The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-01
SHADOW OF TRUE REFORM Cars Manifesto Small il Its Results ITS ENEMIES POWERFUL Bureaucrafs VIII See That
 Little Change Occurs. Intention to Refer Schemes whsl
 Drafted by Ministers, to 1psesal Committees, is Not CoA- sidered Measuring.
ITS ENEMIES POWERFUL

lCorrespondence of the Associated Preee.X
 St. Petersburg. March 16.-It has b@N stated that the public had adopted q we3<e. ing attitude toward the Emperors refor1R manifesto. This feeling is mingled Wtfk perplexity in regard to one point. Th4 Emperor seems to intend to refer tho ro~' form schemes. when they are Adrafted b1e the ministries. to special committees repS resenting the rural interests. and the put lie, Is unable to reconcile this with tho treatment that has been the reward cf local committees lately investigating tn agricultural depression. These commlfA tees interpreted their instructions libernt.i ly. and made numerous recommendattonoI for governmental reforms. Their rocouS< niendations embraced. among other thiu2 some of the very points that the Emp6r@ or has now adopted. and yet the MinistxX of the Interior is exerting it's utmost ek<5 forts In order to prevent these recom& mendations reaching the EmpGor.
 The provincial governments have uude0 strict instructions from Minister PlehvA prevented the provincial committees from even discussing reform proposals offered by the district committees, or have pro- cured their rejection in the provincial committees in almost every instance.
 Committees Were Packed
 It should be explained that the focal committees were selected by the marshais of nobility. who are often men of ad- vanced views. The provincial committees were selected by the governors and thsy gave the preponderance to officials and more conservative land owners
 The action of the governors of Tambov and Tver resulted in the withdrawal of all the liberal elements from the provincial committees of these provinces, in fact. of almost every one except oficials. This example has now been followed by the liberals of the province of Moscow.
 Tn letter to ,he Russian vedornosfi. the publication of which m other news papers wis immediately forbsdden by the censorship. D. V. Shipov. the main spring of the famous Moscow conference last year that drafted the liberal pro- gram for sll the local committees. states that seventeen members had withdrawn from the Moscc provincial committee on account of the predominance of ofii- cials reprc5 snting the central Eovsrnment.
 One Liberal Province.
 For some, reason the liberal program met a more favorable reception in the provincial committee pr the province of Niniji Novgorod. although tt also in- cluded a large number of officials, and their program would certainly have been adopted in many other. provinces if local opinion had been allowed expression, and since it Is similar to the resolutions adopted Dy a large number of local ,com- mittees throughout European Russia, tho liberals claim 1t Is a moderate express sion of the sentiment of the rural pops ulation of the empire.
 The resolutions that were adopted would require two colunns of an American newspaper. These few extracts will inc dicate the salient features of them:
 The Salient Features.
 Popular education must be free and accessible to all, but not obligatory.
 Primary popular schools must be undeR the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Edu< cation exclusively. and the zemstoa should participate in the control of the course of study. as we'll as in the finan- cial support os the schools. CThis is aimed in part at the present tendency of the government to favor parochial schools.)
 Liberal support of primary educatiou by our central government is necessary, Such schools should have at least a fouH years course. and should pursue no enda except secular education.
 Resolutions favoring the extension of popular libraries and intermediate and higher educational institutions, particus larly agricultural colleges. were also adopted 4