The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-27
RUSSIANS GET
MANY PROMISES

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Importance of these changes, to fix an
order Of business for consideration of
means and the possibility Of their early
and complete realization. The closet CO.
operation is incumbent on the various
sections of the administration throughout
the whole series Of our state institutions.
'10.--W1th reference to all the above
mentioned subjects, the council of minis
tiers has to examine the best way Of giving
effect to our views, and to submit to us
a the earliest possible date its decisions
as to the farther shape Of the above
mentioned measures in their prescribed
order. The committee has also to report
to us as to the subsequent progress of
the elaboration of the matters mentioned.
(Signed) NICHOLAS"
M. White seems again to be hig. In
favor of the emperor and is almost a
daily visitor at Tsars,Soe-Selo. The zem-
stvos generally are increasing the bud
gets from 30 to % per cent to meet the
increased demands of the Red Cross
work for the relief of the reservists.
1 mere bGtIl9 " BO ~ tNAaSAASO VI n NIs-
sation of agitation In different parts of
the country in favor of liberal reforms.
Situation Acute.
The situation is most acute in Moscow,
the university is closed and the students,
the pedagogic and other societies are in
a constant state of ferment. IT develops
that the socialist revolutionlst party in
Moscow before the demonstration of De-
-oember IS and 10, practically issued
warning condemnlng to death Grand
Duke Sergius and Police Master Trepoff,
IL during those demonstrations there
should be a recurrence of police brutal
tiles which were witnessed in vt. Peters,
burg" But the students decided not only
to cease attending lectures to demonstrate
on the occasion of the burial of the vic
tins of the rioting of December IS and
10 but to ally themselves with the labor
movement and to take up arms in their
own defense They also asked the profess
sors of the university to back up these
demonstrations AS result the latter OBJ
tanned permission to make series of In
quiries into the complaints.
Princes VOICE ndlSeus
According to an interview with Prince
Dolgorouky, head of the Moscow Red
Cross detachment at the front, has added
his voice in favor Of the zemstvos This
may be fraught with immense Importance
later.
The Grazhdanin publishes a remarkable
article against the bureaucracy declaring
that it was responsible for the French
revolution. The Grazhdanin expresses
the hope that the bureaucracy is seeing
its last days in Russia, and adds;
Equal Opportunities.
"Beaureaucracy is more or less pres
ent in all countries except the United
States, where the law safeguards the
liberties of the people to the fullest ex-
tent, giving equal opportunities to every
body"
The commission which is investigating
the passport question has not yet taken
up the subject of Jewish passports, the
matter having been temporarily post
points. Foreign passports, the commits
sion recommends, should be good for the
period for which issued by foreign gov
ernments without requiring the holder,
as now, to take out Russian passports at
the end of six months.