Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-08
PROJECT FOR SUFFRAGE
Emperor's Plan for Elections to
Assembly Published
By Associated Press.

HooSnpiy TupUSncO
By Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. THE
project for sweeping extension Of the
suffrage In elections to the national
assembly, promised by the emperor, is
published.
After the first days of confusion and
doubt following the issuance of the
manifesto giving constitution to Rus
sia and nominating Count Witte pre-
mler, the latter's new government ap-
pears to be getting fairly under way.
The cabinet with which Count Witte
VIII undertake the difficult task of
guiding the nation on its new course
of constitutionalsm and preventing the
radical and agitator elements from
driving it on the rocks of revolution
is now beginning to take form.
The names Of the two Shipoffs, one
OF them. Ivan, having been Count
Whites former assistant in the min
istry and his associate at Portsmouth,
N. H., and the other, Dmitri, the Mos
cow zemstvoist, who was president of
the hrst zemstvo congress, are semi-au-
tnoritatiVely announced as his selec-
tions respectively for minister of
finance and comptroller general. M.
Nemechaieff, president of the South
eastern railroad. who, as the Associated
Press Is Informed, Is recommended by
tne railroad men to succeed Prince
HllkoH. Is now on his way to st. Pc
tersburg to consider the tender of the
portfolio of ways and communications
with the nomination of Prince Obolen-
ski as procurator general 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 elected to a cabi-
net position yet undetermined For
the two portfolios for education and
justice Count Witte has been disan-
pointed in obtaining the men he orig
inally desired, but he has other pos
sible cabinet timber in view for those
posts.
Shipoff Will Support Cabinet
Though Dmitri Shipoff is no longer
IN sympathy with the zemstvo majority
which, in the interval of the first and
second congress progressed so far be-
yond his pan-slavlst ideas that he
failed to secure election as a member
OF the bureau, he will rally to the sup
port of the new cabinet a strong faction
or conservative zemstvoists who are
also followers Of the pan-slavism,
whose doctrine Is the development of a
revision government on Russion lines.
They believe that the west European
and American models are not suited
to the Slav people. Dmitri Shipoff is a
man of sound conservative ideas, who,
like the late Prince Troubetskoy, dared
to make the stand against the sweeping
current which carried away most of the
The selection of M. Nemchaieff is
apparently good. He is a practical man
of affairs who has had long experience
In railroad 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
much of his new program to
the old committee of ministers, and the
project for the extension of the suff-
rage, though announced and approved
by the committee of ministers, was
drafted under Count Whites direction,
after consultation with a number of
Liberals, including Prof. Kusminkara-
vleff, who resigned his chair at the
academy of military law on account of
his liberal opinions, and M. Lazareff-
sky, one of the editors of the Liberal
legal weekly Bravo.