Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — Witte Calls Douma a Farce. [ARTICLE]

Witte Calls Douma a Farce.

Vichy, France, June 21.—Count Witte, former premier of Russia, in a remarkable conversation with an American newspaper man he had known at Portsmouth declared that the doumn was a farce. The czar, according to Witte, would continue to be the power in Russia and would allow nothing to interfere with his plans. If he pleased to accept the douma’s suggestions well and good: if he were displeased lie would ignore them.