The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-21
Lenine ,Outnumbered, Forces
Dissolution of Russ Assembly.
Soldiers Throw Out
Congressional Delegates.
CLOSES AMID RIOTOUS SCENES
Armed Sailors Pour Into Hall;
" Chairman Resists.
Offer New Panacea
IA To Succeed Assembly.
~ IOSEPH sHAPLEN.


g Petrograd Jan. 21.-The crisis be-
tween the Bolsheviki and the con-
servative liberals is at hand.
Dissolution OF the constituent as
esnbly, affected by the Trotzky-Len-
she government. has brought to a
climax the violent opposition OF the
Social revolutionary party. The Boil
sheViki leaders today freely predicted
that their enemies are now preparing
81 campaign of terror. Tney named
fbrmer Minister Savinkoff with $50
men as leading this counter-revolu-
ffonary movement.
Bloodshed was narrowly aVerted IN
the closing of the constituent as
sembly The last few minutes of the
4neeting were dramatic in their in
1ensity. Armed sailors poured into
the hall and were arrayed in groups
ID the aisles. Their commander de-
handed that Chernoff, then Spresid-
ing, quit the platform and that the
members of the Right parties leave
the hall. Chernoff fatty refused "A
heated argument enSued. Witnesses
Today insisted it was only Intervention
selves that saved their political OPP
rsonents from violence at the hands of
The Bolshevili troops.
Appeals for Solid Front.
The final act of the assembly was
the formal proclamation of Russia as
of Former Minister Tzeretelh was
dramatic. He was constantly inter
Eupted and often with violent abuse.
His concluding Grafton was a pathetic
appeal to all that the revolution pc
ffermitted to bear fruit in the forma-
lion of government which would
show a solid front of all classes of the
Evolutionary democracy.
The Bolsheviki and Social Revolu-
tionaries of the Left together with
La f.ax- X
men. soldiers and peasants congress
TO take the place of the constituent
assembly, were working hard today TO
Achieve this sort of a law-givlng body.
The soviets completely control the
situation and will undoubtedly carry
thru their program complete.
u One faction Tried to Run 1t?
What happened to the constituent
assembly simply represents the strug-
lgle now going on everywhere, SAID
the Bolsheviki minister of agriculture,
M. Kalegyeff, in an interview of the
United Press today. THE Right par
ties cannot remain alone and exercise
power in the constituent assembly
for the people do not recognize them.
Fhe people are behind the soviets.
Should the parties of the Right chal-
Aenge the authority and power of the
soviets-it simply means an extension
of the civil war now raging"
y 1t was reported today that the peo-
Ifle'G commisSaries desire to take the
Brest-Litovsk negotiations out of the
hands of the present delegation, altho
they assert thei.. adherence to the con-
G1itions of the armistice.
~ Assassinated in Hospital.
- On Sunday night former Cadet Min
istera Kokoshkin and Shingareff, who
were recently transferred to a hos
pital from the fortress of st. Peter and
Paul were killed by band of soldiers
and workmen. Their assassination
together with the animosities aroused
by forcib.a closing down of the con-
stituent assembly has brought about
the most intensely bitter feeling be-
tween the Right and Left parties.
A delegation of the constituent as
semb1y leaders who called on Mich
olaf Lenine today to protest against
the Bolsheviki action were. told by
the Bolsheviki leader that permission
would be withheld for them to as
semble anywhere and that instead of
their conference, a national conven-
ton would be formed by the forth
coming soviet congress.
Seize All Anti-Newspapers.
All the newspapers containing de-
tailed accounts of the constituent
meetings were confiscated today.
The soviet of the workmen and SOL
oilers today formally approved the
dissolution of the assembly after a
speech by Inovieff, declaring the con-
ference brought together two ele-
Inents which could not be conciliated.
In the opinion of many leaders the
Resolution means war to a finish be-
tween the two elements. The mem
bers of the Right who dominated the
constituent assembly, are planning to
go to Kieff or Novocherkask.
A widely circulated report today
that Tzeretelli and Chernoff, leaders
of the Social Revolutionaries in the
anti Bolsheviki movement had been
killed. was declared false by the au-
thorfties. The central executive COM
inittee of the Bolsheviki. however.
named a commission to investigate
other shootings in the city The Red
guards who participated in last week
attack on groups in the city blamed
the paraders for the rioting.
"A city-wide hunt was in progress
for NJ. Savinkoff, one of Kerensky' S
staunch supporters. who has been re-
ported in hiding. In the opinion of
politicians here, there is little chance
of the constituent assembly leaders
overcoming the Bolsheviki. A few of
the Red guards, however, formally
rendered their designations today, de-
claring they were being used to sup
press liberty in the attacks on the
Constituent assembly.
Lenine himself introduced the dis
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