Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-08
WITTE MAKING A CABINET
Kew Russian Government Beginning to
Take FERN Under Premier.
LEADER DISAPPOINTED IN some MEN
Tender of once Not Accepted by
People He First Desired to
Aid in Forming Gov
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ST PETERSBURG, Nov. THE project
for sweeping extension Of the suffrage in
! elections to the national assembly, prom
ised by the emperor, is published.
After the first days of confusion and
doubt following the issuance Of the mani
festo giving a constitution to Russia and
nominating Count witte premier, the lat
| ter's new government appears to be getting
| fairly under way.
The cabinet with which Count witte will
| undertake the difficult task of guiding the
nation on its new course of constitutional
ism and preventing the radical and agita-
tory elements from driving 1t on the rocks
OF revolution is now beginning TO take
form. The names of the two Shipoffs. one
of them, Ivan, having been Count Wltte's
former assistant In the ministry OF finance
and his associate at Portsmouth and the
other, Dmitri, the Moscow zemstvoist, who
| was president of the first zemstvo congress,
| are semi-suthoratively announced as his
selections respectively for minister of
finance and comptroller general. M. Meme
chaieff president Of the Southeastern rail-
way, who, as the Associated Press is in
| formed, is recommended by the railroad
/ men 10 succeed Prince t1llkOIIs Is now Oh
his way to st. Petersburg to consider the
tender Of the portfolio of ways and com
munications with the nomination Of
Prince Alexis obolensky as procurator gem
| eral of the holy synod, already gazetted,
| this provides four Of the eight ministerial
posts at the disposition Of the premier.
! Prince Urusoff until recently governor OF
Tver, may also be called to a cabinet posi-
| ton, yet undetermined For the two port
| folios Of education and justice Count Witte
has been disappointed in obtaining The men
he originally desired, but he has other pos
| sible cabinet timber In view for these posts.
Though Dmitri shipoff is no longer in
sympathy with the zemstvo majority, which
| In the interval of the first and second con-
gress proceeded so far beyond his PAN
! Slavist ideas that he failed to secure cleo
| ton as a member of the bureau, he will
rally to the support of the new cabinet
| strong faction of the zemstvoist, who
are also followers of pan-Slavism, whose
| doctrine is the development of a Russian
| government on Russian lines. They be-
| lieve that the west European and American
models are not suited to the Slav people.
Dmitri Shipoff is a man Of sound CON
sentative ideas
Polish Flag Flies.
| The news from the provinces indicates
the dying down Of the reign of riot and
license following the PRONUNCIATION Of the
| imperial manifesto Normal conditions are
gradually resuming. The most interesting
developments are in Poland, where a Polish
national movement has blossomed forth un-
! der favorable conditions. The greatest
manifestation has occurred I'm Warsaw,
where the town is decorated with Polish
| flags, whose display heretofore has been
! treated as a crime. A giant demonstration,
including $4,000 persons, was organized,
paraded the streets and listened to speeches
delivered by Henryk Sienkiewiez, the au-
thor, and other prominent Poles In the
evening the Polish capital was illuminated.
The demonstration passed off without inter
ference or disorder, though in the Jewish
quarter where anti-Jowish attacks were
feared, seven persons suspected OF being
provocatory agents of the police service
were killed by tho enraged populace after
the nationalist parade
One Good Selection.
| The selection of NJ. Nemechaeff Is ap-
! Iarently good He is a practical man of
affairs who has had long experience in rail
road administration and, as shown by the
recommendation of the railroad delegation,
has the sympathy of the workmen The
former ministers, except four, who are not
subject to the jurisdiction of the premier.
| are slated for dismissal. Count Witte is not
submitting much of his new program to
the old committee OF ministers, and the
project for the extension of suffrage, though
announced and approved by the committee
of ministers. was drafted under Count
| Whites direction after consultation with a
number of liberals including Prof. Kus-
! minkaravieff. who resigned his chair at the
| Academy of Military Law on account of
his liberal opinions, and NJ. Lazareffsky.
one of the editors of the liberal legal
weekly, Pravo. The new measure grants
representation to the workmen on the
same basis as peasants, one representative
for each 10000 and extends the suffrage
to the great class of "intellectuals" pos
sessing college degrees who have been the
heart and soul of the reform movement
Voters will also under the new regulations
include tenants paying an annual rent Of
$40, petty traders, except the lowest class,
holders of high school diplomas and officials
Of st. Petersburg and Moscow with salaries
Of no less than $500. A revision of the cleo
toral lists will be undertaken Immediately
in order not TO interfere with the convoca-
ton OF the national assembly at the end OF
January.
Bury Four Hundred and Twelve jews.
ODESSA, Nov. IL p. m.-Four hundred
and twelve Jews. victims of the massacres
OF last week, were buried today. ma
jority of the shops were closed. including
many OF those belonging to Christians. The
scenes OF grief were heartrendng and al
most indescribsble as the bodies were
placed in trenches, each trench containing
seventy. Similar funerals will continue for
three days. Some 24O of the bodies were ir
such condition that they could not be rec
ognized.
On each grave wreaths were placed bear