Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-11-08
NEW GOVERNMENT
is BEING FORMED
Count Witte Is Getting a New
Cabinet Toge ther.
AMERICAN MODEL Nor SUITABLE
The Formation of a New Cabinet Is
a Difficult Problem, Because of the
agitation of Peformers Who Want
Radical Changes.

agitation of Reformers Who Want
Radical Changes.
st. Petersburg, Nov. THE project
for a sweeping extension Of the suf-
frage in elections to the AationaI 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 a consti-
tuition Russia, and nominating Count
Witte premier, the latter's new govern.
ment appears to be getting fairly un-
der way
The cabinet with which Count Witte
will undertake the difficult task of
guiding the nation on its new course
OF constitutionalism and preventing the
radical and agitatory elements from
landing it on the rocks of dissolution
is now beginning to take form. The
names Of the two Shiphoffs, one of
them Ivan, having been Count Whites
former assistant in the ministry of
finance and ais associate at Ports
mouth, n. H, and the other Dmitri,
the Moscow Zemstvoist congressman.
it is semi-oficially announced, will be
his minister Of finance and comptrol-
Ter general respectively. NJ. Nichief
president Of the Southeastern railway
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 confer
with the committee on ways AMI com
munications with the nomination of
Prince Alexis Obelnsky as procurator
general Of the holy synod already ga
zetted, this provides four of the eight
ministerial posts at the disposition oil
the premier, Prince Urusoff, until re
Gently governor of Tyer, may also be
called to a cabinet position yet unde,
termined.
For the two portfolios for education
and justice, Count Witte has been dis |
appointed in obtaining the men he or. !
iginally desired. Though Dmitri Shi. |
poff is no longer in sympathy with the
zemstvo majority which in the inter
val Of the first and second congress |
progressed so far beyond his opinion,
has failed to secure election as a mem
Der of the bureau, he will rally to the
support of the new cabinet a strong
faction of conservative zemstvoists |
who are also followers of Pan-Slav- !
ism whose doctrine is the develop |
ment of Russian government on Rus. |
sian lines. They believe that tneI
West European and American models |
are not suitable to the Slav people. |
Dmitri Shipoff is a man or sound con. |
servatiye ideas.
The selection of NJ. Nemechaieff is |
apparently good. He is a PRACTICAL
man Of affairs who has had long expe. !
rience in railroad administration andt
as shown by the recommendation of
the railroad delegation has the sym
pathy of the workmen. The former
minister except four who are not sub
ject to the jurisdiction of the premier
are slated for dismissal. Count Witte
is not submitting much of his new pro.
gram to the old committee of ministers
and the project of extension of suf,
frage though announced and approved |
by the committee Of ministers was
drafted under Count Whites direction
after consultation with a number of
Liberals including Professor Kusmin.
karavief, who resigned mis- chair at the
academy of military law on account of
his liberal opinions, and NJ. Lazareff.
sky, one of the editors Of the liberia,
legal weekly Pravo.
The new measure granted represen.
tat1cn TO the workmen on the same ba.
sis as peasants, one representative for
each 260,000 and extends the suffrage
to the great class of ''intenectuals'
possessing college degrees who have
been the heart and soul or the reform