The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-17
May Increase Powers
of Ministers Council

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 17.-All the
S.embers OF the council OF ministers, of
which NJ de Witte IS president, attend
ed a meeting at Tzarskoe-Selo In re-
spense to summons from the Gear to
discuss the advisability of converting
that unofficial nebulous body. the council
into responsible advisory cabinet.
The Gear presided NJ de Witte took
prominent part in the deliberations
Hitherto the council has only met
when 1t was convened by the Gear It
is now proposed that 1t meet regularly
under the presidency of the Gear or the
president Of the council. The result OF
the conference is not knowR
A Step Forward.
The step taken is regarded as an i'm
portant one toward some form Of re-
sponsible government.
Governor General Trepoff, who retains
his present office, has been appointed
head of the police department of the en-
pire. replacing Major General Rydsev-
sky. who shared in the policy OF Prince
Aiirsky. ex-minister Of the interior.
Heretofore the office has been an adj
junet OF that ministry. Chief OF Police
Garaschovitch, from Kharkoff. has been
appointed chief Of the political police.
The strike movement in south Russia
is being directed from Kharkoff, where
the chiefs of the university. professional
men. are all helping the political cam
paign of the workmen.
Unrest in the South.
The state OF unrest in the southern
provinces is the worst ever known. This
administrative anarchy is intensified by
the refusal of the landholding classes
TO assist the officials.
The former say.
Let the Emperor summon the zemsk y
sober; then we will help to restore or
der. Not otherwise
The authorities very seldom attempt
now 10 use troops.
The Tif1is district is in the hands OF
the proletariat The newspapers OF the
the conditions prevailing in the province
Forty Thousand Locked Out
LODI. Feb. 17-Twenty-flve mills havs
paid off their employees and closed In
definitely. Forty thousand workers arr
thus locked out.
Strikers went to some Of the previous
~ closed factories and demanded theil
money.
At Landauers factory. where they dix
rot get their pay, they refused to Qui
and stayed at night 81 tfl...,:sEnises
They acted in an orderly manner.
The manufacturers have held a meet
ing and resolved TO telegraph to nj. Ko
koytssT, minister of finance, the partie
ulars of the situation
Students Are Firm.
ODESSA. Feb 17.-FoErteen hundre'
university students have sent TO the gov
ernment a signed protest refusing TO re
sumo their studies until reforms ar
granted.
Four-ffths of the professors supper
the attitude of the students.
Eleven of the southern zemStvoS hav
adopted a resolution demanding the FIRE
election of delegates to the zemsk
sober, or peoples assembly, II il is sum
fnoaed.
If IL Is packed with government noni
nees the zemstyos declare that they WI
ignore il.
Poles Initiated.
LONDON, Feb. IA dispatch TO Il.
Daily Mail from Sosnowiee, Russia
Poland, says the town is still powde
magazine The strikers have arms an
dynamite. but they ere quiet.
The situation in the neighhorhood Q
the Austro- Russian frontier is causin
anxiety
Craeow is now the center of the activ
propag anda of the Polish revolution.
is believed in Sosnowice that 10000 Aus
trian Poles are ready 10 come to hel
the movement.
The Russians have beetl sending troop
toward the frontier for a week. Tn
railway is strongly guarded.