The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-07-05

anu disarmament We're Impossible OF
attainment. However, he admitted
that this should not prevent them from
dreaming of universal peace and fra,
ternity which are the natural, higher
aspirations of the human soul" Both
he and DR.. Van Tets van Goudrain,
who welcomed the conference in the
name Of Queen Wilhelmina, referred
to the large part taken in the peace
movement by President Roosevelt. The
cars high handed dismissal OF the
douma also added to the pessimistic
feeling which pervaded the opening of
the conference.
Irish Catholics Offended.
The breach between the Liberal and
Irish parties in the British parliament
was widencd by the passage, 125 to
121, of a motion permitting the intro
duction of a bill for a commission to
inquire into the need of inspection of
monastic and conventional institutions.
John Redmond, the Irish leader, said
that this was a gross offense and insult
to oil Catholics and that it put an end
to the Liberal alliance with the Irish
party.
How the Douma Was Wrecked.
Without awaiting the pleasure of the
douma, which was preparing to make
formal reply to the demand of the
cars government for the exclusion Of
tifty-ive Social Democratic members
accused of seditious conspiracy to
overthrow the government, Car Mich.
olas signed the ukase dissolving this
second elective parliament of Russia.
thus making a coup d'etat of force, in
asmuch as the members of the doumN
were overawed by the presence of q
large body of soldiers in and near the
palace of assemblage. At the same
time this decree set the elections for
the next douma, which is to meet Nov.
II, and provided that they be held I'M
der a new election law SO drawn as
to prevent 'the submergence Of the
educated classes by the uneducated
masses" This act distinctly overrides
the provisions of the fundamental law
Of the empire as proclaimed by the
a himself just before the assem-
bling Of the first douma. for the con-
stitution thus established declared
that the electoral law could never be
changed without the consent of the
aouma itself. The Stolypin ministry
justifies this course on the ground of
national self preservation, holding that
under present conditions the existing
electoral law would not permit the Sc
lection Of a parliament capable Of CO.
operating tremendously with the crown.
Although expecting dissolution any
moment, the douma continued to trans.
act business calmly up to the last.
The surface Of affairs at st. Peters
burg and in nearly all parts of Russia
remained calm after the news Of the
dissolution had been received, this
course being advised in a manifesto
issued by $50 members Of the Left.
The revolutionary leaders were known
to be holding a conference with So
cialist members of the douma in Fin
land, and Poland showed signs of e
IRENE unrest, but the psychological
moment for expressing the popular dis
approval Of the cars course had not
urrived. Provincial governors had been
ordered to anticipate the slightest signs
Of disturbance with harsh repressfves
measures, and the press had been al
most completely muzzled. The responr
sibility for the dissolution was placed
with the czar himself, as Premier Sto-
lypin stood with the minority OF the
eo6ncil against that course.
The new electoral law greatly limits
the anti Russian representation, the
Caucasus being reduced from twenty
five to ten members and Poland from
thirtysseyen to twelve. BY raising the
property qualification German land;
n in the Baltic provinces gain
many members. The Jaw is somewhat
similar to the Prdsslan system. n the