Show submergence of the classes by the masses is to be provided against imperial ukase a virtual coup d betat and des fundamental laws solemnly procia med by his majesty at convention of the duma st petersburg emperor nicholas affixed his signature saturday morn ing to an imperial ukase abolishing the present duma and ordering that the elections of members to its sue cessor which Is to meet nov 14 be held under the new election law which provides the ence of the educated classes by the uneducated masses this act constitutes a virtual coup d betat and overrides the fundamental laws solemnly proclaimed by his majesty on the eye of the convocation of the first dima which declare that the electoral law can never be changed without the consent of par diament itself this breach of the constitution Is justified by the great law of necessia essit the ot the emperor holding it impossible under nt conditions to secure a parliament capable of cooperating harmoniously with the crown and rescue russia from an achy ichy and revolution the dissolution of the russian duma followed the refusal of thai body to permit the arrest ot a number 01 its on the charge of con against the state it has been freely predicted ever since the lo 10 ver house first met march 5 that its dis solution was only a question of time and the many official denials levei carried conviction |