Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-17
CAR HIMSELF
KILLED DUMA
He Personally Telephoned the Order,
But Stolypin Was Opposed to It.

sembled at the cars invitation to advance
the cause of peaceful progress will agree
with them that If any national assembly
even though elected by a vast majority of
the people, dares to interfere with the
SoVerelgnS autocratic provocative 1t not
only forfeits all considera ton from the
world s congress which the cars repre-
sentative opened Saturday, but also it's
ooJectlonable members should be deprived
OF all those chivalrous, humanitarian pro-
tectlons which Count Nelidorff said
at The Hague Saturday it was the ideal of
ms master to give to combatants through
out the world.
Such is the view of the men who have
again seized hold of the Russian govern
ment. They are willing that the world at
large should talk generalties about inter
natiohai peace but for true Russians the.
nfst rule of orthodoxy is to propagate truth
ana ai suppress error. The practical applica
tion OF this rule is to destroy all who re-
Slst the cars autocratic will
me great value of this open declaration
is that 1t clears the air The selection Of
the present date for dissolution was nrob
aDly right from the point of view of the
clerical absolutists. Although thew have M
Ieal iolloWlng among the nation outside the
mass or paid government empoyes their
advocates in the foreign press have CON
Vinced them that the world at large re-
garded the radical majority in the duma
as band of anarchists
A Dangerous Body.
Inc emlssary whom the car chose to 90
around Europe to issue the invitations 70
the present Hague conference. Prof. Mar
tens, wrote on his return, after an audience
with his master, that he had often been
asked abroad his opinion on the duma. He
could not answer the questions but he was
now permitted to say 1t was a dangerous
body, incapable Of useful work and ssitat
ing only for revolution, and that 1t ought
to be dissolved - 00sN'
mat was two months ago. The number
OF recruits which this call from the SOW
ereign has secured among the bureaucracv
OF all sorts Is shown by Count Witte's
energetic volteface. His Grafton against in
PRODUCING liberal element in the cars
nominated senate summarizes the arpu
ments of all the old guard In Russia. He
s SAG that the power Of the government in
1eo4, when he was premier, was very strong
ana could anord to engage in the task of
REFORM but now it was weak and It would
De dangerous thing If concessions were
made. "o'e
The whole country is in a ferment. he
SAID SAID. The whole youth of Russia believes
ltsel1 called upon to reform the state and
spends all Its time in politics to the neglect
OIL the productive life Of the country Meas
ures must be taken to arrest the increasing
rum or Russia which the revolution is in
ficting. The numbers of the starving are
increasing by millions Bloodshed Is chronic
in large areas.
Some Important Work.
Therefore the council Of the empire had
more important work than considering the
reform of the imperial senate Finally
Count Witte declared himself outright in
favor of his old enemy and colleague M.
Durnovo, who has been the ruling power
III the political police administration during
twenty years of repression.
Thus all schools of oficialdom have
closed ranks against the common enemy,
the duma, which the same officialdom, in
the panic of the general strike after the
Japanese war, conjured up in the secret
hope that it would soon be made impotent.
THE HAGUE, June 1.-THE members of
many of the delegations to the peace con-
ference are seriously exercised regarding
the effect of the dissolution of the duma
upon the work of the conference. 1t is I'M
questioned that the delegations are entirely
outside the sphere of national politics. and
the value and results of their work should
not be affected by the dissolution; but the
missions from popularity governed countries
already have misgivings regarding the atti
tude Of their governments toward the
policy now adopted in Russia.
1t Is felt particularly that the positions
OF the French, American and British mis-
sions are rendered difficult in regard to
Russia, with which country they hoped
until yesterday to be able to cooperate.
The anxiety OF the situation was intensified
by report last night that number of
members Of the late duma are coming here
to hold conference with the intention Of
contrasting their case with the professions
expressed in the cars peace conference
address.
The Dutch government would be placed in
an fntolerable position should these ex-
dumaites adopt here political manifesto.
To refuse them asylum, on the other hand,
would antagonze several Of the great pow
ers engaged in the peace conference.
The German delegation formally proposed
yesterday that all the sessions of the con-
ference should be public. There were small
demonstrations yesterday by feminists and
anti-militarists.