The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1905-11-08
CABINET TAKING FORM.


Great Work.
| st. Petersburg, Nov. THE project
| for a sweeping extension of the sur
| frage in elections to the National As
sembly, promised by the Emperor, is
| published. After the first days of con-
fusion and doubt following the issu-
ance of the manifesto giving q consti-
tuition to Russia and nominating Count
WHITE Premier. the latter's new Govern
ment appears to be getting fairly under
way.
The Cabinet with which Count witte
will undertake the dificult task of
guiding the nation on its new course
of constitutiona1ism. and preventing
the radical and agitatory elements from
driving 1t on the rocks of revolution Is
now beginning to take form.
The names of the two Shipoffs. one
of them. Gan. having been Count
Whites former assistant In the Minis
try of Finance and his associate at
Portsmouth, N. j.. and the other.
Dmitri, the Moscow Zemstvoist. who
was President of the Zemstvo Congress,
are semi-authoritatively announced as
his selections, respectively, for Minis
ter of Finance and Comptroller-Gen-
eral.
M. Nemechaieff, President of the
Southeastern Railroad, who. as the As
ISOLATED Press is informed. is recon-
mended by the railroad men to succeed
Prince Hilkoff. Is now on his way to
st. Petersburg to consider the tender
of the portfolio of Ways and Communal
cations, with the nomination Of Prince
Alexis Obolensk as Procurator-General
of the Holy Synod. already gazetted
This provides four or the eight minis
terial posts at the disposition of the
Premier Prince Urusoff. until recent
| ly Governor of Tver, may also be called
to a Cabinet position yet undeter-
| mined.
The Premier Disappointed.
For the two portfolios for education
and Justice, Count White has been dis"
appointed in obtaining the men he orig
inaily desired, but he has other possible
Cabinet timber in view for these posts.
Though Dmitri Shipoff is no longer
| in sympathy with the Zemstvo major
ity. which in the interval OF the first
and second congress progressed so far
beyond his Pan-Slavists, that he failed
| to secure election as a member of the
| bureau, he will rally to the support OF
| the new Cabinet strong faction OF
conservative Zemstvoists who are also
| followers of Pan-siavism, whose doc
| trine is the development Of Russian
Government on Russian lines. They
believe that West European and Amert-
can models are not suited to the Slav
|
people
Dmitri shipoff is a man Of sound con-
servative ideas, who, like Prince Tro-
| betskoy, dared to make stand against
the sweeping current which carried
away most of the zemstvoists.
| The selection of M. Nemechaieff Is
apparently good. He Is practical
man of affairs who has had long ex-
perlence in railroad administration and
| as shown by the Recommendation OF
the railroad delegation has the SYM
pathy of the workmen. The former
ministers except four who are not sub
ject to the jurisdiction or the premier
are slated for dismissal.
Count witte Is not submitting much
| of his new program to the old commit
| tee of ministers and the project OF ex-
| tension of suffrage though announced
and approved by the committee of
ministers was drafted under Count
Whites direction after consultation with
| number of Liberals including Pro-
| lessor Kusminkaravief. who resigned
| his chair at the Academy of Military
on account of his Liberal opinions and
Count NJ. Lazareffsky. one of the edi-
tors of the Liberal legal weekly Pra-
Vo.
Extension of suffraEk.
The new measure grants represen-
tation to the workmen on the same
basis as peasants. one representative
| for each 100000, and extends the suf-
frage to the great class of 1ntellec-
tuals" possessing college degrees who
have been the heart and soul of the
reform movement.
Voters will also under the new reg
ulations include tenants paying an an
nual rent of s240. petty traders except
| the lowest class, holders OF high
school diplomas and officials of st
Petersburg and MOSCOW with salaries
/ of no less than $500.
A revision of the electoral lists Will
| be undertaken imm ediately In order
not to interfere with the convocation
of the national assembly at the end
| of January.
The news from the provinces indi-
Gates the dying down of the reign of
riot and license following the promul-
CATION of the imperial manifesto. Nor
| NAL conditions are gradually resuming.
The most interesting developments are
| in Poland, where a Polish national
movement has blossomed forth under
favorable conditions.
| The great manifestation has oc-
Cured in Warsaw where the town Is
decorated with Polish flags whose dis
play heretofore mas peeh treaIeu as d
| crime.
/, A giant demonstration including $780,
| 600 persons organized, paraded the
streets and listened to speeches deliv-
cred by Henrik Sienkiecwicz. the au-
thor, and other prominent Poles.
| The demonstration passed on Win
out interference, or disorder though In
the Jewish quarter where anti-Jewish
attacks were feared seven persons sus-
pected of being provocatory agents or
| the police service were killed by the
enraged populace after the nationalist
parade.
sruurrrS Apu uAuuIcAnEn.