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Show NO ACTHf TAKEN II RUSSIAN CRISIS Constitutional Democrats Seem (o Hold Aloof From Declaring Declar-ing Their Stand. ST. J'lOTBRSnima. July 27. Tho efforts ef-forts of I ho revolutionary parties, exoopt tho Rightists. In tho Into lowor house ot Parliament, which at tho proper moment wero to prooiulm a provisional government, govern-ment, camo to naught today, owlr.jr to tho opposition of thu Constitutional Domoorutu, who npparontly nro afraid of compromiuing themselves, whllo one wing, headod by M. Nnboukoff, showed Hint they nlruady hud been won over to tho sldo of tho Ministry agulnst tho programme pro-gramme of open revolution. In spltu of tho uctivity of tho pollco, roproHoutatlvou of four parties in tho late hotiHo, tlto Conatitutloiiul Domocrnls, tho Domocrntlo Reformeni, the Socialists and thu Group of Toil, about fifty in number, succeeded in aauembliug this evening In a private houso, whoro they deliberated on tho propoHal of the Soclal-luts Soclal-luts and Group of Toll to form a Joint committee with powor, "whon the nituu-tlon nituu-tlon Justified," for an outbreak of a general gen-eral ntrllto or armed revolt, either to convoke tho old Parliament anil assumo th reins of government or proclaim a constituent assembly. The Constitutional Constitution-al Democrutu objected lo tho plan and proponed Instead tbo appointment of four committees which would work In cooperation, co-operation, but without formal union. Newspaper Collscatod. Tho printing .cBtabllBhmont if the suppressed sup-pressed Journal, tbe Kcho. whoro thousands thou-sands of conies of the Vlbonr manifesto wero holng surroptltiously printed, wus cloned today by tho police. Tho Socialists, Social-ists, who wero preparing to Issue a revolutionary revo-lutionary paper from the oatabllsbmont, aro now planning lo print 11. by forco In ono of the regular printing plauts. Tho polico today searched tho house of Prof. Borodin of lho University of St. Petersburg, where meetings ot tho Parliamentary Par-liamentary Group of Toll woro being hold, and Helzed nil tho papers of tho committee. Negotiations relative to tbo enlargement enlarge-ment of tho Cabinet have not yet been completod. Former Premier Goremykln will leavo next week for France. ' Revolutionists Active. Revolutionists at Kharkov are actively preparing for an armed uprising and a re-proclamatlon of the republic of Kharkov Khar-kov in tho autumn. The Freuch Vice-Consul here has received re-ceived very disquieting nov.;s from French Industrial establishments. At Yuzovka. the principal smelting center in the south of Russia. 40,000 workmen have armed themselves and have organized a disciplined disci-plined rlllo legion of 1000 members under former army oflkers. Tho Russian troops are useless in tho emergency, having fraternized fra-ternized with the strikers almost continuous-. Tho workmen's demands amount practically to confiscation of the plants. |