The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
SENSATION IN TIE
 RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT Premier Announces Serious Conflict With Lower
 House. A DRAMATIC INCIDENT Dangerous Agitation in Pro- vinces Which Will be
 Restrained.

St. Petersburg, May 2S. Premier Stolypin caused sensation in the low CT house of parliament to-day by unex- pectedly announcing that a serious con- flict existed between the house and the government, and scored an effective point by showing that the agrarian committee of the house had proceeded to solve the whole agrarian problem without consulting with any represen- tative of the government. The premier ended his statement by announcing that the forcible appropriation of land would not be permitted and warned the house that the speeches exciting the peasants were beginning to cause a dangerous agitation in the provinces which the government was determined to restrain.
 The premier's entry on the scene was almost dramatic. At the close of a dull session of the house devoted to the adoption of rules of order, Premier Stolypin suddenly claimed the floor. It was o'clock, after the regular hour for the adjournment of the house, but the motion of the social revolutionists to adjourn was defeated and amidst the most intense attention the premier de- clared that the agrarian committee of the house yesterday had formally adopted the principle of the forcible ex- propriation of land without waiting to ascertain the governments attitude, It was the premier's duty, therefore. to enlighten the deputies. Fundamental principles maintained by the govern ment had been disregarded, an openly rev lutionary tone marked most of the speeches and insults had been aimed at the government.
 The premier added that the agrarian programme of the committee left the various parties in the house in irrecon- cilable positions towards each other and towards the government. If the prinei- pie of the forcible appropriation of land was permitted to prevail a social up- heaval of which history would not be able to show a parallel, would be pre- cipitated.
 Continuing, M. stolypin characterized ! the constitutional democratic agrarian programme as being milder and more gradual than that of the radicals, but he said. the same principle, the under mining of the rights of property, was hidden at the bottom. Furthermore the constitutional democratic price, $40 per I deciatine (2.70 acresl was unreason- ably low and ruinous to the land own CTS. He heartily welcomed the propo- sal of the constitutional democrats tc let the peasants decide whether com. munal ownership should be maintained or abolished, although he secuted the argument that the forcible expropria. l ton of land was inevitable, pointing ou that the present available government reserve of land was inadeauate to ap, pease the land hunger.
 M. Stolypin asserted that to plundel the land of 1SO,O0O land owners would be like nursing an invalid back t; health by nourishment drawn from nj! own body. The whole state must assis in solving the agrarian problem.
 The premier then announced the gov ernments willingness to assist thu peasants to purchase land and hell them on a broad scale in the pavmen of the mortgage interest, but he fiml! asserted that the forcible appropriation of land could not be permitted excep in the case of the exercise of the righ of eminent domain, in building roads | for irrigation works, etc.
 In conclusion the premier warnet the house that some of the sDeeche
 made had excited the peasants am
 were beginning to cause dangerou agitation in the provinces, which tn government was determined to restrain
 adding:
 "The radicals long for mighty up
 heaval. We yearn to build up
 mighty Russia.
 l After the premier had finished speak
 ing the house adjourned.