Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-04-17
REFORM OF RUSSIA GET BETTER rates.
OBJECT OF The Convention OF
LAWYERS.
Propose to Form a National Pro-
fesSiOnal League to Unite the
Activities of Lawyers, Doctors,
Teachers, Engineers and Others
in Opposition to AutOCraCy.

st. Petersburg, April 13.-The form.
alton Of national professional reform
league to unite the activities of law.
yers, doctors, teachers, engineers and
other professional classes of Russia to
bring about the characterization of the
government and the institution of q
representative parliament and a re-.
sponsible ministry is the ambitious
project set on foot by the national con-
gress OF lawyers, which finished its
work here last night.
The plan proposed is the formation
of national associations of the various
professional classes, each of which
shall elect delegates to central bu.
reau, which is to direct and co-ordi-
nate the efforts of the "intellectuals"
in the direction of reforms.
Other Glasses which have openly
manifested liberal tendencies on many
occasions, notably the doctors at their
recent congress in Moscow, are likely
to accept the invitation, and unless in
terfered with powerful reform force
is likely to spring into being soon.
The deliberations of the lawyers.
which were carried to conclusion in
direct disregard of police orders, and
which were participated in by 1913 del
egatcs, representing every judicial dis
trict in Russia, except Siberia, result
ed III the organization of the National
Legal Association and the election of
central bureau Of thirteen, which is
empowered to select legal representa-
tives for proposed central committee
to draft preliminary plans for the
organization of that body.
Repudiate DisIOyaIty.
The leaders of the movement de-
clare that their plans do not contem.
plate any assault on the monarc heal
form of government or disloyalty to the
emperor, but the elimination of ALSO
lutism and the stablishment of partic-
lpation by the governed in the direc-
ton of affairs, and especially in GER
ton; and the point of the rejection,
though by small majority, of reso.
luton committing the assembly to
extra legal measures to show hatred
of the existing order and bring about
democratic and legal mode of govern.
ment in Russia" bears out this dec lar
alton.
"A feature nf the meeting was spe-
cial honor shown the Polish delegates
at the first session. when the entire as
semblage rose and remained standing
facing the section occupied by the
Poles, while speaker pronounced a
panegyric on them. The Poles, how
ever, did not participate in the follow
ing sessions, which were held in def
ance of the police, merely sending
their visiting cards each day.
The delegates met in accordance
with secret arrangements, at different
private houses, Assem- bling before the
arrival of the police and disregarding
orders to cease their sessions. At yes
terday's session, however, the police
promptly placed a Gordon around the
house in which the delegates were to
meet and prevented all but fifteen
from entering, and sent word to those
that all delegates not residents of st.
Petersburg must leave the city imme.
diately. As the congress had finished
its program, adjournment sine die was
pronounced, the lawyers as a final
thrust drafting statement to the
chief of police that his general order
to delegates en- bloc to leave the city
was illegal, and that they would recog'
nize the withdrawal of permission tc
remain in the city only if it were de-
livered to each delegate personally.
Another zemstvo congress has been
called to meet in Moscow on May 8, in
which representatives of the nobility
will also participate. 1t is reported
that an endeavor will he made to aligr
the moderates with the nobility in ia
vor of reforms without going to the
length of the constitutionalism of West
ern Europe.