Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-04
CITY OF LODI, NEAR WARSAW.
SCENE OF SERIOUS RloTiNa
TODAY.
$4,000 MEN ARE Idle
Some Employees In Lace Factory A.
tempt to Return to Work But Arc
Prevented BY Others Three Hun.
dred People Have Been Killed Dur.
ing Rioting At Warsaw.

Warsaw, Feb. 8. Serious disorders
broke out today at Lodz where 5000
men are striking. Some of the EN-.
ployes of lace factory attempted to
return to work and the remainder fore.
IDLY prevented them. A strong mill
tary patrol was summoned and fred
at the strikers who replied with re-
volver shots. 1t was reported over the
telephone that firing was continuing
at o'clock this afternoon. ,s,
Coal Mine Strikes.
Strikes started this morning In tho
coal districts of Dombrowa and Sos.
novice.
800 Deaths In Warsaw
According to the best and lates In.
formation obtalnable the official list OF
persons killed during the disturbances
here contains over 800 names IN ad.
dition to many unidentified bodies ly-
Ing at the receiving vault in the cenie-
terry.
A group Of soldiers outside Of a
liquor store last night fired on passers
by without warning. killing the shop
keeper and wounding another man.
Six Killed at One Factory
Lodz, Feb. 3.-In a conflict between
troops and strikers at the Kounitzer
factory here today the soldiers fired
killing six persons and wounding forty.
eight others.
Shooting also occurred ct the Keller
lace factory si ! Z
Gorky, Not Released.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 3.-The report
of Maxim Gorky's release yesterday
was incorrect. Three Of the eight
members of the delegation to Interior
Minister Sviatopolk-M Mirsky who were
arrested January 81 have been re.
leased Professionally, pending investiga,
ton.
Reforms Suggested BY Ministers.
ST. Petersburg, Feb. 3-The commit.
tee of ministers appointed by the czar
to draw up reform program to carry
into effect the ukase of December 25.
| 1t is stated, has made its report to the
czar recommending:
1. Wider powers to the senate. en-.
larging it's legislative initiative.
| Q. Forbidding ministers to exceed
their legal powers by imperial ordi-
nances.
g. independence Of the senate as
opposed to all the ministers.
a. The creation Of the office Of pres
ident of the senate.
5. The establishment OF lower
courts connected with the senate.
Three Fundamental Points.
i The committee of ministers, 1t Is
stated. distinguished three fundamen-
i tai points as bases for defense of the
laws:
First--Prevention of violation Of
laws.
i Second Investigation of the pow
ers and methods of action Of those
"A responsible for the administration OF
4 the laws.
i Third-Responsibi of officials.
j AS regards the first point, the com.
mittee decided that it was necessary
to prevent ministers exceeding their
legal powers by means OF imperial or
! dinances. and that consequently all ex.
/ ceptions to the ordinary course of laws
must be forbidden, and that in excep-
. tional cases, where the emperor has
, ordered ministers to deliberate con.
corning changes, the decisions of the
!. committee must first be submitted to
the senate.
} The committee decided to ask the
consent of the emperor for an inter.
probation Of existing laws and other
points affecting the methodical carry.
ing out Of existing laws.
Senate Must Be Independent.
i The committee also agreed upon the
4 necessity of independence Of the SEN
ate as opposed to all ministers and the
internal reorganization of the senate
4. In order to accelerate the course OF
u justice in administration of affairs, 1t
was decided to be advisable to facili-
tate access to the senate by persons
j, who have suffered from the arbitrary
acts of administrative bodies, and also
to afford the right of direct relations
between the senate and the emperor
and the extension of the senate's exc
|, listing right Of legislative initiative
Il The committee decided that 1t was
expedient to establish local courts Of
!. Justice connected with the senate and
the institution in the senate Of the
post of first vice president with the
i right of personal relations with the
II emperor.
A number of other changes clarity
ing the rights of plaintiffs under the
Il civil code and in the general way OF
securing a broader Interpretation and
construction of the laws were decided
by the committee; and all the propos-
ais were sanctioned by the emperor on
January 80.