Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-09-16
KORNILOFF'S FATE.

KORNILOFF'S FATE.
The probable fate of General Kor.
niloff Is exciting public opinion. In
dications are that the government
faces serious difficulties over the mat
ter.
A feature of the conflict is the cred-
table absence of bitter feeling and
clamor for vengeance. Having re-
established capital puishment at the
front, however, the government, IL it
spares the rebel leader, must face the
reproach that 1t executed common
soldiers for less serious oifenses, and
It would be virtually impossible to
impose the penalty In the future.
Against this are the facts of Gem
eral Korniloff's brilliant service; his
chivalrous and personal character and
the happy circumstance that there
has been no bloodshed so far.
M. Kishkin, the new minister of the
interior, declares that the govern
ment has decided not to take extreme
measures against Korniloff, as it does
not wish to appear revengeful.
The story M. Kishkin said. "is
80 tangled that only an inquiry by a
commission can bring out the truth.
Meantime we have reason to believe
that the revolt. was due to misunder-
standing with Korniloffs emissary to
Kerensky, Vladimir Lvoff, who has
not the reputation Of being a respon-
sible man"
Socialists Threaten to Quit.
The newly-completed cabinet again.
is a smelling pot. The newspapers
report that representatives of the So
cial democrats and the social revolu-
tionists visited Premier Kerensky and
announced their parties would with
draw if the constitutional democrats
were taken back into the ministry.
The story of the visit is not true,
but M. Soskice, secretary to Premier
kerensky, who is member of the
council of the social revolutionist
party, informed the Associated Press
that the difficulty actually has arisen.
Yesterday committees of both par
ties drew up identical resolutions de-
claring it would be impossible to coli
laborate with Premier Kerensky if
constitutional democrats were made
but voting on the resolu-
tions has been postponed until this
evening and there is every hope of
an agreement.
Both parties accept the principle of
a coalition cabinet and have no objec-
ton to constitutional democrats be-
coming ministers on condition that
they Immediately leave that party.
The grounds for this decision is the
view of the parties that the consti-
tutional democrats, as a whole, ale
though there is no evidence of their
completely in the rebellion and in the
demonstrations at Moscow, sided with
and encouraged General Korniloff.
The parties further demand the con-
vocation Of a new congress on the
lines of that held in Moscow, from
which, however, the members of all
four Dumas would be excluded. 1t is
suggested that the congress meet not
later than September 23 and sit until
the meeting of the constituent assem-
BIZ. s...
Secretary Soskice added that Pre-
nier Kerensky now is in excellent
health, despite the fact that through
out the recent crisis he has worked
eighteen hours daily.
Cabinet Crisis Threatens.
The cabinet crisis continued all day.
assert that Premier Ker-
'nsky is in a difficult position and that
lis resignation is not excluded from
he possibilities.
The situation is complicated by the
ttitude of the Petrograd Council of
Deputies. in which, at last nights
meetings, the Bolshevikis, for the first
ime, gained an overwhelming major
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