The Jersey City news., 1906-07-21
CAR CALLS ON ARMY
Russian Capital Filled With Regi-
ments From Neighboring
Guards Camp. i
DouMA REPORTED DISSOLVED
st. Petersburg Paper Says Imperial
ukase Disnissins Parliament Has
Been sisned-Newspapers Suppress
ed For Printing Appeal to Country.
Officials Denounced For Massacre.

Been Sisned-Newspapers Suppress
ed For Printing Appeal to Country.
Officials Denounced For Massacre.
st. Petersburg, July 21.-The govern
ment has deliberately prepared for the
gravest emergency. All night long
guard regiments marched into the city
from the guards camp at Krasnoye-
Selo. Moreover, it is known that the
commanding officers of the guards,
hussars and horse artillery were sum-
fnoned to the headquarters of the COM
mander of the St. Petersburg garrison,
where they received instructions re-
garding the disposition Of their troops
in the case Of eyentualities.
Extreme nervousness and excitement
peryade all classes owing to fear that
the action of the lower house of parlia-
ment in adopting an address to the
people may be the signal for coup
d'etat against parliament 1t Is rumor-
ed that the step has been decided upon,
and one paper prints report that an
imperial ukase ordering the dissolution
Of parliament has already been signed.
Unite Against Parliament
So far as can be officially ascertained,
however, no final decision has been
taken at Peterhof The ministry. which
believes It is again back in the saddle,
hoped to prolong the status quo, while
the court reactionaries insist that the
sooner parliament, as the center of the
revolutionary propaganda, Is dispersed
the better, and both sides unite on the
necessity for preparations to meet the
extra constitutional step Of the lower
house
The police have forbidden the news
papers of st. Petersburg to publish the
text of the douma's address to the coun-
try, the government having decided to
regard it as being beyond the province
| of the douma. The Misla and three
other newspapers were conf1seated, and
all the members Of the editorial staff
| Of the Misla except Chief Editor So
lomka were arrested NJ. Solomka is a
member of the douma, and President
| Muromtseff demanded of the prefect
of police that he be not arrested
Disorders In ST. Petersburg.
The resentment ocoasioned by the
wholesale suppression of newspapers
led to disorders. A large crowd stoned
the mounted police in the vicinity of
the Stosnosensky Prospect, and some
stones were thrown at a small detach-
ment of cavalry. Other parties of cav
airy came to the rescue and fired vol
leys of blank cartridges before the mob
dispersed. AT late hour knots of peo-
pie after the police patrols had passed
sang the "Marseillaise."
No further action regarding the pro-
posed address to the people was taken
by the lower house of parliament The
| Constitutional Democratic members ap-
| peared to be heartily sick of the whole
| episode and anxious to drop the subject
if the government is so minded, and
there is q disposition to shelve. the ad-
dress by indefinite postponement of the
| question as to the manner of its pub
lication
Majority Party Discounted.
There is no question but that the flas-
co has enormously shaken the prestige
! of the Constitutional Democrats, and
| the leaders of that party are crestfallen
| over having been induced to play with
| such edged tools. The Peterhof circles
are reported to be jubilant over the dis
comfture of the Constitutional Demo
| Gratis
| Without debate the house adopted a
resolution on the subject of the Bialy-
! stok massacre demanding the prosecu-
ton of the military and police officials
involved irrespective of rank The res
olution constitutes strongly worded
indictment Of the central government,
which is held responsible for the. secret
propaganda melting class against class.