The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15

 the strike throughout the country, and the possibility at the present moment or an open revolutionary movement or armed uprising is regarded by the con- mittee as entirely excluded. The prestige of the military organ lzation has been particularly affected py recent arrests, which have almost entirely nullified the effects of the propaganda in the army.
 The demand of the government for the surrender of the fifty-five deputies III question came as a complete sur prlse During the past fortnight 1t has been persistently and positively report cd in government reactionary circles that 1t had been decided to abolish the present duma as pernicious element in the life of the state and that the cab met was determined to seize upon or manufacture pretext for dissolution at the first favorable opportunity. The constitutional democrats, however, had been lulled into complete security by official denials, and they refused to credit the statements of the reaction ary deputies
 To-day the reactionaries were openly jubilant They had no hesitation in avowing that the demand for the sus- pension of the social democratic depu- ties was only provocation, made with out the slightest expectation that it would be granted
 should the douma yield in the mat ter of the social democrats Prosecutor Kameshansky is ready with a similar complaint against certain social reac- tionary representatives. The present step is regarded by the reactionary dep- uties as turning back of the hands of Russian history to an hour before the promulgation of the famous October manifesto
 It is 8 foregone conclusion that no new douma will be convoked on the basis of the present election law. Depu- ties Purishkevich and Slnadino inform ed the correspondents of the Associat- ed Press tonight that a new law, re- stficting the suffrage by educational and property qualifications and throw ing more power into the hands of the conservative landowners was ready for promulgation. It Is admitted that such an act is flat breach of the fundamen- tai law, which expressly forbids any al- teration of the electoral statutes under any circumstances without the assent of the douma, but it is justified by the argument that what the autocrat has oiVno fba at,tnrpat o,,.ratroa4
 Prof. Milukoff, leader of the constitu- tional democrats, said to the Associated Press:
 Tt looks as if the battle. must be fought all over again, The promulga- ton of this new election law will de- priye the douma of every element of popular representation; and put the country back just where 1t was be- fore the manifesto of freedom. It may be long and hard struggle, but we count, as before, on the assistance of the government to shorten 1t by in- judicious measures"
 A. A. Klsevetter, atiotner member sot the constitutional democratic party, said to the Associated Press that the governments indictment of the socia- list Democratic party was not sufficient to justify their exclusion from any par liament in the world.
 St. Petersburg. June 15.-S:20 a. m.- The Official Messenger contains no ukases this morning.
 The yellow culrassiers were brought into the city during the night from Ga- tchina, and the troops encamped at Selo are ready to march.