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Show CZAR DISSOLVES I RUSSIAN DUMA 1 Submergance of the Classes by the Masses is to be I Provide Against. Imperial Ukase a Virtual Coup d'Etat, H and Overrides Fundamental Laws H Solemnly Proclaimed by Hs H Majesty at Convention H of the Duma, H St. Petersburg. Emperor Nicholas H affixed' his signature Saturday morn- H lug to nn Imperial ukaso abolishing H tho present dunin nnd ordering thnt H tho elections ot members to its sue- H ccssor, which Is to meet Nov. 11, bo H hold under thu now election law, H which provides against tho "submerg- H ence of tho educated classes by the H uneducated masses." H This net constitutes n virtual coup H d'etat, und overrides tho fundamental H laws solemnly proclaimed by his H majesty on tho eve of tho convocation . H of tho first duma, which declare that H tho electoral law'- can never bo H changed without- thu coiiBunt of par- B llament Itself. A I This bleach of the constitution is ' H Justified by the great law ot necessity, H the mlvlscra of tho emperor holding it H Imposslblo, under present conditions, H to secure a parliament capablo ot co- H operating harmoniously with tho H crown und rescue Russia from an- H archy and revolution. H Tho dissolution of tho Russian H duma fallowed tho refusal ot that U body to permit tho arrest of n number H or Its members on the cha.ge of con- H spiring against the stnto. It has been W freely predicted over sluco tho lower H house first met, March 5, that its (lis- M solution was only u question ot time. H nnd tho many official denials never H carried conviction. |