The Mena weekly star., 1906-07-26

Samara, Russia, July 19.-The whole town of Syzran, province of Sim birsk, is in flames. The inhabitants are fleeing to Samara and Saratof. The latest news from Syzran is that the government buildings and treas ury are on fire and the panic stricken inbabitants have sought iefuge fin the surrounding fields and forests.
 St. Petersburg, July 19.-No doubt is entertained here that the burning of Syzran was a revolutionary demon stration. The members of parliament from Samara and Saratoff nave re- ceived telegrams on the subject but they shed no light on the spread oi the conflagration.
 At a caucus of the constitutional democratic party Thursday before the proposed address to the people came up for its second reading in the lower house of parliament hopeless split developed. The moderate faction which included practically the entire central, or steering committee, tried to induce it's followers to vote against the address. Prof. Miliukoff and others vainly appealed to M. Vinaver who headed the insurgents insisting that the party would be wrecked if 1t failed to keep abreast of the rad ical sentiment of the country.
 1@kL ~f cnf a topic of speculation was the possible dissolution of parliament. The pre- vailing conviction was that the gov ernment abandohed the idea of a compromise when 1t found that with parliament it was not a question of the substitution of men, but of prin- ciples and a number of those present ventured to predict that Friday may see the Tauride Palace in the posses sion of troops.
 When the debate on the address 10 the people was resumed the moder- ate faction of the constitutional demo- crats tested the temper of the house with motion to postpone it's discus sion but it was overwhelmingly de- feated
 All hope of reconciliation between parliament and the government is vanishing and the government is evi- dently preparing to take up the gage of battle when 1t is formally thrown down
 At the council held at Peterhoi Wednesday night the camarilla came out strongly in favor of dissolving par liament but, according to the best in formation, the emperor hesitated and at the moment of adjournment, re- fused to agree to a dissolution, though his final decision was postponei.
 Nevertheless, the more moderate faction of the constitutional demo- crats, comprehending that the govern ment can hardly avoid the issue shrink from making the appeal to the country, which may involve a climb down. They seriously believe that the advocates of dissolution of parlia- ment. realizing that making the appeal would be equivalent to declaration of civil war, count upon the active in- tervention of Austria and Germany which, according to the official Rossia, have agreed in principle on sending troops across the border to aid in the suppression of an agrarian up rising, should the Russian govern. ment formally request it. The Ros- sia's announcement created a tremen- dous sensation. It is stated that the decision of the two neighboring pow CTS was based on fear that the execu- ton of the principle of the confisca- ton of property in Russia would con- stitute danger to them
 The Rech which joins in the appeal to parliament not to take a step which might seem to warrant the govern. ment in asserting that parliament is attempting to usurp the executive power, says that if the government adopts the desperate expedient of call. ing in foreign troops to put down a civil war the result will not be the same as in 1849 when a Russian army saved the Hapsburg dynasty. The paper declares that the people will rally under the banner of parliament IS they did in England under that of the English parliament at the time of Charles 1, with probably similar re- suit. namely, the loss of the kings head"