Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-05
COUNT SETTLES RAILWAY STRIKE
Practically All Demands Granted and ker
Will Resume Work.
POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE RELEASED
Persons Held on Administrative Order Are
Restored to Liberty.
ORDER is RESTORED IN ODESSA
Troops and Militia Composed LRrEeIv
of students Practically stop
Carnival of PiIlag-
ing.

Ing.
ST PETERSBURG, Nov. 4--Count Witte
Is getting his hands on the helm Of the
Russian ship OF state and II is beginning
to right itself. Gradually the disorder that
followed the promulgation of the constitu-
tiou giving the people liberty is being put
down. The premier has met the immense
difficulties confronting him and the pressure
Of the demands of the different classes Of
society with the energy and sincerity that
are more and more giving him the support
of tho moderate liberals, who have been
frightened by the carnival Of disorder into
which the country has been plunged aud
the inordnatc friends of the proletarlat
under the leadership of the reds and
social democrats
Freedom of the press and general amnesty
except for crime have followed each other,
but Count Witte has steadily refused to
yield to the demand for the organization
of a national guard, on the ground that
it would be equivalent to arming the So
cialists to fight and destroy the whole gov-
eminent between midnight and morning.
Railway strike settled.
Count Wtte today solved the railroad
strike at conference with the strike lead
ers at which he did not hesitate to make
practical surrender to the employees
reasonable demands. The bases of settle-
ment are comprised in the following come
municat.on to the strike committee through
out the empire:
l. The remuneration of all the railway
employees Is increased and the budget OF
1905 will be revised to provide therefore.
,. The creation Of commission on which
the employees are to have elected represent
atives to consider questions of Improvement
i'm their condition
3. Permission is given railway employees
and wOrkmcn TO have n cooperative organ
ization based on models of western Europe
and the United States.
4. The abolition OF military regulations
applying to railroads.
5, Freedom Of meeting for employees Of
railroads to discuss the questions of a
strike without notice being given to the
police
6. Inviolability of the person Of strikers
and the re-employment of men dismissed
for striking.
Z. The cancellinE of all circulars limiting
employment of Poles on the Polish south
western and western railroads and giving
permission to use the Polish language in
private on Polish railroads.
Under this settlement all the railroads
are resuming work today.
In the meantime General Trepoff is re-
storing order. In the interior martial law
has been declared and in many cities, in
order to quell disturbances, a sort of militia
has been organized under the direction OF
students
Social democrats in a number of places
are helping TO maintain order but are
not cooperating with the authorities.
Amnesty for Political Prisoners.
The text of the manifesto granting am
nesty to political prisoners, signed by the
! emperor yesterday. declares that by virtue
of the intention expressed in the manifesto
of October 80, to accord the population in
violable principles of civil liberty, free
| pardon is granted to political criminals Of
| various categories, which are enumerated,
and also participants in strikes. and those
responsible for breaking contracts. The
pardon extends to those not in prison and
| to those not yet tried or on whom sem
| tence has not been pronounced. Persons
! convicted OF crimes committed over ten
years are to be released and will be sent
| to the Siberian colonies. Those who are
now colonists will be allowed after four
| years to choose their place of residence,
but are prohibited from living in the capt.
| tails, ST. Petersburg and Moscow, for three
years. Convicts not falling under these
| categores have their sentences reduced by
| one-half. and prisoners condemned to i'm
| prisonment for life have their sentences
| reduced to fifteen years Imprisonment.
| The pardon extends to all prisoners who
benefited by previous manfestoes. Per-
| sons arrested by imperial or administrative
! order are released. Those condemned to
death or liable thereto have the penalty
| communted 10 fifteen years imprisonment
at hard labor.
| The amnesty decree includes political
| offenses committed up to October 80.
The news from the provinces this morn
ing indicates quieter conditions
Lights Are Turned ON.
Last night for the first time in ten days
the inhabitants of the capital could dis
card candles and kerosene and return to
electric light. The normal conditions of life
are gradually resumed. Street meetings
and demonstrations have ceased and the
people are returning to their ordinary oc-
! equations. Many trains arriving, al
though the service is yet disorganized. The
| situation in the provices is also more reas-
| surfing. Agitation and disorder are grad
| ually dying down. At the same time the
government is taking energetic steps, rs in
| st. Petersburg, 10 restore order General
| Trepoff's assurances to the foreign en-
bassies that everything would be done to
protect the life and property OF foreigners
were followed by the proclamation OF mar
tial law in several Of the most unruy dis
tricts.
is in Finland, where the socialists and rev.
olutionists are threatening to so to such
an extreme as to frighten many OF the
constitutionalsts whose aims do not in
clude the separation OF the grand duchy
from Russia.
Cannot Move Troops.
The government on account of the rail-
road strike, Is greatly hampered I'm return
ing to Finland troops who were Withdrawn
for the protection of the capital during the
recent crisis. -Four warships conveying 10 o.
600 troops are anchored in the harbor Of
Helsingfors, but It is impossible TO send re-
Inducements into the interior where a
formidable movement might originate with
out the government being able 20 act ef-
fectively or evel obtain information re-
garding such a movement owing to the
suspension OF telegraphic communication.
The Finnish revolutionists are known to be
well armed.
The governor general of Finland. Prince
Obolensky, arrived here yesterday to con-