The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-07
STOLYP|N TALKS
 PLAINLY ID GAR
Threatens Resignation of Cabl-
 net Without Delay
EMPEROR ASKS FOR TIME
Russian Premier Demands Two Things of the Czar, One Regarding Pub He Policy, the Other Purely
 Personal.

St. Petersburg, May 6.-The outcome of the Russian ministerial crisis is now entirely dependent on the Emperor's line of action, and Premier Stolypin's ex- haustlve report based on the cabinet meeting of May 4, and submitted to his majesty today, left no doubt In the Elm perors mind that the cabinet is a unit in favor of sanctioning the naval bill The premier had long audience with the Emperor at Tsarskoe-Selo and while the primary demand was for his majesty 8 approval of the bill creating a general staff for the navy, the underlying object of the visit was to force the Emperor to disassociate himself of the hostile cam paign of the reactionaries and the cour- tiers close to him. The painful necessity of the retirement of the cabinet in case of adverse decision was delicately implied and the Emperor announced at parting with the premier that he would take the matter under consideration for a few days. The conferences of yester- day and today furnish no indication of the nature of the Emperor's ultimate de- cision.
 A member of the cabinet said this even ing that the resignations of the ministers had not been rendered.
 The issue has nothing to do with big ger navy; 1t is a mere matter of con- stitutional teehnicality-whether parlia- ment, which admittedly possesses the right to vote appropriations for the army and navy, should have the power to attach @ clause declaring that a naval staff had been established. The bill in question was originally introduced in the second duma with the Emperors cognzance and passed, but a successful opposition was led in the council of the empire by M. Won Schwanebach, a former minister in the Stolypin cabinet. In the meantime the second duma was dissolved.
 The bill was reintroduced in the third duma with the Emperor's approval. It passed both the duma and the council of the empire, in the latter case by a majority of 12, which included the mem bers of the cabinet. The precedents are all in favor of the cabinets position. The Emperor has given his sanction to sim liar minority bill, establishing Vladivos- tok as a branch naval station. If he reverses his ruling now 1t would mean a thorough change in his attitude toward representative institutions
 M. Kohomyakoff, president of the duma, in an interview this evening, stated that the duma Is following the fortunes of M. Stolypin and his cabinet with keen sympathy, as its own fate is staked on the result. He applauds the decision of the cabinet to take a firm stand.
 Vladimir Bobrinsky, leader of the mod erate-conservatives who with the octo- berists form the governments majority in the duma, says that Stolypin is shoul- der high above the rest of Russia's pres ent-day statesmen, and that the throne is under inestimable obligations to him for bringing about the existent condition of order. It is too early yet, Count Bob rinsky declared, to dispense with his Nservices.
 Baron Demeyendorf says that M. Stoly- pins most dangerous enemies are high officials, who have been mixed in scan dals, the Moscow and St. Petersburg po- lice and the commissary department of the army, in which an investigation was recently begun at the premier's orders.
 An examination into the accounts of the late war has uncovered robberies which the high clique are determined to hush, he declares