Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-18
STOLYPIN HAS
 AGAIN DODGED zEhSTvO BILL
Imperial Russian Decree Ad- jOumS the 0uma One Day Before Vote Was Due
 On Question
POSTPONED TO NEXT FALL

ST. PETERSBURG, June IT,
 Five months of usual summer inac- uvity in Russia's home politics be
 gan with the adjournment of the
 Duma by Imperial decree of May 2G- The session was cut short one month in order to avoid the threat ened embarrassment of the govern Inent over the contentious Zemstyo Qeasure. providing self government for the western provinces, and which was promulgated over the head of the legislature or March 27.
 isy d3spatching the Duma one day CT obligatory submission of the bill before the expiration of the term for legislative consideration, Prime Minister Stolypn deferred the con
 fict until autumn. Steps have been taken meanwhile to expedite the provincial elections and elaborate the installment of zemstvo institu tions in the six provinces under the provisions of the act. and when the ! legislature next takes up the ques- ton # will deal with an accom- 1 piished fact, in which it will prob ably decide to acquiesce
 | Despite the Dumas three-uuarters { majority and the Councils twothirds | majority against Premier Stolypin, | on the vote to declare his defence of is conduct in the promulgation of ' the Western Zemstyo bill unsatis- factory, the Chambers have con ' tiDued 10 collaborate with the Min | ister in current iegislation. Appro- l priations were voted by the Duma i for a fleet of four Dreadnoughts, and a corresponding number of smaller { units in the Black Sea. and a further { appropriation was voted for the ! completion of the four battleships of the Gangut type, whose construction
 in the Baltic was commenced by i the Government in defiance of the
 Dumas refusal of funds.
 Many New Laws.
 The record or the Duma for the session includes a bill for the reform
 of village self-goyernment on a more
 democratic basis, for the reform Of
 primary schools, admitting, in this
 connection. instruction in the moth
 eT-tongue, and bill for combating
 drunkenness. the adoption of which
 was urged by a large anti-alcohOlic
 group of deputies headed by Deputy
 Tchelyshea of Samara. Woman sui
 frage was admitted in the provisions
 Of the village self-gOvernment bill another measure adopted gives woni-
 en equal rights of succession, and a
 later measure, just introduced by
 Minister of Justice, aims al a reform
 Of the antiquated passport system,
 which at present deprives women,
 barring special cases and extTaor- dinary foTmalities, of the right oi
 residing apart from their husbands. With the elections only a year and half away, the concluding fifth
 session of the Duma promises little
 more than the adoption of national istic bills relating to Finland and kholm. and the progress in the dis position Of other legislation of q purely technical nature with which the Duma is overburdened. The hopes of notable, constructive work to embody in laws the. principles enunciated in the October manifesto have now been abandoned by all. The friction between habitual ad. ministrative methods and the pros pective requirements of such legis- lation suffice to deter the Russian administration from countenancing these reforms, while the Duma has no power to enforce any policy which is not acceptable to the goN- ernment.
 The Octoberist party. whose mild liberalism gained for it the sym pathies of the electors in 1907 must depend entirely on official ap- proval for the success of the ma jority of it's candidates at the next elections. because of the povertv of its legislative record. Indications are that a most energetic effort twill be made to obtain a fourth Dums in which a working majority Of NatiOnalists will give the govern ment a legislature which will cause Il it less concern than even the present one.
 The appointment of Senator Sab Ter. ex-vice procurator of the Holy synod under Pobednostseff, to the lost of Procurator makes the fft1 change in that post in as many ] ears. Changes in the portfolios Oi Marine. Commerce. and Education have been as frequent and of tho original Stolypin cabinet of 1866, the Prime Minister and the Minister oi France. KOkoTtsoff. are the ouly . lre-r5ers still in office.