Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-22
.zEMSTVOS TO
ASSIST WITTE.
Congress at Moscow Promises
to Support the Premier in
ReestabliShing Order.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 81. - Ad.
vices received from Gomel, in the gov.
ernment of that name. say that Il bat
TALON of reservistS Il thousand strong
has mutinied following a demand for
better food.
Admiral Birilcff has closed the adj
miralty works on the Neva because the
workmen accorded themselves an eight
hour day and left the shops at 4 O'clock
without permission.
At the Hubbard, PAIL, Westinghouse
and other important works the men i'll
sist on a reduction of hours and have
adopted Il course of dropping their
tools after they have labored eight
hours.
Count Witte. ii is said. contemplates
the wholesale prescription of workmen
who participated in the recent strikes.
and there may be a recurrence of the
labor crisis. Three thousand men have
been already dismissed from the Baltic
works alone.
There is an alarming spread of agra
rian outrages which has caused the eX-
tension of martial law 10 the proTinces
OF Penza and Xursk in addition to
those in which it had been proclaimed.
The sentiment Of the zemstvo con
gress ut Moscow is veering distinctly
to the side of Count White, and it now
seems probable that a large majority
of delegates will favor n resolution 10
come to the assistance of the govern
ment against the forces of revolution
and DISCRIMINATION. though only be-
cause such action is regarded by II
considerable faction MS the least of
many evils.
Such leaders as NJ. S%tchepkine of
Moscow. Alexander S~takovitch, Mi.
chael Stakovitch, Prince Paul Dolgoru.
koff and Prince Volkonsky of Riazan.
who are among the most prominent
men in Russia and who have the con
fidence of those engaged in the reform
movement, came out boldly at the SEES
sion and laid down ms Il plain truth
that only through cooperation with
the government, good or bad though it
might be, lay the way to a happy
realization of the liberties promised by
the imperial manifesto of Oct. so.
The presiding officer of the congress
was Count Mukhanoff, Il former mar
shall of the nobility of Chernigov, who
was dismissed from his post for adj
dressing n telegram directly TO the EN-.
peror.
The speech of Prince Paul Dolgoru-
kolf was one of the best delivered since
the opening of the congress-.
The ministry of Count Witte, which
he compared to Il commission in bank
ruptcy, was far from ideal, but he
said that it must he supported and sus-
tained. The prince brought the con-
gress TO its feet at the end of his
speech by declaring that no matter who
might be at the head of the govern.
ment the regime of autocracy and the
bureaucracy had now been relegated to
the limbo of ''idiotic phantasies,' allud.
ing to the words used by the emperor
in his answer 10 NJ. Petrunkevitch
when u decade ago at the reception Of
the delegations from the zemstvos aft
er the coronation the Liberal from
Tver warned his majesty Of the neces-
sity, of %cOnvoking the representatives Of
the people.
Alexander Slakovich said that Count
Witte was m intelligent and ambitious
man. who would try to put into prac-
tlce the principles of the manifesto, but
that unless he were properly aided the
premier would fall under the influence
the path Of reaction. He advocated the
%convocation us quickly as possible of a
douma based on universal suffrage and
the dispatch Of a deputation of zemst-
voists to st. Petersburg to advise and
confer with Count Witte.
NJ. Abramov, delegate of S%tavropol,
speaking at Moscow. said: "The agra
rian rising has become Il terror. 1t has
already spread over twenty-four gov
ernments and has acquired such dimen-
sions that the terrible times of Puga-
tcheff are child's play compared TO it."
Count Wittc is working at high pres
sure TO try 80 remove popular dlstrust.
He has ordered the immediate prepara-
ton Of laws drawn up on the lines Of
those in modern countries and will also
introduce what will be virtually a ha-
beas corpus act.
AT Syzran disorders broke ont among
sailors who were returning from the
far east. Troops were hastily sent TO
guard the naval station so as to pre-
vent pillaging.
Meyer Not AfrRid.
NEW YORK. Nov. 22.-Georgc Won
L. Never. American ambassador at st.
Petersburg. who is on his way back to