Show NEW NEAV RUSSIAN HUSSIAN DOUMA DOU j Having dissolved two doumas because they could not be controlled by the RU Russian bureaucracy I the he he Russian government altered the election law sos so as s fo to secure secure a chamber in sympathy with the tho ad ad- ministration Large classes disfranchised The peasant franchise was restricted to those actually cultivating the soil soli The proportional share of representation was reduced for tor tho the peasants and Increased for or lar large e landholders those holding over I 2000 acres rs Such Il representation nta r n as the city middle o d-o I s ana unu Lu enJoyed in me the first cloumas I was cut down Abstention followed among the wor workmen Where three-quarters three voted in lii the previous previous pre pre- election about a n voted now In a a. textile center near Moscow with workmen where voted In the second douma only 1517 voted otell In the election Just closed Like abstention n place among the peasants peasant Two dissolutions have ended all public in the douma It meets meet there therefore Core wholly detached from the great s soothing seething forces which aro arc driving Russia along its difficult and perilous path toward self self- government Instead a majority of or the douma dounia Is chosen b by who hol hold large estates individually but hose is-hose hose aggregate holdings are only one fifth the lan lanot land landof ot of the empire In the the second second douma about 70 per percent percent percent cent of or the electors voted otell against the government and a bod body of revolutionists Socialists and the tho Group of ot Toll Tol dominated the douma and with the constitutional democrats 92 mado made an overwhelming overwhelm overwhelm- ing riH majority of 84 In the new douma now meetIng meetIng meeting meet- meet Ing 88 deputies are chosen from the Moderates and Right These represent those who desire a constitutional nd a advance ce but without ro tion The rhe government will start with a a. working i majority Whether hethel It can retain it Is another question Even h the thO Congress of ot Zemst or meeting of ot delegates from the provincial assemblies assemblies- refused to accept the government policy either on laud land or loc local r administration The large landowners landown landown- ers are aro determined to k keep ep their land and landOWn-j landOWn their control of local t affairs Philadelphia Press |