Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-02
cabinet plans Criticized.

Cabinet Plans Criticized.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 2.-rhe imper-
ial decree creating the cabinet of min
listers under the imperial manifesto
granting q constitution to Russia was
gazetted this morning and has already
aroused criticisms, as the machinery
is extremely complicated and smacks
Of the old fashioned bureaucratic re-
gime.
The relations Of the cabinet to the
council Of empire or upper chamber,
and imperial douma, or popular cham
ber, are not clear, because the powers
of these bodies are yet to be defined
under the manifesto. Two features are
especially unsatisfactory. While the
cabinet has not authority to decide
matters within the competency OF leg
islative bodies, no measure of general
.importancev can be introduced into the
chambers without the sanction Of the
cabinet, and another provision requires
& that when the cabinet is unanimous
the premier must go to the emperor
and receive instructions. This would
seem to make final authority go, back
to the emperor. Moreover. all questions
affecting the Imperial court, army,
navy and foCeign affairs are specific
ally excluded from competency of the
cabinet without direct imperial au-
,thority. BY implication, these great
questions in which the nation are
vitality interested are outs de of the
competency Of the legislature and.
therefore, bound to prove unsatisfac-
tory to the representatives, Of people
when they assemble.
General Trepoff has issued another
manifesto informing the people all re-
forms granted by the manifesto can
not be realized Immediately, as it will
require time to formulate laws and
place them into effect In the mean
time the people must be quiet and CO.
operate with the authorities in main.
taining order. Otherwise, responsible
ity for harsh measures will not fall on
the government Trepoffs, manifesto
was published this afternoon in the
Official Messenger In the form Of the
appeal for support of the people.
Worse Than kishireff.
London, Nov. 2.-The evening STAN
dard's Odessa dispatch, timed 2:30 p.
M, says:
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and revolvers and occasionally a vol
ley is fired. Every house and tenement
is bolted and barred. Infantry patrols
are doing their duty perfullctorily, de-
clining to fire on the mobs unless they
themselves are attacked. The Cossacks
are said to have lost over hundred
men by bombs and shots from win
.doWs. Cossack patrols cary carbines
and have their fingers ON The triggers
The streets are absolutely unsafe for
civilians. The casualties yesterday are
believed to have amounted to 5000 kill
ed and wounded. In the Jewish quar-
sters bodies still strew the streets and
sidewalks. Jewish women and child
rem were strangled and hacked to
pieces in the streets where mobs gain
ed the upper hand. A Red Cross doc
tor tells me the Kishineff horrors are
repeated hundred fold.
The students saved the city from
wholesale sack and massacre. The
military are now placing a hundred
machine guns at various points. Twen-
ty-six cars full of wounded have Just
passed my door, The sound OF firing
is again moving westward towards the
Jewish quarters. The mob.s swear they
will not leave a single Jew a1ive.''