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Show DECREE SOUNDS LIKE OLD REGIME Czar's I'kase Creating the New Cabinet Arouses Severest Criticism. GOVERNMENT MACHINERY EXTREMELY COMPLICATED Care Is Taken to Consolidate Power in Hands til the Premier. i 6T. PETERSBURG, Nov t, 12.10 p. m. The Imperial decree creating the cabinet ministers under the imperial manifesto granting a constitution to Russia was gazetted this morning and has already aroused criticism, as the I machinery Is extremely romplh ated and smacks Of the old-fashioned bu-I bu-I reaucratic regime. The relations of the cabinet to the council of the Empire or ' upper chamber and the Imperial dounia. or popular chamber, are not clear, be-i be-i cause t lie powers of these bodies are ' yet to be defined under the manifesto. Two Unsatisfactory Features. Two features are especially unsatisfactory. unsatis-factory. While the cabinet hag no I authority to decide matters within the 1 i imp.-teney of the legislative bodies, no measure of 'general Importance" can be Introducer in the chambers 'without the sanction of t'te cabinet, j and another provision requires that When the cabinet is unanimous the j Premier must go to the Emperor and j receive Instructions This would seem I to make the final authority go back to the Emperor i Questions Excluded. Moreover, all questions affecting the imperial court and domains, the army and navy nnd foreign affairs are sped- ' fit ally excluded from the competency of the cabinet without direct imperial I authority By implication! these great questions In which the nation is vitally Interested are also outside the competency of the Iegls lature, ird therefore are bound to prove unsatisfactory to the representatives of the people when n,ej assemble. Premier's Laige Power. Nothing la said In the decree about tin Premier or .Ministers heli g responsible to the National Ass-ml ly or responding to interpellations, but cue is taken to consolidate con-solidate the power In th. hands of the I i-r rnh or, as he is termed. President of the Cebintt and especially to prevent an Individual Minister from going to the Em- peror with a report without previously submitting it to the Premier Should the I I Premier not approve ..r a report he has i th privilege Of being ptesent when the Minister presents It to the Emperor and 01 talln his objections. This provision I i" designed to put an end to the practice f one Minister undermining another, which has been one ,,f the worst features i f the old rcyimr and the cans,, .d untold ci- nfuslon |