Show f SITUATION IN RUSSIA BETTER Tendency of Military to Make Makei S i Political Demands Chang- Chang Changes jT W es Cs Program CZAR MAY YIELD TO DOUMA l i t. t I Terrible Arraignment of h by t Prince c Uni ofT 1 cl Unsettling Un- Un i J settling to lo Czar C r S T jf Chicago o June 20 Tho W.-Tho Tho corS cor- cor COI- COI S of ot the Post reviewing the lie 5 Russian situation says S that within the thelast last last few Cew da Gays N It t has ha undergone und p a t marked markell change for the better beUer The Th i c tendency of th military as shown by hy y I the action acton of a crack regiment regIment of tin tin- tw f I Imperial guards to substitute poll political S demands for the standing long long I J S one as us to service has modified the the i ll program osam am as to cabinet responsibility t and the Irreducible minimum of ag- ag It I appears that one of the the recent 5 incidents that impressed seth ed Nicholas profoundly prof pro pro- 0 f was ivas wa the formal denunciation f r 5 S I t of b by name In the terrible ark arI ar- ar J behind th the k 1 I of oC the forces i throne by 30 Prince s is IR unpopular with the troops and with wih v J nil all classes He Is a bigot uneducated 01 and without with with- the slave slav of uC military system y tem S out respect reSI for Cor the tho western doctrine must be supreme su- su that the flie civilian civian powei power I in progressive O states and he preme ant administers hl his vast ast authority like liO a police captain whose agents provoke provola r. r the crimes they seek el the glory glor of reS ren re- re n S pressing The Tho St. St 51 Petersburg correspondent corre curre- of oC a Manchester paper aper says has the instincts and capac- capac g S it ity It of a Tammany hall bali hal V- V Irom Vitt i 5 Telegram e It i To Nicholas the attack upon v the man he hc had in lii mind to appoint as asT S T dictator was gravely ely sra unsettling according aci ac- ac i 5 cording to a dispatch to lo the thc z blatt blat but when this was viewed In the lie light of oC the telegram from Vitte leI le Ic I C daring claring ring that the authors of the stok ca whom massacre hom the he orators of the douma louma say sy are arc and hl his had alienated foreign opinion Si minions had n y to a degree o unprecedented In iii Russian i S. S history deg the capricious though though weli well well- wel- wel i meaning monarch took Into serious I. I consideration for the first fht time the ex expediency ex- ex 1 5 of yielding to the cardinal S. S demand of the majority in tn the lower lowerhouse house the the demand for a re in SL p Petersburg Pe- Pe i l ministry The best opinion S 1 ter burg is that not until this week weel weekS S Had Hall the czar seriously cont contemplated such a step Compromise Indications multiply that the upshot will wi bo an attempt b by the court party larty to induce the leaders of the douma louma to 3 r f consent to tho the prorogation of parla- parla ment In return for the retirement of or S t the tho ministry and the zip ap- of a new cabinet directly ij I ap-I i re responsible to the douma ouma The Idea would be lc to have the new ministry go goto to the count country after the thc ra fashion in i western parliamentary states in the hope that the next would be lie bemore bemore more amenable to con conservative advice than thun the present On the lie resumption of t t t iU u. u 4 S H I that tha I. I TI S the bureaucratic administration n Ad Advocates Ali Al- i of such an amendment are found fOUd In the council of the empire anda and anda a small party disposed to think the middle path I is forming plan opens a 1 S in the lower house houe They TheyS r- r i S are arc chiefly men who hesitate to see sec the radical elements in control and yet yN perceive that the radical program conS con'S contains con con- S 'S talus the essential of or reform Idea I one of or the principal cons conservatives conservatives con con- s In the council counci and most acUe active ac ac- ac- ac 5 tive U e r promoter of or the compromise e. e has adopted the idea of or fusion between tl t A. I friends of the principle that the tho peasants peas peas- K ants should own land such as they are able or may bo be able ahle to lJ buy subject to t. t S reservations of lands belonging to i. i family and members of ot the thc imperial to limitations upon the holdings of t Jews B By 13 far the lie most significant f feature turo of the case cae in Its Is present aspect is the lie readiness of the conservatives of or the tho th I council to adopt even cven to the slightest counci degree the notion hoton that the present J ll il douma uma is a reflection on the sentiment j C the country countr For weeks reeks the burden burden buren bur- bur den den- denof enof en- en of their speeches was the lie lower house did not represent the feeling of S f the masses the thema but only the ambitions of J d the thee agitators who misled the musses masses Would I Placate Res Ro oh ni S Nothing more is heard hearl from the theS centrists of the tho nature Y ont onI on S lc t I S the contrary conc concedes des U thai every popular popular popular pop pop- ular dc desire hai hw its Is tongue among the lie factions o of the chamber iJo O far fat from from'S S 'S antagonizing the revolutionaries he urges his associates to placate them insisting that they will ivill h be satisfied i. i wi 5 with a tithe of or what hat they demand Of the shrewdness of DC the douma ouma I leaders leader in iii giving up the fruitless effort effortS t S J to to frame laws Jaws 10 and ad In concentrating at attention at- at t iI tenton upon the weakest spots spols in the they 1 armor of oC the bureaucrats there here y bureaucrats can be no doubt Instead of leaving leaving the thi th f Hu Russian lan people informed as to only a afew aj Sf few matter maUer the he ma 10 douma I Is taking them j 4 Into I its confidence us s to man many Th The I c campaign of oC education Is being wa waged ed i for liberty and nd progress as It Is IH waged S world t nowhere eJ else In the |