The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-24
PREMIER CALLS
A SUDDEN HALT
Russian Government Will Not
Permit Agrarian Program
to Be Carried Out.
DRAMATIC SCENE IN 0UMA
DULL SESSION ENLIVENED BY
STOLYPIN.
DRAMATIC SCENE IN DUMA

81 GStefSDlllS, MAY @J,--tD teiilltI ioloi+-
pin caused sensation in the lower house
of parliament by Unexpectedly announcing
that serious conflict existed between
the house and the government through
the sgrarian committee % the house
proceeding to solve the whole agrarian
problem without the consulting of any
representative of the government. The
premier ended his statement by announc-
ing that the forcible appropriation of land
could not be permitted, and warned the
house that the speeches exciting the peas
ants were beginning to cause a dangerous
agitation in the provinces, which the
government was determined to restrain.
Scene Was Dramatic.
The premier's entry on the scene was
almost dramatic. At the close of dull
session of the house devoted to the adop-
ton of rules of order. Premier Stolypin
suddenly claimed the floor. IL was 8
O'Clock, after the regular hour of ad-
journment, but the movement to adjourn
was defeated, and the premier declared
that the agrarian committee OF the house
yesterday had forcibly adopted the prin
ciple of the fOrcibie appropriation Of
land without waiting 10 ascertain the
governments attitude It was the pre-
miers duty. therefore, to enlighten the
deputies. Fundamental principles main
tanned by the government had been dis
regarded, an openly revolution tone
marked most of the speeches and insults
Social UpheavaI Would Follow.
The premier added that the agrarian
program of the committee left the various
parties in the house In irreconciiable posi-
tions toward each other. and toward the
government. If the principle OF the for
chile appropriation of land was permit
ted to prevail, social upheaval of which
history could not show parallel would be
Continuing. NJ. stoIypin characterized
the constitutional democratic agrarian
program as being milder than that of the
radicals, but he said the same principle,
the undermining of the rights of prop
erty was at the bottom of both. Further
more, the constitutional Democratic price,
$40 per deciatine t2.7o acres) was unrea-
sonably low and ruinous to the land own
ers. He heartily welcomed the proposal
of the Constitutional Democrats to let
the peasants decide whether communal
ownership had been maintained
Whole State Must Assist.
NJ Stolypin stated that to plumber the
10000 land owners would be Ike nursing
an invalid back to health by nourish-
ment drawn from his own body. The
whole state must assist in solving the
agrarian problem.
The premier then announced the gov
ernment's willingness to assist the peas
ants to purchase land and help them on
broad scale in the payment of the mort
gage interest, but he declared that the
forcible appropriation of land could not
be permitted except in case of the exer-
else OF right OF eminent domain in build
ing roads. for irrigation work, etc.
In conclusion the premier warned the
house that some of the speeches made
had excited the peasants and were begin
ming to cause dangerous agitation in the
provinces which the government was de
termined to restrain, adding:
"The radicals long for a mighty up
heaval. We yearn to build up a mighty
Russia
When the premier finished the house ad-
jouFned.
Fears Revived.
The procurement of the premier has
caused a renewal of the apprehensions re-
garding the life of the duma, but the Con-
stitutional Democratic leaders are conf
dent that the premier's hurried state
ment is in no way connected with the
progress of the reactionary intrigue
against both the duma and the premier,
which recently came to light.
The beginning of agraEian disorders over
a wide range of provinces can now be
seen. The peasants are particularly res
tive in the provinces of kiev, Tser Pol
tava, Tula, Yekaterinoslsy VorOnezh and
Saratov. The estate of Prince Serge
Orousoff member of the lower house from
Tula, has just been burned by peasants
The act was committed in revenge for the
princes conservative speeches in the
dCma.