The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-17
MOVE FOR RUSSIAN CABINET.
POWERS or MINISTER'S COUNCIL
MAY BE INCREASED.
Step Toward Responsible Government
New Head q Police Department
Strike Trouble I'm southern Russia
Increases-ConfCrencc With the Gar.

Increases-Confgrencc With the Gar
Special Gable De,p1tches 10 THE sun.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 1e.-All the men,
bers Of the Council of Ministers. Of which
NJ de Witte Ia president, attended meet
ing at Tsarskoe-Selo to-day, in response
to summons from the Gar to discuss the
advisability of converting that unofficial,
nebulous body. the Council, into respon-
sible advisory cabinet.
The Car presided. NJ. de Witte took a
prominent part in the deliberations Hither-
to the Council has only met when 1t was
convened by the Car. II Is now proposed
that it meet regularly under the presidency
of the Car or the president OF the Council.
The result of the conference Is not known.
The ste p taken to-day is regarded as an
important one toward some form of respon-
sble government.
Governor General Trepoff, who retains
his present office. has been appointed head
of the police department of the empire,
replacing Major-Gen, Rydsevsky, who
shared in the policy OF Prince Mrsky, ex-
Minister Of the Interior
Heretofore the Office has been an ad-
junct of that Ministry. Chief of Police
Garaschovitch from kharkof, 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 campaign Of
the workmen.
The state Of unrest In the southern prov
inoes is the worst ever known. The
administrative anarchy is intensified by the
refusal Of the landholding classes to assist
the officials. The former say:
LET the Emperor summon the Zensky
Sober; then We will help to restore order.
Not otherwise.
The authorities very seldom attempt now
to use troops.
The 1iflis district is in the hands OF the
proletariat The newspapers of the capital
are prevented from dealing with the con-
di. ions prevailing in the province.
LODI Feb. le,-Twenty-five mills paid
of their employees to-day and closed in
definitely. Forty thousand workers are
thus locked out. Strikers went to some
Of the previously closed factories and de-
handed their money
At IAndauer's factory. where they did
not get their pay, they refused to quit and
stayed at night on the premises. They
acted in an orderly manner. The manu-
facturers have held meeting and re-
solved to telegraph To NJ Kokovtsof
Minister Of Finance. the particulars Of the
situation.
ODESSA, Feb. l6.-Fourteen hundred
university students have sent to the Gov
eminent a signed protest refusin 70 resume
their studies until reforms are granted.
Four-fifths Of the professors support the
attitude Of the students
Eleven Of the southern zemstvos have
adopted a resolution demanding the free
election Of delegates to the zlmsky sober,
or peoples assembly. if 1t is summoned
If it is packed with Government nominees
the zemstvos declare that they will ig-
more it.
LoSDoS, Feb, IA despatch TO the Daily
Mai from Sosnowice. Russian Poland. says
that the town is still a powder magazine
The strikers have arms and dynamite.
but they are quiet.
The situation in the neighborhood Of
the Austro-Russian frontier is causing
anxiety. Cracow ia now the centre Of the
active propaganda Of the Polish revolution.
1t is believed in Sosnowioe that 10000 Aus
trian Poles are ready to come TO help the
The Russians have been send
ing troops toward the frontier for a week.
The railway is strongly guarded.