The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-25
RUSSIAN CABINETS
 IMPOSSIBLE POSITION
COMBINED DEMAND FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE GO-
 REMYKIN MINISTRY.

Eituafion So Intense, in the Opinion of
 One of the Leaders of the Opposition,
 That Any Attempt of the Administra-
 lion to Array Itself Agaiust Parlia-
 ment Can Result Only fin Calamity
 and nisaster-Way to Settle the Anti
 Semitic Question.
 St. Petersburg, June A.-The con- servative centrist party in the council of the empire, organized recently with the purpose of attempting to supplant the Goremykin ministry by a cabinet chosen from the Octoberlst, the demo- cratic reform and the constitutional democratic parties. have Joined in the chorus demanding the resignation of the. cabinet. M. Yermoloff, formerly minister of agriculture, gave out an in- terview to-day, saying that the pres- ent situation is impossible, and that it is evident that if the actual minis try can do nothing for the pacification of the country, it should be replaced by Q cabinet in which the more moderate elements of parliament are given places. The situation, M. Yermoloff added, Is so tense that any attempt of the ad- ministration to array itself in open op- position to parliament can result only in calamity and disaster
 N. Yermoloff, who is a shrewd poli- tician, has now nothing but honeyed words for parliament, which, though containing revolutionary elements, he says is the true reflection of the. senti- ment of the country, and evidently he is laying wires and working for a con- nection between the majorities of the two houses or parliament under re- sponsibIe ministry. He is thought to have his eye on his old portfolio in such a cabinet.
 Though M. Yernoloff and his party. in the programme published to-day, ad- here to nominal opposition to the gem eral principleof appropriation of land, they concede the necessity of satisfying the land hunger of the peasantry, and adopt the idea of the creation of local commissions for the solution of the problem in accordance with local needs, thereby endorsing the principle on which all factions ill the lower house. the constitutional democrats, the group of toll, the Poles and the conservatives sare tending to concentrate.
 With regard to the Jews, M Yermo- Doff believes the Semitic question can be settled by the abolishment of the pale and the granting of equal rights to Jews, but he favors certain restric- tions in the purchase of land by Jews, holding that 1t Is necessary to regard the sentiment of the Russian masses, which will be alarmed unless this is done.
 M. Yermoloff laughed at reports of the dismissal of parliament, which he says, would not be only fatuous but fatal to the court factions. He express ed confidence that the government would soon be striving to effect an un- derstanding with parliament.
 Should the sentiment of the centrist party be formally accepted by the coun- oil of the empire 1t would be impossible flor Emperor Nicholas to disregard it.
 There are indications that Premier Goremykin is wearying of his position, but the retirement of the cabinet is apparently matter not of the immedi- ate future; and reports published abroad that the ministers all wish to resign but the emperor cannot decide to accept their resignations are untrue. Nothing Is further from the thoughts of the majority of the ministers than voluntary abandonement of their port folios.
 The cabinet has finished discussion of Minister of Agriculture Stichinsky's agrarian project, which will be submit ted shortly to parliament with slight alterations from the outline telegraph ed by the Associated Press
 The reports of the parliamentary commission and minister of the interior Stolypin's representative, M. Frisch, on the conditions at Bialystok have borne prompt fruit General Bader, who as governor general and conlmandant of the troops, was accused of laxity in restoring order, has been supplanted by General Bogainfsky, the resignation of Governor Kister of Grodno has been &C., cepted and the slated promotion of Pre- feet Sherematieff is said to have been abandoned.
 STRONG POLICY INDICATED.