RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
THE COUNCIL OF EMPIRE.
JESUITS EXPELLED
(Received April 17, 9a.m.)
ST. PETERSBURG, April 16. The press here considers that the divergence of opinion between the Council of the Empire and the Government amounts to an empasse, and dissolutions of the Council and Duma are foreshadowed. Leading Jesuits at Moscow have been expelled. The newspaper Novoe Vremya urges the expulsion of Polish Jesuits from St. Petersburg on the ground that they have obtained possession of the Roman Catholic schools. ,_...' M Stolvpin, the Prime Minister, speaking in the Council of the Empire, in answer to interpellations regarding his action in utilising article B< ~f the funh.mentnl laws to pronvilga e the Zemstvos Bill, said the article was intended to be used only m a grave crisis He accepted the responsibility. The Duma, he added, had no power to interpellate against tlie administrative acts. , .„ , Tho Council, by 99 votes to 53, decided that M. Stolypin's declaration did not affect the interpellation. Owing to the absence of a necessary majority the question of M. Stolypms illegal procedure cannot be submitted for the Tsar's decision.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10215, 18 April 1911, Page 5
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