Show W H BOMA submergence of the classes by the alasseo is to be provided against imper al ukase a V raual coup d betat and overrides des fundamental laws solemnly procia procla med by H s majesty at convention of the duma st petersburg emperor nicholas affixed his signature saturday morn ing to an Impei imperial ial 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 against the ence of the educated classes by the uneducated masses this ac constitutes a virtual coup d betat and overrules over overn riles les the fundamental laws solemnly proclaimed by his majesty on the ei e of the convocation of the first duma aich declare th that thit it the electo ial al la law can never be changed without the consent of par diament itself this bleach of the constitution is justified by the great law of necessity the advisers of the emperor holding it impossible under present conditions to secure a parliament capable ot of cooperating harmoniously with the crown and rescue russia from an archy and revolution the dissolution of the russian duma followed the refusal of that body to permit the arrest 0 of a number oi its members on the cha ge of con against the state it has been reely freely predicted ever since the lower house louse first met march 5 that its dis solution was only a question of time ind and the many official denials nevea carried conviction |