Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-06-20
A RUSSIAN CRISIS.
Imperial Government Demands Sur
render Of IS Members Of Low
! or House Of Parliament.
DOUMAWILL REFUsETO OBEY
II 10 Recognized That End Of Rep
resentatlve Government Has Ar
rived-0reat Strike
May Follow.

St. Petersburg, June 15.-The dis.
solution OF the lower house Of the
Russian parliament appears to be a
question Of only a few hours or at
most day or two.
With only 100 opposing votes the
lower house Friday night rejected
premier Stolypin's ultimatum for the
immediate suspension Of So deputies
for membership in the social demo
cratic party, and referred the subject
to committee. Although the commit
tee has been Instructed to report
Saturday evening, It Ii known In ad.
vance that the decision on the main
question will be adverse, and that
the Douma will accept the recommen-
dalton.
In order to keep strictly within the
legal limits, the committee may rec
omend the suspension Of Is leaders
on condition that the government dis
close the evidence against them but
there Is not the slightest expectation
on either side that this will save the
situation.
An extraordinary session of the
council Of ministers was being held
Friday night to discuss the decision of
the lower house. Up to a late hour
no report had been received OF the
doings Of the council and no decree
Of dissolution had been issued. The
general impression was that no edict
would be promulgated pending final
action by the lower house.
The session Of the st. Petersburg
committee Of the social democrats was
attended by a large number of the &C.
cused deputies. The committee was
discussing a proposal to proclaim a
general strike at the capital. This
meeting is being held In secret the
police having occupied the headquar-
tiers Of the party. Remembering of
the fiasco of the strike called after
the dissolution of the last Donna
the committee Is hesitating to adopt
this measure, although delegates from
the workmen In all Quarters Of the
city report that the conditions are
ripe for a successful Industrial strike
and that there Is a possibility Of ex-
tending the movement to the several
railroads centering in st. Petersburg.
The situation however, is not con-
sidered propitious for the spreading
Of the strike throughout the country,
and the possibility at the present /,
moment Of an open revolutionary
movement or armed uprising is re- {
,arded by the committee as entirely q
The prestige Of the military organ
cation has been particularly affect '
d by recent arrests, which have al. s
most entirely nullified the effects of Il
he propaganda in the army. G
Friday the reactionaries were jubi- Y
ant They had no hesitation in avow- h
ng that the demand for the suspen- e
ion of the social democratic deputies h
yas only provocation made without /,
he slightest expectation that 1t would v
e granted.
Should the Donna yield In the mat q
Or of social democrats, Minister Kam- :
shansky is ready with a similar COM :,
laint against certain social revolu- !
onary representatives. The present
tep is regarded by the reactionaries :.
s turning back of the hands of
ussian history to an hour before the :
romulgation Of the famous October .
lanifesto.