Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-25
Over the War and the Condition
OF Things Throughout His
Empire.
HAS THE zEMSTVO MEMORIAL.
Is Giving 1t Full Consideration and is
Under no Illusion as TO What
II Means,

ST. Petersburg, Nov. 25.--Accordpg to
the best Information obtalnabIe the
zcmstyo memorial Is still under con-
sideration az the Tsaskoe.Sclo. Em-
peror Nicholas Is said to be under no
illusion regarding the gravity Of his
decision and Is giving the memorial the
most careful and most earnest con-
slderation by some he is represented
as greatly concerned and greyed over
the situation both at home and abroad,
to be weary Of the war and unrest IN
the Interior, ready to welcome any hon
orable means to bring the war to a
conclusion and anxious to remove the
causes Tor discomfort and secure tram
guilty at home. The influences how
ever, are said to De almost entirely
hostile TO concessions. 'fhe statements
made IA these dispatches several days
ago that the reyolutlonaries had am
nounced o truce pending the decision
Of the government on the question OF
convoklng sort of elective national
assembly to pass upon the zemstyo pro-
gram IL confirmed from several quar-
ters and fear is expressed that IL the
whole zemstyO program Is rejected
there may be a revival OF the old ter
roristlc duel, The emperor Is said 20
have been acquainted with Interior
Minister SyiatOpOlk- Mirsky's irreyocd-
BILE decision not TO remain In the min
istry IL the policy Of liberalism on
which he went into Office IL abandoned.
The reactionists and bureaucrats pro-
fess 10 see no danger In the present sit-
uatlon, declaring their belief that the
agitation provoked by the zemstvoisto
viii soon sink out OF sight and affairs
resume IN FIR normal sway. Ii conces-
sions are made they say they VIII be
slight aud VIII mean little. Prince
Syiatopolk- Mrsky himself although for
different reasons is represented as also
opposed to the radical departure OF a
little regime According to his opinion
Il must come gradually and without
shock In this respect his opinion is
shared by many Liberals who believe
that concessions in the right direction
lIIlHN lllFNNAWNAN ANtlA W a AhAA AhhileA"
ton OF their hopes Others believe that
the real crisis viii be postponed 10 the
end OF the war.
PROCUROR GENERAL SILENT.
81. Petersburg. Nov. 95.-The Assocl-
ated Press correspondent today saw NJ.
Pob0donostseif, procuror general Of the
holy synod, who is credited with having
informed the emperor, IN connection
with the presentation Of the zemstvos'
memorial TO his majesty, that no middle
ground Is possible at the present mo-
ment This remarkable man who has
had so much influence I'm the councils
OF the empire IS NOW mere shadow. al
most four score. and his tall, wlthered
form seemed bowed beneath the weight
OF his finely chseled dome-like head.
Nevertheless FIRE still shoulders Ia the
sunken caverns Of his gray eyes. An
impression OF wonderful yirility still
clings to the ghostlike figure. He to-
day received the correspondent OF the
Associated Press IN a kindly manner
but absolutely declined to discuss tho
zemstoyo movement
~ am an old man. he said. Little
time yet remains but the days and
thoughts still granted me are consecrat-
ed TO church AFFAIRS The world con.
Germs me no longer