Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-04-30
SOP NOT SUFFICIENT
RUSSIAN POLITICAL SITUATION
AGAIN Threatening.
Constitution Proposed by Car
Raises Great Storm of Indigna.
ton and Furnishes Stimulus
Needed to Solidify Entire Op-
position in Parliament.


st. Petersburg, April 26.-The po-
litical situation has grown threaten
ing. The publication of the new draft
OF the Fundamental law" or "consti-
tuition" Of Russia, has aroused storm
of indignation, and amidst the present
distrust of the government motives
has furnished just the stimulus needed
to solidify the entire opposition in par.
Lament.
The only point gained by the people
in their fight against the crown is the
first incorporation in the "fundamen-
tai law" of the imperial manifesto of
October 20, creating parliament and
thus making it impossible for the en-.
peror hereafter without usurpation to
withdraw what he has granted.
Otherwise the notifications of the
fundamental law are entirely in the
direction of supporting the emperor's
present powers against the assaults Of
parliament.
Car Gives Up Very Little.
He'not only retains absolute con troll
OF the army and navy and foreign re.
lations, with power to declare peace or
war. but he keeps in his hands the
vital prerogative of declaring cities,
districts and provinces under martial
law or Tin state of reinforced secur-
ity."
Inasmuch as any exceptional state
of security involves the suspension Of
civil rights, and as normal conditions
have not existed in Russia for years.
st. Petersburg having been Sin state
Of reinforced security" since 1882, the
personal guarantees granted can be
wiped out by a stroke of the emperor's
pen.
A very important provision makes
no law operative until published by
the ruling of the senate. The senate,
purely bureaucratic institution.
therefore becomes the judge of the
'constitutionality" of the acts of par
lament. Immunity from arrests and
domiciliary visits, ETC., are spoiled by
many exceptions. The right of free
dom is residence, which seems freely
granted, is subject to the ''existing
regulations.
A suspicious feature in connection
with the emperor's power to dissolve
parliament and order new elections is
that no provision is made for fixing a
time within which the new parliament
umet be convened.
The Reisch insists that with the re-.
alization of the new Russian loan and
To1o Sv;n kn
revolution is suppressed "the govern
ment has not hesitated to again show
the cloven hoof, not even making q
secret Of its intention to dissolve par
lament if it is found to be trouble
some"
NJ. Brianchaninof in the Slovo yes
terday calls the draft of the "funda-
mental law" a mockery, which will be
resented by every honest man, be he
member of the "black hundred or
''social revolutionist, adding that
such mixture of lies and false logic
on the eve of the assembling of the
real mastersof the country can only
tend to push the people to afresh rev.
olution with its attending conflicts
and anarchy. The existing regime
seems fated to go down in blood.
Proletariat 10 Stirring.
A real dangerous element in the sit.
uation, however. is not in the attitude
of the Liberals, but in the possibility
of'another upheaval from below at the
very moment when the intellectual
forces of the country have been unit.
ed. For some time the Social Demo
Gratis and other proletariat organiza-
tions have been trying to arrange Il
general uprising to coincide with the
convocation of parliament.
There is ia striking analogy be.
tween the methods adopted by the
work men and those preceding ''Red
Sunday" January 90, 1906, and many
people believe that they see in the
new organization the hand of Gapon.
All trace of the former priest has been
lost. The holy synod denies that he
is secreted in a monastery, and he may
be acting behind the scenes of the
drama which is being unfolded.
II is significant that the head keeper
of the local prison has received let
ter signed by the workmen's league
warning him that the prisoners will be
liberated May 10, but saying that his
life will be spared if he does not in
terfere.
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