Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24


cess. and accord him merit both as poll
| tician and as orator. 'Henceforth, says
! a journalist 1.-The duma will consist OF two
parties-the Stolypinists and the revolution
| lists"
The project presented to the duma by
the minister of finances was accom-
| panied by a memorandum in the follow
| ing order: Expenses of the court: gov
eminent institutions; church and clergy:
| civil administrations; national DEFENSE
crown; national debt; pensions and rec
| ompenses to public functionaries
A second memorandum contained the
war expense account to January i. 1907
| a total of 2,59S. 100000 roubles. Also
| statement that the receipts for 1905 wero
In excess of the expense account oy 90
100000 roubles, and that this excess
binary expenses and deficit of 1905.
NJ. Milioukof. chief of the constitu.
of the duma. has given his opinion on
the aspirations of his party to the cor
| respondent of lie Temps of March D.
NJ Milioukof affirms clearly that the con-
| stitutional democratic party Is monarch
| ist and constitutional. To this the cor
! respondent objected that it was difficult
to reconcile that situation with the man
| ifesto of Viborg. which was frankly
revolutionary, also the refusal of the
party to join in a vote of blame of the
acts of the terrorists offered by M. Sta
kovitch. and. finally, their efforts to
| join with the left to form a block in the
late elections.
M. Milioukof replied that the party to
which he belonged had changed neither
color nor program; that 1t was what 1t
had been always-a constitutional mon
archial party. As in the beginning, the
same object was followed-namely, the
pacific solution of the absolute mon
archy to a constitutional regime. All of
| their action in the first duma tended to
that end.
p,,k ha orfr
was confronted by the unwillingness and
want of sincerity of the
Government government. From the
Distrusted. first acts Of the duma the
government appeared to
ignore the promises of the manifesto of
October 80, and to disown even the legal
prerogative of national representation.
Under these conditions the distrust of
deputies was more than ever justifiable.
If this feeling was manifested by vio-
lent and regrettable scenes in the duma
the cause will be found in the extraor-
binary excitement which reigned in Rus
STA at that time. The government did
nothing to calm the passions provoked,
but, on the contrary. had the appear
ance of exciting the duma to overt acts.
The government adopted this attitude in
order to find a pretext for dissolution.
The duma is accused frequently of voting
an appeal to the nation in the manifesto
of Viborg. The act was anti-constitu-
tional, certainly, but 1t is forgotten that
that manifesto was only a forced reply
to official communication which was,
In fact. ministerial program on the
agrarian question, destined to provoke
distrust of the duma in the masses. The
constitutional democrats could not re-
main Indifferent
What about the union of true Rus
sians?" asked the correspondent.
This party, replied NJ Milioukof, was
born in aristocratic places and in the high
bureaucracy. The government a plank
of safety against the opposition and used
it and uses it still The party grew, at
tracing to it's ranks all adventures. There
were noisy manifestations by principal
actors who were paid Apaches-paid by the
hour for their patriotic sentiments. The
government. severe on the opposition,
tolerated these excuses. The true Rus
slams became more bold. Their tele
grams to foreign sovereigns and a rain
of dispatches to the empel or were COM
posed. for the most part, by the same
individuals, but launched In the name
of others. The government protected
this party. in which 1t thought it saw
support of the throne but which
sought, on the contrary. to destroy it.
and their discomfort has reached the
country. The people declared their
opinion in the first elections, and today
they have again declared that they have
not changed. The dissolution of the first
duma has caused the people to turn in
greater numbers to the left. An event.
ual dissolution Of the second might well
lead the revolutonists to the palace of
the Tauride after the third elections"
What tactics does your party propose
to follow in the second duma?" was ask
ed and M. Milioukof answered: Our
object is to assure a normal life to the
duma. We will try to restrain the i'm
patience of the left and to avoid every
thing which might precipitate dissolu-
ton"
NJ Milioukof, it should be said. ex-
pressed himself thus prior to the
sembling of the duma. 1t Is
Signs of probable that the concilia-
Ebb Tide. tory, even the very liberal.
attitude of the government
in the duma may convince him and his
party that the ebb of the Russian revo-
luton has finally begun.
I'VE live under a regime of inaccuracy."
said a deputy some time ago. and this re-
mark applies with special force to the
news from Russia which is contradictory
and unreliable. NJ Ludovic Naudeau makes
this fact apparent in an article In the
Journal of Paris, in which it appears that
Kuropatkin has been grossly misrepre-
scented having attacked certain officers
in his History of the War To M Nau-
deau Gen. Kuropatkin said: 'Disagreeable
remarks concerning Gen. Rennenkamp have
been attributed to me, when for fact no
such remarks will be found in my book.
Likewise L am maze 10 DTlilS grave CHdI SeS
against the 18th Corps. which l have de-
clared to be worthless. On the contrary,
certain regiments of this corps were par
ticularly distinguished. 1t is false that 1
have Systematically criticised our soldiers
and officers. l have only indicated certain
regiments which under certain circum-
stances were not too brave in the first bat
ties.
In my general conclusions I have indi-
Gated with all sincerity that we have had
excellent soldiers who were not afraid to
die l have terminated my work by this
pharse Strength is in the truth. We can
not go ahead unless we shall have analysed
our faults. for finally these faults, which we
showed in Manchuria are the very same
which weakened us at Plevna, at mixer
mann, at Sebastopol and at Alma. 1t is
evident that under certain conditions our
columns did not maneuvre with the neces-
sary precision. 1t is significant that our
errors should be repeated during sixty years
with remarkable analogy. 1t is because
they are chronic. and that indicates the
necessity of extirpating them. In Man.
churia the supreme and irreparable error
was to make peace because of our internal
disorders and precisely at a moment when
Russia possessed a formidable and eXpe-
rienced army and had only commenced to
be able to fight"
CHI. CHAIIIE-IONG