The Monticellonian., 1906-07-26
UP AGAINST IT.
MAY FOLLOW DIS
 SOLUTION OF DOUMA.
Russia Faces Another Crisis, and the Mailed Hand May Grasp
 Situation.

St Petersburg dissolution of the Russian Douma by the imperial ukase brings Russia face to face with the most stupendous revolution in the history of the country. The emperor.s autocratie act also brings down the curtain, temporarily at least, on his late stand, and one of the most inter esting attempts in history to give a nation form of representative gov ernment.
 Judged by it's positive achievements. the Douma will not rank high as lawmaking assemblage, but as giving voice to peoples sense of wrongs it's brief existence has proved of mo mentous importance. The circum- seribed nature of the Douma's proceed ings and the dearth of legislation that might be of benefit to Russia may be attributed to two causes:
 The lack of harmony among the strangely diverse element that went to make up the body, and the funda- mental law by which the emperor limited the matters that might be con sidered by Parliament.
 The worlds youngest Parliament was opened by the emperor on May 10 of this year. It may be said that friction began to develop almost from the first, until not long after the opening the emperor refused to receive an address from the present Douma. The premier read the emperor's reply on May 26, and the independent spirit and temper of the representative body was manifest on that occasion. The Constitutional Democrats were strong ly in the majority at the opening, but when bitter debates over the Agrarian and Jewish questions developed new groups, like the Group of Toil," were l formed, and the overwhelming strength of the Constitutional Demo | erats began to dwindle. The more 1 radical clements showed a growing | spirit of intolerance, and even the moderate and conciliatory statements of the emeperor's ministers were often greeted with derision. The emperor's 1 advisers urged that the Douma was simply forum for the promulgation of revolutionary doctrines.
 The breach began to widen and it was apparent that a crisis was ineyit- able. It came when Parliament at tempted to counteract an appeal to the peasants from the crown by an ap- | peal to the country to stand by Parlia- ment on the question of the expropri- ation of church and state lands.
 The dissolution of Parliament fol lowed. The Douma's piece of legis- lation that has become law is a bill appropriating s7,500,000 for the relief of famine-stricken peasants.
 The great news is the adoption of an address to the people by the rep resentatives to Parliament, who as- sembled at Viborg, the language of which, with it's revolutionary demands that the people cease to furnish money and troops to the government and re. pudiate further loans. affords pretext enough for the government to lodge it's authors in the fortress if it feels strong enough.
 A few days many witness the con stitution of provisional govern ment," composed of an enlarged coun- cil of ministers, with the inclusion of Conservative members of the dis persed lower house of Parliament. councillors of the empire and men in I fiuential in the life of the empire, who can be induced to accept min istries without portfolios and contri bute their authority and advice to the hard-pressed government.
 An incipient anti-Jewish outbreak has been checked by the police at Odessa. sympathetic strike has been begun at the Kharkov railroad shops, which may inagurate gener al tie-up of communications, but St. Petersburg, Moscow and most of the | the other great centers are still calm on the surface, though boiling and seething beneath.
 Won't Arrest John.
 Findlay, O---No attempt will be made to arrest John D. Rockefeller Saturday when he lands in New York Attorney Troupe of Bowling Green l O., representing MT. Rockefeller secured the permission of Prose cutor David and Probate Judge  Banker to enter Rockefellers ap ! pearance in the latters court and this was accordingly done. The war rant was issued recently upon an in | formation filed by Prosecutor David | charging MT. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company with violation | of the Valentine antitrust law.
 Ice Men lacked Up. 1 Cineinnati.-Fifteen indictments on charges of restraint of trade in the matter of advancing the price of ice | have been returned by the Grand Jury. 1 Ten individuals and five firms were | indicted, all being members of the Ice l Dealers Exchange. Those indicted are members of the exchange who at tended meeting on May 30, when general advance in the price was de cided on.
 AIl-American Congress Meets. | Rio Janeiro-The Pan-American l Congress held is first session in the | St. Louis Pavilion. The delegates | were enthusiastically cheered by great crowds
 Typhoid at Naval Academy. AnnanaliS Md-Three members nf