Evening star., 1905-11-07
Count Whites Difficult Task
in Forming Cabinet. !.
SELECTIONS REPORTED
DISAPPOINTMENT IN
SECURING DESIRED MEN.
Proposed Sweeping Extension Of Suf-
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Models

ST. PETERSBURG, November THE
project for sweeping extension of the
suffrage in elections to the national as
sembly, promised by the emperor, is pub
lshed.
After the first days of confusion and
doubt following the issuance of the mani
festo giving 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 It's new course of constitutional
ism and preventing the radical and agita-
tory 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 for
mer assistant in the mnistery of finance
and his associate at Portsmouth, n H
and the other, Dmitri, the Moscow zemst-
Voist, who is president Of the first zemstvo
congress, are semi-authoritativeIy an
nounced as his selections, respectively for
minister Of finance and controller general
M. Nemechaieff, president of the South
eastern railroad. who. as the Associated
Press Is Informed, Is recommended by the
railroad men to succeed Prince Hilkoff is
now on his way to ST. Petersburg to con-
slider the tender of the portfolio of ways
and communications.
Four Posts Provided.
With the nomination of Prince Alexis
Obolensky as procurator general of the
holy synod already gazetted. this provides
four of the eight ministerial posts at the
disposition of the premier. Prince Crusoff
until recently governor of Tver. may also
be called to a cabinet position yet unde-
termined.
For the two portfolios of education and
justice Count Witte has been disappointed
in obtaining the men he originally desired
but he has other possible cabinet timber
in view for these posts.
Though Dmitri Shipoff Is no longer in
sympathy with the zemstvo majority,
ond congress progressed so far beyond his
Pan Slavist ideas that he failed TO secure
election member of the bureau, he will
rally to the support of the new cabinet
strong factor of conservative Zemst-
voists who are also followers of PAN
Slavism, whose doctrine is the development
of Russian government on Russian lines.
They believe that the west European and
American models are not suited to the
Slav people. Dmitri Shipoff is man of
sound conservative ideas. who. like the late
Prince Troubetskoy, dared to make stand
against the sweeping current which carried
away most of the zemstvoists. The selec-
ton of M Memechafeff is APPARENTLY good.
He is a practical man of affairs who has
had long experience in railroad admins
tration, and as shown by the recommenda-
ton 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, sla ted
for dismissal.
Count Whites Methods.
Count Witte is not submitting much of his
new program to the old committee of min
listers and the project for the extension of
the suffrage, though announced and sp-
proved by the committee of ministers, was
drafted under Count Whites direction after
consultation with number of liberals. in
Guiding Prof. Kusinkaravief, who resigned
his chair at the Academy of Military Law
on account of his liberal opinions, and NJ.
La azareffSky, one of the editors of the lib
eral legal weekly PraVo.
The new measure grants representation to
the workmen on the same basis as peasants,
one representative for each 100000, and ex-
tends the suffrage to the great class of ''in
tellectuals'' possessing college degrees who
have the heart of the soul of the reform
movement. Voters will also under the new
regulations include tenants paying an
nual rent of $40, petty traders except the
lowest class, holders of high school diplo-
mas and officials of st. Petersburg and Mos
COW with salaries Of no less than 5000 A
revision of the electoral lists will be under
taken immedia tely in order not to interfere
with the conyocation of the national as
sembly at the end of January.
The Uprising in Poland.
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 gradual
ly resuming. The most interesting develop
ments are in Poland where a Polish ma
tional movement has biossomed forth under
favorable conditions.
The greatest manifestation has occurred
In Warsaw, where the town is decorated
with Polish flags whose display heretofore
has been treated as a crime. giant dem
orstration, including 100000 persons. was
organized paraded the streets and listened
to speeches delivered by Henry Sienkcwicz.
the author and other prominent Poles. In
the evening the Polish capital was illumi-
mated.
INuT VOTE TN GHTGAG0