Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-02
Russian Bureaucrats Dur
ing Recess Dripple War
Committees.
GOES MERRILY ON
Treason Executions and Ar
rests Fail to Stop Peace
Intrigues.
BY JOHN l.. BALDERSTON.

Syndicate).
LONDON, June 13--If, as is often
said in western Europe, the Russian
bureaucracy is dying, it is showing
vigor remarkable In an invalid. In
formation from a neutral and wells
informed source in Petrograd shows
clearly that the prO-German court
party has not been killed, and is very
much alive and kicking in spite of
the arrest for high treason of its
farmer war minister General Suk-
homlinoff, the execution of Colonel
Miadeonoff and other highly placed
officers, and the failure of its at
tempts to win the cZar over to sepa-
rate peace with Germany.
Successes Severe Blow.
The Russian successes against the
Austrians have doubtless been "a severe
blow to the peace intriguers, whose
Vaccinations in the opinion of my in
formant cannot succeed unless Russia
suffers further disasters in the field.
Just before the duma was dissolved
last month, great sensation was
caused by a radical deputy who read
In open session "A secret memorial
which he said nearly one-hundred
members of the right or pro-German
party had sent to the government.
This document painted in most gloomy
said that the signers felt the empire
must withdraw from the war at once
unless the government could give
assurances of prompt and decisive
field victories. An uproar was caused
by the disclosure, the accused depu
ties shouting Forgery and the CEN
sorship suppressed all references to
the affair. Nobody in pctrosrad, my |
informant states, believes the me-
mortal was forged.
The peace party is headed by Gen
eral Count Fredericks, minister of the |
imperial household, aud NJ. Goremy- |
kin, the aged reactionary who was
recently biuffed into resigning the
premiership by threats from M.
Rodzinako, president of the duma, |
that charges of treason would be
openly brought against him in the |
chamber NJ. NJ. Stuermer, the new
premier, is a willy diplomat who ex-
pressed friendship for the progressive |
movement and flattered the duma
when he took Officer but his recent |
actions since the sorely harassed Rus |
sian parliament dissolved have proved
that he is under the control of
Goremykin.
Facts Evident.
Some of the amazing activities of
Stuermer and his reactionary officials
not glaringly evident. The Russian
disasters last year were largely due
to ammunition shortage, and this
shortage was caused In great measure
by pro-German control of the mu-
milton and supply factories, and of
the railways. Russia's successes at
present are entirely due to the for
nation of war production committees
all over Russia, composed of promi-
M lrNNH "a ff al J. nj lEaR
merchants. who with the help of the
duma took over the control of the
great munition plants, secured con-
tracts from the government, and saw
that they were carried out. Most
private factories in the country are
now under the control of these COM
mittees.
During the recess of the duma the
bureaucracy called a meeting of the |
governors of all the provinces of
European Russia, who are creatures
of the reactionary party and not re-
sponsible to parliament. AT this |
meeting measures were discussed to
put an end to the interference OF the |
war committees, whose activities have !
greatly alarmed the bureaucracy. |
Bureaucratic officials, appointed by
the governor OF each province, have
been forcibly placed on the war |
war office has beeI instructed to |
refuse to grant contracts to the COM
mittees except in case of urgent |
necessity" This order, to which the |
duma would never consent, has been /
issued on the authority IF clause 81 of !
the fundamental laws Of the empire,
which gives the government authority !
to legislate during recesses of the /
duma in eases of vital necessity"
Forbids Session.
Premier Stuermer has just forbid |
den the session In Petrograd of the /
national congress of representatives
of all the war committees, men who !
have given their time gratis towards
organizing Russian industry for vic !
tory. The program of this congress
was announced as follows: First, |
mobilization of public forces to pro- !
mote and help the work of the war
secondly, the promotion |
of Russian self help; Thirdly the or
& RaniZation OF Il fight against German |
economic and political in |
fluence over Russian affairs. and in |
Russian life generally and the pro-
motion of a cultural and economic
union between the Slay nations"
Nothing the bureaucracy has done
during the war aroused the opinion
of the progressive parties so much as
the ban placed on this meeting, whose
only object was to help the country
win the war. In Petrograd, by meth
DDS at which the most corrupt politi-
cal bosses in American cities would
open their eyes, the reactionaries have
lust won a majority In the election
for the municipal council, and their
first step has been to vote the aboli-
ton of the Petrograd branch of the
town congress, which in cooperation
with the ZemstvO has organized the
army ambulance service. and re-
formed the army commisSary depart
ment, so that soldiers now get enough
to eat and grating contractors make
smaller profits. The town congress
before being voted out of existence
received a telegram from the cZar
1t on it's work for the
troops, and backed by the liberal
press of the capital and the whole
block in the duma, com
prising four-fifths of the membership,
the congress has refused to quit, re-
lying upon agitation in parliament to
save its life.
The Russian governmental scandals
are due to the fact that the small
party has control of
most N the machinery of government,
and, while II does not love the Ger
mans, considers itself bound to pre-
serve the monarchial principle in
believing that II the Prus-