Yet that is just what it is about to do. The bomb in question is a modest proposal, which is soon to be laid before the Duma, for the rebuilding of the Rassian fleet at an outlay of three milliards of roubles. The Government will also ask the Duma's approval of a scheme for doubling the Siberian railroad and of other expensive projects. But none of these bills has produced such an outcry as th Proposal to rebuild the navy, and it is that if the Minister of on the scheme—and it is said that the highest personage in the land will see that he insists—this model Duma will reject the bill and, immediately afterwards, share the! fate of the first and second Dumas.
However this may be, all the St, Petersburg and Moscow papers a paying the closest attention to this Project, and everyone of them has declared either against the project itself or else against its being carried out by the Ministry which is accouatable for Tsushima.
The Liberal organ " Retch" says that it is impossible to foretell how the Dama will treat the question, bat it is inclined to believe that it may refuse the money. In that case the " Retch" is anxious to know what rem: will be made by the Ministerial organ, which has nothing in common with the first two Dumas " of disgraceful memory," first assembly of national representatives able to work, patriotic, understanding the wants of the people and able to supply them.
The Voice of Moscow," the organ of the Octobrists, or Centre Party, which holds the balance in the Dama, notes th that the Ministry of the Navy is quite indifferent to the question of reconstructing the fleet and it is the General Naval Staf, mostly composed of young officers, which has drawn up the project and wants to carry it out, Admiral Tehikhatcheff, the oldest admiral in the fleet, is againat it.
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