preparation ~ nGrlripn legislation.
Apparently, the car and his advisors
takc for granted that Russin's accredited
apokcsmcn will go when he dlsnisses
them. II IA they, then. and not tho
Constitutional Democrats, who have
read so little profit the monitory records
ri the Long Parliament and NJ Frances
first National Assembly. Those his
toric bodies met tho intention to dis
solve or proroguc thom hy declaring
themselves in permanent session. and
from that hour the chance of n peaceful
transition from dcspotism to constitu-
tional monarchy was Eravely jnopnrded,
If not lost. Tho despatch from ~.
Petersburg which VS. published yester-
day shows that the Duma, far from
overlooking those presidents, means to
turn them to account. 1t is true that
the peasant delegates, who constitute n
large fraction of the members, want to
spend the summer in work at their
homes; consequently they and their
friends Of the Constitutional Demo-
cratic party will assent to a propagation
on June IS, but only on condition that
the Goremykin Ministry shall be super
seeded by a Cabinet in which confidence
is reposed by a majority of the popular
assembly, and by which the Government
might be carried on during the recess.
If this condition be not complied with
the Duma will declare itself in continu-
GUS session, and a breach between it
and the sovereign will become almost
inevitable.
With the progress of the Russian revo-
luton it becomes more patent that to
the popular leaders, and especially to
the managers of the Constitutional
Democratic party, as yet prepondcrant
in the Duma, the lessons and warnings
of English and French history are much
more familiar and useful than they are
to the Car and his advisers. One by
one the precious opportunities of oom-
promise are thrown away. Again we
seem to see enacted the initial scenes
of the sombre drama rehearsed at West
Minister and at Versailles. Already the
counterparts of TURGoT and NECKER
have rcceded into the background, and
men Of the type of MlRABEAU are be-
ginning to occupy the stage. Soon,
perhaps, will peer from the wings the Wis
age of a Danton ora Robespierre.